The members here have been great and have a ton of great suggestions. Clarklinks suggested in another thread I have that I start a new one for this topic. I live in far North Florida and have started planting for the future. Zone 8B. I currently have 2 Pear- 3 Apple-2 Sweet Cherry- 3 Peach with one more coming when they get back in stock- 3 Fig- 2 Almond- 2 Hazelnut- 3 Pecan- 5 Robinson Crabapple- 2 Varieties of Blackberry total 16 plants- 4 Varieties of Elderberry Total 12 Plants. I have room for many, many more and am looking for suggestions for my zone - I have 2 PAW-PAW coming for the Fall or Spring.( I can’t remember) But I have a nice partial shaded area for them. Any Suggestions are totally welcome and EASY to care for would be the best but I don’t mind learning how to care for anything just so it’s not wayyyyy hard. I am going to do some vegetables too…
How about Mulberry,Pineapple Guava and Blueberry(fruitnut’s favorite,Sweetcrisp and another Southern Highbush for pollination)?Just Fruits and Exotics in your state,should have all those things. Brady
Funny you should mention Mulberry. I forgot to put down that i have 2 Mulberry, IEB…I do believe those would be something I would do. I’ve looked in to Blueberry and will put that on my list but I’ll have to get looking at Pinapple Quava…I’ve got no knowledge of that one. Thanks
I would definitely go with guava https://www.justfruitsandexotics.com/JFE/product/moore-pineapple-guava-tree/,
figs Figs - Edible Landscaping,
Citrus Citrus - Edible Landscaping,
Muscadines & kiwi Edible Landscaping Plant Sale: Buy plants online from our garden center and plant nursery,
Chestnuts? A tree for the ages, if you have the space. The Dunstan line was developed somewhere around there, I think.
I think I will do that. I have a wide open space where I put my Robinson Crabapples and my 3 Pecan trees. Chesnuts are good too…Thanks
Persimmons are easy and would do well in your zone. Just Fruits and Exotics has a good selection and is maybe near enough for you to drive to. They have lots of other great fruits besides just persimmons that you could sample if you went to their retail store.
I was just looking at the website and Crawfordville is less than an hour from me. Closer to Half and Hour. I am going to go there. It would be great to talk to the Nursery People. I can get the Pineapple Quava and Blueberries there to. I have already decided where they are going on the land. This is awesome. Thanks folks…Anything else is welcome
Just be careful. Nurseries are dangerous, especially with this group to advise you!!!
I looked at a website in Alachua Florida…That’s funny to me because I lived there for 10 years! It’s farther South than where my trees are but very Centralish Florida. They guy said they are the best food plot tree there is in the study they did. Chestnut Hill Tree Farm. I have a perfect place. I left some growth all along the East side of my field and I will plant 4 or 5 of them there. They will get the right sunlight and i have water over there should I need to water! PERFECT
I’ll keep that in mind…and only take less than 100 bucks with me 
While in college, DH did grunt work for University of Kentucky grad students planting research plots of chestnuts. Since then, we have dreamed of planting them (chestnuts, not grad students). They are awesome trees!
I was just on the website. I am contacting them to see if I can just go by and pick the trees up. I am going to go with 5 Dunstan Chestnut and they Have Persimmon as well. Haven’t decided which kind of That I’m getting buy I will be getting some
Jujube? Grape, passion fruit,
I’ve run into several varieties of Grapes that are sweet and will do well here I am going to give a shot. Not familiar with how Jujube or passion Fruit will do here. I will look…Thnx
Muscadines. I’m in zone 5b and really wish I could grow them here.
That’s a good idea. I planted some grad students once, and all they did is constantly whine about writing their dissertation. I was also ALWAYS running low on coffee and ramen.
I was patient with them, knowing sometimes it take a few years for a tree to mature and start producing good fruit. But when they graduated, they weren’t able to find work in their field, and ended up taking jobs at the mall!
I wouldn’t recommend planting grad students to anyone. A real disappointment all around.
How about some pecan trees? I know they do great here in central Georgia (I’m in zone 8a) and far northern Florida is what, 8b?
Almost all of the old places around here with a little land have small mature groves of pecans, and there’s always a ton, even after the squirrels have had their fill.
You should get some of the more modern disease resistant varieties if you don’t want to be spraying, (I think Caddo was supposed to be a good one? You might want to do a bit of research) but a few mature pecan trees will give you more pecans than you know what to do with. And at least where I am, there are a few different facilities nearby that will process your pecans for a nominal fee if you’d rather not shell them yourself.
And if you have too many, you can always sell them for $4-5 a pound-much cheaper than the store, and you’ll make a tidy profit.
The only reason I haven’t planted any is that they can get huge, and with everything else, I’m not sure I have the land.
I actually have 3 PECAN trees. They are looking pretty good too but I got them small and young so they will be quite a few years to producing. One is a Stark Surecrop and the other 2 are Starking Hardy Giant. Not sure what the names are in relation to except I got them from STARKBROS…I planted them 75 feet away from each other in a field I am using for trees and vegetables…