5 Amazing Fruit Trees for Mediterranean / Subtropical Climates
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- čas přidán 2. 06. 2021
- Easy to care for, drought tolerant, pest free, and super productive trees for milder climates. Most of these fruits aren't so easily found in grocery stores, even farmers markets rarely have these fruits.
These trees are fun and easy to grow.
Link to the 2 Trees in 1 Hole video I mentioned:
• Planting 2 Trees in 1 ... - Jak na to + styl
1 white sapote
2 barbados cherry
3 mango(sweet tart variety)
4 pitanga(surinam cherry)
5 mulberry tree
Hell yeah, your neighbors must love all the free fruit from your yard. I am slowly adding to my all edible landscape.
Great channel I love your enthusiasm
Great video AJ, you have some very nice fruit trees growing! Thanks for sharing!
Appreciate that Johnny. Means a lot to me. Thanks
" oh where is a next one ?" That's was hilarious 🤣🤣🤣 nothing but respect man Tnx for introducing those species 👍 cheers from Poland
I was amazed at how many honey bees enjoyed my sapote tree a few months ago!
I forgot to mention that! Bees love white sapote trees
I just realized I need to start planting on the sidewalks lol! Awesome video
Perfect place to plant some trees :)
Once again such useful information and inspiring.
Thank you
Hey man, great video and awesome suggestions. I have all of these and they're doing great here in East Mediterranean. I would add Sugar Apple to the list. I have grown them from seeds, 7 seedlings, all survived, all success. I've never had such a great rate in success from seed to tree to producing fruits, 7/7. They're awesome, all of them started flowering at the early age of 2, and one of them even did it and gave me a fruit at this early age. The rest of them started giving fruits at the age of 3 and 4 years old.
Excellent information as always! And beautiful fruit garden you have bro!!!!
Thanks!!
Duuuuude, good video. Thanks for the info. I want to grow all of them.
Interesting video, AJ. The Fullerton Arboretum has at least one old Sapote tree and it fruits like crazy. The walkers in your neighborhood must surely plan to walk by your home with that scrumptious Mulberry tree.
Hi Neal. I've seen that tree at the Fullerton arboretum and it makes huge sapotes! And yes it fruits a lot and the tree is huge...
Very nice and infomative thanks for sharing
Thanks!
nice Video 🌿 I hope some day I have my own garden with these trees 🥭
Great share bro . 👍 have a good night much love from Canadian proud get outdoors 🙏 I hear you with the mulberry we have massive ones and keep giving back after hard winter or not delicious!!
That sounds great! I love Mulberries
@@AJTheGraftMan I've posted a few mulberry vids on our channel harvesting or keeping busy growing trees from a frozen berry we had in feezer over the winter we absolutely love them trees !
Wow!!! I’m in southern Cali too bro! Love your video. And subscribe already. ❤️🥰❤️
Thanks! And thanks for subscribing. Stay in touch
Love your garden....I have avocados, lemons, grapefruits, figs, olives, but not one of what you recommend. I am going to plant some this year.
Thanks! Hope these trees do well for you
Fantastic video, thank you! Just bought a house with nothing planted on the south coast of france, so Mediterranean climate. Can’t wait to plant some of these, which would never have occurred to me!
Thanks!
Hello fellow Meditarraneaner. I would like to give you some info if you don't mind, since I have experience with these in our Mediterranean climate. If you don't get too much frost and north winter winds in your garden, you can plant almost all of the common tropical fruit trees. Mango, Jackfruit, Avocado, Cherimoia, Sugar Apple, Soursop, Longan, Bananas, Mamei, Black Sapote, White sapote can take some frost. For example, in my garden we get maybe 2 times per year, some frost and the trees can take it, but, if the tree is young, 1 or 2 years in the ground, is better to watch the forecast and cover it with nylon completely the day before the frost, otherwise, the frost may burn parts of the young tree.
