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re: What fruit trees have you had success with in south Louisiana?

Posted on 2/9/19 at 1:19 pm to
Posted by pdubya76
Sw Ms
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Posted on 2/9/19 at 1:19 pm to
This is the extent of my social media but I’ll have my wife check it out. Thank you
Posted by jeffsdad
Member since Mar 2007
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Posted on 2/9/19 at 1:30 pm to
Chickasaw plums are great, esp if you are feeding wildlife. They use to be 100x more prevalent along the roadbanks but now the state clears them all the way back to the treeline.

As individuals they are great, get 3-4 and maybe spray them once or twice a year and you got some good plums.
Posted by eng08
Member since Jan 2013
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Posted on 2/10/19 at 6:27 am to
You got any?
Posted by Cajunate
Louisiana
Member since Aug 2012
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Posted on 2/10/19 at 6:38 am to


A bit of advice before you go and spend money on trees have your soil tested.

I have two orange trees that did well until that freeze last year. I think the blood orange isn't going to survive. Others I've had were peach which did not do well and eventually died somewhat until I cut it down. Fig tree is doing alright but not tall at all. Blueberry bushes didn't do well and died.

A simple soil test of where you plan to plant trees or bushes would help you to know a lot to make whatever you plant thrive and produce well.
Posted by Theotherpikecounty
pike county
Member since Aug 2014
546 posts
Posted on 2/10/19 at 8:31 am to
quote:

How do your chestnut trees do?


I have some the hybrid/grafted variety in the yard that are 20+ years old and produce a ton. The drop early, mid September, so its real close on early bow season. The deer love them and are under it almost 24 hrs a day. I bought some Dunstan chestnuts from Chestnut hill off the internet and grew them myself. They are about 7 yrs old and starting to produce.

Im always looking for an advantage over my neighbors because im hoping/expecting the state will ban supplemental feeding
Posted by Theotherpikecounty
pike county
Member since Aug 2014
546 posts
Posted on 2/10/19 at 8:34 am to
I ordered the nuts and started my own. Takes a few more years to get nuts. Id rather buy a few pounds of nuts for $20 and get 40-50 trees vs 2 trees for $50

I did the start them in peatmoss in the fridge technique to get mine to sprout
Posted by dartman
baton rouge
Member since Nov 2015
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Posted on 2/24/19 at 12:18 pm to
Don't really know.... just buy some fertilizer spikes and pound them in the ground around the tree. Should be okay as long as cool weather lasts.
Posted by I B Freeman
Member since Oct 2009
27843 posts
Posted on 2/24/19 at 1:07 pm to
I got a million blooms about to open on my lemon tree. Last year a cold snap got them and I only got a dozen or so lemons. Two years ago I got 5-5 gallon buckets full. I love the smell when they bloom.
Posted by mchias1
Member since Dec 2009
815 posts
Posted on 3/1/19 at 1:21 pm to
Looks like we may have gotten enough chill hours for apples in the baton rouge area. Will update as the apples grow. The pictures are from 2 of my trees.





Posted by TheriotAF
Member since Mar 2013
697 posts
Posted on 3/1/19 at 1:45 pm to
Nice!

I had the understanding that you get blooms from an apple tree each year, but whether or not it threw fruit depended on if you hit the req'd chill hours. Is this wrong?

Either way let me know how it they do! I just put 2 apple trees in the ground 2 weeks ago. I have to figure if apples produce after a winter like this year's, its a good sign.

Is this the anna or both types?
Posted by mchias1
Member since Dec 2009
815 posts
Posted on 3/1/19 at 1:51 pm to
1 is Anna. The other is ein schemer or golden dorsett don't remember which. I know I planted one tree that is self pollinating and the other two I have are same variety that needs a cross-polinator. One of my cross-polinator trees is about a month behind the other two in blooming. It needed a lot of pruning this winter.

Also suprised they got pollinated as I've seen 1 bee since the blooms opened.
This post was edited on 3/1/19 at 1:53 pm
Posted by rilesrick
Member since Mar 2015
6704 posts
Posted on 3/1/19 at 2:07 pm to
My Meyer Lemon tree will be prolific again this year. Its blooming now and the whole backyard smells great.
Posted by Geaux4lsu1
Member since Oct 2016
86 posts
Posted on 3/1/19 at 3:09 pm to
Satsuma everything else i have tried died
Posted by Bee Man
Hester, LA
Member since Mar 2018
334 posts
Posted on 3/1/19 at 6:36 pm to
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Persimmon and fig trees are a favorite of mine.


This!

And muscadines.
This post was edited on 3/1/19 at 6:37 pm
Posted by TheriotAF
Member since Mar 2013
697 posts
Posted on 3/4/19 at 5:31 pm to
Did anyone else already put some plants in the ground and a little nervous about the next few days of cold weather?

A few of my blueberry bushes already have fruit. Hope they don’t drop them all!
Posted by Spankum
Miss-sippi
Member since Jan 2007
56248 posts
Posted on 3/4/19 at 6:46 pm to
My meyer lemon is covered with blossoms and the prediction is 24 degrees here tonight...might get ugly! I just got done putting out bedsheets and heat lamps. So that is all I can do. Already 32.outside...
This post was edited on 3/4/19 at 7:57 pm
Posted by TheriotAF
Member since Mar 2013
697 posts
Posted on 3/4/19 at 7:48 pm to
Rough, we should only be hitting 30 the next few nights.
Posted by ADLSUNSU
Baton Rouge
Member since Sep 2007
3518 posts
Posted on 3/4/19 at 8:03 pm to
There are some great documentaries on the American Chestnut (and the blight that has all but killed the off) and the breeding of resistant kind as well as some wheat gene edited enzyme (same one that Chinese chestnuts have) to make them more resistant.


PawPaws are also native and should do well, but I would get a grafted variety. You also have to kind of shade them the first year or two (more if not grafted), but then they like full sun after that. Tastes like a mango/banana/pineapple and is custardy.


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