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What is your favourite fruit tree to grow? (slrpnk.net)

submitted 3 days ago by wolfyvegan@slrpnk.net to c/asksolarpunk@slrpnk.net

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cross-posted from: https://slrpnk.net/post/21789538

Not necessarily your favourite fruit to eat, but what is/are your favourite fruit tree(s) to grow based on survival rate, fruit yield, ease of maintenance, ease of harvest, grass-killing prowess, and any other combination of factors? What is/are your least favourite? If you have photos or diagrams to illustrate your point, even better!

(If you provide your region and/or Köppen-Geiger or Trewartha climate zone, it will help others to know what to plant or what to avoid!)

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[–] heyWhatsay@slrpnk.net 3 points 3 days ago (5 children)

Figs. Once it's established, it's very resilient.

Cherries are a pain, because if you don't use netting, birds get them all.

[–] wolfyvegan@slrpnk.net 1 points 3 days ago (4 children)

Do the birds not eat the figs if you let them ripen fully? Or do your figs not turn purple when they get ripe?

[–] heyWhatsay@slrpnk.net 1 points 3 days ago (2 children)

Fig trees produce a sap that is an irritant, keeps most birds/animals away. Ants are probably the most likely to try to chew on the figs.

[–] Ledericas@lemm.ee 1 points 2 days ago

and they are mostly pollinated by fig wasps, which attracts parasites and parasitoids in thier native range. unless your using a cloning variety.

[–] wolfyvegan@slrpnk.net 2 points 3 days ago (1 children)

You have weak/lazy birds. No offence to them. Where I live, we have... advanced birds. They are fully equipped with the biological equivalents of bulletproof vests, haz-mat suits, armoured fighter jets with fully-guided heat-seeking targeting systems, and whatever it is that lets giraffes eat the acacias despite all of the biting ants that live in them. (I'm fine with sharing the fruit, but I don't really have a choice.)

So you do have the purple figs then?

[–] heyWhatsay@slrpnk.net 2 points 2 days ago

Yeah, purple. I think we have a black mission and brown turkey tree. The turkey produces much more.

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