What tree to plant?

[split toe]

I am looking to plant some more trees. I am looking for something that will drop October/November. The ground is decently drained. Prefer something that produces early. Thoughts?

 

[Brushpile]

Kieffer Pear

 

[Triple C]

Great questions split toe! I see the fruit that Native, LLC, Chainsaw and others produce on their places and I struggle to get a half-dozen pears on a single tree. I've got Kieffers that have been in the ground since 2011 and are pushing 30 ft tall. Lush, healthy trees. Each year I keep waiting on the bumper crop but seems I always get a late frost to wipe em out. This year, same thing...got a few pears on a few trees but not enough to be worth mentioning. I attribute my struggles with where most of the pears are planted which is in the lower elevations of my property. Seems frost settles there first. I do have 8 healthy apples that LLC grafted 3 years ago so anxious to see what they produce in the coming years.

One thing I know for sure - The good ol' native persimmons produce every year with a bunch of fruit and other than keeping them daylighted, I do nothing to them. They've become my favorite soft mast tree over the years due to the predictabilily of fruiting every year.

 

[split toe]

Great questions split toe! I see the fruit that Native, LLC, Chainsaw and others produce on their places and I struggle to get a half-dozen pears on a single tree. I've got Kieffers that have been in the ground since 2011 and are pushing 30 ft tall. Lush, healthy trees. Each year I keep waiting on the bumper crop but seems I always get a late frost to wipe em out. This year, same thing...got a few pears on a few trees but not enough to be worth mentioning. I attribute my struggles with where most of the pears are planted which is in the lower elevations of my property. Seems frost settles there first. I do have 8 healthy apples that LLC grafted 3 years ago so anxious to see what they produce in the coming years.

One thing I know for sure - The good ol' native persimmons produce every year with a bunch of fruit and other than keeping them daylighted, I do nothing to them. They've become my favorite soft mast tree over the years due to the predictabilily of fruiting every year.

I have the fruit tree package (20 something trees) from the wildlife group. They have been in the ground since 2014 and some started bearing fruit this year. I was thinking about getting some grafted persimmons. I tried the AU chestnuts from the wildlife group, but up here in Arkansas I could not get any of them to survive.

 

[Native Hunter]

Along with the Kieffer, I would recommend a Yates Apple. It might not go into November that far south, but it should go into October. It's kind of small but a great apple and a foolproof deer apple for the south. Here is what mine look like today. The crop this year is decent but not as much as last year.

 

[Native Hunter]

But, if you insist on a large (and/or very ugly) apple, you might want to plant one of these.....

 

[Brushpile]

I've been very busy, but I'll try to take pics of Kieffer Pears with branches broken and breaking under the weight of the pears! Korean Giant/Olympic Pear is my back up pear because it blooms later, and is a hard/crispy pear that won't rot on the ground.

I just cut down a wide variety of pears that were not producing much after 8-9 years.