I'm guessing that the trees are most likely for in person (aka local) trades only. If so, you might want to post on your regional or state forum with the subject of posting line reflecting something like Fruit Trees (insert your city/state here) for local trade only. hth. Sue

Tree 2 looks like a Stone fruit (Peach, plum, cherry, etc) Tree 3 looks like a Pomme fruit (Apple, pear) Now... Both could well be a stone fruit or a pomme fruit, though... Hard to tell without good pix of the leaves and flowers... Pretty much impossible to tell until you get some leaves and flowers.... but the fruit will certainly tell the truth...

Olpea, don't get me started on the unanswered mysteries of animal behavior in relation to fruit trees. OK, too late, I've started. My robins, which are ridiculously plentiful on my property, leave everything but blueberries and mulberries alone (maybe you need those as a diversion crop). Of course they would go for cherries if I had them unnetted. Everyone has crows around and only sometimes do they attack fruit but on sites they do everything must be netted. A loose net will do as they won't climb around under a net. At least that's the behavior of our crows. So far. A very sane and intelligent client of mine told me of a very fat woodchuck making a 4' vertical leap from a dead stop to get above one of my baffles. Mystery- was this an olympian woodchuck or do Michael Jordan acrobatics come as standard equipment at the woodchuck factory. When I told this story to someone else they told me of seeing a cotton tail rabbit clearing a 4' fence- that's a little cotton tail, not a jack rabbit. I have sites nearby where the deer go as high as 7' to strip foliage and fruit. At my site they never go above about 5'. My squirrels used to run up trees to get away from me but once I got a shotgun and slaughtered them for a few weeks they avoided trees and scurry in crazy angles through weeds and rocks at the slightest sign of my motion- even from a window. My wife's movement doesn't disturb them. My son's theory for the squirrels is that I eliminated the local gene pool of confident, tree climbing when stressed, squirrels. That's a theory. One thing I know, the behavior of same species wildlife vary a lot.

Jay: One of the essential characteristics of a fruit tree is that it has fruit. So far, your specimen is only a tree, and it could be anything at all, seeded by birds. Small trees grow up on my property all the time, and are treated like the weeds that they are. If your tree ever fruits, it might make it possible to identify it on that basis. Meanwhile, it might help people to recognize the species if you would tell us where you live. Zone identification is not enough. Don Yellman, Great Falls, VA