Hi,

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