Fruit Tree Recommendations for South East Queensland

The following recommendations are based on my experience growing fruit and nut trees in South East Queensland. A lot of these fruit have a poor shelf life so you are unlikely to find them in the shops, but taste better and are easier to grow than more familiar commercial crops. In considering pest resistance, keep in mind that I do not have possums, on account of our power lines being underground, but I do have rats, bats, fruit flies and a variety of grubs. I do not use any insecticides other than soapy water on the fig tree. I use a lot of mulch and a bit of fertiliser.

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jaboticaba
grumichama
surinam cherry
black sapote
dragonfruit
bowen mango 
fig black genoa
sugar banana
macadamia
passionfruit
mulberry
guava

RU sick of catching fish for a living? Looking at your retirement of selling "fruit" to the masses?

Good luck with that. 

I've made a half hearted attempt to grow both lychee and longan from seed. The lychee is still alive.

Fruit fly don't touch the dragonfruit.

I expect they chew through them. Ever seen the teeth on a rat?

This just reminded me, I stumbled on a stash of macadamia shells the other day, hidden away where the rats drag them off to eat.