A buddy of mine has a 14 foot tall cherry tomato tree, in a huge trellis made of wire fencing. Its epic. Ill snap a pic soon.
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That sounds awesome. Definitely want to see it.
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Its in like a 80 gallon planter. Its wicked. He does it every year. Crazy to me.
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Grabbed a Christian Dior rose bush, Kadota fig, Violette de Bordeaux fig, Pink guava, and Red Lady papaya small trees.
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Thats awesome haveing so many different fruit trees 
Are you building an Orchid or juat dotting things around the property.
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Just putting them around the backyard. Still need some mangos, avocados, apple, pear, peach, and pistachio. I’ll get it all done next year. Beds too. I have so much to do out there. More lights, more pavers, more mulch, more queen palms, more magnolias, more Italian cypress, azaleas… I’ll prune just about everything to keep them in their place and not takeover/shade others. I’m just on a little corner lot and I’m already in the 150-200 range of stuff planted. Just trying to create a jungle. I’ve always lived in places where people have cool yards and whatnot, so I’ve always wanted one myself. It gets old having people bug you constantly while you’re in the yard trying to get stuff done though. Haha.
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Sounds like we are doing exactly the same things. But you have access to better fruits do to your natural environment.
Aint it fun, i love this stuff.
Im wondering if I can get avocado 
to grow here? Im already growing Mango from the store from seed indoors so far.
We have more mulch/woodchips coming next week as well. We are designing the backyard as we go, kinda. Here is a MAP of what we have done so far. We have allready decided that the garden is getting expanded towards the house by another 20ft or so. We will end up with roughly 1500 sqft of gardening space total. Currently we have used about 500 sqft.
The colored areas are things that are planted currently. 1 square on the sheet = 1sqft in real life.
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If you keep the avocados in pots and bring them in when it’s cold, you should be good. Mexican varieties can handle down to 20F or so. Haas can take 25F or so, but will drop everything, might lose some limbs, and might not fruit the upcoming year. Not under 30-35* for Haas and not long periods even at those temps. Just keep them small enough to fit inside during the winter and you’re good to go. Avocados and mangos for free is awesome.
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Ive been dreaming of this for AGES.
The best mano ill ever get is by purchasing store bought fruit, to get the seed. Unless someone is willing send me a plant in the mail or seed.
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Would love to see photos of your progress @PatHealy sounds like a wonderful place to relax.
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Give everything a few weeks to bounce back from the storm and I’ll take pictures.
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Sounds good, I bet lots needed to be cleaned up after the storms.
Was just researching Puget gold dwarf apricot tree, its likely the best bet. Flowers later (prevents early frost killing the flowers)
Bears fruit reliable, tastes just as good as the best flavored ones, its “dwarf” 8 to 15 ft height. Looks good with & without flowers. And resistant to sickness and is Canada Cold hardy.
Gotta find a source in canada thats not $300. I see in the USA same tree on average is $50.
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I might need to add an apricot tree to my list now too. Haha.
Edit: Looks like Tilton, Golden Amber, and Flora Gold do best here. I’ll keep an eye out for some.
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I did find it about 2.5hr drive frome me, for $130 for a bare root of this Puget gold dwarf apricot tree. Woah.
Dont know if your into this @PatHealy but im slooowly gonna be collecting all sorts of fruit tree cuttings to graft onto my current trees, Example: Ive got 3 apple trees current, each tree is 1 variety. If I add 2 cuttings to each tree, all different varieties, Ill end up with 3 trees & 9 apple varieties.
Of course i have to research and figure out what ones will pair up well with what have, but if i do this well enough for all my fruit trees I can produce 5x the varieties in much less space vs haveing 1 tree per variety. 
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That’s super cool!!! I need to spend some weekends driving around and grab a few of those grafted fruit plants. The only ones I’ve seen these days is the “cocktail tree” deals. They’re lemons, limes, grapefruits, and oranges usually around here. I’d like to find one with apples, pears, or something different though.
Edit: I see there’s one with peaches, apricots, nectarines, cherries, prunes and one with peaches, plums, apricots, and nectarines. I need one or both of those now for sure. Haha
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With cherrys 
I didn’t even know, but there are cherry trees & cherry bushes. Depending on what you want, so do some research when your planning the landscape of things ,)
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These would be cherry trees grafted onto root stock with multiple other types of fruit. The Barbados cherry tree is what you see around here most often on its own though.
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I have a question regarding cherries.
What do bing cherry and maraschino cherry taste like?
Is there a cherry variety that taste like close to cherry cool aid?
Thank you
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Bings are sweet cherries, but still a little tart. Rainier are sweeter without tartness. Maraschino are cherries brined then soaked to give the taste/sweetness and color. You can definitely grow your own cherries and make them into maraschinos or whatever you’d like. People call Rainier cherries candy, but I don’t think there are any cherries that taste like cherry Kool-Aid on their own.
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They’re charging too much for steel poles and whatnot, so I just straightened everything up with cinder blocks and paracord. Janky looking, but it works. Haha.
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