CLICK HERE FOR PRINTABLE VERSION
Please call for availability and pricing!
Apples | Chilling Hours | Pollinizer Required? | Ripening Period | Description |
Granny Smith | 400-600 | Yes | Late September – Early October | Bright green apple with pink blush. Excellent for eating, cooking, and sauce. High juice content and stores very well. |
Mollies Red Delicious | 400 | Yes | Late August – Early September | Firm, sweet, juicy, light yellow flesh of excellent quality. Well-adapted to mild minter areas. |
Gala | 500 | Partial Self-Pollinizer | Late July – Early August | Top-quality, crisp, sweet apple. Gold skin with red blush. Will take summer heat. Plant more than one for better production. |
Fuji | 350-400 | Yes | Early to Late September | Dense, sweet flesh, crisp with long shelf life. Medium reddish-green skin. Will take summer heat. |
Nectarines | Chilling Hours | Pollinizer Required? | Ripening Period | Description |
Flavortop | 600-700 | Self-fertile | mid July | Freestone. Consistently a top scorer in taste taste. Fruit is yellow fleshed, gold with red blush. Great for fresh eating. |
Plums | Chilling Hours | Pollinizer Required? | Ripening Period | Description |
Burbank | 400 | Yes | July – August | Produces a large purplish red fruit with sweet amber cling-stone flesh. Very good for eating and canning. |
Methley | 250 | Self-fertile | Late May – Early June | Small to medium size with a mottled purple peel and juicy red flesh with sweet flavor. One of the best to use as a pollinizer. |
Santa Rosa | 400 | Self-fertile | Late June | Large, oval fruit with purplish-red skin. Firm flesh, yellow to dark red near skin. Rich, pleasing, tart flavor. |
Morris | 650 | Yes | Early June | Mediums-sized red to purple plum with red flesh. Good for eating, canning and preserves. Tx. A & M introduction. |
Pomegranate | Chilling Hours | Pollinizer Required? | Ripening Period | Description |
Wonderful | 150-200 | no | October | Extra large fruit with blush red skin. Flesh red,juicy with sharp flavor. Most well-known of the Pomegranates. |
Austin | 150-200 | no | October | Large friut with pink skin, high juice content. Sweet with hint of tart. |
Pears | Chilling Hours | Pollinizer Required? | Ripening Period | Description |
Ayers | 600 | yes | August-September | Small to medium size fruit that is yellow with a red blush. Sweet, soft flesh. Excellent for eating fresh.. |
Bartlett | 800 | yes | Late August | A large, yellow pear of excellent quality. It is a favorite for canning and eating. It is a heavy-bearer, but is susceptible to fireblight. Partially self-fertile. |
Kieffer | 400 | yes | October-November | Large fruit with greenish-yellow skin blushed red. Coarse,crisp and juicy white flesh with mild pear flavor. Stores well. Good resistance to fireblight. |
Peaches | Chilling Hours | Pollinizer Required? | Ripening Period | Description |
Early Elberta | 750 | Self-fertile | Early July | Large fruit with golden-yellow skin blushed red. Sweet yellow flesh. Freestone. Good all=around peach. |
Harvester | 750 | Self-fertile | Late June | Freestone. Medium to large. Resistant to bacterial leaf spot. Acidic, good quality peach with sweet yellow flesh. |
June Gold | 450 | Self-fertile | Late May – Early June | Clingstone to semi-freestone. Fruit is large with yellow flesh and good flavor. |
Loring | 800 | Self-fertile | Mid-July | Large, yellow skin and flesh with red blush. Flesh yellow, firm, melting, an extremely good flavor. Resistant to bacteriosis. |
Redskin | 750 | Self-fertile | Early August | Skin is deep red over yellow wiath yellow flesh. Large freestone fruit, resistant to bacteriosis. Excellent for eating, shipping and canning. |
La Feliciana | 400-500 | Self-fertile | Late June – Early July | Freestone. Medium to large peach. Dark red blush on skin. Frim flesh with great texture and flavor. Yellow flesh with red specks. |
Figs | Chilling Hours | Pollinizer Required? | Ripening Period | Description |
Black Italian | N/A | Self-fertile | Early Summer and again in Late Summer | Large 25′ tree with red pulped, black-skinned fruit. Two crops each year. First on old wood, second crop on new wood. |
Brown Turkey | N/A | Self-fertile | August through frost | Medium to large fruit with purple brown skin. Sweet strawberry colored flesh. Best eaten fresh. |
Celeste | N/A | Self-fertile | August through frost | Small to medium fruit with purple brown skin. Flesh white with rose center. Firm, juicy, and very sweet. Most frost resistant variety. |
Little Miss Figgy | N/A | Self-fertile | Late summer | 4-6′ x 3-4′ dwarf form. Great in containers with dark purple fruits. |
Blackberries | Chilling Hours | Pollinizer Required? | Ripening Period | Description |
Arapaho | N/A | Self-fertile | Mid-June | Thornless variety. Disease resistant with a long shelf life. Fast grower. Sweet flavor. |
Apache | N/A | Self-fertile | Mid-June | Thornless with very upright canes. Very large fruit. Excellent flavor. |
Brazos | N/A | Self-fertile | Mid-late May | More acidic and better for canning than fresh eating. Heavy producer of large berries developed at TX A&M. Has thorns. |
Natchez | N/A | Self-fertile | Mid-June | Thornless variety, large berries that store well. Semi-upright. |
Blueberries | Chilling Hours | Pollinizer Required? | Ripening Period | Description |
Brightwell | 350-400 | yes/no | early June-early July | Self-fruitful but pollinizer recommended for better yields. (Austin is pollinizer.) Medium-sized fruit, mid to late season Rabbiteye cultivar, can reach 6′-10′. |
Austin | 500-550 | yes | June | Productive plant with medium-large fruit which is less firm than some. (Brightwell is recommended pollinizer.) |
Powder Blue | 550-650 | yes | late June-late July | Medium sized, light blue fruit with good production. (Use Brightwell as pollinizer.) |
Tiffblue | 600-650 | yes/n0 | late June-late July | Self-fruitful but pollinizer recommended for better yields. (Brightwell is pollinizer.) Small-medium-sized berries are tart if not fully ripe. |
Grapes | Chilling Hours | Pollinizer Required? | Ripening Period | Description |
Black Spanish | N/A | no | August-September | Small blackish blue, heavy producer, good for jellies |
Blanc du Bois | N/A | no | July | Popular for making white table wine, jelly, or juice. Hints of citrus flavor. Disease resistant. |
Champanel | N/A | no | Early July | Large, vigorous red grape with high heat tolerance. Tolerant of akaline soils. Great for jelly. |
Average Years to Fruit from Grafted Fruit Trees
Fruit Tree Years to Fruit
Peach 2 – 4 years
Pear 4 – 6 years
Plum 3 – 6 years
Apricot 2 – 5 years
Apple 3 – 4 years
Persimmon 3 – 4 years