What fruit trees have you had success with in south Louisiana?

Meyer lemons, navel oranges. satsumas, blueberries have all done well for me, but depending on your location this could not work for you...

My figs and kumquats make every year, and I neglect them.

My poor meyers lemon gave me 5-5gallon buckets full last year before the freeze killed it. I covered it and put a heat lamp. It just didn't make it.

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Apples (probably wont do good in South LA)

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What kind of apples? I have researched some with relatively low chill hours but just curious what you have.

Im curious what my blueberries will do this year. One is still very small so not expecting much from it. I'd be happy with it just growing in size. The other is decent size but both are blooming right now because of the mild weather in the early winter.

Sw Ms
8 mature blueberry bushes and planted another 4 last week
Building a muscadine trellis in the next few weeks for my wife. I’m looking forward to that.
Planting a dozen or so blackberry bushes in the middle of February.
2 peach trees that produce a few small peaches.

Nectarines and Granny smith apples.

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What kind of apples? I have researched some with relatively low chill hours but just curious what you have.

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Local nursery (around Lafayette) sells the Anna and Ein Shemer varieties and swears they will do well here if you plant them together.

I planted one of each last spring and within a couple of months had small, edible apples on each tree. Then we had a few months of drought and then rain almost every day from July to January, and both of them died.

Last year when I saw those apples I was very hopeful, even though my gardening arborist neighbor told me apple trees have never worked here no matter how hard people try.

Remember that the winter of 17/18 had a lot of freezing temps, so I assume that helped last spring. I wouldn’t expect this years trees to do well.

ETA: LSU agcenter lists the Anna, Dorset Gold and Molly Delicious varieties as good for South La.

anna apples do best

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What kind of apples? I have researched some with relatively low chill hours but just curious what you have.

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I really do not know, bought the place last year and all the trees are mature, and this place was loaded with fruit and nut trees, has been a lot of fun. Apples did okay last year and as stated above we did have a lot of cold weather to provide the "chilling hours" will be interesting to see how they do this year, hopefully we get and stay cold the next few weeks as the forecast is predicting????

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If you want some starter vines let me know, I have both the traditonal red muscadine as well as the "gold" or "white" or "bronze" ones also known Scuppernong Not too far from Liberty, just on the other side of McComb

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Man that would be great. I’m 14 miles north of Liberty and about the same west of McComb.

Sounds great, I have never cut and made starter vines, but I have heard the way to do it is to take a plastic water bottle, cut the bottom out, pass the vine through and fill it with peat moss and let it go for a month or 2 and the vine will sprout a root system into the peat moss then cut the vine at the bottom of the bottle, cut away the plastic and plant???? Do you have any knowledge or experience in it?