My Edible Fruit Trees: Stone Fruit SA

Dragon Fruit - Pearl (Cutting) ^10/10

Comments: - Grows easy and delicious.

Height 2 metres

Growing: In a Pot

Qty: 1

First Fruited: 1 Years from purchase in pot

Sun/Shade: Full Sun

Water Given in: Spring

Pollination: Cross Pollination

Cross Pollinator Variety: Red dragon fruit

Fertiliser or Organics Used: often and likes seaweed and fish based

Pest Control: pick off a caterpillar, cut out some rust.

Organic Status:Organic

Nashi Pear - Nijisseiki (Grafted) ^10/10

Comments: - Grafted this onto the ornamental pears council put on the front verge... couldn't be happier. Water weekly in summer, almost nothing the rest of the year. Fertilize quarterly.

Planted: 2019

Height 3 metres

Growing: In the Ground

Qty: 2

Sun/Shade: Full Sun

Water Given in: Spring

Pollination: Cross Pollination

Cross Pollinator Variety: callery

Fertiliser or Organics Used: whatever I have plus some zinc and manganese

Pest Control: bordeaux spray in winter. BT for caterpillars if warranted.

Pear - Packhams Triumph (Grafted)

Comments: - tasty

Height 1.5 metres

Growing: In the Ground

Qty: 1

Sun/Shade: Medium Sun

Water Given in: Winter

Pruned By: 10% in Autumn and Winter

Pollination: Self Pollination

When I Fertilise: Yearly

Organic Status:Partially Organic

Pear - Josephine (Grafted)

Pear - Packhams Triumph (Grafted)

Pear - Beurre Hardy (Grafted) ^8/10

Planted: 2016

Height 30 Centimetres

Growing: In the Ground

Sun/Shade: Full Sun

Pollination: Cross Pollination

Cross Pollinator Variety: Duchesse d' Angouleme

Pear - Duchesse d' Angouleme (Grafted) ^9/10

Height 60 Centimetres

Growing: In the Ground

Sun/Shade: Full Sun

Pollination: Cross Pollination

Cross Pollinator Variety: Buerre Hardy

Dragon Fruit - Pearl (Cutting) ^10/10

Comments: -

Dragon Fruit is one my my favourite fruits to eat especailly when chilled - so ordered one from Daley's. I have potted it a huge 510mm pot ( ~50L) and drilled heaps of drainage holes, have used my standard potting mix of rich organics and slow release osmocote and planty of mulch, the DF is now shooting new growth and there are smaller buds on it!.

Next to the DF from Daley's is a Red DF purchased from eBay - when it arrived it was in a really poor condition and they didnt even root it!! anyway's it's now rooted and starting to thicken up which is good. These DF plants are in full sun and seem to love the hot Adelaide sun so i have not moved them into my semi enclosed pergola area with my other tropicals.

Cant wait till they fruit, costing me a fortune buying the fruit from coles/woolworths and the DF is small and old! ohh well haha.

Planted: 2015

Height 1.5 metres

Growing: In a Pot

Qty: 4

Sun/Shade: Full Sun

Pollination: Self Pollination

Fertiliser or Organics Used: Seasol and Osmocote

Pest Control: Only ants who seem to be all over it?.

Nashi Pear - Nijisseiki (Grafted) ^5/10

Comments: -

Like the fruit and tree is ornamental

Height 1.5 metres

Qty: 1

Sun/Shade: Full Sun

Water Given in: Spring

Pollination: Self Pollination

Fertiliser or Organics Used: horse poo, blood and bone

Organic Status:Organic

Comments

Not as prolific as the dwarf apple but green leaves filling out the tree on 20 Nov 2012

Steady growth. Leaves filled out the branches. Applied blood and bones on dripping line on 1.3.13.

Taking off like the apple tree. Again, hoping for fruits in summer of 2014.

Like the apple tree, the nishi lost all its leaves in winter and is only starting to grow back now. Skinny like the apple tree tree. Am hoping it will grow more branches and leaves, maybe even a fruit or two :)

This tree is truly established. Have grown much taller with more branches and leaves. Also started flowering. Hope to eat the first fruit from this tree this year. Have consistently fertilised during winter and spring.

Pear - Williams ^7/10

Comments: -

Grows rapidly and proud of the shape I've got it to. ( learning to prune still) No flowers as yet. Fingers crossed this year.

Planted: 2009

Height 1.8 metres

Growing: In the Ground

Qty: 1

Pollination: Self Pollination

Organic Status:Partially Organic

Pear - Corella ^10/10

Comments: -

Keen to find some seeds to grow

Pear - Williams ^3/10

Comments: -

This is actually an old seeding tree, similar shape fruit to that of williams. Definitely a decendent of a European pear.The tree is about 6m tall and slightly infested with pear slug worm. It bears heavily, but the biggest fruits are all on the top of the tree, making it impossible to pick and the birds always get them first. I covered some fruits with newspaper on the lower branches. But very disappointing, the fruit is very very sweet, almost too stweet, and the texture is very dry and hard, not very pleasant to eat. I don't know if it has anything to do with watering because I didn't give it any water even during the harsh Adelaide summer. Anyway, I am going to cut it back to waist high in winter and multi-graft it with nashi Nijiseiki and Kosui.

Height 6 metres

Growing: In the Ground

Pollination: No

When I Fertilise: Never

Pest Control:

none