Fruit tree yields

[get-me-out-of-here]

I am city born and raised, but outside of the public library the city is not my natural habitat. I

[goatlady]

There is really no way to accurately answer your questions. With fruit trees there are so many variables including the specific variety of tree, when it blossoms, early spring frosts, disease resistance, necessity of cross pollinator trees, age of trees. I am not aware of any CSA that includes tree fruits as they take so long to reach fruiting maturity and have too many variables to be able to depend on X amount of production plus the extra maintanence fruit trees require over and beyond veggie maintanence. Most either produce veggies or fruits, but not both, for sales.

[Grinnan Barrett]

I agree with Goat Lady. there is no way to give you an answer here. For one thing you have to look at where you are going to buy land. In North Georgia you have a totally different set of weather patterns than in South Georgia. You really need to look at NATIVE Trees. It is like Pecan trees. In Georgia they have to be sprayed almost all the time. They are not native trees in GA. In Texas they are a Native tree and grow in the wild. In Texas they require little maintenance. In North Georgia I remember seeing a lot of apple trees up around Blue Ridge. Also remember that it may take years for your trees to bear fruit. I would try to find an really good plant nursery in the area to ask about fruit trees. I have used the same nursery for over 20 years. GB

[Lowdown3]

[thedreamers]

So true about finding the right trees for your area. In Fl. most fruit trees will grow but only a few produce fruit to eat. Some even need to to grafted to make them grow n brear fruit that are resistent to the growing conditions down here. Bugs n fungus are real bad.

[PerryJeff]

Hello, I think we can give you some rough yield potential to ball park it. As far as how much per person that depends are you eating fruit every meal? That’s a you need to figure out what you will do with it.
For Dwarf trees your rootstock determines overall height. In my apple an M9 or B9 rootstock will be around 8 foot tall yield bushel per tree in 5 years. M28 10-12 foot 1.5 bu my favorite size M7 12-14 foot 2 bu, Full size trees 5-10 bu per tree in 15 years.
peaches, plums, apricots, pears, cherry dwarf trees will give you right about a bushel per tree in 5-7 years.
Important things to consider are pollination. Most apples need a cross pollinator. you must make sure if you have 2-3 trees that they will pollenate each other and flower at the correct time. Apples trees flower in 5 different windows. If your trees flower in the wrong windows you either get know cross pollination or very little.
I love fruit trees and have 180 on my 6 acre homestead. I like dehydrating alot for long term storage. Cider and perry is good use of alot of fruit.

[All Talk]

I just planted 24 apple, pear and asian pear trees in an espailier set up. Will be a few years, but that is a way if done right to get heavier yields in smaller geographic area.