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Comments (4)IÂm in California zone 9, and share your enthusiasm for very sweet fruit. The Owari Satsuma mandarin starts the citrus season in November with sweet, easy to peel mandarin oranges. Also very good are the Cara Cara navals, Kishu mandarins (small but seedless, easy to peel, and candy sweet) and Gold Nugget mandarins. Prunes and pluots are not necessarily firm fleshed, but can be sweet. Last year was the first year for my pluots, but they were very good and sweet as well: Flavor Supreme, Flavor King, and Flavor Queen. Prune trees are much sweeter than regular plum trees- some people say theyÂre too sweet and bland, but I had some last fall from the store that were very good, and will be giving a few cultivars a try here. IÂve tasted some dried Prune de Agen from France, and they were slightly more flavorful than a dried California Prune de Agen Improved. The new white aprium, "Cot-N-Candy" sounds promising as well. The Spice Zee Nectaplum I tried at a fruit tasting had firm flesh, was very sweet, with a nice touch of spice and some acid. Apple trees that IÂm growing with hopes of the sweetest fruit are Red Fuji, Honeycrisp, and Pink Lady, but they havenÂt produced yet. My Black Persian mulberry has wonderful sweet fruit as well. If you consider vine fruit, the yellow "Sun Sugar" cherry tomato is the sweetest, like tomato candy. Wine grapes are usually sweeter than table grapes, but they have seeds, and are not firm fleshed. I havenÂt tasted any seedless grapes that I would recommend, yet. Seeded Concord is still my favorite. I started a bunch of grape cuttings last year, including wine grapes, may or may not get fruit this year. If you like berries, for regular sized everbearing strawberries, Albion is consistently very sweet and firm, as is Mara des Bois from White Flower Farm, although less firm. Other strawberry varieties IÂve tried are hit and miss, with more misses than hits. In short, any fruit you grow at home and allow to ripen to perfection on your tree or vine is going to be sweeter, more flavorful, than those at the grocery store. Good luck....See MoreFruit trees for Al
Comments (4)Gadsen, AL is home to Joyce Neighbors, who maintains the South's premier collection of Southern heirloom apple varieties. She is 80 years old, and in her description in the Seed Savers Yearbook has said that she will only offer through SSE after this year. She offers scionwood, so you will have to learn grafting. But you may want to look her up. Email is jneighbr@internetpro.net....See MoreYummy yummy fruit tree--suggestions?
Comments (10)Well, since you've got a Meyer Lemon growing, citrus are always an option. If you like grapefruit, why not try an Oro Blanco, Melogold or Cocktail? All are actually crosses of some sort (pummelo and grapefruit, or pummelo and mandarin/sweet orange), are much sweeter and do not require the heat to sweeten up as some of the standard grapefruit varieties do. And, a nice semi-dwarf grapefruit is a very pretty tree. Not sure what you mean by "...staying away from a mass of thorns". Blueberries do not have thorns. Maybe what you have are blackberries or raspberries?? Yes, grapefruit trees do have thorns, but the fruit are borne in clusters at the ends of branches, so the grapefruit thorns are not really going to interfere with picking either the blueberries or the grapefruilts. You might also think about one of the delicious pluots or apriums. Check out Dave Wilson's website for some nice suggestions and descriptions. Patty S. Here is a link that might be useful: Dave Wilson Nursery Backyard Orchard Culture Guide...See Morefruit tree standard suggestions
Comments (4)It's been a while since I visited this forum so please forgive the delay in my response. Apples can be standardized however given that this is a tree that tends to be susceptible to mildew I would think that perhaps it may not be that suitable as a standard. That's because in standards, you aim to group branches closer together giving a nice tight feel to it - and that could only result in mildew. Apples like to have lots of room to grow fruit. So now that I have thought it out. It may not be a good idea. As for pears though. It should be okay. Fig as a standards - i've never seen but that shouldn't stop you from looking into other shapes that will suit the plant. Perhaps it will work well as a cordon? (similar to an espalier) How about tropical fruit plants like guava? Will that do well in your climate?...See More- 16 years ago
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