8 MUST Grow Fruit Trees in a BACKYARD ORCHARD

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  • Опубліковано 15 лис 2024

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  • @RossRaddi
    @RossRaddi  3 роки тому +27

    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
      @great0789 3 роки тому

      Thanks!!!!

    • @Yopapi209
      @Yopapi209 3 роки тому +1

      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
    @Gandalf-The-Green 3 роки тому +11

    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
      @AM-lz2jr 3 роки тому

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

    • @jamesfrederick.
      @jamesfrederick. 3 роки тому

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

    • @Free_Falastin2024
      @Free_Falastin2024 3 роки тому

      @@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
    @MG-tx9yb 3 роки тому +4

    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
      @AM-lz2jr 3 роки тому

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

    • @MG-tx9yb
      @MG-tx9yb 3 роки тому

      A M a nectarine is a peach with no fuzz.

    • @shawns0762
      @shawns0762 11 місяців тому

      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
    @katrinagarland5219 2 місяці тому

    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
    @GrowInContainer 3 роки тому

    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 😊

  • @charlesdevier8203
    @charlesdevier8203 3 роки тому +1

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

    • @JohnDoe_88
      @JohnDoe_88 3 роки тому

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

  • @bluegrassdiggers9030
    @bluegrassdiggers9030 3 роки тому +3

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

  • @nmnate
    @nmnate 3 роки тому +1

    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
      @RossRaddi  3 роки тому

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

  • @agrexias
    @agrexias 3 роки тому +3

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

  • @justintan296
    @justintan296 3 роки тому

    Great list and Hi from Australia

  • @kaliberx
    @kaliberx 3 роки тому +5

    You forgot to mention about mulberry and jujube 😉

  • @checksandthecity2669
    @checksandthecity2669 3 роки тому +1

    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.

  • @babichevi7950
    @babichevi7950 3 роки тому

    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?

  • @joem2745
    @joem2745 2 роки тому

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

  • @giuliobaecker5476
    @giuliobaecker5476 2 роки тому

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

  • @stephencooley8493
    @stephencooley8493 3 роки тому

    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
      @lc2654 3 роки тому

      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
      @AM-lz2jr 3 роки тому +1

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

    • @stephencooley8493
      @stephencooley8493 3 роки тому

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

  • @dr.j5642
    @dr.j5642 3 роки тому +1

    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
      @Free_Falastin2024 3 роки тому +3

      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
      @cangel201 8 місяців тому

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

  • @AM-lz2jr
    @AM-lz2jr 3 роки тому

    What are thosewhite things on the trunk of your peaches.

  • @AM-lz2jr
    @AM-lz2jr 3 роки тому

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

  • @ddubsr5886
    @ddubsr5886 3 роки тому +1

    What variety was the persimmon you recommended?

    • @RossRaddi
      @RossRaddi  3 роки тому +2

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

    • @ddubsr5886
      @ddubsr5886 3 роки тому

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

  • @shw.3016
    @shw.3016 Рік тому

    How can you prevent squirrels from eating your fruits?

  • @ranimackenzie3314
    @ranimackenzie3314 Місяць тому

    how big is your yard??

  • @AM-lz2jr
    @AM-lz2jr 3 роки тому

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

  • @esmaistuu
    @esmaistuu 2 роки тому +1

    I cant

  • @jamesfrederick.
    @jamesfrederick. 3 роки тому

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  • @Free_Falastin2024
    @Free_Falastin2024 3 роки тому

    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.

  • @AM-lz2jr
    @AM-lz2jr 3 роки тому

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

    • @TheRealHonestInquiry
      @TheRealHonestInquiry 3 роки тому +1

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

    • @-whackd
      @-whackd 2 роки тому +1

      Try Korean giant sliced after refrigerating

  • @yerneedsry
    @yerneedsry 2 роки тому

    nobody likes the goomie?