No fruit growers here?

I'm surprised at so few answers to threads posted in the Fruit Trees forum. http://davesgarden.com/f/fruit/
'Course, I also think the Forum should be titled "Fruiting Trees, Bushes and Vines" Or maybe just "Edible Fruit Growing" but then a Tomato is a fruit, LOL.

No fruit growers here?

Well, I became a fruit grower this summer - a Brown Turkey fig in a pot. Got a small tree that grew like blazes and is still covered with fruit. But only three figs have ripened (delicious!) - not enough warmth and sun, I guess. Perhaps next year....

PV

Darius, that is what we do for a living. Fruit in the form of berries and we do have apple trees, cherry trees, pear trees, prune tree, fig tree. Out here on the farm we have a nice fruit orchard. My DH takes care of all that end of things.

I have no luck with fruit, and have officially given up. This summer I managed to kill a fig tree. =(

Cheri'

Darius common fruit such as apples,cherries.plums,strawberries, raspberries, and to some extent pears pretty much grow themselves in my area. All but the pears grow in my yard.

Self defense forced me to remove four apple trees this spring. If I had my way more would go as well. It sickens me to see hundreds of pounds of fruit layin on the ground to spoil.

I would love to be able to grow peaches but it is just a waste of time because of the leaf curl. I have tried the varietes that are supposed to work here to no avail.

Western Washington has been increasing in apple production but last year those poor people nearly gave their crops away because of the cheap imports.

There are fruit growers here. I think at least in my area it is such a easy thing to do there are not many questions except would you like some apples.

Tomatoes here are another matter it takes a lot of tinkering to get honest crops and I still don't have it yet
though this was a very good year. Yes tomatoes are a fruit but as far as I am concerned they are in a class by themselves.Regards Ernie.

darius, I'm growing a lime, does that count? (since you gave it to me??) LOL!!

I grow fruit: 5 kinds of plums,5 kinds of apples,3kinds apricots,peaches,pears,sour cherries,sweet cherries,currants,3kinds of strawberries,raspberries and tomatoes!

I'm pleased to see so many say here that they do, indeed, grow fruit. So why is the fruit forum so bare of threads and responses?

Darius well I for one am so inept at this forum business if it fails jump out at me I don't know where to look for it.

I think I have just recently kinda got the idea. Ernie

umm we are out picking fruit! ;)

Ernie, if you will click on "Preferences" under "Your Menu" on the right column, it will take you to a page that lists places to change all your preferences here. On that page, in the left column, click on "Forums" and then just check the boxes of all the Forums that interest you, then click "Submit" at the bottom of the page. All those forums will show up on your Home Page at DG... the page that comes up for you when you go to DG.

I change my forum preferences from time to time, depending on what I am doing in my life and garden...

Darius Thank you I thought I only had the one chance with my choices. I have been here two months and have never done a forum thing prior to this one so I am encountering a lot of new things.

Tonight when I get back home I will give it a go but I swear I am challanged by this vodooh. What you suggest sounds like I may be able to get done. Thanks for the tip. Ernie.

Got it done Ernie

I grow fruit! 3 apple trees: 1 dwarf Royal Gala, 1 dwarf Yellow Delicious, 1 mini-dwarf Melrose. They are all good!
Also have a jostabery bush but I'm not impressed by the way the thing grows or fruits. I also planted a pomegranite seed this summer and have a very small shrubby tree thing in a pot now.
I just joined DG this fall and I will probably be posting my questions/comments this late winter or early spring when I need to prune or spray.

Eileen

Eileen one of the apples I removed was Melrose. I found it to be a very good keeper once storing it well into March>

Melrose was culled because of tree reduction not because it was faulty. I do not spray my trees and found it to provide clear clean fruit.

I think for a summer apple Tydemans Red[sp] is my firstchoice. Fall apple would be King, and apple of fun would be Wolf river a giant baking apple 100 150 years old. I dont have the tree but have it grafted on one of mine.Regards Ernie

I have a few blueberry bushes.

