Blueberries, Fruit Trees and Citrus (at the very, very bottom)
Fruit tree and Citrus tree info. They are both fruit trees but in our jargon we use Fruit trees to mean stone fruits or figs or pomegranates..and citrus to mean oranges, lemons etc.
Fruit Tree section
Planting fruit trees is one of the best investments you can make. They live for years, give you fresh fruit and look pretty too. (Scroll to the last section of this page for more information.)
These are the fruit tree varieties left and looking for a home in your garden. Date today is February 23rd. We will can all the remaining fruit trees on Monday, the 27th. Then they cost you more and are heavier to take home. this weekend is your last chance. Call today 760 436 2194 to reserve one from the list below or come in and choose for yourself.
4 in 1 Showy flowersPeach /Nectarine combinations. Four great fruits on one tree, so you have everything.
Combo #1 Fantasia nectarine, Double Delight Nectarine, Red Baron Peach, Saturn Saucer peach — 2 left.
Combo #2 Double Delight nectarine, Mid Pride peach, Red Baron Peach, and Fantasia Nectarine —sold out left.
Combo #3 Fantasia Nectarine, Red Baron Peach, Double Delight nectarine, Saturn peach
—1 left.
Apples
Anna , best easiest. 3 left
Dorsett golden 3 left
Pink lady 5 left
Apricots.
Blenheim always the most popular— 5 left
Figs—sold out
Spice Zee Nectaplum cross of plum and nectarine— 1 left.
Nectarines Always get fruit, always have good taste
Panamint great yellow— 4 left.
Snow Queen white flesh— 4 left.
Peaches
PixZee mini peach. A really dwarf peach, good for a container or a small garden— 2 left.
For Peach. This is a new variety that is very popular with the commercial orchard growers best inland. —5 left.
Eva's pride very early good yellow peach— 3 left.
Mid Pride peach—1 left.
August Pride — 2 left.
Red Baron showy flowers and a great peach— 1 left.
Babcock the juiciest best bearing white peach in the world —4 left.
Kaweah Peach With large highly colored fruit this new beauty stay firm and tasty without getting that overripe mealy texture. Excellent yellow-fleshed freestone that is harvested at the end of July and into August. Ideal for inland areas that get a bit colder — 5 left.
Fuyu Persimon makes a beautiful small tree and the persimmons are gorgeous— 4 left.
Plums sold out
Flavor Grenade Pluot Plant near a plum tree, even a flowering plum will do —1 left.
Pomegranates still have some Sweet and some Parfina special new pomegranate —
Blueberry Section
Southern High Bush Blueberries are the only kind of Blueberries that bear fruit in Southern California. Blueberries do not go totally dormant here so this year all of our blueberries are in containers ready to start growing. The flowers and the berries are gorgeous, even before they get ripe.
You will do best growing Blueberries in large pots because it is easier to keep your soil in the lower Ph ranges that Blueberries need. Many Blueberries need a polinator so be sure you plan on more than one. Some are self pollinating. We try to carry only the blueberries that do not need lots of hours of cold nights.
We have Blueberry soil mix ready for you to plant in. Lots of peat moss to keep that ph down where it should be. We have some inexpensive PH meters too. For fertilizer, use any of the organic fertilizer mixes. I like Cottonseed Meal. Just a small handful every 3 or 4 weeks will do it. Do NOT use our fertilizer because blueberries only like organic fertilizers.
Pink Lemonade Blueberry (Sorry, Not Available)
Sunshine Blue Blueberry
.Comment from a Florida Home owner "Sunshine Blue is what I have been growing for years now.
The beauty of this ...variety is that they require the LEAST amount of chill hours, they are self pollinating and grow no more than about 3ft x ...3ft
AND they are the least fussy when it comes to pH levels."The plant in the picture is a potted Sunshine Blue plant loaded with berries. Grew fine, doesn't get real big but this was the first year. Good one for smaller areas.
Misty Blueberry
Misty Southern High bush — Early. In the west, Misty is quite
vigorous, growing very well both on the coast and in the inland heat. This
excellent fruit does well in areas with chilling as low as 150 hours and all
areas with mild winters and hot summers.
