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Message: <blockquote data-quote="turkeyrun" data-source="post: 4082490" data-attributes="member: 27991">I have 3 apricot, 3 peach, 3 plum, 3 pear, 3 cherry trees, 3 cherry bushes, 3 pecan and an apple tree.I have bought trees from Tractor Supply. They discount them in October / November,  perfect for planting. I plant November to February.  The TSC trees are grafted. 3 plum trees were grafted on peach. Made plums 1 year, was 1/2 plums and 1/2 peach the next, then died.Figure on 3-4 years before fruiting.The cherry trees grew fast for 4 years and died during drought. The bushes have survived but make sparsely.Peaches, pears, apricots, plums and pecans thrive .My best trees have come from buying local grown fruit and starting seeds myself. I have a line of buckets, half full of potting soil, sitting along the carport Drip line. When I eat fruit, throw seeds in the appropiate bucket. They stay mostly shaded, until planted. I prefer E-W over N-S. I have had 20 pear trees, 3' tall in one bucket. The single apple tree was from grandson eating an apple and burying the core, next to a cherry tree. The apple, a store bought Gala, produces a smaller apple. We don't havest many, the squirrels get them and the pears, as soon as they start to ripen.The pecans pop up all over the yard. I give away the small trees to be transplanted.Most are not hard to grow. Water, prune, bug control, but harvest aren't quick coming and can be far between, feast or famine, but ohhhhh sooooo good.Mix varieties (cherry is must, but I will not put out cherry trees, again).</blockquote>

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