Definitely thinking about planting some fruit trees. Having a hard time decided what fruit trees to buy?

[Anonymous]

[Lliam]

My wife and I live in a zone 9 climate. But we have a small orchard surrounded by deer fencing.
We chose trees that are grafted to dwarf stock so that they wouldn't grow too large and so that harvesting would be easier.

We have one each of Fuyu persimmon, almond, mandarin, navel orange and pink grapefruit. An apple, pear and cherry tree that all have three varieties grafted to them, a "fruit salad tree" that has peach, plum, nectarine and apricot. A self-pollinating Haas avocado and another that "volunteered". We transplanted the second one to another spot, so now we have two. Two pomegranate trees (one that volunteered and we transplanted to another spot).
Two Valencia orange and two improved Meyer lemon.

Our citrus trees do the best of all. They are so happy! All except the mandarin are full of fruit year round. Even though they are on dwarf stock, they produce so much that we sell some. We can go out any time of the year and pick what we need.
When the mandarin produces, we have to harvest it all or it will go bad on the tree.

Because of where we live, our trees need lots of water in the warm seasons. But we have our own well and an automatic drip system.

Anyway, find out what grows well in your climate. It's best to buy from a local nursery that has varieties acclimated to your area.

And I highly recommend dwarf stock. They still get big.

[NamerOfStars]

First question: where do you live? More specifically, what's the climate like? That's going to give you a range of what you can plant. Secondly, what fruit do you most love? I mean, REALLY love? If you're not religious about picking them, they'll fall and rot, and you'll have rats like you wouldn't believe.

I don't want to discourage you, mind; I'm a big believer in working towards self-sufficiency, especially in times like these. Just know what you're getting into- and look up preservation techniques. If you can't eat 'em all at once, know what you can preserve, and how.

[Anonymous]

According to Google, pear trees and apple trees are the easiest to grow and low maintenance. You may want to start there.

Easy to groe fruit trees for beginners

[PBandJ_Nerd]

We have an apple tree. But here people also do peaches.

[OlderAndWiser]

The first question is about your location and climate. Apple trees don't grow in Florida and orange trees don't grow in Washington.

[CrimsonAngel09]

My grandparents used to grow pomegranates, those were always really good fresh off the tree.

[exitseven]

It depends where you live.

[Wonderingguyy]

mandarins usually are successful

[LavLavLuv]

Lime, mango, rambutan