In this video, I share 5 tropical fruits northern gardeners can actually grow! Most gardeners think they cannot grow tropical fruit trees in places with freezing winters. Not true! I am growing dozens of fruit trees with tropical fruits in my yard, and we get 30-40 freezes every year! These cold hardy fruit treezes are frost and freeze tolerant, and gardeners can be growing tropical fruit all the way down to Zone 4!
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
0:00 Growing Tropical Fruits In Cold Climates
1:10 Tropical Fruit #1
3:46 Tropical Fruit #2
6:57 Tropical Fruit #3
8:53 Tropical Fruit #4
12:27 Tropical Fruit #5
15:05 Where To Buy Fruit Trees
16:59 Adventures With Dale
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0:00 Growing Tropical Fruits In Cold Climates
1:10 Tropical Fruit #1
3:46 Tropical Fruit #2
6:57 Tropical Fruit #3
8:53 Tropical Fruit #4
12:27 Tropical Fruit #5
15:05 Where To Buy Fruit Trees
16:59 Adventures With Dale
Great video!! can please help answer this question: I just planted 2 bare root pawpaw trees. They are 2-3 years old. I live in zone 5b; Chicago area. Should I put the shade cloth immediately or wait until spring and for how long should I use shade cloth. I watched your paw paw videos. I'm a big fan of your videos!!! 😊
Great video! About the George Washington thing… there's no historical documentation to back that oft repeated claim. I live in the same region Washington did and I can tell you pawpaws ripen 2 months before the first frost. By time the frosts arrive here, any fruit are all long gone. Even accounting for changes in climate, I find that highly unlikely. Thanks again!
👍 Mississippi 7b
Good info there, I live in south west Florida, have quite a few tropical fruit trees, also have some Property up in Southern Kentucky, might end up there someday and always thought how much I would miss my mango trees but now you shed some light on a few that I didn’t know where that cold tolerant.
You make reference to your water barrels in reference to your tropical fruit. What is their purpose?
When is the time to put my citrus trees into the ground in zone 8a? I have the owari satsuma and the Meyer lemon tree grafted and they are in pots and they are about 2-3 ft tall.
Great video! Thanks!
Could you please blend in the LATIN NAMES or post a list? Especially out of the USA it's hard to find the exact plant from the common english name due to translation issues. Thanks 🙂
I'm sure we'd watch the video anyway full in this case, because we really want to see how well every plant is doing.
Thank you very much. Could you please tell me what’s the reason for those black water drums behind each tree.
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You could put a livestock water heater inside the barrels for radiant heat if it gets colder
I'm in 8b and will seek out a "Lila" avocado tree.
Dude, the word for plant variety is “cultivar” not “race”.
I had a Maypop 🍈 volunteer come up right next to my trellis and my seek app called it a passion flower. They looked pretty so I let it grow. I was very pleasantly surprised when I got to eat the fruit. It’s like a Concord grape and pomegranate crossed. I LOVE them!
We have a pawpaw festival thrown by a professor of horticulture at the University and they grow them on campus.
Where did you get your Lila avocado from.
Thank you for the amazing videos! I have been following your channel for some time now. I have been looking into starting my own orchard on our homestead but am having a hard time finding organic fruit trees. We want to have strictly organic grown fruit trees but cant seem to find any available online or local. I have researched online if we were to buy non-organic fruit trees and begin feeding them organic fertilizers if that would make a difference for the fruit that the trees bare but haven't been able to find a solid answer. What is your opinion on this? If we bought non-organic trees and fed them organic fertilizer would the fruit be organic or would there still be remnants of the synthetics?
For TX, FL, and CA residents, no nursery can ship citrus to you. Buy it in state or pick one up in your travels.
I absolutely love your videos, the info you share, and the progress you have made! I bought my first fig due to your encouragement. Love the idea of having an avocado…
I finally found an Owari Satsuma in TX. I have to really hunt for good citrus trees here. Purchased a Violette de Bordeaux in LA on a trip, same as my pomegranates and strawberry guava from CA. We, too have just been upgraded to a zone 8b but we have had some wicked winters and my Meyer lemon has survived them all with the methods demonstrated here. I love the idea of putting all of my citrus (Mei Wa, Page, Clementine, Lisbon WA Navel – all in giant pots, all fruit except navel, it is new) in the ground but we have solid clay here. Dug a heck of a hole (with amendments) for the Meyer 4 years ago and it’s a happy camper. I have a Tanenashi persimmon in ground and it doesn’t look super happy. Suggestions?
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Definitely not called a "race" of avocados. Cultivars? Maybe.
your avocado tree looks like a Bonsai well done
12:35 Just planted a few American Pawpaw seedlings, shaded them by planting sunflowers around. I don't usually get frost in my area, but amazing that they can survive extreme cold
@TheMillennialGardener 6:25 your Dwarf Orinoco bananas are amazing, and that has inspired me to try your growing banana tricks in the UK USDA Gardening Zone 9B I am testing the tricks on my two Dwarf Cavendish bananas. Can you give me some tips please? 😊
Great video! You’ve got beautiful trees! Zone 6a/6b here. I’d never grown citrus until this year. I bought a little 3’-tall Meyer Lemon, but know it will always have to be a container plant that I’ll have to keep indoors for the winter. Already, it would have died had I not. At first, it had too many flowers to count, and then more than 11 tiny lemons appeared. Then all but 3 of them dropped off! I panicked, then learned young Meyer lemon trees will at first put out as many as it can, then self-sacrifice all but the ones it knows it can support to fully grow.
I was so excited I grew abundant of key limes, 8 lemons, and 1 pomegranate this year. It'll be first year I'll leave outside all winter. Looking for battery operated lights to help keep warm. Have frost tents. The leaves turning yellow however said cold hardy to 20 for zone 8b PNW washington state. I'm wanting a blood orange so thank you for name.
Put em in Your pocket!
Allll together now.
Have you used fast growing trees from South carolina? Ive had success with them
I am in Wilmington, North Carolina and have a Meyer lemon tree in a pot and it needs to go in the ground because it is large. It produced 30 lemons for the first time this year. I am not sure where to plant it in my yard on an acre. And I have sandy soil. Any advice would be truly appreciated.
Thanks so much for this video. I live in southern Oklahoma (7B – 8) and look forward to growing some citrus. Thanks again.
i love this video man.. I really want to have this when I get the space
It should Be forbidden For people on zones 6 and up to use words cold and Hardy.
Even here in Charleston I won't put my citrus in the ground. I get used 20 and 25 gallon trade pots for free from the landscapers. This allows me to move them with a hand cart or drag them around to chase the sun. I am going to take my dwarf namwa bananas and lay them down under frost cloth this winter on the few cold nights (low 20's) we get. I bought a pineapple guava from Stan this spring and its 5 feet tall. My Limequat produced big time. I think I bought that from the Georgia citrus lady.
ive missed your content, had to take a break for a while. Your videos about growing citrus in zone 7b – 8a inspired me to get a an owari satsuma and another owari I cant recall the name of, 3 lemons, 3 limes, an ichi ki kei jiro, multiple figs, and because I had seen your video on pineapple guava, I saw one in clearance at a nursery and snagged it up as well! Thats just a fraction of the trees you've had a part in inspiring me to grow, apples, plums, peaches, etc. Not to mention the veggies!
Thanks!
me in 9b wishing to to be in 8b