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Fruit tree ideas
Posted on 11/15/20 at 2:43 pm
Posted on 11/15/20 at 2:43 pm
I live in Baton Rouge area and wanting to add another fruit tree to yard. I Currently have a young satsuma and considering Meyer lemon and or a fig tree. If lemon tree would produce closer to crawfish season I probably would plant one but outside of fresh lemonade I’m not sure what else to do with.
Please post ideas along with brand/variety suggestions
Thanks
Please post ideas along with brand/variety suggestions
Thanks
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Posted on 11/15/20 at 3:12 pm to Geaux1
Space for 1 more fruit tree that’s not citrus - fig (Celeste, Brown Turkey, LSU Purple), Japanese Persimmon (Fuyu), perhaps a Loquat (Gold Nugget). Like citrus, none of these require another cultivar (variety) for cross pollination to produce fruit.
You can do Improved Meyer Lemon as well, not as cold hardy as Satsuma, but pretty cold hardy nonetheless. Friend freezes the whole lemons to use when boiling crawfish in the spring.
You can do Improved Meyer Lemon as well, not as cold hardy as Satsuma, but pretty cold hardy nonetheless. Friend freezes the whole lemons to use when boiling crawfish in the spring.
Posted on 11/15/20 at 3:24 pm to Geaux1
I have quite a few fruit trees ant my Meyer lemon is my favorite of all. The tree blooms prolifically and the fruit looks beautiful on the tree.
Posted on 11/15/20 at 4:02 pm to Geaux1
loquat (Japanese plum)
beautiful tree, bountiful harvest, maintenance free and no freeze issues.
beautiful tree, bountiful harvest, maintenance free and no freeze issues.
Posted on 11/15/20 at 8:34 pm to Spankum
Spankum and others...what do you do with your lemon harvest?
Posted on 11/15/20 at 8:40 pm to Geaux1
Blueberry bushes
Apple-pear tree
Apple-pear tree
Posted on 11/15/20 at 9:41 pm to Geaux1
Lemons are not very cold hardy.
Persimmon trees are hard to beat. If you’ve never eaten a permission, you’re missing out. They’re much, much better than they look. Fuyu persimmons are non astringent, meaning that you can eat them before they are totally ripe. They just get sweeter and sweeter as they ripen.
Not a tree, but if you have the room, muscadines are really good too.
I’ve never tried them, but jujube trees grow well down here too. They’re said to have an apple flavor, but sweeter.
Persimmon trees are hard to beat. If you’ve never eaten a permission, you’re missing out. They’re much, much better than they look. Fuyu persimmons are non astringent, meaning that you can eat them before they are totally ripe. They just get sweeter and sweeter as they ripen.
Not a tree, but if you have the room, muscadines are really good too.
I’ve never tried them, but jujube trees grow well down here too. They’re said to have an apple flavor, but sweeter.
This post was edited on 11/15/20 at 9:44 pm
Posted on 11/16/20 at 9:10 am to CrawDude
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perhaps a Loquat (Gold Nugget)
Do you know who would carry that variety in SELA?
Posted on 11/16/20 at 10:11 am to F73ME
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Do you know who would carry that variety in SELA?
I purchased my Loquat, Gold Nugget cultivar, 2 1/2 years ago at Southside Produce in Baton Rouge, but I’ve seen them carried by Home Depot, Lowe’s, retail plant nurseries in Baton Rouge (for example, Cleggs). You shouldn’t have any problem finding one. I think Gold Nugget is likely the only named Loquat cultivar you are likely to find in our area.
I also have a “seedling” (= unnamed variety) cultivar Loquat I purchased in Forest Hill as a 15 gallon container plant 3 1/2 years ago. Produces just as nice and large fruit as as the Gold Nugget, so I wouldn’t be concerned about finding a named cultivar. They grow fast - in fact the 3 gallon Gold Nugget was 1/3 the size of the 15 gal loquat. They are now the same size - 10-12 feet tall. Produced a lot jam this past year from the fruit.
Posted on 11/16/20 at 12:51 pm to Geaux1
I now only have a fig tree in my back yard and the only issue with them is beating the birds in the morning to pick the ripening figs. Damn birds will peck a hole in one fig, eat just a bit of the sweetest part and head to others to do the same.
Pisses me off to get out there and find 20+ ripening figs ruined by birds right at dawn, but that is how life is with fig trees.
I had a loquat (Japanese Plum) and a satsuma tree that both got killed by Katrina's floodwaters and I never replaced them, but they produced quite a bit of great fruit for me before that.
ETA: I second a persimmon. One of my favorite fruits to eat------when ripe.
Pisses me off to get out there and find 20+ ripening figs ruined by birds right at dawn, but that is how life is with fig trees.
I had a loquat (Japanese Plum) and a satsuma tree that both got killed by Katrina's floodwaters and I never replaced them, but they produced quite a bit of great fruit for me before that.
ETA: I second a persimmon. One of my favorite fruits to eat------when ripe.
This post was edited on 11/16/20 at 12:53 pm
Posted on 11/16/20 at 12:56 pm to Geaux1
Posted on 11/16/20 at 5:00 pm to CrawDude
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I also have a “seedling” (= unnamed variety) cultivar Loquat
all of my loquats are from sprouted seed. the biggest one is an easy 30', and almost as wide. i started with one sprout that i dug up in a neighbors' yard
OP if you want a few i have hundreds sprouted under that big tree (no exaggeration). i'm in hammond and BR i'll dig you up as many as you want
Posted on 11/17/20 at 4:59 pm to Clint Torres
Thanks for sharing the cherry tree link! I just might need one of those 
This post was edited on 11/17/20 at 5:00 pm
Posted on 11/17/20 at 5:12 pm to OGM
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Thanks for sharing the cherry tree link! I just might need one of those
I considered the Barbados Cherry as well a few years back but in Baton Rouge, an extended hard freeze just might do it in so i passed for something more cold hardy but in New Orleans the Barbados Cherry might do just fine.
Posted on 11/17/20 at 11:51 pm to Geaux1
not to hijack but i just received a "Hand of Buddha" citrus plant. I've been looking it up and will try to figure out how to care for this thing. Anyone w/ experience on this?
Posted on 11/18/20 at 6:06 am to Pastalaya
If Loquat fruits in your area I'd go with that, second place would be jujube.
Posted on 11/18/20 at 9:51 am to Bee Man
quote:I've never had a good one. I love the wild ones though.
Persimmon trees are hard to beat. If you’ve never eaten a permission, you’re missing out. They’re much, much better than they look. Fuyu persimmons are non astringent, meaning that you can eat them before they are totally ripe. They just get sweeter and sweeter as they ripen.
Posted on 11/18/20 at 2:29 pm to Pastalaya
Posted on 11/18/20 at 2:43 pm to Geaux1
From my personal experience with fig trees was that they attracted rats. I'll admit I didn't keep up with picking the fruit so that might have had something to do with the rats. If you can pick the fruit before the birds or rats get to them then you are ahead of the game.
Posted on 11/19/20 at 10:27 am to humblepie
That’s it. Different reports on how fickle it is to grow inside. My best bet is a sunny spot on the porch in a well drained pot. Looking forward to making some Buddacello
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