...Sharp Blueberry... — Nearly evergreen in mild winter climates. Bares fruit nearly year-round. Evelyn planted 3 of these in big pots sunk half way into the soil. First year Sharp really impressed me. Nice big plants...I like big. Vigorous plant to 6 ft. they didn't have much fruit in the summer,but we didn't have a summer and my only available place doesn't have much sun. But come fall with just one hot spell and they had some blueberries all the time and were still blooming and making sweet berries at Christmas. I picked 4 christmas morning. Dime-size dark blue fruit. 200 hours.
Southmoon... — Exceptional berries with superb flavor. Florida native with vigorous, upright character. Performs well in California both inland and coastal. Prefers light sandy soils. 500 hours. (pp#9834) I didn't have a Southmoon to plant so don't know. I'll grab one early this year.
More on Fruit Trees
this year: Bella Gold Peacotum is your first choice
A very new special hybrid of peach, apricot and plum (no picture available yet)
Slightly fuzzy skin like an apricot is bright yellow with a touch of red.
Slightly tart skin gives way to a mild sweet flesh.
A delightful eating experience. Be the first to have this.
There are a number of new and delicious fruit trees available now. Some of these are what is called an "inter specific hybrid" - a complex hybrid that takes two different species and blends the best in each together into one new fruit. Examples are the 'Pluot'™, Plum and Apricot and the 'Aprium'™ Apricot and Plum. You are already beginning to see Pluots in the fruit sections but others are still too new.
Edible Ornamentals: are decorative fruit trees that have wonderfully good fruit and are still beautiful and perfectly complimentary to your edible landscape .We'll have a few of those also
Cotton-Candy Aprium.™.The sweetest of all the Apriums. Almost like candy.
® Resembles an apricot but with a
distinctive flavor and texture all its own. Pleasant, lingering after taste.
Early June ripening. 600
chill hours. It is a safer choice inland but Tom say's that it has been very
good in the trial gardens in Irvine. Bigger crops if pollinated by any other
apricot. Pat.No. 7090 (Zaiger) This is a cross between an apricot and a plum.
It has the dominant apricot flavor. Try one Aprium and one other apricot in a
single hole. Makes for easy pollinating .
Ask Tom Spellman on Nov. 13th which 2nd apricot is best. Try something new and
get a taste treat
Blenheim Apricot
Blenheim, Early June harvest time. Tom says it is very reliable
producing fruit down here. Apricots seem to be famous for having a good crop
one year and almost nothing the next. Blenheim also called Royal All-purpose freestone,
sweet, aromatic, flavorful. Long-time No.1 apricot in California. Early bloom..
500 hours. Self-fruitful.
Goldkist
Excellent backyard apricot for warm winter climates.
Freestone, very good quality. Heavy bearing.
Early harvest, 3-4 weeks before Blenheim (Royal). 300 hours. Self-fruitful.(Zaiger)
4 in1 Showy Fruit Tree. This is the ultimate in giving you everything. The 4 in 1 Showy double flowers and good Fruit
Showy Flowers" peach combinations - any 4 of the 5 varieties possible
This has a Red Barron Peach, gorgeous flowers and delicious fruit, A white Saucer peach.
Mid Pride
Best yellow freestone for warm winter climates of So. Calif., Phoenix, Houston, S.F. Bay Area. Also recommended for central Calif. for its exceptional flavor and dessert quality. Mid-season. 250 hours. Self-fruitful. (Zaiger)
Special note on apple pies...Be sure to buy and freeze extra Cranberries this Thanksgiving. I will soon post the very best easy apple/cranberry dessert you ever had. It's easy and the cranberries add just that right bit of tang. Look for the recipe soon.
Sundowner® Apple, Sorry, Not available.
A sister plant to the popular Pink Lady selection, Sundowner® has a sweet, crispy, white flesh and excellent flavor. Considered a late harvest variety ripening from October well into winter in most areas. Sundowner® does well under extreme fruit growing conditions such as southern fruit growing districts and deserts with little or no damage to the fruit. Chill requirement of 200 to 300 hours with high chill adaptability. Self-fruitful.
....Fuji Apple ..
Fuji, a recent introduction from Japan that quickly became California's
favorite apple. Sweet, very crisp and flavorful, excellent keeper. Dull
reddish-orange skin, sometimes russeted. Ripe mid-September. Excellent
pollenizer for other apple varieties. Chilling requirement apparently less
than 600 hours. Self fruitful..
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Honey Crisp Apple ....Evelyn's favorite!
