cross-posted from: https://slrpnk.net/post/21789538

Not necessarily your favourite fruit to eat, but what is/are your favourite fruit tree(s) to grow based on survival rate, fruit yield, ease of maintenance, ease of harvest, grass-killing prowess, and any other combination of factors? What is/are your least favourite? If you have photos or diagrams to illustrate your point, even better!

(If you provide your region and/or Köppen-Geiger or Trewartha climate zone, it will help others to know what to plant or what to avoid!)

  • Jim East@slrpnk.netOPEnglish
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    2 days ago

    Do the birds not eat the figs if you let them ripen fully? Or do your figs not turn purple when they get ripe?

    • heyWhatsay@slrpnk.netEnglish
      1·
      2 days ago

      Fig trees produce a sap that is an irritant, keeps most birds/animals away. Ants are probably the most likely to try to chew on the figs.

      • Ledericas@lemm.eeEnglish
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        2 days ago

        and they are mostly pollinated by fig wasps, which attracts parasites and parasitoids in thier native range. unless your using a cloning variety.

      • Jim East@slrpnk.netOPEnglish
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        2 days ago

        You have weak/lazy birds. No offence to them. Where I live, we have… advanced birds. They are fully equipped with the biological equivalents of bulletproof vests, haz-mat suits, armoured fighter jets with fully-guided heat-seeking targeting systems, and whatever it is that lets giraffes eat the acacias despite all of the biting ants that live in them. (I’m fine with sharing the fruit, but I don’t really have a choice.)

        So you do have the purple figs then?

        • heyWhatsay@slrpnk.netEnglish
          2·
          2 days ago

          Yeah, purple. I think we have a black mission and brown turkey tree. The turkey produces much more.