More important than that, is that is best to plant the tropicals early in the Spring, not Summer because our sun is way too hot. If you have full sun in your garden, you have to cover your young trees with shade cloth during their first 2 summers, this way you'll accomplish maximum growth rate, believe me, it can play a huge role. 2 jackfruits planted the same time, one with shade cloth and one uncovered, the first is now 3 meters, the other is still 1 meter because it got burned badly by sun.
Some other notes from here, all of the bananas can take our heat, but the light frost will burn them, don't worry if you see your bananas burned, they're not dead, they'll pop up new growth in few weeks. Papayas unfortunately get burned easily by frost. Usually, a 2 days frost with kill them, so, papaya is only for an area of the garden that is not exposed to north winter winds.
Happy gardening.
@@TropicalGardeningCyprus Thanks so much! Just looked up a few of those that I’d never heard of, They look fantastic!
@@VelvetandToads you must definitely try sugar apple (annona squamosa), very easy small tree, it has become my absolute favorite fruit. I love it even more than mangoes and figs. It's like ice cream with a taste that reminds me of coconut mixed with vanilla!
When you grow them the taste is 100 times better than the ones we buy from the store. The difference is huge because they have time for proper ripening on the tree.
There are many producers in our region, if you search online you will find many stores from Italy and France, there you will get even more suggestions and ideas on possible tropical fruit trees you can plant.
@@TropicalGardeningCyprus will try it 😃Thanks again!
Mine Pak Mulberry died in Houston Freeze recently. Was a year old. Missing it pretty much
I’m sorry to hear that
Dude excellent video. Good job 👍.
I would love to know where to get some of these amazing variety fruit trees.
Thanks! Mango and mulberry are quite easy to find, depending on what part of the world you’re in. White sapote, Surinam Cherry and Acerola are a little bit tougher to find. Online is a great resource. The tropical fruit forum sells seeds and cuttings often. I’ve purchased from there before and it’s a fine experience. Hope this helps.
Do you cover your mangos in the weather, what the lowest temperature you get.? Love your videos. Thanks
I don't cover. Coldest it gets in this area is 35 degrees. Thanks for watching
I'm a little surprised you didn't include Chirimoyas. I grew up with two of them in Fallbrook that give massive amounts of fruit almost year round. It's some of the sweetest fruit ever. They grow with little to no water or in a pool of sitting water. They handle high heat and cold weather. I highly recommend them AND they are rediculouly expensive at the farmers markets and they are frim the Americas.
I really wanted to add them to this list. I love cherimoya and i recommend them to everyone. But the issue is the pollination. Some people get lucky with varieties that can fruit on their own, but in many cases they need hand pollination to get fruit. So that makes it a high maintenance tree for me
My parent's trees are self pollinating if you want a scion
@@ivanguajardo7111 sure
@@ivanguajardo7111 What variety is your parent's tree?
A.J., you gotta get a Sapodilla; they are amazing (get a variety called Alano)! I think you might have sold me on the White Sapote; gonna give it a try.
I've never tried sapodilla. Wanna try one first before I decide to get a tree. I'm looking forward to it!
@@AJTheGraftMan I wasted so much time myself; they are amazing and taste like brown sugar and Christmas cookie spices! I was blown away. Wish I had been growing some now most of my life but did mainly avocados and mangos...don't wait, give them a try.
@@Seaheart88 sounds delicious. Now I gotta figure out where to get some
Thank you for this video! I'll have to look for those trees! :) Do you remember where you bought your trees?
Mangoes and white sapote can be found at big box stores like Home Depot. Acerolas, pitangas, and mulberries are a little tougher to find. I got them from small mom and pop nurseries in my area. It depends where you live. Online is a great source for these
@@AJTheGraftMan Thanks!
Bro plz provide your grafting tape's amazon link
Just search for parafilm grafting tape on amazon
Nice. Whet did you get your Barbados cherry? I'm in the LA area and have looked at a few regular nurseries and couldn't find it. I already have mangos, sapote, and mulberry 😁
They can be tough to find. Exotica Nursery down in Vista should have it. Also Laguna Hills Nursery might have it too. I got mine from exotica
Those White Sapotes look good. Would they grow in zone 9?
