I've posted this in the Fruit and Orchard forum. I am hoping that I can get some responses from this forum also.

I'd like to mail order some fruit trees for my brother who lives in Portland, OR area. I am considering the following trees from Bay Laural Nursery:

Plum: 4-N-1 LOW CHILL PLUM COMBO 3 of these 5 varieties depending on availability: Beauty, Burgundy, Golden Nectar, Methley, Santa Rosa.

Asian Pear: 4-N-1 Asian Pear with Chojuro, Hosui, Shinseiki and 20th Century. 3 of these varieties.

Persimmon: FUYU ('JIRO')

I am considering multi-budded trees mainly because of limited garden space, and the need for cross pollination. But I am wondering what the disadvantages would be for planting multi-budded, instead of 2 or 3 different trees.

I am also wondering if Fuyu will ripe in time for the Portland area.

Please let me know what you think about these selections. Thanks.

Francis

FWIW, there are sometimes issues with multi-grafted fruits trees and one or more of the grafts failing. It is a relatively common problem and one you might want to be aware of.