Well, okay, I looked into the loquats. I have never tasted one, but I really don't want to grow an apple-type plant. I hesitate to go into details, but I have been low-carbing for a gazillion years now, and apples and a few other fruits just don't fit into that scheme of things. Other fruits, like berries and cherries and strawberries are fine, and others take some calculation. Since loquat is in the apple family, and I don't eat apples, I probably couldn't eat it very freely. The acerola (Barbados Cherry) idea sounded great. I definitely want to try that, now and am going to go hunting for one. I have never had them fresh, but I have tasted them before, dried. I thought it was a little bit cranberry-ish. I looked into the Eugenia dombeia. Some of the other comments about it on the forum and on the web weren't all that flattering about the fruit. It takes a while to grow, so I think I will pass on that one. At least until I get to actually taste one! About Zaiger patented cherries... I have looked into them before! There has been talk on the forum, here, and other places on the web about the Zaiger. I have read some mixed reviews on their actual "low-chill" abilities when grown here in southern California. I guess there are micro-micro-climates within our larger and very mild climate that will let people grow almost anything if they're lucky, but I don't want to screw around with it that much. That's why I was interested in the Mexican capulin cherries. I'm a little put off by the news that they have a gamey flavor to them. I'll have to put that in the "maybe, someday" category, until I can actually see and taste one. Okay, one thing I did read about since I started this thread -- Muntingia, the so-called Panama Cherry or Strawberry Tree. This is, supposedly, a very fast growing tree that gets along fine with alkaline-ish clay-ish soils, so it sounds almost ideal for my neighborhood. The fruits are small, the fruiting season is very long, and it produces just a few every day for a long time. Best of all, it can be up to fruiting size in a year in some cases, which means it might be a very good choice to experiment with. Any thoughts on all that?

Pitching in my experience so far. This is from the perspective of a grower in a much colder climate that most posting here, zone 5 in New York, so my options are much more limited. Adding Haskap (Borealis and Tundra). I don't make jams or process, only fresh eat. 5f Mulberry (Illinois everbearing) 5f Black Currant (warning: an acquired taste) 4f Serviceberry (Hard to beat the birds to these) 3f Haskap (Hard to beat the birds to these) 3f Gooseberry (so far, still young plants though) Ordered PawPaw trees for spring of 2014, will be a several years of good luck before I can report on those though. This post was edited by reznil on Fri, Jan 10, 14 at 20:46

Thomas I have or had the fruits above and here is my opinion, which can be different for another person because tastes are not the same. Raja Puri, is a little bit sub-acid banana that I grew before, the varieties that I like are either sweet or for cooking. If you growing for looks this one can take the cold. The red Jamaican I had it fruiting only 1 time in 3 years, I love the taste but is not productive when we get hit by the cold. The surinam cherry, I don't really like the taste it leaves like an aftertaste for me, it is nice as a care free shrub and the fruit is for the birds, it finished fruiting at my house. And we are in blueberry picking season, I highly recommend to visit any of the u-pick places and eat berries as much as you want to. I also have my own which are the Sunshine Blue, Emerald and a pollinator that I don't remember the name. We are coming to fig season, all my figs are loaded... There are a lot of good fruits out there, it all depends on your taste.:) Silvia

persimmon 5fjp paw paw fig 3fp gooseberry currant 5fjp mulberry 3f kiwi 5fp Chinese magnolia vine service berry/Amelanchier alnifolia CHINESE EDIBLE HAWTHORNE/Crataegus pinnatifioa lingonberry wintergreen thimbleberry salal jujube blue bean shrub/Decaisnea fargesii goji berry/Lycium barbarum aronia medlar autumn olive/Eleagnus umbellata goumi/Eleagnus multiflora sea berry/Hippophae rhamnoides dogwood/cornus mas che black sapote white sapote capulin cherry sapadilla pitomba/Eugenia luschnathiana eggfruit/Pouteria campechiana dragon fruit/pitaya wax jamboo/Syzygium samarangense Guajilote, Cuachilote, Guahalote /Parmentiera edulis Spondias cytherea Syzygium samarangense Morinda citrifolia Muntingia calabura Myrciaria cauliflora/jaboticaba\ guayabilla/Eugenia victoriana Araza /Eugenia stipitata Rose apple/Syzygium jambos ice cream bean/inga- Brazilian Cherry/Grumichama passionfruit 5p thanks, dean You bet! You might want to add Cherimoya (5f) to the list. Related to pawpaw and a flavor of sweet fruit custard. Also, mango (5fp), Papaya (5fp), pineapple-guava (5p), Lychee, and banana (5fp, many less common varieties not found in stores as they don't ship well.)