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Answer: While this sounds like a Shemitta (whose halachot continue regarding fruit) question, it applies every year. It also applies to orchards sold through heter mechira.
We start with the main sources on the change of wording of theberacha. The gemara (Berachot 44a) cites both versions of the berachaand first says that in chutz la’aretz one says "peiroteha" (on its [the Land’s] fruit) and in Israel, "hapeirot" (the fruit – more generic). Thegemara asks that it does not make sense that those who don’t eat Eretz Yisrael’s fruit are the ones who mention the connection of the fruit to the Land ("for the Land and its fruit"). The gemara concludes that it is the opposite – specifically in Eretz Yisrael one says peiroteha. Fruit that grew in the Land is worthy of more prominent mention (see Rabbeinu Yona, 32a of Rif’s pages to Berachot).
The Beit Yosef (Orach Chayim 208) cites a machloket between Rabbeinu Yona and the Rashba whether one says hapeirot or peirotehaon fruit grown in Israel but eaten in chutz la’aretz. The Rashba (accepted by the Shulchan Aruch, OC 208:10) infers from the abovegemara that that which one does not say peiroteha in chutz la’aretz is only when one is eating the fruit of chutz la’aretz. There is a minority opinion (Admat Kodesh I:3, rejected by Mishna Berura 208:52) that the deciding factor is whether the fruit is obligated in terumot and ma’asrot, which can sometimes apply to fruit grown in chutz la’aretz or in a non-Jew’s field (see Shulchan Aruch, Yoreh Deah 331:4, 12). However, the more accepted explanation is that peiroteha is only for the fruit grown inEretz Yisrael. It is indeed a good question whether to view a non-Jew’s field in Eretz Yisrael as part of the Land in this regard.
There is a major machloket, raised most prominently in Gittin (47a), whether a non-Jew’s acquisition of land in Eretz Yisrael uproots the laws that apply to Eretz Yisrael. The halachic conclusion is not fully clear (see Rambam, Terumot 1:10). There are macholokot in different applications, including the one between Rav Yosef Karo (Avkat Rochel 24) and the Mabit (I:11) whether the fruit that grows under a non-Jew’s ownership has Shemitta status. The former’s opinion, that Shemittastatus is removed, is the more accepted one (see Shabbat Ha’aretz (R. Kook), Mavo 15). One could then claim that such fruit is uprooted fromEretz Yisrael status regarding our question as well.
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Therefore, even though in cases of doubt it is better to say hapeirot(Mishna Berura 208:54), the common practice to say peiroteha on fruit even from non-Jewish fields is logical.
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