What are your favorite fruits to grow?

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Fruits I grow...ranked in terms of utility. Grapes, blackberries, plums, peaches, pears, figs, kumquats, mulberries, and pomegranates.

If I could grow them...apples and avocado.
 

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Fruits I grow...ranked in terms of utility. Grapes, blackberries, plums, peaches, pears, figs, kumquats, mulberries, and pomegranates.

If I could grow them...apples and avocado.

You can't grow apples in Texas? I honestly figured they grew almost anywhere. Interesting.
 

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Texas is a big place...;)... Yes in parts such as North Texas they grow apples, but here just inland from the Gulf Coast, not enough chilling hours. Peaches in the new low chill varieties work but not apples.
 

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You can't grow apples in Texas? I honestly figured they grew almost anywhere. Interesting.
The closet place in Texas from @Meadowlark and myself that grow apples is in Kerr County, a tiny town named Medina. Not only is the town tiny but so are the apples. The main participant in this apple growing is named Love Creek Orchard. This variety of apple is the only variety that will grow there. Other varieties have been tried but there just aren't enough chilling hours. One can eat these apples but they are only about twice as big as a golf ball including the core. They do make good pies, jams and jellies. This apple business got started about 25-30 years ago by Love Creek and a few other entrepreneurs. Love Creek is the last man standing. Having lived closeby I can personally attest that if you want an apple to eat, don't go to Medina Texas to find one.
 

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When I was growing up in the 80s, our place was covered with apple trees that were planted by my papaw and his father many moons ago. They were mainly a small golden delicious and what my parents called June apple. I can still remember the smell like it was yesterday walking home from school of the June apple trees.
I've got several golden delicious and June trees now but they taste nothing like the old-time ones planted by my papaw.
If I could get old-time apple trees that taste like they did, I'd have them growing everywhere.
 

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Blackberries are my favorite. Easy to grow. Requires little space. Fast return after planting compared to fruit trees.
 

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That is so interesting about the apple trees from the 80s, Heirloom farmer1969.
The golden delicious trees I have now look nothing like the old time trees. My grandma and mother would can them and my God the taste was out of this world . Sadly all them old trees are gone now.
I'm sure others on the forum from the southern states had these trees also .
 

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Apricots. Apricots. Apricots. And Rainier cherries.
Ain't gonna happen where I live. Not enough chill hours.
 

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