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!)

  • Ledericas@lemm.eeEnglish
    1·
    2 days ago

    We have a loquat tree, were asian we harvest it all the time. the bees go nuts for it once it start flowering. it does take a long time to grow to a sizable tree with a good harvest. birds never go after the loquats though. i think it has been around for 30+years.

  • heyWhatsay@slrpnk.netEnglish
    3·
    2 days ago

    Figs. Once it’s established, it’s very resilient.

    Cherries are a pain, because if you don’t use netting, birds get them all.

    • Jim East@slrpnk.netOPEnglish
      1·
      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
          1·
          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.

  • Szewek@slrpnk.netEnglish
    1·
    2 days ago

    My mum has a sweet plum that fruits in July in Dfb (Poland). It is amazing, it gives a lot of fruit every two years, a real treat, my favorite.

    If you want to plant a pear, look out for juniper in the neighborhood. There is a common disease that transfers between these two.

    • Jim East@slrpnk.netOPEnglish
      2·
      2 days ago

      Do you know the cultivar name of the plum?

      If you want to plant a pear, look out for juniper in the neighborhood. There is a common disease that transfers between these two.

      I think that you mean infection, not disease. Disease is not communicable.