I have one in Bermuda thanks to Coconut. No flowers just yet but this post looks promising. If there is a strain b, for sure I would host it.
Mike T send Rock Selection to a bunch of people last year or year before or so I am told and it was a flop (they did not germinate well); I was told by many people who received it. Than he resend some out again that was better I guess cause Raul in Mexico send me some with a rare strain late season bearing variety of Mexican Mangosteen last year; Raul is the man. For shit and giggles I threw in a pot with the MikeT (Rock seeds I presumed) and I called it strain A for the purpose of this thread. You can buy Aaa and BBB grade fruits all over Taiwan, Southern China, Vietnam when they are in season and call whatever strains you like for the purposes of your own breeding management.
The Taitung Annona Mafias's whom have around 3,000 hectares in Big Eyes and Buddha Belly on Formosa send me their best 1,000 seeds about three years ago from selections from Grade AAA fruits sold exclusively to the Japanese and Northern China high end market which for the purpose of this Thread Strain B for the 1,000 seeds; these Strain B for the purposes of this Thread however came from their private 1,000 hectares reserve in Hainan, China.
These seeds from The Taiwanese Annona Mafias Syndicate I field trial in west Palm Beach, Loxahatchee, Choctawhatchee, The Fruity Acres Areas on 150 acres not far from a Nudists colony!😝 Also field trial at my aquaponic farm in Clewiston and in Parkland as Well as the Taitung Billionares homes in Malapan, Jupiter Island, Fisher Island and Singer Island. And of course at thirty friends' homes in Boca Raton. I hadn't had a chance to run up to their castles to check on trees planted three years ago.
Many of you have not heard from me cause I have been so bog down with volunteering for a national political candidate and finish building my Six Intercoastal Mansions in Boca Raton & Las Olas and putting them on the Market as fast as I can before the real estate market here burst. Wife Just landed in Hong Kong Now and she is spending a month snapping up the real estate bubble burst in Hong Kong. So I have been derelict in my fancy Sith breeding hobbies and it was by chance that I stop over Frank's place and saw that little twig with nine ping pong fruits developing nicely, normally I would strip them off on a three feet tree, but hey this is Frank's castle he can do whatever he dam please with my plants as long as he gives me the stastical abstracts.
Here is what I have noticed so far, South Florida weather here give the Big Eyes SA apple a black eye hard time. The seeds are 95% viable even after 3 years sitting in my gun safe with highly toxic sniper rounds, depleted uranium. 1,000 seeds end with 753 sickly looking seedlings with various year class, I had my nephew germinated three tranches a year for last three years but he will be starting Yale this fall so I have to promote some one to start culling the trial. If you have received seeds from me or seedlings, than it would be Strain B 100 seedlings I gave out for field testing other than my own and some seeds went to Senegal and other part of Africa.
The pot of Strain A I will send some to Thera and a few serious breeders in Houston and New Orlean as well to Choctaw Elders of my Tribe in the Panhandle. We hopefully can see a selection for the southeast. My favorite Ice cream from Formosa is Big Eye SA, its so nice and creamy on the Taitung Yacht almost rival Macupuno Ice Cream.
I have trouble growing it on rich black high organic coquina soil. But seem to thrives in sandy nutrient poor soil were Frank is closer to the beach. So high and dry it seem to like. Heavily attack by white scales and its the most ugliest unhealthy looking Sugar Apple in my breeding collections.
Nice to see five seedlings are heavy bearings self-fertile for their age and twig diameter. Compare Big Eyes to Boca Giant Chewy Sugar Apple Lines, I would rate Big Eyes as the Bonsai type were any of my bred SA are super giant forty feet plus if you let em go wild. Now don't get excited about the size of the tree, it's how many grade AAA fruit can it produces per hectare for the High End Manchurian/Joseon Market and as always the Japanese Market. So we will keep an eye on the start of the culling trials. I hope to kill perhaps all 753 tree in 18 months with ten trees left as the based to developed the Black Eye SA; A decade from now we should see some improvements and forget the last three years even occur.😝
Thank JF I will fly out to Visit My Wife Cousin in Walnut California to help those kids with planting advices. Last time in LA was in 1986 And the SMOG kill me😷. Those are very nice looking Atemoya/Atis, in a Zombie Apocalypse I know now all the best spot in LA to pick fruits👍🏻🙏🏾! Shit Now Looking at my Larue OBR stand is another envelope of seeds; I wonder who did I forget to send?💩