Winter hardy tree from the University of Minnesota. Fruit is crisp and juicy with an aromatic flavor. Striped red over yellow color. Stores well. Ripens from late September to late October. Patent # 7197
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Available and ready to set fruit.
Anna...that good old favorite that never fails
Remarkable fruit for mild-winter climates in So. Cal if., So. Ariz. Heavy crops of sweet, crisp, flavorful apples even in low desert. Fresh/cooked. Keeps 2 months in refrigerator. 200 hours. Self-fruitful . This is the one you see in this picture that the Dreyfus family have espaliered into a very low hedge.
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....Available
Pink Lady™Pink Lady (Cripps Pink) Hot
climate apple from Western Australia. Very crisp, sweet-tart, distinct flavor,
good keeper.
Skin reddish-pink over green when ripe. White flesh resists
browning. Harvest begins mid October in So. CA, about three weeks after Fuji.
Self-fruitful. 4-500 hours. Pat.No. 7880.
Dorsett Golden
Outstanding sweet apple for warm winter areas. Firm, very flavorful, sweet like Golden Delicious.
Productive throughout So. California and Phoenix, Arizona. Good early season sweet apple for Central Calif. 100 hours.
Self fruitful. 4 in1 Apples. Four varieties on one Apple tree. A little bit of everything
Low Chill semi-dwarf Apple Combos on M111
Dorsett Golden. Fuji.Anna.Gordon
We did not order any this year since we didn't sell all of last years. I did order for myself a sour cherry
My two low chill cherries are still on probation. Evelyn had lots of baby cherries almost none were actually pollinated so they all fell off! Boo
I was blaming it on the low chill coast until a friend who lives even closer said she had a great crop of delicious cherries. Not enough bees I guess. You do need two so get them onto the SOFT order if you want some.
self pollinating and needs very little chill. Cherry pies here we come.
The breeders have been working with Cherries and with
Blueberries to find those that are adaptable to our milder climate. I planted
the two suggested Cherries last year in my back area. You really need two for
good pollination. Last year one had a few tiny green cherries but they soon
fell off. I am anxious to see what this year will bring.
Here are the two that are recommended for our area.
Cherry Mini Royal™ .....
Minnie Royal™ is a Medium-sized red cherry; firm with good flavor: ripens 11-14 days ahead of Bing; Tree is very productive with a low chill requirement; mainly used as a pollenizer for Royal Lee. (US Plant Patent # 12942 – Zaiger) Est. chill 400 to 500 hours
Cherry Royal Lee™ Royal Lee is a medium-large red cherry; heart shaped, very firm with excellent flavor; ripens 11-14 days a head of Bing; tree is very productive with a low chill requirement; pollinated by Minnie Royal (US Plant Patent # 12472 – Zaiger) Est. Chill 400 to 500 hours.
Nectarines
Desert Dawn
Nectarine
Desert Dawn is a proven heavy producer of delicious nectarines Great for warm winter
western climates. Solid red skin, juicy yellow semi-freestone, rich flavor. Mid
to late May. 250 hours. Self-fruitful. (Zaiger)
Panamint Nectarine
Panamint Attractive red-skinned yellow freestone. Aromatic, intensely flavored,
nice acid-sugar balance. Dependable, long-time favorite in warm winter Southern
California climates. Late July/early August. 250 hours. Self-fruitful
Snow Queen Nectarine White flesh
Snow Queen, sweet, juicy, early season white freestone. mid June harvest in So.
Cal, 2-3 weeks ahead of Babcock peach. Estimated chilling: 250-300 hours.
Self-fruitful.
SpiceZee Nectaplum™ ....One of the Edible Landscape selections because it looks beautiful and tastes great.
The first Nectaplum™ from Zaiger Hybrids. SpiceZee packs a pile of amazing fruit into an attractive tree for the home gardener. It is slightly acidic and loaded with sugar giving it a spicy sweet flavor. One can detect both Plum and Nectarine traits with ease. Along with great flavor, Spice Zee is a beautiful ornamental tree with a tremendous spring bloom followed by dark red leaf in the spring that matures to a rich green-red in late summer. This variety is self-fruitful and very productive. (Patent Pending)
Peaches..
plant 3 to 4 in one hole or close together on a fence line.On
all fruit, but especially peaches thin the new peaches out as soon as you can.
