Apple trees???

[T-TOP]

Anyone have any luck growing apple trees in S. La.??


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[FF_T_Warren]

I'd like to know the same I've always heard that they wouldn't grow here. But crab apples grow here so I wonder...

[T-TOP]

Have read that they can. Neighbor just planted 3. Getting ready to build my new home place trying to plan the fruit orchard!


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[PBJ]

There are a few varieties that you can grow here. I have one in my yard and it puts on a few small apples every year. I think it is an Ein Shemer variety.

[T-TOP]

Originally Posted by PBJ

There are a few varieties that you can grow here. I have one in my yard and it puts on a few small apples every year. I think it is an Ein Shemer variety.

I was told you need a few different species of apples to cross pollinate. You think that would help produce more apples?


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[PBJ]

Originally Posted by T-TOP

I was told you need a few different species of apples to cross pollinate. You think that would help produce more apples?



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I think you are right.

[PaulMyers]

Go talk to Devers Nursery. They have apple trees for the local area. I was just in there talking about them.

[Cappy]

The problem with apples is kinda the opposite the Yankee's have with citrus. Kinda fair in a way they cant grow one but we can. Apples need a long winter. LSU Ag has a few varieties that can grow down here but they are small and ya just aint gonna get a big juicy apple. When I was a kid growing up in Port Barre there was a variety of crab apple that grew around town. My PaPaw had one and there were several others around. He called them zee zees they were wonderful lil apples bout the size and shape of a paper shell pecan. Our area has wonderful wide variety of stuff we can grow. I aint good enough to plant stuff that don't do well here. So I stick with the huge variety that we can grow and leave apples to the yankees.