My Edible Fruit Trees: Dwarf Trees WA

Banana - Dwarf Ducasse ^10/10

Comments: - My favourite banana out of our vareties. It has an amazing flavour, sweet but a touch of sherbet, and a heavenly banana flavour. Does not discolour when dried.
A nice small plant too...very easy to harvest at ground level. Big bunches, sturdy in strong winds. A prefect choice for a backyard banana.
They need a lot of water in our WA sands and are heavy feeders - so it is best to improve the sand with kaolin clay and fine coir compost, to save water and fertilisers. It takes about 1.5yrs for a pup to bring a bunch to harvest here.

Planted: 2017

Height 3 metres

Growing: In the Ground

First Fruited: 1.5 Years from purchase in pot

Sun/Shade: Full Sun

Water Given in: Spring

Pollination: Self Pollination

Fertiliser or Organics Used: Balanced acid lovers extra potash and ammonium sulphate added. Little and often.

Banana - Dwarf Red Dacca (Cutting) ^8/10

Comments: - Grown from tissue culture. Grows well, looks good, is taking ages to get it's first flower so have not taste-tested as yet.

Planted: 2017

Height 4 metres

Growing: In the Ground

Sun/Shade: Medium Sun

Pollination: Self Pollination

Fertiliser or Organics Used: Balanced Acid lovers, little and often, slow release organic chook manure pellets, a little extra potash and ammonium sulphate or blood meal - for extra N in growing season.

Dwarf Jonathon and Granny Smith Apples, Washington Navel Orange, dwarf Mandarine, Black Passionfruit x 3, Big Boppa Passionfruit, Banana Passionfruit, Raspberries x 3 so far, immature Chokeberry, Eureka Lemon, Native Finger Lime, Doughnut Peach, Red Papay

Dwarf Peach - Pixzee

Pollination: Self Pollination

Dwarf Samoan Coconut

Comments: - Growing really well, now 3.5 years old.

Nectarine - dwarf

Height 20 Centimetres

Qty: 1

Pollination: No

Nectarine - dwarf (Grafted) ^7/10

Comments: -

Still no action here. Plants really thriving though. They handle the wind and heat beautifully - I am so surprised. Dwarf trees are jsut so much easier in a windy climate.

Aug 2010: flowering now...this may well be their last goodbye..and then off to friends in Perth....

Nov 2010: Finally! fruit at last! Not ready yet.

Fruiting Months October, November, December

Planted: 2006

Height 0.5 metres

Growing: In the Ground

Qty: 3

First Fruited: 4 Years from purchase in pot

Sun/Shade: Full Sun

Water Given in: Spring

Pollination: Self Pollination

When I Fertilise: Winter

Pest Control:

None needed as yet (apart from winter copper wash)

Organic Status:Partially Organic

Nectarine - Dwarf Crimson Baby

Qty: 1

Sun/Shade: Medium Sun

Water Given in: Spring

Pollination: Self Pollination

When I Fertilise: Winter and Spring

nectarine dwarf (Grafted)

Height 0.5 metres

Growing: In the Ground

Qty: 2

Sun/Shade: Full Sun

Water Given in: Spring

Pollination: Self Pollination

nectarine dwarf (Grafted)

Comments: -

Dwarf Royal Gem

Height 0.5 metres

Growing: In a Pot

Qty: 1

Sun/Shade: Full Sun

Pollination: Self Pollination

Nectazee - Dwarf Nectarine

Comments: -

Covered in flowers are the moment - (was brought this way)

Height 50 Centimetres

Growing: In the Ground

Sun/Shade: Medium Sun

Organic Status:Organic

orange Dwarf Navelina (Grafted) ^5/10

Comments: -

Nutrient deficient, cant remember or diagnose.

Height 1 metres

Growing: In the Ground

Qty: 1

Sun/Shade: Full Sun

Pollination: No

Organic Status:Partially Organic

Peach - Dwarf O\'Henry (Grafted)

Comments: -

Like the shape and like the Plantnet varieties.

Planted: 2011

Height 60 Centimetres

Growing: In the Ground

Qty: 1

Sun/Shade: Medium Sun

Water Given in: Spring

Pollination: Self Pollination

When I Fertilise: Winter and Spring

Pear - super dwarf Pyvert

Pollination: Self Pollination

Dwarf Apple - Tropical Anna (Grafted) ^5/10

Comments: -

dehydrated

Dwarf Apple - Tropical Anna (Grafted) ^6/10

Fruiting Months November

Height 1 metres

Growing: In the Ground

Qty: 1

First Fruited: 5 Months from Purchase in Pot

Sun/Shade: Medium Sun

Pollination: Self Pollination

When I Fertilise: Spring

Dwarf Apple - Dorsett Golden (Grafted) ^5/10

Comments: -

Dehydrated

Dwarf Apple - Gala (Grafted) ^5/10

Planted: 2010

Sun/Shade: Medium Sun

Dwarf Apple - Granny Smith (Grafted)

Planted: 2009

Height 1.5 metres

Growing: In a Pot

Qty: 1

Sun/Shade: Medium Sun

Water Given in: Spring

Pollination: Cross Pollination

Cross Pollinator Variety: Pink Lady

Dwarf Apple - Granny Smith (Grafted)

Comments: -

I have grafted Fuji on to theis tree

Height 0.5 metres

Growing: In the Ground

Sun/Shade: Medium Sun

Water Given in: Spring

Pollination: Cross Pollination

Dwarf Apple - Granny Smith (Grafted)

Comments: -

 Dwarf Granny Smith purchased early Feb 2010 to aid pollination for my pinkabells, and of course to eat and cook with :) It is nearly at full height and I know it will produce well as it had fruit when I purchased it from Tass1, but I removed them before transplanting.

Planted: 2010

Height 1.5 metres

Qty: 1

Sun/Shade: Full Sun

Pollination: Self Pollination

Fertiliser or Organics Used: Dynamic lifter: fruit and citrus / compost / Seafeed

Pest Control: Nothing yet, but when the weather cools I will be using copper spray as a preventative measure.

Organic Status:Organic

Dwarf Apple - Pink Lady (Grafted) ^9/10

Comments: -

I LOVE this apple! Compared to those in the supermarkets, nothing even comes close! I remember the first apple I ate from this tree. It was a dark pink, as I  bit into it I felt the juices dribbling down my mouth, and a burst of flavour delivered to my senses. Total extasy! The sweetness, with a hint of tartness, and the power and flavour of a hundred store bought apples, meant that I spent the entire afternoon, gauging myself on every apple on the tree!

This tree is the one that started it all for me. I now have five apple, five pear, two plum, two peach, one nectarine, five passionfruit, ten grapes, six citrus, two cherry, three gauva, two mulberry and four olives! This tree started an obsession.

Fruiting Months January, February, March

Planted: 2006

Height 1.5 metres

Growing: In the Ground

Qty: 1

Fruit Harvest: 30 Fruit Per Year

First Fruited: 2 Years from purchase in pot

Sun/Shade: Medium Sun

Water Given in: Summer and Winter

Pruned By: 20% in Spring

Pollination: Cross Pollination

When I Fertilise: Spring

Pest Control:

Fruit fly traps. (Home made)

Organic Status:Organic

Question:

Why have you dwarfed this variety? It should be grown to its full potental!!

Dwarf Apple - Pink Lady