My Edible Fruit Trees: Dwarf Trees

Dwarf Apple - Tropical Anna

Comments: - Similar to red delicious

Planted: 2018

Water Given in: Winter

Pollination: Cross Pollination

Dwarf Orange - Valencia Seedless (Grafted) ^9/10

Comments: - Espaliered, holds fruit for long period

Fruiting Months September, October, November, December

Planted: 2013

Height 2.5 metres

Growing: In the Ground

First Fruited: 1 Years from purchase in pot

Sun/Shade: Full Sun

Water Given in: Winter

Pollination: Self Pollination

Organic Status:Certified

Dwarf Mandarin - Imperial ^9/10

Comments: - Espaliered. Did not fruit until 3rd year of planting (I assume it was establishing itself). One dwarf is not enough in long run if there are two or more people in household who like mandarins. Have heard it can produce lower harvest bi-yearly but not seen that happen yet.

Fruiting Months April, May, June

Height 3 metres

Sun/Shade: Full Sun

Water Given in: Winter

Pollination: Self Pollination

Organic Status:Certified

Dwarf Lemon - Eureka (Grafted) ^9/10

Comments: - Espaliered. I like this more than the meyer as more like your tradional lemon. Not as bushy as other citrus (more strangly). Fruits throughout the year with a break in hottest part of summer.

Fruiting Months March, April, May, June, July, August, September, October, November

Height 2 metres

Growing: In the Ground

Sun/Shade: Full Sun

Water Given in: Winter

Pollination: Self Pollination

Organic Status:Certified

Dwarf Custard Apple - Tropic Sun (Grafted) ^10/10

Comments: - Espaliered, looks awesome - took well to this and friends have commented. Love the fruit, not gritty/grainy like some other custard apples and small seeds too. No need to hand pollinate. Downside is that all of the fruit comes at once, quickly over a month from mid-feb to march in Brisbane. Must bag/net to protect from fruit fly - unripe fruit drops leading up to harvest as a natural thinning method so I bag by Feb and find fruit only start to get stung two weeks after the very first fruit drops. I harvest fruit to freeze the pulp to use later. Amazing with vanilla ice cream. I took a gamble with limited info online when I got this tree - it is a winner!!! I don't know why someone could not like the taste.

Fruiting Months March

Height 3 metres

Growing: In the Ground

Fruit Harvest: 3 kilograms per Year

First Fruited: 3 Years from purchase in pot

Sun/Shade: Full Sun

Water Given in: Autumn and Winter

Pollination: Self Pollination

Organic Status:Certified

Dwarf Apple - Tropic Sweet (Grafted) ^8/10

Comments: -

Espaliered, pretty flowers at front entrance with dwarf golden dorsett and nashi pear. Good snack sized fruit within six months of purchase. Must bag/net to protect from fruit fly... best time to harvest is when fruit drops into bag. I bag fruit when slightly larger than my thumb as some fruit drops before then, as prior to that it is too easy to damage tieing the bag on and you need to do your thinning. Won mother-in-law over so got her a tree for christmas. So much nicer tasting than store-bought fruit. I want an Anna tree one day too.

Most interested in seeing the multiple crops happen throughout the year...

Fruiting Months October, November, December

Planted: 2017

Height 1 metres

Growing: In the Ground

Fruit Harvest: 1 kilograms per Year

Water Given in: Autumn and Winter

Pollination: Self Pollination

Dwarf Apple - Dorsett Golden (Grafted) ^8/10

Comments: - Espaliered with tropic sweet. Have not tasted the fruit yet. Seems to ripen later than tropic sweet. Bag the fruit to protect from fruit fly.

Fruiting Months November and December

Height 1 metres

Growing: In the Ground

Sun/Shade: Full Sun

Water Given in: Autumn and Winter

Pollination: Cross Pollination

Cross Pollinator Variety: Tropic sweet

Organic Status:Certified

Dwarf Avocado - Lamb Hass A (Grafted)

Comments: -

Too early to comment as only planted a few months ago. Facing north-east with house shading tree from hot western sun in summer. Planted half in the ground and on half mound, built up soil bed to increase drainage as have clay soil.

I want to get pinkerton and wurtz to extend the harvest period further. Dwarf/semi dwarf was a must for me.

Planted: 2017

Height 1 metres

Growing: In the Ground

Sun/Shade: Medium Sun

Water Given in: Spring

Pollination: Self Pollination

Organic Status:Certified

Dwarf Plum Gulf Gold Tree (G) (Grafted)

Comments: - Wait and see. Growing this summer.

Height 1.5 metres

Growing: In the Ground

Sun/Shade: Full Sun

Water Given in: Spring

Pollination: Self Pollination

Organic Status:Certified

Dwarf Tangelo - Minneola

Comments: - Wait and see, not sure if clay soil has slowed growth as plums growing well

Height 1 metres

Growing: In the Ground

Sun/Shade: Full Sun

Water Given in: Spring

Pollination: Self Pollination

Dwarf Mandarin - Emperor

Comments: - Wait and see, still not grown a lot when plums are fine.

Planted: 2015

Height 1 metres

Growing: In the Ground

Sun/Shade: Full Sun

Water Given in: Spring

Pollination: Self Pollination

Dwarf Mulberry - Black (Grafted) ^9/10

Comments: - Moved from pot to soil. Can keep to a medium bush size with a good prune.

Fruiting Months August, September, October

Planted: 2014

Height 2 metres

Growing: In the Ground

First Fruited: 1 Years from purchase in pot

Sun/Shade: Full Sun

Water Given in: Winter

Pollination: Self Pollination

Dwarf Kumquat - Nagami (Grafted) ^9/10

Comments: - Nice fruit to eat off tree if you can tolerate the tanginess (50/50 with my visitors). I puree and freeze to use later in citrus desserts. Useful tree, colleague made me a jam from my fruit - I liked it!

