Fruit Plants

About Fruit Plants

Climate is the first thing to check in this fruit plants collection, which splits broadly in two: tropical and subtropical fruit that grows well across most of India — Guava, Jamun, Coconut, Jackfruit and Indian Jujube (Ber) among them — and temperate fruit like Apple, Persimmon, Sweet Cherry and Kiwi that are tagged as needing a cold-climate or chill-hours winter to fruit properly, making them better suited to hill and northern regions than a Mumbai or Chennai balcony. Citrus varieties such as Grapefruit sit in between and are generally easier to grow across climates.

Most plants here are grafted rather than grown from seed, which is why varieties like Guava, Jamun and Kiwi are marked grafted — a grafted fruit plant typically starts fruiting sooner than a seedling of the same species and stays truer to the parent variety's fruit quality. A few plants, including Guava and Lovi Lovi (Batoko Plum), are tagged as suited to a balcony or terrace pot rather than open ground, while others like Kiwi and Pistachio are tagged as needing a separate pollinator plant to fruit — check the product tags for pollinator requirements before buying just one.