10 Fruit Trees You Can Actually Grow Indoors

The ficus carica “Petite Negra” fig tree will start producing fruit relatively quickly (usually when it’s still less than a foot tall).

Fig Tree

Dwarf versions of most citrus plants will grow well indoors—the challenge isn’t getting them to grow, but rather to produce fruit.

Citrus 

Dwarf Moorpark apricots are easy to grow indoors. Like a lot of “pit” or “stone” fruit trees, you can grow one from the pit, but

Apricots

Be careful when selecting a banana tree variety, as many will grow well indoors, but not all of them produce fruit you can eat. If a sweet snack is your endgame

Bananas

Dwarf Mulberry trees can be “trained” to be more like bushes or hedges, making them a good choice for indoor growing.

Mulberries

Yes, coffee is a fruit—the beans we roast and grind to make our life-saving Go Go Juice is the stone of the coffee cherry, actually.

Coffee

Kumquats are citrus plants, but they’re generally easier to grow than lemons or oranges, and several varieties are more or less designed for container living.

Kumquat

These are sometimes called Cape Gooseberries, and they aren’t at all like the standard cherries you think of when you hear

Ground cherries

If you want an indoor fruit tree that doubles as a party trick, grow synsepalum dulcificum, aka Miracle Berries.

Miracle berry

Avocados will sprout from their pits if you follow the famous “toothpick in a glass” technique, but there’s a caveat

Avocados

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