Apple trees

I’ve got two dwarf apple trees (can’t remember the variety) that I planted seven years ago. Between birds and disease, I haven’t ever gotten an edible apple off of them.

Go to your local seed or garden store and buy one from them. It's always produced the best results for me.

I bought two Honeycrisp trees to plant this year.

It takes 3-5 years to start getting fruit. You'll need at least 2 varieties to cross pollinate (fastgrowingtrees dot com has good info on that). Cedar trees will spread fungus to them

You need to pick varieties that do better in warm climates. They need a certain number of hours over the Winter between 32 and 45 degrees, and we get between 200 and 600 here in Baton Rouge

Anna, tropic sweet, and Dorset golden are the best choices. Mine are all in full Bloom now

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Check out one of these. Apple,pear,cherry,plum tree

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That seems like buying Sea Monkey eggs from a magazine. Has anyone actually seen these trees bare fruit? 4 different fruits?

Ah, I see that now.

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RidingwithBiden

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Get out

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Fastgrowingtrees is awesome.

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I have bought a bunch of trees from them. Good selection...however, last year was a bad experience.

I had 1 Elberta Peach that produced 5 of the most wonderful peaches in it's first year. They self pollinate but I wanted a second to increase the harvest so I ordered one from them since TyTy nursery in south GA said it would be 4 months later and in january before they would ship.

The tree came from FGT and noticed it had a fungus (shot hole) and I had it sent back. The second one had the same fungus. I planted it anyway and used copper fungicide to treat. That fungus spread to my original Elberta. I spent from July to November spraying copper Fungicide on both trees. The new Elberta finally went in hibernation. The original Elberta was in shock and never went into hibernation. Its had leaves throughout winter and been getting punched in the mouth with cold weather. It's still kicking right now but won't likely produce fruit this year. I have to hope that fungus doesn't come back because the spores can still remain.

So, with a BIG place like FGT, you risk diseases. I don't know why they couldn't see the shot holes through the leaves. Original Elberta if still in shock, might be susceptible to beetles now. Just inspect very closely if you order from a big box plant place.