Moving into my first home this weekend, want to plant a fruit tree

Satsumas are suitable in a large pot their entire life but if you want to put it in the ground you are probably on the border line. After a few years they will survive 15-20 degrees but the first few years they will need to be protected.

Plant blueberry bushes instead. I had 2 Satsumas that did well up until the 7 day ice storm a couple years ago. Had them covered up with heavy blanket but both still froze and died. Not planting them ever again as long as I live in NE Louisiana.

Planted 24 blueberry trees (Monroe area), all died within a year, except one. pH of ground off a little and whatever virus they get hits them immediately here. Satsumas - freeze killed them times 3. We grow blueberries now in patio pots and virus hasn't hit them yet. I grow jujubes well and recommend them....taste like a pear/apple combo. Peaches grow well but need to be sprayed. Pears, if you can find a virus-resistant one do well. Apples are hit and miss. muscadines thrive. Paw paws grow well in shade. Mayhaws thrive. Quince and asian pears get the same disease regular pears get. Pecans and chestnuts do great. Chinkapins die in 3 years without fail, or with fail. I have trouble with plum trees for some reason, except for wild goose plums, which are inedible. But I have a few.

Big pot will work, I believe owari satsumas are most freeze resistant.

wait until its cooler

If I lived that far north I'd plant a cherry tree.

I planted a satsuma tree about 5 years ago at our camp in Simsboro. I'm not there often enough to cover before a freeze, so I planted it beneath the canopy of other trees to keep frost off of it. It's still barely hanging on and is about the same size as it was when I planted it with about 3 leaves.

Maybe a peach tree would be better in that area?

Put satsumas in largest pot possibe, then bring in when weather gets cold. Your only option to keep them alive.

I had mine covered with a tarp to keep dry, then topped with a thick insulating blanket. Survived every winter doing that til we got the 7 day long freeze. I had waited 3 years for them to bear fruit after transplanting into the ground from pots. Got fruit 1 season, then that freeze killed them.

Not Satsuma - really too cold, odds of losing it before she leaves the house is high.

Consider Fig, maybe Japanese Persimmon.

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