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I have a couple of those "African Pride" atemoyas from Caltropical also. I haven't put them in the ground, and I believe there is some fruit on them, but I'll have to check. Do you have a photo of an uncut one?JF, you gotta give me more details than that! Was it from a seedling tree? From what you said, I believe it was. Then again, let me remind you that all the Atemoyas that we have here in the US are very inconsistents Quality wise. One year cream of the crop and the next, even the usual squirrels will play soccer with them!
Having said that, tasting is believing!
Yes, seedy 30 plus...but who cares look at all that meat! Last two years Cuban007 has tried it and he loves it. I think it has gotten better every year. This is not a seedling I got it three years ago from California tropical fruit trees in Vista. They had it label as African Pride and it sure looks like an AP but it doesnt taste like one. I've had many AP around here includings Cangrejos and this one is superior. The closes one has been Maddock's which was even better.
JF,Didn't cut it open yet, everybody fell asleep and I decided not to try and eat over 2 pounds of Miya by myself. I'll report back when I eat it. Let's hear some details about the Selma! Did it have good acidity and how pink was the flesh? Was it just some rust color by the skin?Here is the Selma half. It has a that great berry taste, very sweet, it has a bit of segmentation like . One of my favorites. It doesn't have the pineapple taste like other cherimoyas, more of a mellow taste. Come on down if you want to try it.
Simon
Hey that looks nice Mark. I had Selma in the cherimoya tasting in 2011 grown by Dario but I wasn't that impressed your on the other hand looks excellent. How would it fare against Lisa?
Didn't cut it open yet, everybody fell asleep and I decided not to try and eat over 2 pounds of Miya by myself. I'll report back when I eat it. Let's hear some details about the Selma! Did it have good acidity and how pink was the flesh? Was it just some rust color by the skin?Here is the Selma half. It has a that great berry taste, very sweet, it has a bit of segmentation like an Atemoya. One of my favorites. It doesn't have the pineapple taste like other cherimoyas, more of a mellow taste. Come on down if you want to try it.
Simon
Yep, looks like I've been fooled again. I'm going to see about getting a refund.Mine finally started flowering about a month ago and is setting fruit. Here is a photo from a couple of days ago.
hello marklee
second is said in the following thread, this is not the real Rumberry.
http://tropicalfruitforum.com/index.php?topic=2879.msg41093#msg41093
I have one like yours, the seeds i found in tradewindfruit. grows very fast, is about four meters and two years old, flourished. are as fruits.
assafron was right, looks like a Syzygium, my I seem to Syzygium cuminii.
tomorrow I'll take a photo of small fruits
Thanks Mark,Here is one of the "Selma" cherimoyas.I appreciate it.
At first, my Yellow Dragon didn't like intense sunlight while it was getting established, it grew much faster under artificial light but once it got established, it was growing really well in full sunlight. Under artificial light and growing in 50% shade, the YD was growing really long and the growth rate was pretty fast but the stems were very thin and round or cylindrical, the stems were not wide and flattened out.
Now that it is established and gets at least 8 hours of direct sunlight, the stems are wide and strong. The Yellow Dragon and Frankie's Red are my two Dragonfruit that does not get sunburned at 95F+ heat in full sun. Here is a picture of the first fruits from my YD. It has Two larger fruit, one smaller fruit and four flower buds on it so far.
Simon
Simon,
My YD is done, had it's last flower over a month ago, I have some nice fruit, and they usually size up good. Where did you get your cuttings from? I got mine from seeds of a plant from England that made it's way to a friend in Vista and they get some large yellows. Trying to figure out if there are some different types of S. Megalanthus. I also just got a plant from Steve at Exotica that he says came from Trinidad, it looks like a Megalanthus, just need to wait for it to fruit in a few years.
I'll get a photo of some of the fruit tomorrow when it gets light. The are not perfectly formed like most other cherimoyas, it is green yes.Cherimoya is the tastiest I've had, it beats all atemoyas, sugar apples, custard apples and the soncoyas. I still haven't tried the biribia. Here is the "Selma" I was working on this morning at work. I have 3 left on my tree and they are ripening perfect. They have a berry overtone to them. I've tried pretty much all other cherimoya varieties, Nata, Fino, and a few others are up there also.
Mark, what does Selma taste like? How would you compare it to the others? I'm really intrigued by it for quite sometime and would love to learn more about it. Any chance you have a picture of what the fruit looks like? It's green on the outside right?
Thanks
that's a good point Tim but we are blessed with the ideal climate to grow both...
Really? Here, the only place that seems to grow a reliably decent cherimoya is the cold, dry climate near Adelaide, while Atemoya is at its best in the high rainfall volcanic soils an hour north of here. I couldn't imagine anywhere being perfect for either. Perhaps a place where both will fruit (few places here can get both to fruit reliably or at all) is imaginable, but to have both at their best? I've only had fino and white cherimoyas, which weren't up to it on local comparison. I've put in a few of everything at the farm, which is dryer and cooler than where I am, in the hope I will have decent fruit from each group in the future.
Most cherimoyas may prefer dry climate, but here McPherson does pretty well in our super rainy 150 inches (3810 mm per year) climate. So that may be a matter of proper cultivar selection. They will also set fine at 2000 ft. where it rarely gets much below 50F (10C).
Mark - did you hand pollinate your Selma tree? does Selma seem like a low production tree if left to do it's thing?Tim, yes I hand pollinated it, the fruits are decent size, however very few flowers. Maybe I'll bump up the phosphorus next season.
I have 5 mangos left most these late varieties dropped in the last few days. Here is a pic of choc anon, Thomson and keitt......choc anon has the best flavor of all them this late in the season.Nice assortment of fruit. I Just picked a "Heidi" and have a "Pickering" and "Choc-a-non", not even ready. My NDM is the only one flowering, don't know why it even is. The photos are from this morning, still with last nights rain showing.
