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CherimoyaDude

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Fruit trees with the shortest lifespan?
« on: July 25, 2019, 08:03:41 PM »
Was curious which ones don't last as long.

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Re: Fruit trees with the shortest lifespan?
« Reply #1 on: July 25, 2019, 08:26:56 PM »
Tamarillos, Papayas & Babacos, Passionfruit (though they are a vine), Banana, Inga sp (Ice cream bean)? Should be noted that a short lifespan here is between 3 & 30 years, and maybe the tree can still survive, but is in poor form.

A large portion of fruiting things that aren't trees have relatively short lifespans - i.e. watermelon, strawberries etc.

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Re: Fruit trees with the shortest lifespan?
« Reply #2 on: July 25, 2019, 09:32:20 PM »
Grafted comercial walnuts 25-40 years and comercial grafted trees like peaches,apricots,pears,cherryes.
Inga short lifespan makes sence since its a tree in the Mimosoidae clade, wich most are short lived but there are exceptions like one Albizia Samanea tree that its 400 years old.Its possible that somme of the giant Inga species might live long.
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Re: Fruit trees with the shortest lifespan?
« Reply #3 on: July 25, 2019, 09:41:16 PM »
A tree can live forever even if it has a short lifespan.Here when a tree its old we ,,make it young again,, by cutting 95 percent of the branches .That way it becomes juvenile again .Grafting is the same.

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Re: Fruit trees with the shortest lifespan?
« Reply #4 on: July 25, 2019, 09:42:23 PM »
Peaches

Citrus in areas with HLB

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Re: Fruit trees with the shortest lifespan?
« Reply #5 on: July 26, 2019, 02:41:58 PM »
On the topic of Inga being short lived, there is an absolutely massive one behind a grower's house in San Diego that towers over his house and garage. The trunk is probably 10-12" diameter. I would imagine it's 20-30 years old at least. It is hard to imagine it dying, since it's so productive and large.

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Re: Fruit trees with the shortest lifespan?
« Reply #6 on: July 29, 2019, 08:44:15 AM »
Low chill plums supposedly have a less than 10 year life span

 

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