8 MUST Grow Fruit Trees in a BACKYARD ORCHARD

[@RossRaddi]

Indian Free Peach Saijo Persimmon Early Blush Apricot Comice & Asian Pear Marionberry Mara des Bois Strawberry Carmine Goumi Concord style Grape (Mars or Everest Seedless) - Tasty wine grape if living somewhere dry Can't forget the Fig.

[@great0789]

Thanks!!!!

[@Yopapi209]

Indian free is one of the best tasting peaches out there, I grow coffee cake and chocolate persimmons which are great varieties.

[@Gandalf-The-Green]

I missed the Pawpaw in this video. Downright the best fruit I have eaten in my life. I could eat these every day of the year, they are like ice cream or candy. This fruit is still relatively unknown here in Europe. Planted a dozen trees in my backyard orchard, now I play the waiting game.

[@AM-lz2jr]

When I do airboxing, I saw "paw paw".

[@jamesfrederick.]

I want to grow but I herd it takes a really long time to get fruit...

[@Free_Falastin2024]

@@jamesfrederick. makes the fruit worth it in my opinion. I have 3 plants at almost 2 years old. They grow agonizingly slow in the first 3 or 4 years and then take off quickly if they're in a sunny location.

[@MG-tx9yb]

I have over 100 fruit trees and they are all grafted to frankentrees. Hundreds of different cultivars. My very favorite is the spice zee nectaplum. Beautiful purple leaves and tastes like the very best nectarine you could imagine. Everyone should have one in their yard. Cotton candy aprium is great too if you like super sweet. It’s a little sugar bomb. Ugni Chilean guava looks like a cranberry and tastes like a cross between a strawberry and cotton candy. Everyone should grow them. Boysenberries are awesome. I’m anxious to try the pluerries this year. My candy heart pluerry put on a massive fruit set. The sweet treat and sugar twist not so much. The peacotum didn’t set any fruit either. I grafted a bunch of hardy kiwii varieties onto my issai kiwi. Hopefully it will cross pollinate and I’ll get a bunch this year. Alpine strawberries are amazing too.

[@AM-lz2jr]

Why does everyone seem to think nectarines are better than peaches. They're not.

[@MG-tx9yb]

A M a nectarine is a peach with no fuzz.

[@shawns0762]

I am a fruit nut too. I remember hiking in Wisconsin and found some wild serviceberries, blew me away how good they were, also found wild strawberries they were dramatically better than any I had before. I will grow some things that you recommend, maybe I could buy from you, what the heck is a frankentree?

[@katrinagarland5219]

Is your Saijo Persimmon a dwarf? It looks like a very manageable size... just what I am looking for. Great list... love your channel!

[@GrowInContainer]

My fig will be ready to pick in 15 days.we have very hot weather and spring starts at 15 February. I have brow turky and some other verities.i love all the info you provided 😊

[@nmnate]

I think I need to give a persimmon an attempt in the ground. I've tried them in pots to no avail. I think a 10' tree, either a hybrid like Nikita's or an Asian variety like Sheng / Saijo (?), would be perfect. Something like Rosseyanka would be way to big for me. You're right about apricots, tree ripe they're insanely good. We have a seedling (manchurian) and a Harglow. They grow really well for us as they tolerate alkaline soil without issue. Most of the other stone fruits are a little bit chlorotic. Since we basically get a month and a half of hard freezes / frosts after they bloom, I've resorted to trying them in pots too (apriums, pluerries actually). I'd probably give a slight edge to Asian pears as well, we're putting in two fireblight resistant ones next season (probably Shinko and Korean Giant). All the commercial european pear varieties I like seem to be pretty susceptible to FB. I don't think we get bad outbreaks in this area due to aridity, but it's a nice piece of mind. In my yard, the best options are Jujube (by far the easiest), apples, ribes (jostaberries / currants / gooseberries), bush cherries and raspberries. Apricots are fairly easy decorative trees that occasionally fruit.

[@RossRaddi]

Irrespective of fruit quality, I'd definitely much rather have Nikita's.

[@bluegrassdiggers9030]

I agree persimmon are the best just for the ease of growing and they are late bloomers which is a huge plus.