Planted: 2013

Height 3 metres

Growing: In the Ground

Fruit Harvest: 5 kilograms per Year

First Fruited: 1 Years from purchase in pot

Sun/Shade: Full Sun

Water Given in: Winter

Pollination: Self Pollination

Dwarf Avocado - Wurtz (A) (Grafted)

Comments: - Dwarf

Planted: 2017

Height 1 metres

Growing: In the Ground

Qty: 1

Sun/Shade: Medium Sun

Water Given in: Spring

Pollination: Self Pollination

When I Fertilise: When Fruiting, Winter, Spring

Dwarf Avocado - Lamb Hass A (Grafted) ^9/10

Planted: 2017

Growing: In the Ground

Sun/Shade: Medium Sun

Water Given in: Spring

Pollination: Self Pollination

When I Fertilise: Yearly

Dwarf Peach - Standard ^8/10

Comments: - love dwarf fruit trees

Height 0.5 metres

Growing: In the Ground

Qty: 1

Sun/Shade: Full Sun

Water Given in: Spring

Pollination: Self Pollination

When I Fertilise: Yearly

Organic Status:Partially Organic

Dwarf Coconut Malay Gold

Dwarf Macadamia

Dwarf Nectarine - Fantasia ^8/10

Comments: - Love nectarines but the ones at the shops are blegh. SO here i go again with this addiction! Hoping to see fruit next year but i don't see any buds forming for that. At the moment though a lot of lovely growth so i've had to prune it this summer for it's first summer. Lost a lot of leaves due to the hot sun so will be changing it's position in the garden for morning sun. 

Sun/Shade: Medium Sun

Question: A lot of ants love to run up and down this tree and nibble on parts of it, i've used some tree glue at the base to stop that but theyre tricky and find a way up is there any harm?

Dwarf Lemon - Meyer ^7/10

Comments: - Everyone has to have a lemon tree in their garden surely :) this is the dwarf lemonicious, it's been a trial and error as i'm new to gardening so some leaves have been curling inwards which may mean i need to adjust the nutrients in the soil?

First Fruited: 4 Months from Purchase in Pot

Sun/Shade: Full Sun

Pest Control: recently been attacked by scale i've been removing as much as i can see by hand and using pest oil to rid them but it's been a tough process, losing a lot of leaves to yellowing but it's bouncing back ok. 

Dwarf Lime - Tahitian (Grafted) ^10/10

Comments: - This is the Sublime patio Lime. Looks beautiful! have not had any fruit as of yet, over half the leaves dropped off over winter as it gets cold here even with sheltering the plant. But in spring it put on so much new growth it's lusher than ever.

Water Given in: Spring

Dwarf Orange (Grafted) ^8/10

Comments: - Be nice to have my own oranges not sure how it will handle the ballarat winter but it loves the summer! unlike my grass 

Planted: 2018

Growing: In a Pot

Sun/Shade: Full Sun

When I Fertilise: When Fruiting and Spring

Dwarf Lemon - Meyer

Comments: - this little fella had a hard time to start , planted with not enough sunlight and little watering , 2 years later , I dug it up and potted it , doing fine now ,hope to get lemons soon .

Height 0.7 metres

Qty: 1

Pollination: Self Pollination

Pest Control: Eco oil 

Dwarf Mandarin - Emperor

Comments: - i have an emperor and imperial mandarins both dwarf , the imperial is 2 years older and produces sweet thin skinned fruit .

Height 1.5 metres

Growing: In the Ground

Qty: 2

Fruit Harvest: 6 Fruit Per Year

First Fruited: 2 Years from purchase in pot

Pollination: Self Pollination

When I Fertilise: When Fruiting

Pest Control: Eco oil

Dwarf Orange - Cara Cara ^9/10

Comments: - nice Orange with red flesh juicy and sweet .

Height 1 metres

Growing: In a Pot

Qty: 1

Pollination: No

Pest Control: Bio oil

Dwarf Orange - Washington Navel (Grafted)

Comments: - Nice orange fruited in second year 3 nice oranges , this will be 3rd year ,first in ground so maybe next year I will get more .

Planted: 2016

Height 1 metres

Growing: In the Ground

Qty: 1

Fruit Harvest: 3 Fruit Per Year

First Fruited: 2 Years from purchase in pot

Sun/Shade: Medium Sun

Pest Control: bio oil 

Organic Status:Organic

Dwarf Lemon - Meyer (Cutting) ^9/10

Comments: - This tree is a Lotsa Lemons and produces plentiful fruit. It%u2019s a tough low maintenance plant that I keep in a 50L pot. 

Fruiting Months January, February, March, April, December

Planted: 2016

Height 1 metres

Growing: In a Pot

Qty: 1

Fruit Harvest: 3 kilograms per Year

First Fruited: 1 Years from purchase in pot

Sun/Shade: Full Sun

Water Given in: Spring

Pollination: Self Pollination

When I Fertilise: When Fruiting

Pest Control: None needed 

Dwarf Mulberry - Red Shahtoot ^10/10

Comments: - Would love to try this fruit, fruited in spring but all dropped due to young age. It's growing very nicley and will great shade tree for summer. 

Fruiting Months November and December

Planted: 2018

Height 70 Centimetres

Growing: In the Ground

Qty: 1

Fruit Harvest: 8 Fruit Per Year

First Fruited: 1 Years from purchase in pot

Sun/Shade: Full Sun

Pollination: No

Fertiliser or Organics Used: seasol

When I Fertilise: Spring

Pest Control: none