Fruit & Fruit Trees

Apples. Definitely apples. They're easy and grow anywhere - or, at least we can say that the exists a varietal that grows where you live. Completely hands-off to grow, they grow and fruit relatively quickly, high yield, energy dense fruit that's simple to eat, lots of sugars. Most importantly, the fruit keeps really well, for fruit. If you can keep it even halfway cool, it'll last months. The skin is edible; heck the whole fruit is edible, although most people don't usually eat the core. It's the perfect fruit. It's not necessarily my favorite fruit, but if you're taking a staple food fruit, for survival, give me apple seeds, no question.

Blackberries come in second for sheer volume and rapid growth, but they don't survive harsh winters very well, so without knowing the conditions or in uncertain environments, I'd rather have apple seeds in my pocket.

First off, glad to see the farming cross post or I wouldn't have seen this comm so I could sub!

We don't do much fruit right now, but I'm hoping to change that next year. My favorite not-a-fruit-thats-easy would probably be carrots or lettuce.

From previous efforts, I'd probably say strawberries. We had moved, so haven't done strawberries in a few years, but hoping to get some property for us to live/farm over the next year and strawberries will definitely be on the list for us.

Edit: We do a community garden right now, the lack of fruit is due to some of the rules of the garden.

Not exactly a tree, but I'd say pepino.

It's in the same family as tomatoes and potatoes, and grows similarly. The fruits taste like in between pear and cantaloupe, and it's perennial.

Papaya grows fast and fruits fast too!

Grew up in southern california amidst the orange groves before suburbia ate them. I'm still partial to growing the trees. The smell when they're in bloom is a beautiful thing. Similarly, i had a satsuma that basically took care of itself up in the bay area. Moving out to the sierra nevadas soon, so if anybody has suggestions for trees or really any native to the area stuff I should plant that'd be appreciated. great thread idea jim

Sea-buckthorn. Because they fix nitrogen from the air, grow fast and reproduce with shoots.

However, they have thorns (good if there is a deer risk) and the berries are small. The plants aren't very long-lived (you can see signs of aging after 10 years already). And whole plants (not flowers) have a gender, you need to figure out which ones are male or female. They pollinate with wind.

If it has to be a proper tree, then cherries.

Least favourite? I've cut down one plum tree, and will likely cut down another too. Pollination problems (they don't self-pollinate), fruit spoiling on branches, apparently their good harvest depends on cutting the branches properly - I'm not competent to grow plum trees, except the small ones (Prunus domestica subsp. insititia - damascene plums?) which are foolproof, and also reproduce with shoots.