Thanks everybody!
Josh
You’ve done a great job fruiting my varieties. Thanks for sharing
Thanks Frank. So many great opportunities on the Tropical Fruit Forum. I have learned and killed a lot. Do you have any info on the RH-1 you would like to share? History, parents, breeder... I see I tried to graft a RH-20 cherimoya as well but that didn't make it.
Bravo!
How long from graft to fruit?
Please let us know about the flavor and other differences. Wondering which varieties taste best in FL.
The African Pride was just grafted February 17th, 2018. I grabbed the budwood from TREC.
The Giant Yucatan squamosa from JF was grafted January 26, 2018.
The other stuff was spring 2017 and 2016 from JF.
Calostro tastes great and seems to grow and fruit really well here but the only negative is that is gets some hard parts around the seeds.
It is hard to judge since everything is so multigrafted. The only bad fruit I had was a Calostro with somewhat extreme metaxenia that had a lot of hard, dark growth around the seeds. It could have had any sort of Annona pollen that made it go mutant. I started separating my species pollen now but I still haven't fruited an Ilama, reticulata or rollinia here yet. It seems any home grown Atemoya/squamosa is pretty damn good. I have tasted some underwhelming reticulata before.
Beautiful fruit! Please let us know how they taste for you. Which one is your favorite? I’m especially interested in how the apinks Mammoth tastes since our Australian friends hold it in high esteem.
Simon
The Pinks Mammoth is good. It seems to be productive here but it is hard to tell since everything is multigrafted and I hand pollinate. I'll try to post it's own thread when I did in They are all pretty good honestly. I haven't tried the Arka Sahan or the African Pride yet.
Why your AP looks like a cherimoya and your PM looks like AP?
I'm guessing metaxenia. There is so much mixed up different pollen that I hand pollinate with. First I go through and collect from the males, mix it up and pollinate the females. I also save the pollen. The last picture is all Pinks Mammoth and you can see the difference in shapes. Annonas tend to vary a lot in my experience.