I don't grow any fruit but I have a friend who does. I know what Ernie means when he says it's hard to watch them rot on the ground. I decided to do something with them this year so I've been canning pear jams, preserves, jellies, mincemeat (don't even know what to use that for!), chutney, relish and I still have tons left! I am just going to can up the rest in a light syrup though.

It is a one hundred year old tree at least and it still produces the sweetest pears. Not very large pears but so delicious. And tons of them! I've saved some of the seeds. Do you think they will grow?

I will look for the fruit forum also. Didn't know there was one. When they are added there isn't any general annoucement is there?

I forgot the blueberries I planted three bushes in lindas space I think one lived. I guess blue berries are not like apple trees they seem to require some care.

Guess next spring I need to plant some in my area. Ernie

We planted a Black Mission fig, an apricot, a pineapple guava, 2 Washington navel oranges, and an improved Meyer lemon. Also 4 blueberries just last year but no crop yet. Lots of fruit from the trees! We're eating oranges right now.

Eileen, what's a jostabery? Wow, some of you have lots of great fruiting things!

I started this thread because, although I have no fruiting trees, I'd like some... so I watch the Fruit Forum... which sees very little activity. No one except eweed has said here they might participate in that forum.

I do grow raspberries, and last year got a red current bush. It won't make enough fruit to do anything with, but if it does well, I'd like more. My raspberries produce 2 crops a year and loving the flavor, I make raspberry jelly and raspberry vinegar. I don't eat them fresh because I dislike the seeds.

Darius so what variety razzes do you have? I am not aware of two crop berries. Are they really two compleat life cycles or are they ever bearing with a major and minor bearing stage?

Everbearing I found to be a novelity type berry and don't know if they are all as wild growing as mine but I got rid of them because they tended to not want to stay in their own row so they would send up runners in the row next door and that caused trouble with my main berries. You cane them differently.

It takes a couple years to get berries so you better get started. Remember Razzes don't like wet feet so plant in soil that drains well. Try to bottom water especially at fruting time.

Gotta go work its past five ugg fifty miles I want to be rich and just stay home but am forced to work so I can keep buying lottery tickets.Ernie

here's one of the 3 yellow plum trees we had this summer. We have 4 other kinds of plums too!

Ernie, I have no idea what variety of raspberries I have. I bought 2 plants locally at a yard sale about 4 years ago and they have multiplied. They might be as you described everbearing, with a major and a minor crop. The Fall crop is always a bit larger than the June crop.

Earlier this year, I transplanted a lot of them to a new space, and in 2 rows where I could train the canes to wires. Shortly thereafter, I had to remove them when we had a backhoe dig up that whole side of the house due to a water problem.

The house is on the market so I won't add more currants here, but I will take a few rasp. canes with me for a new start elsewhere. Maybe even take the one currant bush I have since it's illegal to import currants into NC.

By the way, my raspberries are in clay with poor drainage, and do well.

Darius, A jostaberry (I think the "j" is pronounced "y") is like a gooseberry. The fruit isn't bad, just not enough from the one 6 yr old bush to make anything with. And not tasty enough to pick & eat. I used to have raspberries, everbearing Autumn Bliss. They were very large, sweet, and good flavor. I made the mistake of trying to move them and they died. I also have something called a thimbleberry but it has never fruited in 8 years.
Eileen

thanks, Eileen. I never heard of a thimbleberry, either, so I'm learning something from you!

My original plan was to plant an edible landscape...just imagine going out in the yard and nibbling here and there. Well the thimbleberries never fruited, the blueberries died (the soil here is very alkaline and I couldn't seem to add enough acidifier), the plum tree died of unknown causes - I suspect the graft onto the rootstock had something to do with it. So 10 years later I'm still working on "the plan".

If you want more info on edible landscapes order the Raintree Nursery catalog. That's about all they sell, although by edible they mean bird, beast OR man.

Eileen, I used to get the Raintree catalog. Had forgotten all about until you mentioned it. I'll ask for one. Thanks.