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?

I’m in Zone 5, Ontario Canada… wanted to get some trees sprayed, mainly peach.. bit late getting to it because leaves were on for so long.. I sprayed an application today and it was about -1 Celsius.. it looked like it froze on the branches a bit afterwards… thoughts?

I am new to growing fruit trees. Many of you recommended Grow a Little Fruit Tree. It arrived today and I’m already 1/2 way through. Thanks for the suggestion!!

It has fruit for two years now the but yield is poor and what fruit there is has only one drupelet… is it a pollination issue? I thought we had a self pollenating variety… unfortunately I don’t remember the name of the variety.

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So... Yeah.. as the title says... 6 varieties of Fig (thanks to a wonderful local person who gave me her pruning leftovers when i only wanted a few cuttings to start - ended up being 56 (10-12inch 3-5 node) cuttings)... Pomegranate seedlings that were more successful than expected and 2 trays of citrus root stock (poncirus and Volk lemon) started for future experiments (grafting and such).. i have a planned 3rd variety of citrus to seed for those experiments... and this all started because i wanted to get a few Figs and got 2 bad containers of Pomegranate Arils (they were fermented in the container) from the store...

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I planted two Asian pears about 14 years ago (think they are Hosui, but my sieve-like memory...). Zone 7a. They produced well for years (though squirrels ate many). Two years ago, production fell off dramatically. This year, zero. I'm guessing some kind of pear rust? Black spots on leaves. Any thoughts appreciated.

(Also, there is a juniper nearby, which I have read can harbor a rust harmful to pears.)

This is the perfect height to start from, imo. My neighbor screamed when I cut its head off a few months ago.

Should I take off this bottom big branch of my lemon tree and only leave the main trunk?

ChatGPT tells me this is fungal and I can just remove the affected leaves. Will that prevent them from coming back? Or do I need to do a more heavy prune, anti-fungal etc? It affects about 5% of the whole tree.

Hello all, I hope to get some advice from someone more knowladgable. I'm cutting down cancer ridden tree soon and I wonder how to deal with the wood. It's an old plum that's been rotting from the bottom up for the last few years, I tried removing the infected areas before, but it's clear now it's beyond help and only posing risk to nearby cherries while having produced a grand total of 2 fruits. I'm guessing I should take care to burn the cut wood so in spring the spores can't spread. It's very rainy right now (and when it stops being rainy it will start snowing) so it could be a little troublesome burning fresh wood right now - is it safe to store it untill early spring (we do store wood in close proximity to a couple of fruit trees)? Should I remove the stump with roots as well? Are there better practices when it comes to utilising sick trees or maybe my concerns are overblown and it's ok to treat it as any other lumber? I'll be greatful for any and all advice.

I have a 2 year old Ein Shemer apple tree that I’m wanting to get a pollinator buddy close to. Google tells me Anna or Dorset Golden as viable options.

Does anyone have experience in the warmer regions with either of these? Or if you have another solid recommendation I would take it.

The title pretty much sums it up. I want to get three apple trees. I actually only want two, but here's my dilemma:

I desperately want a Belle de Boskoop. My husband says he wants a Honeycrisp. Belle de Boskoop is a triploid, so I need something that can pollinate both Belle de Boskoop and Honeycrisp. I put both varieties into the Orange Pippin pollination checker and the two types that I find intriguing and would apparently work for both varieties are Fuji and Granny Smith.

Now obviously I'm aware that they are pretty much on opposite ends of the sweetness spectrum. I don't mind a sour apple, but hubby only likes sweet. I've never made apple sauce, apple pie, etc so I don't know if one variety is better than the other for that. Is one better as a pollinator? More disease resistant? Something else? Fact is: I can barely fit three apple trees. I need someone with some apple tree experience to tell me whether I should go for Granny Smith or Fuji as my third variety.

I'm in south central PA and I'm looking at semi-dwarf trees. Location will be full sun to partial shade in the late afternoon.

Please help, I'm completely new to this and my head feels like exploding.

I have roughly 1,000 sq ft of space on my property that I would like to use for a fruit orchard. It gets plenty of direct sunlight. And while there is no water source out there right now, I can easily redirect water out to that field. My question is, how many trees can I squeeze into that space? I want to squeeze as many as possible while still being able to have a decent yield. My ultimate goal for my property is self sufficiency. And having a number of fruit trees will greatly help with this.

Regarding tree types, I am open to all tree types. Normal sized trees as well as smaller, dwarven, varieties.

Any advice, suggestions, and information, is greatly appreciated.

Hi there! Hoping someone can please give some advice. We just moved into a rental (in a suburb in a big city) with only a small backyard but with a grapefruit, lemon and orange tree. We’ve had a rat that appears to have been nesting by the grapefruit tree - coming out all day to feast on something on the ground under the tree (perhaps old fruit we can no longer see that’s left remnants behind?)

We have cleared out what we think was the rats nest so I’m hoping I see it a lot less today and going forward but I want to try make a plan to keep him away. I understand they come for food so if there’s none available they should take the bait instead.

How do people manage this with fruit trees ? Can you successfully keep rodents at bay or are they more just a reality to learn to live with ?

Many thanks in advance .. I’m absolutely phobic so it’s really been doing a number on my mental health seeing him every day thinking what have we done moving here (extreme I know but phobias aren’t logical)

At this time of the Fall season, 11/27/2024, temperatures are around 32 F to 27 F; Hardiness Zone 6b what kind of spray should I use for stone fruit trees? Is it too late?

I just planted over 100 trees in my backyard. It's my first time doing it.

My neighbor has cow manure and I was thinking of putting it on top of my soil.

Should I do it now or is it better to wait until Spring? I'm in zone 7b.

Long story short one of the spaces we have planned for a dwarf self pollinating tree (due to the arrangement of our land we planned out pairs of other fruiting trees but we just have this one spot that needs to be solo)

unfortunately everything we are thinking of seems to be a problem for dogs. and since this particular puzzle spot is right next to the fence where our neighbors super friendly golden and white lab live we do NOT want to accidently harm the dogs if our wayward crop winds up in their space.

the dogs are named snowball and bourbon, they good dogs bront, we don't want to poisen them.

So, what are our options?