Plant Description
Planting
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Why Grow Deciduous Fruit Trees in LA
Low-Chill Hours: Many varieties need fewer cold hours to produce fruit.
Spring Blossoms: Trees bloom with lovely flowers before growing green leaves.
Fresh Harvest: Pick ripe, sweet fruit right in your yard.
Top Varieties for Southern California
Apples: 'Anna' and 'Dorsett Golden' grow well in warm coastal and inland zones.
Apricot: Royal Blenheim and Katy
Peaches: 'Babcock, Santa Barbara, 'Donut Peach' need very little winter cold.
Plums: 'Persian', 'Santa Rosa', Burgundy, and Shiro produce heavy crops in mild winters.
Persimmons: 'Fuyu and Hachiya"
Pomegranate: Wonderful, Eversweet, Persian Saveh and Yazd
Pears: Shinseiki, 20th century
Necatarines: 'Arctic Star', 'Snow Queen', 'Fantasia'
Jujube: Lang and Li
Figs: Black Mission, Brown TUkey, Persian Kan, Genoa, and Kadota
Care Tips for Your Trees
Sunlight: Plant in a spot with full sun all day.
Water: Water deep during hot summer months.
Pruning: Prune in winter while the tree is bare.
Step One:
Soil and Planting: Plant in soil that drains well. Dig a hole that is as deep as the tree’s roots and at least twice as wide.
Step Two:
Place the tree in the hole and backfill around the plant’s roots with a mixture of the native soil and high-quality planting mix that has washed sand and organic fertilizer.
Step Three:
Create a basin around the roots drip zone so that water collects. Water deeply until the roots and nearby soil is saturated and reaches field capacity.