Young trees down to 4 to7 on each branch. Otherwise you get lots of very small peaches.
Eva's Pride
Peach™ Eva's Pride is a delicious, fine-flavored peach with
very low-chilling requirement ripens 2-3 weeks before Mid-Pride. Medium
to large-sized yellow freestone - also recommended as early season peach for
moderate climates - harvest 3 weeks before Elberta. 1-200 hours. Self-
fruitful. Pat. No. 7751. (Zaiger)
Mid Pride Peach
Mid-Pride. Best yellow freestone for warm winter climates of So. Calif.,
Phoenix, Houston, S.F. Bay Area. Also recommended for central Calif. for its
exceptional flavor and dessert quality. Mid-season. 250 hours. Self-fruitful.
(Zaiger)
August Pride Peach
August Pride Large, all-purpose yellow freestone for mild winter climates.
Sweet, aromatic, rich flavor, one of the very best. Ripens 3-4 weeks after
Mid-Pride. Chilling requirement less than 300 hours. Self-fruitful. (Zaiger)
Babcock Peach
Babcock: Long-time favorite white-fleshed freestone. Sweet and juicy,
aromatic, low in acid. Very high-scoring in taste tests. Ripens early July in
So Calif. Widely adapted: (low chill requirement, yet not early blooming).
250-300 hours. Self-fruitful. red barron white tropic snow
Red Baron Peach. We had people asking especially for this peach last year. It's really a good one.
Red Baron .. Large, juicy, firm, richly flavored yellow freestone fruit. Showy double red blossoms. Mid-July. Low chilling requirement, 250-300 hours. Self-fruitful. Pat. No. 4195.
Kaweah
Tom assures us that this variety will bear nicely at even 3 or 40 hours of chill. This is still a super good peach for Ramona,Alpine and Bonsall, Just enough chill to give you this super delicious peach.
Kaweah With consistent high fruit ield., the Kaweah peach is an excellent yellow-fleshed freestone that is harvested at the end of July and into August. This selection is suitable for freezing and doesn't go all mushy too fast. The Kaweah variety presents good size (2-7/8" to 3") and high color (80% to 85% red over yellow). The Kaweah peach provides a flavor that is a nice balance of acid and sugar. Patent #10177.
Pix Zee Miniature Peach
Large fruit ripens mid to late June in Central Calif., two weeks before Honey Babe. Delicious, firm, yellow freestone, beautiful red over orange skin. Vigorous to 6 ft. Estimated chill requirement: 400 hours or less. Self-fruitful. (Zaiger)
Just the right size for that small garden.
Plums
Santa Rosa Plum
Santa Rosa: Most popular plum in California & Arizona. Juicy,
tangy, flavorful. Reddish-purple skin, amber flesh tinged red. Late June in
Central Calif. 300 hours. Self-fruitful. We have the best recipe for Plum conserve that you ever ate.
Burgundy Plum
..Maroon-colored skin and flesh. Sweet, with little or no tartness and a very pleasing, mild flavor. Prolonged harvest, mid-July to mid-August in Central Calif. Very productive. Narrow, upright habit. 400 hours. Self-fruitful.
What are special interspecific cross
between two different kinds of fruits.
A very difficult task that requires years of work and lot's of
investment of money by the Dave Wilson Tree Co. You can only buy these
varieties through the Dave Wilson Co. They cost more because they are worth
more.
Pluots,
Bella Gold Peacotum....The newest fruit out.
you may walk into a farmers' market and find a fruit that you have never seen before and may not be able to pronounce: The peacotum (it rhymes with "sea bottom"). With the yellow flesh of a nectarine, the texture and juiciness of a plum, and the velvety overcoat of an apricot, The peacotum tastes more like fruit punch than any of its parent breeds and is the first three-fruit hybrid headed for the mass market.
Flavor Grenade Pluot®.
Elongated green fruit with a red blush. Crisp texture and explosive flavor.. Taste-test winner. Hangs on the tree for 4 to 6 weeks. Pollenate with a Japanese plum. Estimated chill requirement: 500 to 600 hours. Patent No. 12097. (Zaiger)
Pomegranates
High in Anti-oxidents...Makes great jelly, Pomegranate sauce for Lamb, Pork or
Ham, Nice looking tree for the landscape
Sweet
Pomegranate
Sweeter fruit than Wonderful, more widely adapted (better quality in
cool-summer climates). Small, glossy-leafed, ornamental tree with showy
orange-red blossoms in late spring. Very suitable to espalier and container
growing. Harvest late summer. Unsplit ripe fruit stores in cool, dry place for
two months or more. Very low chilling requirement, about 100 hours.
