There is a lady on youtube… Jan Doolin… central FL zone 9b that grows many varieties of mulberries.
She has a Jans Best that she really brags on… it is everbearing (multiple crops a season, with pruning) and it loads up with delicious fruit…
It might just work for your zone.
You might try Medlar… some list it as ok for zone 5-9. Ripens very late in season and has to either hang on the tree or sit in the counter for some time to fully ripen… some say they let them hang on the tree and are still eating them in November, December. Taste like cinnamon spiced apple butter per Burnt Ridge nursery.
I grow a few types of mulberry but I only did not recommend them due to having never actually had a mulberry. But that’s most of the fruit I grow haha and hence why I grow most of the fruit I grow. But by all means grow some mulberries!
Again really appreciate all the advice. Hope the avos work out for you. My old neighbor in New Orleans had a beautiful 25ft tall Mexican avo in their front yard that I saw loaded with fruit a couple years. Inspired plant envy for sure haha
What other species of Eugenia and psidium are you trying?
Anyone growing nuts like American hazelnuts, chinquapins, Chinese or Chinese hybrid chestnuts, pecans, shellbark hickory or black/white walnuts or any others in 8b/9a? I planted 5 bareroot of each this year since I’m on a couple acres. Wondering if anyone has experience with them or other nuts?
Psidium- littorale, cattleyanum, “Barbie pink” (in a pot) and seeds/lings (most yet to germinate) longipetiolatum, myrtoides, robustum, and “Vivaldi cattle guava” seeds from @a_Vivaldi which look to be some sort of hybrid
Hopefully some will succeed in ground, but for sure not all, as planting locations are almost nonexistent now haha but I’m sticking and moving
It’s been a constant trickle ever since I started haha more like a firehose actually on second thought. There are over 1000 Eugenia so it’s a fruitless endeavor to try and collect all of them, but I can try haha
Old post, I know, but Scarlet Beauty plum has been hands down the easiest/best stone fruit for me (N Florida/S Georgia, Zone 9A). I planted it maybe five or six years ago. Since then, no spray, no fertilizer, no pruning. It’s naturally a rounded, graceful, fairly open tree that is beautiful in bloom. It is self-fertile and very prolific - dozens of fruit by year three, 100+ the last two or three years (it could probably benefit from thinning, but they are still comparable in size to most red or black plums you might find in the store). Brown rot will affect some fruit, and occasionally you’ll find a curculio worm. By comparison, between brown rot, curculio worms and squirrles I barely get any of the peaches from a tree I have close by. For whatever reason, the squirrels don’t seem to bother the Scarlett Beauty. It’s got great flavor - the skin is just a little tart as is the case with most Japanese plums, but the flesh is juicy, sweet and all around delicious.
I also currently have Chickasaw, American, Guthrie, and flatwoods, all get more brown rot than the Scarlet Beauty (they ripen June/July, when brown rot seems to be worse). American and Flatwoods are tart, Chickasaw and Gutherie will sweeten a little but the longer you leave them the higher chance of brown rot getting to the fruit before you do. I’ll still eat a few any time I pass them, but they just don’t hold a candle to the Scarlett Beauty. I had a weeping Santa Rosa that never produced. I also have a Bruce and Robusto planted next to each other that are very healthy, vigorous trees that have barely produced anything after ten years - from what I read they were supposed to pollinate each other but they always seem to flower out of sync for me.
With peaches and nectarines I’ve taken an approach of trying to get the earliest to ripen, so as to ripen before the worst brown rot - ideally May or very early June. Some years you will lose the blooms to a late frost, but that’s less frustrating than losing basically all the fruit to brown rot. Tropic Snow and Gulf King are two I’ve had, both are very good. They really do need pruning for form, prompt removal of brown rotted fruit, and general good care to stay at all healthy. Borers got the Gulf King, but I will probably get another one or try another early ripening variety in the Gulf, UF, or Tropic series.