Hello I’m new to this forum usually I’m on the tropical fruit forum because I grow fruit indoors and in my greenhouse. I’m a teenager growing fruits and tropicals. but I want to fill my yard with temperate plants now. I’m looking for any fruit or varieties you recommend for zone 7b if there cool enough I’m fine with covering them during the winter. I have peach a mountain blueberry from my moms childhood farm pink lemonade blueberry, plum, cherry, strawberry, raspberry, paw paw and beauty berry. I would like more rare ones but still easy to find and cheap I’m looking into thimble berry and mulberry. Please give me recommendations thank you!
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Well, I wouldn’t have started the thread I just made had I seen this first lol.
I’d recommend figs. Easy to root, grows fast IF you give them good care and in many areas impossible to buy fresh. If you want it, you grow it.
Rabbiteye blueberries. I love mine. Plant them now, they grow slow. I let mine bear heavy early, and they bore so heavily that it stunted its own growth. Esp powderblue. That bush bears crazy heavy. Premier does good too.
Thornless blackberries. There are drawbacks, but picking blackberries in shorts and not bleeding is nice. Also fast growing, fast fruiting.
Grapes. Easy to propagate, bears a small crop fast.
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I would second grapes.
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As already mentioned figs and blackberries (PrimeArk series is great) are relatively inexpensive and grow well.
Honeyberries/haskaps can be grown if sheltered from midday sun.
I don’t have much experience with these yet but they’re supposed to grow decently in 7b: gooseberries, clove currants, and bush cherries.
These are a little pricier unfortunately:
persimmons (astringent and/or non-astringent) and jujubes
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My gooseberries are growing well with south/southwest sun along with the currants. My poorman gooseberry still somehow has some of its leaves still from last year 
When it hits the 85-100s for our area you need to water them though. I’ve found them very very low maintenance.
For the honeyberries, mine absolutely bake and lose all of their leaves by end of July. One of them actually has a green leaf starting to poke out of a bud right now. Mine have no shade so be careful if you try them.
I’d also suggest a goumi. They are so pretty the look almost fake 
If your looking for a good place to get currants/gooseberries. I suggest either honeyberries USA, or Whitman farm (you have to call Lucille on the phone to order though) I’ve gotten fantastic plants from both. HBU also has nice bush cherries.
Mulberry is a good easy tree to grow, but can be pretty big trees. I would also suggest kiwi. They are pretty cheap and easy to find. In truth I would suggest everything that will grow in your zone.
I’m also in northern virginia. I’d be interested to know what tropical fruits you have gotten to fruit for you in the green house. I’m thinking about adding a green house myself.
I built my greenhouse in a passive solar design so I would save money. Sorry if this is to much
Tropical fruit
Theobromas and related genus
Theobromas cocoa 2 plants
Jaca cocoa
Herrania Mariae
Other edibles
Unknown variety of coffee
Peanut butter fruit
Blackberry jam fruit
Jackfruit
Cecropia
Pineapple guava
Sugar cane
Miracle fruit
Monstera
Jamaican cherry
Common fruits
Pineapple from store bought tons of them
Pineapple from plant that was bought
Mango from store bought
Tons of avocados store bought
Dragon fruit
Jaboticaba Eugenia and
Banana pitanga
Jaboticaba
Bananas
Dwarf cavendish
Super dwarf cavendish
Ice cream banana
Grand nain banana
Musa basjoo or Japanese banana
Passiflora
Purple passion fruit
Gaint granadillia
Sweet grandila
Annonaceae family
Soursop
Citrus
Meyer lemon
Store bought lemon seedlings
Mandarin unknown Variety
Sourkuat
Kumkuat store bought fruit
palms, cycads and tree ferns.
Flame thrower palm
Variegated flame thrower palm
Açaí dwarf
Mexican fans palm var Fayetteville
Dwarf date palm multiple
3 Chinese windmill palms
Majesty palms
Very dwarf palm on my desk
Cabbage palm
Snake fruit
Variegated açaí
Other
Cold hardy agave
Ant plant
On the way or seeds that are germinating
Star fruit
Mangosteen
Guava pink
Black sapote
Sugar apple
Annona illama fruit nougat
Experiments
Cocoa cutting in soil
Passion fruit cuttings in water and in soil
Sugar apple germination test water, paper-towel, dirt, coconut coir
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I would say hybrid astringent persimmons. They are quick to produce, can be kept tidy and boy you cannot find them available for purchase due to the gelatinous consistency. I have quite a few tropicals also, but my Nikita’s gift (I’ve only had one so far) may be my favorite fruit I’ve ever had. If you get your starfruit seedlings grown out enough let me know I can send you some scions off my Kary. I also have some seedlings growing to graft out.
If you are propagating I’d say you would have really good luck growing your collection for just the cost of shipping trades. Looks like you have a nice list of varieties you’re working with. I’m sure you’d have luck swapping if you propagate those.
Thimbleberry: In open ground, will spread like crazy. Fruitwise, not productive, but it will give you nibbles of a very intense flavor. Would require 100 sq ft to get a pint or two.
pawpaw, fig, persimmon and gooseberry are all delicious and harder to find in a store. raspberries will take over if you let em, but can make a nice hedge area. I put wild strawberries under my trees and those are starting to take too, small and really sweet berries unlike the store bought ones
I only have one I found a seedless cool aid flavored one and would like it to be hopefully the same as the fruit I ate.That would be great how much if I would buy one seedling and a cutting or two. if you would like to trade I have some peanut butter fruit, blackberry jam fruit and tree tomato if you can’t tell I’m trying to grow a peanut butter jelly sandwich I have some bread fruit trees on the way! If your good at grafting maybe you could graft it for me I have only grafted once and it failed.
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Sounds like some definitely trades I’d be happy with in the future. I’ve never grafted any tropicals, just temperate fruit and subtropicals like citrus and loquat. But those graft so easy I imagine tropicals are easy also. How are you managing to keep breadfruit alive? I heard it can’t tolerate sub 50*
Gerardi mulberry is a dwarf mulberry.
Very compact, produces loads of fruit for almost two months, delicious… very much like a blackberry.
I keep mine at 8ft tall with one late winter pruning.
It is a pretty tree and would work great as a yard tree… I would not plant one near a sidewalk or deck… the fruit drop can stain…keep it out in the yard or orchard.
Fruit set early May…
Fruit picked late June.
No spray, low maintenance.
TNHunter
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I’ll see how it does in my house and if it does well I’ll move a cutting or air layer to the greenhouse. If you want a bread fruit I’d have to wait awhile for it to get big enough for a. Air layer.
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No breadfruit for me. They get way too large to manage to protect for me. Thank you though
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Ok 
if your in 9a and your ok with it I’ll ship you a cecropia for free in a couple of months. if you could plant one in the ground and put mulch or leafs something like that over it. After you cut it down for the winter. it’s not for the trade I just want to do an experiment. If you don’t want to thats fine.
Forgive my ignorance but I’ve never even heard of that genus. Are they fruit bearing? I’d love to help you with the experiment but unfortunately my little beach lot is nearly out of room if the experiment succeeds haha
I’m running quite a few experiments myself with 9b plants ans so far many have succeeded unfortunately haha
It makes fruit people say it’s like gummy worms there long fruits if you don’t like it and it succeeds I can ship it back to myself
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