Dang you people are crazy! I struggle to find time for 2 apples, one sour cherry and two peach trees. How do you do it?
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Simple. I don’t grow apples, cherries, or peaches 
Or plums, pears, nectarines, or any other high maintenance pest magnets. Unless and until breeders put in some serious, multi generational work into breeding for pest resistance and easier upkeep, there’s just no point, to my mind, in growing any traditional fruit from the rose family in the South.
I still spend way too much time and money for what fruit I get, but…
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My friends make me feel crazy for having 14 but y’all are way nuttier than I am
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I have 3 apples, 3 peaches, 4 blackberries, and 1 blueberry.
Apples-
Honeycrisp
Golden Delicious
Crimson Crisp
Peaches-
Red Haven
EarliGlo
Flaming Fury Jumbo
Blackberries
2-Natchez
2-Triple Crown
Blueberry (in a pot)
Jelly Bean
We live on 4 acres and I am slowly talking my wife into planting more.
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hobbiest grower on 1.3 acres in Dutchess County 6A NY
…5 sweet cherries (first cherries this year!)
…5 Asian pears (over set as usual)
…6 paw paws (first fruit this year!)
…4 blueberries
…2 jujubes (newly planted this year!)
…2 persimmons
…1 Hovenia dulcis
…1 Che
…3 honey berries
…2 peach
…8 table grapes
…1 Medlar
…1 fig
…shagbark hickory (native)
…black walnut (native)
…2 Chinese chestnut
…1 bush cherry
…2 elderberries
…room for more (next year)
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16 apple trees
3 peach (with some nectarine and plum)
3 euro pear (not counting 2 or 3 on aronia)
2 Shipova on aronia
2 asian pear
8 persimmon
10 plum
2 pluot
2 cherry/plum hybrid
2 cherry
8 fig
5 pawpaw
2 citrus
4 mulberry
3 guomi
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city living. 1/8 acre lot not counting the house.
in ground:
6 dwarf apple,
1 full sized apple
2 pear
3 peach
2 nectarine
1 persimmon
4 pawpaw
4 plum
2 dwarf cherry
4 mulberry
2 massive 120+year old ponderosa pine
6 hazelnuts
2 young hickory
1 juniper
several honey locust, one black locust
mock orange
1 sweet birch
1 scrub oak
2 or 3 jujube, depending what survived
2 grapes
in containers:
20+fig
5 avocado
3 olive
1 Meyer lemon, 1 key lime
seedlings
1 sapodilla
2 mamey sapote
3 apricot
2 coffee Arabica
1 black tea
2 egg fruit
several random seeds planted in pots by my partner
I daydream of buying my neighbor’s house so I can knock that fence down and use their yard for somethings besides grass and kid toys.
all my trees are pruned small and short. I’m small and short so
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Last year I planted 3 trees. This year, >70. I have 6 total acres so there’s a lot more space to fill!
I planted my first section of “apple etc” orchard this year, my semi-dwarfs. Not the most organized orchard but 72 slots total for apples, pears, and some stone fruit. 52 in the ground so far.
I also put in my citrus orchard. A bit of everything. I’m on the border, zone-wise, for some of these, so this is definitely an experiment. I have space for another row as well if things are successful.
Future plans: nuts, avocados, pineapple guavas, olives, pawpaws and many more apples on specialized rootstocks.
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Well, I just started last fall after buying 2 acres last spring: Apples = 2-Liberty, 1 Honey Crisp, 1 Red Fuji, 1 Chenango, 1 Granny Smith, 1 Pink Lady. Pears = 2 Bartlett, 1 Moon Glow. Plums = 2 Methley.
I plan to add a Santa Rosa and Burgundy Plum. Also cherries and apricots and peaches.
Have 8 various grapevines, 4 blueberry, 1 wild plum, 3 American Persimmon.
And hello! I’m Charles from the Ozarks of Arkansas, USA.
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I’m a hobby grower too. Nothing of mine is producing yet. I’ve a feeling in about 3 years I’m gonna learn how to process lots of fruit.
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In the ground I have:
- 2 apple trees
- 2 hardy kiwi (only 1 female)
- 1 sour cherry
- 1 blueberry
I’m still looking for a spot for:
- 1 white mulberry
- 1 gooseberry
- 2 apricot seedlings
Inside the house:
- 1 calamondin orange
- 1 avocado seedling
- ~6 lemon seedlings (half dead oops)
- ~4 pomegranate seedlings
I also have annual tomatoes, peppers, and eggplants that are half inside, half planted, as well as 30+ japanese maple seedlings, but they’re not very edible lol.
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Retired. I quit the rat race last year, bought 2 acres ($25k) in the country, built a 400 sqft studio style house myself. I have no bills other than lights, water, and Internet, and food. I have zero debt. Because of our homestead exemption I have no property tax.
The pandemic taught me I don’t need what the world is constantly selling. I wake each morning and walk to the back of my place to watch the sunrise and drink my coffee as I listen to a chorus of birds in the mist that hovers over the land.
Each evening I watch the sunset from my front porch.
The key to life is low stress. Not the $80k SUV or HOA governed tract home that looks like all the others.
My income is about $40k. Doesn’t sound like much until you consider I can save $30k because of no debt
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Thats awesome, sounds like you’ve got a nice plan, welcome to the forum.
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Honestly just want to survive with very little stress. Worked my whole life and at 60, just want to live. Really live. 
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Congrats to you for finding your peace.
I’ve been fortunate enough to know that feeling for quite awhile now. It is life changing.
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2 pear, 3 cherry, 9 apple, and 2 peach trees. Purchased 8 acres of old farmland. Also planted 12 maple trees, 45 pines and trying to get some raspberries and blackberries going.no idea what I’m doing but everyone starts new at one time or another
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Welcome Charles. Lots of nice people with helpful advice. Enjoy the site.
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21, apparently 
, not sure how that happened. Several are my seedlings from last winter’s grow out. Those include 4 nectaplum, 3 pluot and 2 apple. The nectaplums and apples are great, the pluots aren’t taking to transplanting very well, they might not make it.
3 peach, a Fuji apple, 2 wild plum, 4 apricots, 1 dwarf mulberry, 1 methley plum.
All still very young. I’ve only seen fruit from my white peach and Fuji. The donut peach should be fruiting any year now, but it’s taking its time. I’ve only had this house for 5 years, so I must be patient.
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Really interesting to see all the lists, and which fruit people are focusing on. I’m in the suburbs on a decent sized lot, mostly maxed out on space but I still keep buying more trees every year and plugging them in here and there. I’ve started to remove things that I don’t really like or use, like elderberries and currants. Been growing for 8 years now so production has really been ramping up, which is fun, but keeps me very busy. I don’t know how some of you manage the numbers that you do.
@belowtheterrace I laughed out loud at your comment. It’s nice to have this place with like minded people because nobody in my family or group of friends understands me, ha.
- 12 apples
- 6 pears
- 6 sour cherries
- 2 plums
- 1 peach
- 5 blueberries
- 3 grapes
- 5 haskaps
- 1 fig
- raspberries, blackberries, strawberries, currants, and gooseberries all over because they propagate so easily
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