Self-fruitful
....Fuyu Persimmon ....
Fuyu - Jiro ("Apple Persimmon") Our Rare fruit tree speaker is an expert on Persimons.
Medium size, flat shape, still hard when ripe, non-astringent. Cool or hot climate. Hardy, attractive tree, practically pest free. Fall harvest. 200 hours. Self-fruitful. Medium size, flat shape, still hard when ripe, non-astringent. Cool or hot climate. Hardy, attractive tree, practically pest free. Fall harvest. 200 hours.
Persimons are both fashion and function....
Fashion: Striking orange-red fall color and beautiful limb structure offering an eye-catching winter silhouette along with Function: Function is the Self-fruitful tree bearing firm, delicious fruit in fall; adaptable to cool or hot climates with low chill hours. Use as an accent or an angular screen tree.
Black MissionFigs..These come already potted. Once figs get started they do really well in our area. 
Violette de Bordeaux fig
..Small to medium size purple-black fruit with a very deep red strawberry pulp, a distinctive sweet rich flavor. Brebas are pyriform with a thick, tapering neck; main crop figs are variable often without neck. Medium eye. Excellent fresh or dried. Breba crop, hardy. Good for container culture or small spaces. Zones 5-10.
How to tame that old, too
big, fruit tree
Go to Davewilson.com/ Home orchard section and on the right
side towards the bottom How to tame that big old fruit tree. I am doing it and
it really does work.
Citrus Section
Varieties That are available for Pre Order
We will have pictures and more information when you come in.
Washington Navel Orange
Winter to spring
Cara Cara Navel )New)
Lane Late Navel...Later ripening
Trovita..good for pot cultrure
Spring to summer juice Oranges
Valencia
Moro Blood Orange
Lemons and Limes
Eureka best lemon
Meyer, not as sweet, pick when ripe, Does not hold well on the tree
Limes
Bearss is the very best
Grapefruits need hot summer weather or they have real thick skins and aren't very good
Best for coastal are
MiloGold, Oroblanco and Cocktail
Tangerines and Mandarine types of Oranges
Satsuma
Pixie and Gold Nugget
Tango a new algerian clemantine
We will have the full list and you can order any other varieties that strike your fancy.
What is a SOFT order in Fruit trees?. SOFT stands for Special Order Fruit Tree. Weidner's orders the most popular of the fruit tree list especially those that fruit under our warmer winter areas. We can't order them all so you can put in your order for that special variety that you want up to and including November 13th. On Monday the 14th the last order has to be in. No exceptions!
Example: You may want to try the two Low chill Sweet Cherries. We didn't order any. You can put your order in to Weidners now or during the Fruit tree weekend and you will get your order along with our bare root trees in January and you will get them at the regular price..just as if we had put in a quantity order. It's a real pain for the Dave Wilson company but they do it to help you.
Go to http://www.davewilson.com and click on the Home orchard. You'll find tons of useful information and you can look at all the varieties available and put together your SOFT order. It's based on availability so the sooner you do it the better. Just phone us at 760 436 2194 or send us a detailed email and we'll take good care of you.
Fall hint
You can help your fruit trees go into a good dormancy more easily if you take away as much water as possible in the fall. Unless we have one of our fall Santa Ana heat waves. If that happens get out there right away and turn on the water.As your fruit trees begin to drop their leaves be very sure to keep them raked up and thrown away. those leaves and the mummified fruit is where the spores for Peach leaf curl and a host of other fungal diseases are hiding. In the spring when the diseases show up it is too late to spray. Your dormant sprays are so important and so hard to do. Timing them in between the rains we hope to get, etc.
Citrus trees? An old neglected citrus will have every pest, disease in the world plus tons of ants.
Try to prune your citrus so that no branches touch the ground or any other tree or fence. Then use Tangle foot around the Trunk. Spray two times during the winter with a good Oil spray and that will help. Benefial insects will also be on your side.
These are all organic and non toxic things that you can do to keep your citrus clean and healthy.