Just starting my cherimoya adventure. Grew some seeds last year, entering my first winter with them here in Napa, CA, zone 9b, and planning to graft them in the Spring.
For some reason, I never believed these would be doable in my climate and am now extremely hopeful for success. I may even be delusional. I have enough seedlings to leave some in unprotected areas and evaluate hardiness in my yard (at least under this years conditions). The yard is north sloping, frost tends to collect in a park behind my house. There’s pretty heavy oak coverage for some protection. I can (and probably will) pull some into the crawl space this year, or at least against the house, maybe I’ll experiment a bit.
Super excited to grow cherimoya here!
I’m brand new on this forum. I’m disregarding the warning that this is an old thread. But I don’t think I have enough to say to start a new thread so I’m just seeing if Bay Area folks want to chat cherimoyas here. If that’s frowned upon, my apologies.