Not necessarily your favourite fruit to eat, but what is/are your favourite fruit tree(s) to grow based on survival rate, fruit yield, ease of maintenance, ease of harvest, grass-killing prowess, and any other combination of factors? What is/are your least favourite? If you have photos or diagrams to illustrate your point, even better!
(If you provide your region and/or Köppen-Geiger or Trewartha climate zone, it will help others to know what to plant or what to avoid!)
Apples. Definitely apples. They’re easy and grow anywhere - or, at least we can say that the exists a varietal that grows where you live. Completely hands-off to grow, they grow and fruit relatively quickly, high yield, energy dense fruit that’s simple to eat, lots of sugars. Most importantly, the fruit keeps really well, for fruit. If you can keep it even halfway cool, it’ll last months. The skin is edible; heck the whole fruit is edible, although most people don’t usually eat the core. It’s the perfect fruit. It’s not necessarily my favorite fruit, but if you’re taking a staple food fruit, for survival, give me apple seeds, no question.
Blackberries come in second for sheer volume and rapid growth, but they don’t survive harsh winters very well, so without knowing the conditions or in uncertain environments, I’d rather have apple seeds in my pocket.
I enjoyed reading your apple evangelism! I don’t have the teeth for such a crunchy fruit as apples (way too much chewing for the calories), but if you do, might as well make the most of it! They definitely have their advantages, especially for storage of the harvest, but aren’t apple trees grown from seed notorious for taking many years to produce fruit of unreliable quality?
Just for the sake of argument, let’s say that someone lives in Chittagong, Bangladesh. The poor section. Near the DDT factory. Which apple cultivar should they plant?