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

I came across that website when doing some research and found it to be helpful as well.

I'm interested to hear if anyone has bought from Chestnut Hill Outdoors. They sell both early drop (supposed to drop fruit between late August and October) and late drop (October through November) varieties and they claim their trees will start dropping 2-3 years after planting. I was hoping someone here has tried these out and has some feedback.

Chestnut Hill Outdoors

Persimmon-Fuyu and Hachiya. Kumquat. Japan plum. Peach does OK.

I’ve had success with muscadines and persimmons. Persimmons take no effort at all. Muscadines require winter pruning to increase fruit production, but it’s not too difficult.

I’ve tried plums, but they easily get diseased. I think they require a lot of spraying.

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Have your banana plants fruited?

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Sorry for the delay. I just saw your post. I no longer have them in my yard, but when I did, they made tons of bananas, but they were small when compared to the ones you see in the stores----but they were free.

Two of my neighbors have banana plants in their yards and they have bananas every year. The thing with bananas is the stem that produces fruit will not repeat production and needs to be cut out and new growth will produce fruit, much like many berry bushes.

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The thing with bananas is the stem that produces fruit will not repeat production and needs to be cut out and new growth will produce fruit, much like many berry bushes.

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This explains why I never remember any of the dozens upon dozens of banana trees at my grandmother's house ever producing.

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Neighbor's orange tree on the fence line produces beaucoup oranges

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My poor dad has tried half a dozen times to grow an orange tree and for whatever reason it has never worked out. Hopefully once I get my satsuma in the ground it will start growing larger and produce.

Any blackberries?

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What kind of cooking pears?

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Kieffer pears are what you're looking for.

japanese plum, satsuma

How do your chestnut trees do? I am not too far from you (Walthall county) and have been reading a lot of good things about them and benefiting deer, I
Planted a few in my food plots a few weeks ago?

Thank you. I got my muscadine vines from Ison’s . I went with Magnolia and Carlos. I also bought several blackberry bushes from them.