Please help me with my fruit tree selection. I live in San Diego and would like the best variety to plant?

Question

I want to plant a pluot, [Dapple Dandy, Flavor King] or ? A fig, a sweet black plum with dark flesh, and a pomergrate. I got confused with all the selections, and know no one with fruit trees who can help. So if you have a good tasting variety that grow well in San Diego, please let me know. Thank you so much. Greenthumb in traing.

Answer 1

http://www.arborday.org/ Check this site out...put in your zip and it will give you the zone you live in...then go to fruit trees and look for one that will do well in your zone.

Answer 2

I have lived in San Diego for most of my life (born and raised here, have left many times but keep coming back). The weather here is the best in the country, if not the world. Crime is very low for a large city. Despite the proximity to Mexico, there isn't nearly as bad an alien here than in other cities, like LA. AND, we have the 2007 Super Bowl Champions, the San Diego Chargers! :-) Okay, the last sentence may be a bit optomistic. The only down side, and it's a big one, is the cost of housing. However, rent isn't that ridiculous. I own a house now, and am actually thinking of renting it out, then myself renting another house to get closer to the beach (I'm about 15 miles away from it now). We've got shopping (several huge venues), night life (Gaslamp quarter), tourist traps (zoo, Sea World), and restaurants (Mr. A's, Donovans, Croce's, even Mortons). Pack your bags!

Answer 3

Fruit trees need so many chilling hours in order to produce fruit. Call and ask your friendly nursery what kind of fruit trees do well in your area.

Also make sure these fruit trees are in your USDA zone area.

Use a dormant oil to control scale insects for the overwintering of aphids, and spider mites. Do this in the early spring.

Answer 4

Jack fruit, longan ( a pulpy fruit related to the lychee and produced by a southeast Asian evergreen tree of the soapberry family) and guava are good too.

Answer 5

you have a dandy, under-used resource in your area.... get in contact with your county's Cooperative Extension Service Office... it's an extension of your state colleges.... free service... master gardeners and others in the know... they'll have lists of suggestions for all the best plants and trees for your area!!... use them!!.. that's what they're THERE for!!!.. *smile*.....

here's a link...

http://cesandiego.ucdavis.edu/

if you don't find what you want thru the links there, then call them and go there if necessary... you might want to test your soil before planting anyways, and they're the folks to do that, too!!....

Answer 6

Also try Mango, PawPaw, Passionfruit(a vine). You are in a semi-tropical area so "anything grows".

Answer 7

look up options at hgtv.com (I believe the actual show is Gardening by the Yard)