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Fruit Trees at Diamond J Farms
OK, I'm a big fan of fruit. And fruit from the store just doesn't taste like those fresh from the tree.
So when we bought the land with the pond on it, I decided that along the side of the pond
would be a great spot for some fruit trees. I also have some container plants/bushes in the backyard, too.
I expanded the fruit tree project after I got
pregnant for my first child, deciding that I want my children to enjoy fruit straight from
the tree. Finding fruit that will grow in this area is not that easy, we don't get enough
chill hours for many of the Traditional fruit varieties, and our occasional hard freezes
cause problems for Sub-Tropical Fruit types. Another difficulty is we have high heat and
humidity with long spans of no rainfall each year, coupled with clay soil and water which
are both very alkaline. My goal is to have some type of fruit ripening most months of the
year. It hasn't been an easy quest, and my lack of a green thumb has not helped, but I
continue to move forward with my plan. Most of my trees are too young to make fruit,
I've placed an * after any that have made at least one fruit.
This is a list of trees that have survived so far
APPLE: Golden Delicious, Chenango Strawberry, Granny Smith, Cinnamon Spice, Dorsett Golden,
Ein Shemer, Whitney Crabapple*;
APRICOT: Goldkist;
BANANA: Texas Star, California Gold, Raja Puri, Super Dwarf, Double Mahoi;
BLACKBERRY: Kiowa*, Thornless Wonder*, Prime-Jim*;Navaho
BLUEBERRY: Tifblue*, Powderblue*, Climax*; Sharpblue, Sunshine Blue*, Emerald, Gulf Coast;
CHERRY/PSUDO-CHERRY: Compact Stella Cherry, Lapins Cherry, Chilean Guava, Barbados Cherry,
Cherry of the Rio Grande, Surinam Cherry;
CHE/MELLON BERRY;
FEIJOA/PINEAPPLE GUAVA: Nazemetz, Coolidge;
FIG: LSU Gold, LSU Purple, Celeste;
GOUMI: Seedling;
GRAPE: Flame, Sweet Lace*, Einset, Ison's Muscadine;
JUJUBE: Sugarcane, Lang*, Li*;
LOQUAT: Seedling;
MAYHAW: Big Red;
MULBERRY: Persian, Native*;
NECTARINE: Stark Crimson Gold*;
NECTAPLUM: Spice Zee*;
PAWPAW: Sunflower, Seedling;
PEACH: Tropic Snow*, FlordaPrince*, Frost*, Burbank July Elberta*, Desert Gold*, Redhaven*;
PEAR: Pineapple*, Improved Kieffer*, Ubileen, 20th Century Asian*, Hosui Asian, New Century Asian*;
PERSIMMON: Giant Fuyu*, Fuyu*, Suruga;
PLUM: Golden Nectar, Ozark Premier*, Burbank Red Ace*, Redheart, Starking Delicious*, Shiro*,
Beauty*, Native*, 2N1 Cherry Plum [Sprite*, Delight*], Bubblegum(Toka), Combination Plum [Santa Rosa, Superior,
Blue Damson and Italian Prune];
PLUOT/PLUMCOT/APRIUM: Spring Satin Plumcot*, Cot-N-Candy Aprium, 4N1 Pluot [Dapple Dandy,
Flavor King, Flavor Queen, Flavor Supreme], 4N1 ZeeSweet Nuggets Pluot [Flavor Grenade, Splash, Emerald Drop, Geo Pride],
POMEGRANATE: Kashmir Blend, Wonderful, Angel Red;
RASPBERRY: Dinkum*, Autumn Britten;
Stuff I'm considering getting
Some type of Avocado, Dwarf Star Fruit, Low-chill Fruit Salad Tree, So and Honey Jar Jujube, Kansas Sweet Cherry.
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