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

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What kind of apples? I have researched some with relatively low chill hours but just curious what you have.

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Local nursery (around Lafayette) sells the Anna and Ein Shemer varieties and swears they will do well here if you plant them together.

I planted one of each last spring and within a couple of months had small, edible apples on each tree. Then we had a few months of drought and then rain almost every day from July to January, and both of them died.

Last year when I saw those apples I was very hopeful, even though my gardening arborist neighbor told me apple trees have never worked here no matter how hard people try.

Remember that the winter of 17/18 had a lot of freezing temps, so I assume that helped last spring. I wouldn’t expect this years trees to do well.

ETA: LSU agcenter lists the Anna, Dorset Gold and Molly Delicious varieties as good for South La.