Fruit Trees and Berries for the South

Looks like I have roughly a dozen Pluerry and plumcot fruit sizing....maybe a handful of santa rosa plums.

Here are the Pluerry.

There are several varieties of apple you can grow down here.....they are not maintenance free though as there are issues with different insects, molds, and mildews.

Hope you chose a thornless variety of blackberry. Mine are Arapahoe.

Planted two more fruit trees today. Chickasaw Plum and Lapins Cherry.

The plum is a native plum to the southeast cultivated by the Native Americans - thus the name. They are small plums, maybe the size of pingpong balls, but it is a good pollinator with an extended bloom time, which is why I planted it. If I get fruit, that's great too. Should bring more pollinating insects to my yard.

The Lapins Cherry is a low (relatively) chill requirement, self-fertile sweet cherry. I have always dreamed of growing a cherry tree but we live in the wrong place for it. This tree is by no means a sure thing, but perhaps after a cold winter I might get lucky...assuming the tree survives the hot, humid summers here. At the least I am hoping for some nice flowers in spring and perhaps some fall color.

Some fruit on my Pluerry tree. Plum-cherry hybrid.

Birds will get some....it's hard to tell if it will be bad or not. I netted one year but ended up killing two birds who went under it and couldn't get out....so using a net has to be done properly.

I'd be curious what type grapes they are. Find out if you can. There are billions of videos on pruning and training grape and muscadine vines so I'd read up if I were you. It's not difficult though wacking away at a plant sometimes feels wrong. Need to have a long view.

Need to set up a net or fruit bags soon. Don't want to lose even one of these plum-cherry hybrid Sweet Treat Pluerry fruit.

Best of luck with all that. That looks great. I've tried raspberries, as I remember picking ripe ones off my aunt's raspberry bushes in Sacramento when I was a kid. Awesomely-sweet. The stuff we get in the stores are picked literally green and taste as such. Alas, it's too hot here for raspberry in the summer, and the variety we had didn't like the occasional freeze... at all.

We had some canning figs that came with the propery when we bought the house, but I think the june bug larvae killed them. We also have a pear and pecan tree, but those seem to mostly feed the treerats. The pears appear to be a canning type, as the fruit are hard, and sugar content low. We've _never_ had a pecan off the pecan tree, and we've been here 25 years!

We've had the best luck with citrus... up until February of last year. We had two huge satsuma orange and one big ruby red grapefruit trees. They got severely-frozen back in February. One orange is now just root stock, and I'm going to try to graft a blood orange to it. The other orange was frozen back, but still has growth on the orange wood. It was covered in flowers this spring, but I don't think any fruit set. The grapefruit didn't bloom this year.

We also have some things in pots we need to get in the ground, but just haven't done that yet. There's a fig we got from my Dad's property that made awesome fruit. I'd love to have more f that fruit.