Hello everyone! My name is Daniel, but everyone calls me Danny. I am fairly new to this forum, but have read several threads over the last few months as I fell down the grafting rabbit hole. I am 26 years old, Hispanic, and live in the Rio Grande Valley in Deep South Texas. I have had a love for plants, gardening, and butterflies from the time I could walk and talk. I have a one-acre food forest and grow everything from natives for local pollinators and wildlife, tropical fruit trees, “northern”/deciduous fruit trees, berries, herbs, and more. I am always looking to expand the food forest with other edible plants, especially those that double as host plants for butterflies. I am a huge believer in never giving up, and I am willing to find/create any microclimate necessary (along with adding micorrhizae) to get these fruit to survive as perennials. I look forward to making new friends, learning more, sharing what I know, and trading with everyone. A rough list of what I grow can be found on my page in my bio.
Danny
Hello all. I am long time lurker, finally turned member here and figured I should introduce myself.
I started planting fruit trees at our place in northern Maine roughly 3 years ago and now have around a hundred trees in total. Most of the trees are heirloom apples, but there are also a handful of pears, stone fruit, and nuts with more sure to come. We also grow quite a few ribes, grapes, and about 20 varieties of garlic.
I enjoy growing apples from seed, trying things that folks around here say can’t be grown in our climate, and showing off the weird stuff that does just fine in 3b/4a that our neighbors have never heard of.
Thank you Scott for the space, it has been very informative and I look forward to trying my hand at being more than just a lurker.
Yay!
Welcome! Sounds like you jumped in with both feet at once!
"I started planting fruit trees at our place in northern Maine roughly 3 years ago and now have around a hundred trees in total. "
I am so impressed. I just sent your post to my brother in Camden who has been trying unsuccessfully to grow fruit despite the deer.
Camden is a pretty area - I used to go to summer camp there when I was a kid.
Luckily for my trees, but maybe not for hunters, deer are not as prevalent up here in Aroostook as they are in south/central Maine.
I do worry about moose as we usually have one or two pass through our yard each year. Luckily they head straight to our pond and have left the trees and garden alone so far!
Hi everyone! I’m Jenn, I live in Montreal, Qc, zone 5/6. I’m very new at gardening, but dream of starting a mini orchard in my suburban backyard. Last year I planted 2 apple trees (pink pearl and cripps pink), strawberries (archer, audrey and charlotte), rhubarb, blueberries (reka and northland), raspberries (royalty, joan j, prelude) and a pink champagne currant. This year I have ordered pear trees (harrow gold, dewdrop and considering adding magness), peaches (contender and one called early blush which I’m actually hoping is vee blush), pluots (dapple dandy and flavor supreme, I realize these are very risky in my zone) and more berries. I read Ann Ralph’s book, Growing a little fruit tree, and I’m planning on using her methods to fit all these trees in my small space. Looking forward to learning a bunch from all of you!
Welcome Jenn!
Hi, Great to find you-all. Thank you for the forum. 
I’m Elizabeth in zone 7 in the Southeastern US. I grow fruit for the family to eat and give lots away as the harvest permits.
Because of the humidity, pest and disease pressure, I favor native and low-care fruits. Current favorites include: blight-resistant European pears and some hybrids like Kieffer, figs, berries, jujube, persimmons (native, Asian and hybrids), pawpaw, and muscadines.
I look forward to learning, contributing and generally wallowing in all things fruit!
Thanks! 
Hi Jenn S.
Im about 3 hours or so below you in the Lake George area. Just zone 5 here , and I swear sometimes its really zone 4. I do several plums and the best for me seem to be Superior and Alderman, as they havent gotten Blackknot like many of the others I had. Have a Reliance Peach now but still too small to bear, and and a Blushingstar Peach as well. Putting in a Crimson Rocket Peach this spring, along with a Summer Crisp Pear for something different. I do have several pears as well, Bartlett, Moonglow. Also putting in several different Mulberry cultivars this year. Sending positive energy north to your place and welcome to the forum. It can be very helpful to hear from others experience .
Thanks Lonster, its great to hear from someone else in a cold climate.
That is fantastic ! Congratulations
Hi everyone,
Jerry here. Been lurking off-and-on for a long while, joined a while back, and finally now have the time to introduce myself. I live in Napa, California and grow wine grapes for a living. My house came with a number of mature citrus, apple, pluot, and cherry trees that I am slowly renovating.
My plant interests range from fruits (of course) to carnivorous plants, orchids, and vegetables. We get more winter chill here than anywhere else I have lived, so I’ve been going a little crazy planting things like sour cherries and peonies that I couldn’t grow before. This forum has been invaluable for learning more about growing and propagating fruit trees. Feel free to reach out to me if you have any questions about grapes.
Welcome from another Jerry. We’re near-neighbors; I live out at cool and windy Point Reyes.
Thanks, Jerry!
Point Reyes is such a cool place.
I’ve lived in California all my life, and it still fascinates me how we can go from 110 degrees and sunny to 55 and foggy in an hour’s drive.
Microclimates R Us.
Welcome Jenn! I am also in Montreal and am a few seasons in on my journey with peaches, plums, pears, apples and small fruits. This is a great place to learn.
Hi @ainsley
I would love to know what varieties of peach, pear, plum and apples you are growing and how you like them?
Welcome Jenn and @ainsley.
May I suggest that you (all members, in fact) provide info about your fruit growing experience in your profiles? This way anyone can look it up and get to know you better.
After you joined and read the forum for a while, you will be able to private message others using a symbols of a blue envelop. If you do not want to post your question in the fruit growing category, you can pm other members then.
Again, I apologize to have say this again, please keep this thread to Introduction only. I suggest that other inquiries be posted in other category on the forum, please.