I want to plant 2 fruit trees but am unsure what would stay small enough.. i would prefer not to have anything over 10 ft but def not over 15 ft tall... this area get full sun from sunrise to sunset

I already have a Florida Prince Peach, Brown Turkey Fig, Meyer Lemon, and have found room for 1 or 2 dwarf mulberries (maybe you can tell me how large these get as well i was told 10ft tall at most but not sure about spread)..

Thanks for any ideas, thoughts, and suggestions : )

Oh and I'm Zone 9~ Tampa FL

Lou

Since you only want to plant 2 fruit trees, I would suggest that you plant some fruit that you and your family likes it. Because trees are expensive and take a long time to grow they are an investment of money and time. Try to find fruit that you can taste either in nurseries or fruit farms, every palate is different so what someone likes might not be your taste. I have a mini, mini orchard and you can keep any tree small with pruning. I have some in the ground and others in pots.
Also a variety is important, when you decide on the fruit that you want ask for varieties in the forum and you will get important feedback.
Good luck with your choices.

Silvia

Bamboo: do you need 2 plum trees to pollinate? My daughter loves plums so that would be good =: )

Silvia: I was wondering about apples, plums, cherry, jabiticoba, sugar apple and tea shrub

As Lou suggested, CORG is a very tasty cherry-like fruit. Here is a picture of mine and note, I grow it more as a shrub then tree (about 4 yrs old):

Another tasty cherry-like fruit would be grumichma. They are very pretty plants I like the taste a little better than CORG:

Jaboticaba would be marginal for you, depending on exactly where in Tampa you live. I live in Zephyrhills and definietly have to protect mine, but they are very tasty and so its worth it for me:

As far as the peach goes, I do think you may be up for a battle keeping it under 10'. I know people say with summer and winter pruning it can be done, but mine seems to be quite vigorours, here's my 3yr Tropic Snow:

Others to consider would be Asian Persimmon such as Fuyu or Saijo, gulf plums (as suggested and yes you would need two, but the gulf plums are very very good), loquat, feijoa, avocado (cold hardy types like joey, brazos belle, mexicola), pomegranate....I find apples particuarily slow growing (I have anna and golden dorsett), so I have recently grafted two additional rootstocks to each cv trying the thread graft, we'll see what happens.

Hope that helps,

Marcus

Lou - I've been considering a Cherry of the Rio Grande. Do you think it would do well and produce fruit in a pot? I'm out of room in the yard.

Lou

Lou or others may have different results, but I do not find the CORG particuarily heavy bearing. There is also a large CORG in Tampa, about 25' (and is about 25 years old), and it bears a lot less than I would expect from a tree its size and age.

Both the grumichama and jaboticaba fruit much heavier.