Fruit Tree success stories?

[dom1104]

Got a new place, so that means new garden, and new food bearing landscape.

Planting some fruit trees this year, I have about 22 thousand sq ft that would be suitable to use for some fruiting trees...

And I was wondering what you all have been successful with in Central Indiana.

 

[Expat]

I am up North. You really shouldn't have much problem with anything you want to grow. Just be sure you get ones for your zone. Get you a good book on fruit tree care for instructions on pruning and spraying. You might want to look for trees that are resistant to pests if you aren't big on spraying regularly.

I have apples, sweet cherries, sour cherries, plums, and peaches. You might consider other fruits if you have the room. We have red raspberries, blackberries (warning, they area menace. bad thorns and they will get away from you), blueberries and currants.

 

[dom1104]

We have had good luck with white flesh peaches and cherries, but this new place is a lot bigger so we will be expanding.


Thanks for the input Expat.. appreciate it.

And cool website thanks.

 

[iChokePeople]

I had great luck with several fruit trees on one of my meadows.

Until the deer ate them.

The end.

 

[threefiftyfour]

I had great luck with several fruit trees on one of my meadows.

Until the deer ate them.

The end.

then eat the deer, replant trees and repeat.

 

[iChokePeople]

then eat the deer, replant trees and repeat.

Tried that, and they were delicious, but they make more faster than I can grow more.

 

[dom1104]

Tried that, and they were delicious, but they make more faster than I can grow more.

This IS the issue.

luckily the whole 2 acre area is fenced on all 4 sides so, I hope this will limit the deer.

The neighbors havent had any issue with em, so thats a good sign.

 

[iChokePeople]

This IS the issue.

luckily the whole 2 acre area is fenced on all 4 sides so, I hope this will limit the deer.

The neighbors havent had any issue with em, so thats a good sign.

Hope it's a high fence. They don't bat an eye at jumping the fences around my place.

 

[sbsg2005]

Dad grows pears and 2 different kind of apple at his place. those 6 trees provide more fruit than we eat, can, and make jams and jellies out of each year. Hopefully in the next year or two his grapes will be established and we will start getting plenty of grapes.

 

[ThrottleJockey]

My peaches don't do so well without chems, my apples have the same problem. We have a LOT of cedar on our property and we suffer from "cedar apple rust" fungus. The pears however do amazingly well and produce by the truckload. We have 3 pear trees, this year they made pears almost as big as my head! For some strange reason the deer don't bother the pears but tear up the apples. I've had good luck growing cherries if I can keep the birds away...lots of nuts too but none actually planted, black walnut and hickory. Persimmon also do very well in IN, unfortunately I have none.

 

[Brandon]

cherries, pears, and apples are what we currently have.

 

[Hammer]

Cherries, plum, tangerines, apples and peaches all do well in Indiana. As stated above if you can keep the deer off of them. Persimmon trees are not widely available in nurseries so you may have to start them from seed.

Also if you do have a deer issue, take a bar of ivory soap, put it in an old sock or stocking and tie it to the tree. You can split the bar of soap in half to make it go further if you want to. But it will deter the deer, the reason you have to tie it us is because of coyotes will pack it off if it's not tied down.

 

[ThrottleJockey]

I think persimmon can be cloned fairly easily from a limb and rooting powder if you choose to go with some. Starting from seed can be a PITA IMO...There are a bunch around the courthouse in Martinsville that I've been eying for a couple years now but not sure how well taking a cutting would go over considering the location...

 

[mrjarrell]

Haven't had any luck with apples, so far. They just refuse to produce well. My peach tree, tho is a real trooper. It gives us many more than we can use and it's not a full size tree. We planted thornless blackberry's from Gurney's that produce huge berries and no thorns. Raspberries are doing OK, too, but I think it's time to replant at least one variety. Goldens don't seem to like Indiana weather. Will likely try a plum in the near future, since I got rid of a non producing apple.

 

[Pete]

I also want cherry & peach trees. What varieties do you grow? What size tree do you grow? Dwarf? Semi-dwarf? Or other size? Throttlejockey, there used to have a grove of persimmon trees in the woods before it was logged. I need to check to see if it is still standing.

