Anyone have any experience with these two species? Will they help each other produce fruit?

Is it safe to eat?

It is if you remove the mouldy skin to get at the flesh inside.

I just finished up potting some of my fruit trees that were in too small of containers and noticed these growths on two of the plants that came from the same nursery. They were both bareroot plants last winter.

https://imgur.com/a/eoC79xg

None of my other fruit trees I repotted had this problem.

I did some research last night after discovering this and it sounds like there is no real cure. Some sources said to just leave it and know your tree will be stunted, others said the same but to cut it away. Anyway, I cut them off this morning because I was in a rush to repot these. I likely just made things worse but what should I expect here? Just keep them healthy for as long as possible? Should I treat this as a total waste and get new bareroot replacements in a couple months? If I hadn't repotted these I wouldn't have known anything was wrong, the trees were pretty healthy this year.

Moved to our new place recently and there is this baby apple tree with some dry (marked) and weird looking branches. Any suggestions for how to prune and improve it will be great.

Will insects destroy all my fruit? Would love to start a small orchard, but before I do I am curious about how hard it is to actually get lots of edible fruit off my trees. Birds and bugs can ruin a lot of things.

Cherry and apple trees would be my main go to. As well as blueberry and raspberry

I’m looking to plant more fruit trees and understand that almonds and apricots are hardy down to my part of South Jersey (Camden County suburbs of Philly, 7B). The spaces I have would be protected on one side by a South-Southeast facing wall and both spaces get 6-8 hours of sun.

My concern is that I will often lose harvests due to late frosts, especially for the almonds. Is this true?

Are there self-fertile varieties of almonds that bloom late to avoid frost? I’ve yet to see any reliable info on when All-in-One or Javid’s Almonds bloom in our area. Has anyone in the Delaware Valley had success with almonds?

Apricots seem more likely to be reliably fruitful, but any suggestions on varieties for South Jersey? Jerseycot seems to be a no-brainer but I welcome any suggestions.

Walking past a neighbour's garden in a parisen suburb, l noticed a persimmon tree. It's the beginning of December and the bright orange fruit looked spectacular on the bare branches on this dull winter morning. The man told me he throws the fruit in the trash because it doesn't taste good, "it leaves an unpleasant taste in the mouth". Despite me explaining about waiting until they're overripe to eat, he decided nevertheless to give me his crop. Do uneatable persimmons exist ?

Does anyone have advice for starting Paw Paw trees from seed? I received a dozen or so and want to start 3 to plant this spring.

Can a Kaj-Acik-Anor Pomegranate survive in a container outdoors in zone 7? It is an Uzbek-Tadzhik ("Russian") variety. Could it survive in an unheated garage? Would heat tape confuse it, making it bloom early?

I had searched for, and found, someone that mentioned a reputable orchard to buy citrus trees from in Texas. However, I cannot seem to find that thread again for some reason. I live outside of Houston, TX. I am unable to import any citrus trees from orchards/nurseries that are not in Texas. So a lot of the primary places that most people get their trees from are of no use to me. Can anyone suggest reputable orchards within Texas that I can get trees, specifically citrus, from?