affruiter

Affruiter is an old horticultural term, still used in some regional French (notably the Berry region), meaning to plant or graft a plot of land with fruit trees, or for a well-pruned tree to start bearing fruit. It's a technical, regional word rather than everyday vocabulary.

• Le vieux jardinier affruite son verger depuis quarante ans. — The old gardener has been planting fruit trees in his orchard for forty years.
• Un pommier bien taillé affruite davantage chaque année. — A well-pruned apple tree bears more fruit each year.
• Ce traité de 1807 explique comment affruiter le poirier. — This 1807 treatise explains how to make the pear tree bear fruit.

Learners assume affruiter simply means "to bear fruit" for any tree — it's specifically a horticultural/regional term about planting or cultivating fruit trees so they produce, not a general synonym for a plant fruiting.