[@charlesdevier8203]

I just planted two Boysenberry plants -also a cross of blackberry and raspberry.

[@JohnDoe_88]

Ha I literally just planted boysenberry along with Caroline/meeker red, anne yellow and royalty purple raspberries.... Can't get enough

[@agrexias]

How does the Indian Free peach perform in humidity? Are you spraying your tree for brown rot?

[@RossRaddi]

Not yet.

[@checksandthecity2669]

Hey Ross, I am in the Philadelphia area and am wondering if you would consider some of your produce this year? I am willing to pay a lot for fresh produce just in case you have a surplus.

[@kaliberx]

You forgot to mention about mulberry and jujube 😉

[@RossRaddi]

I didn't forget :D

[@justintan296]

Great list and Hi from Australia

[@joem2745]

If I didn't know any better, I'd say you were closely related to KZbin gardener Veronica Flores.

[@giuliobaecker5476]

No plum? I have Italian prune and yellow egg plum, haven’t fruited yet. Going into second year now

[@babichevi7950]

Thank you so much for this. I love these specific recommendations. I may try the peach this fall. I first had white peaches in the early 70s. I lived in a cabin with two very old peach trees that had gone wild and one was a white peach. It was incredible. The white peaches now are very mild by comparison. I’ll look forward to trying some of these others, too, once I get settled into the new place. By the way, did you mention you will be moving from your place? Did I miss something or misunderstand?

[@stephencooley8493]

Excellent list, though I would personally leave off the Asian pear and keep the comice. Also, astringent persimmons make the world's best cookies! I planted my persimmon just to make cookies and have since learned all the other ways to enjoy them.

[@lc2654]

Hi Stephen, how do you use persimmons to make cookies? Recipe? I have ordered my first tree. Currently I use banana, date, applesauce etc to sweeten cookies.

[@AM-lz2jr]

Thank you! I feel like I'm the only one who doesn't like asian pear.

[@stephencooley8493]

@@lc2654 just google persimmon cookies, all the recipes are about the same (though my Great Grandmother's recipe didn't use cloves).

[@dr.j5642]

Ross: "Indian free peach..." Socal growers: "Ughh" I want to grow one bad but dont think our chill hours will permit me to do so

[@Free_Falastin2024]

You can grow citrus, bananas, figs, dates, and so much more. Why would you even care about deciduous fruit like peaches? Let's trade places. You can have all the chill hours you could ever want here and I'll be able to grow a lemon tree in the ground over there.

[@cangel201]

@@Free_Falastin2024 lol, same. Would prefer zone 9+ to 7

[@ddubsr5886]

What variety was the persimmon you recommended?

[@RossRaddi]

Saijo. I'd also recommend Nikita's Gift, Rosseyanka or Prok for colder zones.

[@ddubsr5886]

@@RossRaddi I’m in northern Virginia. Zone 7a just like you so these picks are helpful!

[@shw.3016]

How can you prevent squirrels from eating your fruits?

[@RossRaddi]

WCS trap.

[@AM-lz2jr]

Who would you say has a real indian freestone peach for sale?

[@AM-lz2jr]

What are thosewhite things on the trunk of your peaches.

[@ranimackenzie3314]

how big is your yard??

[@RossRaddi]

A 3rd of an acre.

[@AM-lz2jr]

Saijo or Nikitas Gift? If you could only grow one.

[@jamesfrederick.]

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[@Free_Falastin2024]

Ross, if you think the Medjool date is the top of the line then you haven't eaten dates. Medjool comes in at a 4 (maximum) in the world of an experienced date eater. There are astringent dates, sweet dates, hard dates, soft dates, melty dates, etc. You need to remake the video and remove that blasphemous statement lol.

[@esmaistuu]

I cant

[@AM-lz2jr]

I don't know why I hate asian pear so much. Everyone else seems to think they're amazing.

[@TheRealHonestInquiry]

Could it be they are not properly ripened (to orange color) as he mentioned?

[@-whackd]

Try Korean giant sliced after refrigerating

[@yerneedsry]

nobody likes the goomie?