Ya they should be ok. Maybe a little cold protection in the winter during the first 2 years in the ground
Mate, I'm from QLD Australia. It's almost winter here but it's subtropical area with daytime temp around 22c and around 14c in the night. I bought the mullberry seedling from the nursery few months ago. How come it didn't do very well. And also it looks the some of the leaves got rust and black spot, so I took all of those leaves off. I have also took the tiny fruits off to release the vigor for the growth of the tree itself. Any suggestion pls?
sounds like the roots are unhappy. Unhappy roots means poor soil. I'd start with checking the soil and make changes if necessary. I posted a video a few months ago about moving avocados to bigger containers. The soil I use in that video is the same soil I use for my mulberries in containers. Hope this helps...
@@AJTheGraftMan Thank you mate!
soon mangoes will be in antartica too lol
Hey buddy i have all the trees you mentioned except the white sapote. I wanted to go pick one up this weekend but there are many varieties. Which variety would you recommend?
I really like Vernon. Haven't tried too many though. The best I've had is a random seedling variety from a neighbor. It tasted like caramel and butterscotch. I've heard varieties like Lemon Gold and Rainbow are excellent, but I've never tried. If you're in Florida, they have different varieties, none of which I've tried.
@@AJTheGraftMan yeah there are soo many varietys I’ll try to look around and find Vernon and maybe graft onto if I find other ones. I live in Culver City, I just need to find some good nursery’s that hopefully carry many varieties. Thanks for your input.
@@Mumin.Gardens I’ve got a grafted white sapote tree in a 5 gallon container. The variety is Suebelle. It’s likely the most productive variety in our area. If you’re interested, send me an email ajsgarden123@gmail.com
I disagree with the mango. The slightest sign of cold or frost, they turn up their toes. This occurs here in zone 9b.
Are you in orange county
Do you have any experience with mamey sapote? Will it fruit in zone 10a/b?
I know one person growing it near me. It’s about 10 years old, 10 feet tall and has never fruited. The tree looks great, but no fruit yet
Are there different varieties of mamey sapote?
@@ocneal yes quite a few
Can the mango tree survive in 45 c heat
Yes it can. There are mango orchards in the California desert, and the temperatures there normally reach 47 Celsius in the summer. Young trees need sun protection in that weather, but mature trees do fine
Have you try growing black sapote ? They tasted like chocolate pudding
I’m not a fan of black sapote. I’ve tried two in my life. Maybe I haven’t tried the right variety
Hey Graft Man.
Dude stop talking up homegrown mangos! I've already drawn the line of zone denial at avocados and oranges in Zone 8a. :P
By any chance you have a Barbados cherry for sale?
I have some cuttings growing at the moment. Should be ready in a few months
@@AJTheGraftMan I’ll be checking in a few months thanks.
@@AJTheGraftMan Any special techniques to propagating Barbados Cherry cuttings?? Your video on propagating Pakistani Mulberry cuttings helped me so much. I also didn't realize how drought tolerant they both are. Thanks for the info and have a good day.
@@alexanderk7638 for Barbados cherry, I do the exact method as in the mulberry cutting video but I don’t wrap the cutting with grafting tape. For some reason, Barbados cherry cuttings don’t like grafting tape. Good luck and I appreciate your kind words and support
@@AJTheGraftMan thanks for the advice and quick response.👍
great video..i have to disagree with you about fig AJ. it's one of the tree that you plant and forget it and I have seen fig at the grocery store twice in my entire life and they don't look good.
Figs are pretty common in stores and farmers markets in my area during the season. Guess it depends on locality. I see your point though- it is a really easy tree to take care of
What is the maximum yearly growth rate of your mango tree in feet or cm? Thx
About 3 feet (90 cm)
ajmal31 :) it is very good. Just for comparison. In southern Europe Sicily(Italy) 50cm, Southern Spain 60-70cm, and they are planted outside in the ground as well,and make delicious fruits, they flower arround april/may and fruits ripen august-november depending on variety. So it seems a bit more marginal climate than yours.
@@adamb.8854 the growth depends a lot on the variety, and also whether the tree is grafted or not. Grafted trees grow much slower here