DON'T PLANT THESE FRUIT TREES!!! (7 Reasons)

About 7 or 8 years ago, I planted a fig tree because I live in a hot climate and knew that my second favorite fruit, cherries, wouldn't do well in my climate. Well, the tree grew quite large, flourished actually, but never really made many figs much to my disappointment. Then this year we had a freak, late, hard freeze, something that hasn't been seen in like 50 years. It really stressed the tree and now it is making more fruit than ever before.

Planted a peach near my front door. Not smart 😕

Trying to get some apples to grow from seed but they all get fire rot and die a few months later T.T

What do people see in this annoying presentation? I don't get it!

Living in southwest Florida makes picking the right fruit tree to plant quite the adventure. Right off the bat, forget about all citrus trees, HLB basically wiped out the citrus in Florida. Another diseasey gift from China.

I will never be suckered 😅 into planting an Illinois everbearing mulberry tree!!!! Great fun, this man's videos!! He's an awesome teacher!

People who had this property long ago before the people who sold it to us had lots of fruit trees. The next people got rid of them cause of all the bugs.
We now have no bug issues - we just put out bird baths. Birds come to swim, then stay for a snack.
on a small property bugs should never scare you away from enjoying your food! Get bird baths and bugs begone! Our neighbours have terrible bug problems and have to cover even their non-fruit trees to try to stop some of the damage. We have zero issues like that on our property :)

Against Fungi-diseases: add bacterias to the earth, and water / spray them with raw milk (1l milk on 10l water). This saved me a rare apple-tree and some roses.

I absolutely aspire to this type of permaculture excellence - flannel and all

Why do you not figure out why you get fireblight in your conference Pear trees?

I wish I knew even the tiniest sliver of stuff you know. 🤗

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I had Japanese plums that I really liked along with a peach tree and a nectarine tree. All of them eventually got infected with something that produced gnarled black lumps on the branches and trunks and the fruit would get a brownish colored mold(?) on the fruit that ruined them. I tried everything to cure the problem but nothing seemed to work.
It just became too much expense to keep trying to treat the trees. Plus, when I actually had a chance to get fruit off the trees, I'd usually lose out to the squirrels and raccoons who'd strip a tree in one raid.
The only trees I don't have trouble with in terms of disease are Japanese pears and certain types of Japanese persimmons.

I love you Stefan, I know nothing about plants. But I take your word as gospel.

YOU'RE THE BEST DR. SOB !!!!!!!!!! WE LOVE YOUR CHANNEL !!!!!!!!! IT'S THE BEST CANADIAN PERMACULTURE ORCHARD CHANNEL EVER MADE !!!!!!!!!!!!!!

OUR ORCHARD SURVIVED THE CICADAS THIS YEAR !!!!!! WE ALSO TOOK HUGE PILES OF THEY'RE DEAD BODIES AND FERTILIZED WITH THEM SO THAT THE ENERGY WILL JUST BE RECYCLED BACK INTO THE FRUIT TREES FOR NEXT YEAR !!!!!!! WE JUST HOPE THE FRUIT DOESN'T TASTE LIKE DEAD CICADA BODIES WHICH SMELLS LIKE DOG FECES !!!!!!!!

The DAY before harvest 1,000,000 sparrows show up and eat every peach in my ORCHARD! I let all 600 trees die. With the water I now save I can buy 6000 Peaches!

Stefan, so now what is your favorite pear?
For zone 4?

What I didn't know was grubs where eating my tree roots. So I learn that all my other thoughts wrong. Next...

I have an increasingly worsening problem each year with sudden frost that comes sometime in may/april. Almost all of the fruit trees advertised for my climate start flowering and then the frost comes and it only produces a few fruit each year. Pears and cherries are okay but plums are by far the most devastated by this. I tried burning wood in buckets underneath for the whole night last year and i tried covering the trees with protective cloth but the winds get really strong and everything just blows away. Should I just "cut my losses" and cut the plums and plant other stuff or is there some secret for this. I live in slovenia and we have been getting really blasted this year with huge temperature changes and each year it keeps getting worse. Imagine today it was minus2 degrees celsius and during the day it can get as hot as 30!

My Bartlett and Bosc pear trees give me 200 pounds of fruit each every year !

"Sucker cam" haha!

I want to know why your fruit trees look like a jungle over there

I have been considering will I grow a flowering peach but now I’m not so sure. Love your show. Especially the dandelion one , so many reasons to let them grow. Keep up the good work. Love the show.

I love my alderman plum suckers! These plums taste like candy!

Reason 10 I dont like fruit.

are your trees all on their own root stock?

do you worry they're too close together for standard root stock?

please talk more about your other fruit... I've seen cherries in thumbnails and I'm fairly sure that was a chum you plucked off that tree there... I mostly only hear you talking about apples and somewhat pears, plums, and the row bushes. what of the other stonefruit?!

do you have any apricots? plumcots? pluots? other things?

He could solve all his problems just by running goats through during the growing months to keep the lower hanging branches pruned off the ground and running swine through during the fruiting season to pick up the bad fruit.

I fot five fruit tree who dont bear after 5 years..one more year and they are done...i bought at local nursery who said they would...

I won’t plant dwarf fruit trees ever again. No end of problems with the ones that survive and too many that the root stock takes over and I’m left with a nothing tree where I should have had a good crop. Also I need my trees to pull double duty and give me some shade!

FFS, why do you USAnians always talk like this? Why can't you talk like normal people?

I don't put a lot of thought into what i plant because my local nursery already does. They usually have a limited selection but its limited for a reason. They only sell the stuff that preforms really well for my area. I have about 60 trees and around a thousand bushes total that i acquired over the years. Almost everything is fruit, nut, and berry producing. I've been super lucky and have great producers. I also live next to a huge forest full of animals. They always keep the ground clean. Around 4 to 7 in the morning there are anywhere from 12 to 30 deer in my yard. The only really problem i had was pear rust. That stuff just keeps coming back.

Walnut, the outer shell of the nut and leaves make a mess in late autumn, the squirrels also throw the nutshell at people.

you are so awesome, thank you!!!!!! im getting more trees thanks to your knowledge and sharing

I don’t why, but I was smiling the whole time I watch your video. You made it a lot of fun!

Good video. I love it

Aren’t fruit trees deer targets?

This man screams "Canadian" and I love it

Which one was a tank?

Talking of taste, I've found that good cooking apple trees are getting really rare. Its sad. Everyone seems to want eating apples these days. But I adore the sour cooking apples.

I have a wild plum patch spreading around my well & frost free hydrant. It's so thick & full of thorns! Very dry clay soil.

I heard you can plant Amaranth Grain under fruit trees as an insect "trap". They choose to attack the Amaranth instead of the tree. So it's a perfect companion plant to fruit trees. I'm trying that this year.

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my plum tree has only produced one plum in the ten plus years its been planted.....Why is that????

Our beautiful fruiting fuyu persimmon tree destroyed by raccoons, possums and squirrels. They invited gangs over every night for sleep overs 😢

Ripe fruit falling on the ground are what pigs were made for.

I love every plant that are easy and give much in return.

Reason 8 - tree looks too weak in the pot.
Reason 9 - tree needs too much care and does not fit the climate too well.