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Rauls Giant Cherimoya X. RGC
« on: October 08, 2020, 10:27:38 AM »
A warm weather Cherimoya x? Anybody fruited this yet?  I like to plant seeds and young seedlings out, walk away and see how they do. Most do just fine.  Rauls fruit (RGC) really, really got me excited, so I planted some in the tall grass and forgot about them. No waterIng no extra compost or manure inputs.  I was looking at an old stake today and was very surprised when I found an RGC growing sideways below the cover and ready to pop out above the grass.  Surely someone has much larger flowering trees of this.







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Re: Rauls Giant Cherimoya X. RGC
« Reply #1 on: October 08, 2020, 11:33:08 AM »
 Have 3 or 4 of them about 4ft tall.  They will need another year or 2 to fruit.

I thought cherimoyas dont fruit in FL though. 

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Re: Rauls Giant Cherimoya X. RGC
« Reply #2 on: October 08, 2020, 11:43:48 AM »
Have 3 or 4 of them about 4ft tall.  They will need another year or 2 to fruit.

I thought cherimoyas dont fruit in FL though.
It was my understanding from Raul that this is not a pure cherimoya and fruits in warm weather With night time temps in the 80s f.
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Re: Rauls Giant Cherimoya X. RGC
« Reply #3 on: October 08, 2020, 01:06:57 PM »
Have 3 or 4 of them about 4ft tall.  They will need another year or 2 to fruit.

I thought cherimoyas dont fruit in FL though.

They fruit sometimes. I've seen a large cherimoya tree with a few fruit before.

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Re: Rauls Giant Cherimoya X. RGC
« Reply #4 on: October 08, 2020, 02:19:31 PM »
Anybody has any experience regarding fruiting time for cherimoya from seeds ? .I have two plants/ potted which are around tree years old and two meters high, very well branched also.

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Re: Rauls Giant Cherimoya X. RGC
« Reply #5 on: October 08, 2020, 02:42:55 PM »
Have 3 or 4 of them about 4ft tall.  They will need another year or 2 to fruit.

I thought cherimoyas dont fruit in FL though.
It was my understanding from Raul that this is not a pure cherimoya and fruits in warm weather With night time temps in the 80s f.

Well I hope it fruits for you.  Probably going to be a while.  I think mine will set fruit in 2022 and be ready to eat new years 2023. 
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Re: Rauls Giant Cherimoya X. RGC
« Reply #6 on: October 08, 2020, 03:06:32 PM »
I have two of the Giant cherimoya and I dug up the one that was in the ground.
It was pushing 6' and it seemed miserable in Florida. They have some new growth in the
Winter but in the humid Summers they are definitely not happy. I was figuring they
would never flower here? Last Spring I trimmed it to try to induce flowering and nothing.
Both of mine are in 15 gallon pots and starting to put out new leaves when all the other
annonas are shutting down.