 

[NathanJefferson]

Pears, Pears, Pears. Hard storing pears.

I've planted hundreds of fruit and nut trees over the years (grew up on a produce farm that tried getting into fruit trees) and out of all the locations and varieties, pears do by far and away the best. I can't remember the real variety but often called canning or winter pears. They are HARD and HARDY. And very bug/disease resistant.

 

[jeremy]

22,000Sq Ft is about a half an acre. Careful how many trees you attempt to grow on that if you are looking for them to be fruit bearing. Are these to be full size Fruit trees or dwarf ones...

 

[kawtech87]

My dad has apricot trees that always do very well. We had cherry trees but got ride of them. They did great but birds love them and they almost ruined our garden. Got ride of the trees, got ride of the birds, saved the garden. My grandma has persimmons that always do good too, but I dont like them so she and my mom eat most of those. Also my grandma has red plum trees, but they are hit and miss. Some will produce others wont, and some years none of them will. We have walnut trees that do great, we always have fresh roasted black walnuts. black berries grow wild in our woods and they are tasty!

 

[kawtech87]

I think persimmon can be cloned fairly easily from a limb and rooting powder if you choose to go with some. Starting from seed can be a PITA IMO...There are a bunch around the courthouse in Martinsville that I've been eying for a couple years now but not sure how well taking a cutting would go over considering the location...

If you want persimmons Ive got them OTA! Id give the whole damn tree if my grandma didnt like them so much. If you want a branch I can probably get you one. I live in Martinsville too, so meeting wouldnt be an issue. The issue wold be getting the branch. There arent many low ones.

 

[rhart]

I also just bought 15 acres that I plan to homestead on. Last year I planted apple, sweet pecan, hybrid blackberries and raspberries. They all did well and I bought them from a big nusery in Georgia.
Here are some of the trees Im ordering from IDNR this year:


42 BLACK CHERRY 1-0 53,20



58 PECAN 1-0 64,994

59 PERSIMMON 1-0 23,800

69 SILVER MAPLE 1-0 19,578

75 TULIP TREE 1-0 4,799

147 RED MAPLE 2-0 4,694



201 AMERICAN PLUM 1-0 12,513

214 ELDERBERRY 1-0 7,800

217 HAZELNUT 1-0 9,700

223 WASHINGTON HAWTHORN 1-0 2,099

227 GRAY DOGWOOD 1-0 8,59



280 PAWPAW 2-0 3,489

303 WILDLIFE PACKET 134

305 UPLAND PACKET 82

308 NUT PACKET 86

309 FINE HARDWOODS PACKET 49

703 WHITE OAK SELECT 1-0 400



NORWAYSPRUCE 3-0 6 $35.25

WHITEPINE 3-0 8 $35.25

VIRGINIAPINE 1-0 29 $26.05





BLACKWALNUT 1-0 46 $31.80

PECAN1-0 58 $31.80

PERSIMMON1-0 59 $31.80

RIVERBIRCH 1-0 64 $31.80

SWAMPWHITE OAK 1-0 72 $31.80

TULIPTREE1-0 75 $31.80

WHITEOAK 1-0 77 $31.80

CHESTNUTOAK 1-0 84 $31.80

CHESTNUTOAK 1-0 84 $31.80



AMERICANPLUM 1-0 201 $29.50

BUTTONBUSH1-0 206 $29.50

ELDERBERRY1-0 214 $29.50

FLOWERINGDOGWOOD 1-0 216 $29.50

HAZELNUT1-0 217 $29.50

REDBUD1-0 219 $29.50

SILKYDOGWOOD 1-0 220 $29.50

WASHINGTONHAWTHORN 1-0 223 $29.50

GRAYDOGWOOD 1-0 227 $29.50

BLACKCHOKEBERRY 1-0 259 $29.50

PAWPAW2-0 280 $29.50

COMMONCHOKECHERRY 1-0 283 $29.50

I also would like peaches, pears, cherries and fig trees