The Tropical Fruit Forum

I hardly use any fertilizer these days except for aluminum free acid fertilizer for my blueberries, American paw paws and jaboticaba.
Basically everything else just gets chicken and sheep manure, compost and wood chip mulch.
Oh and I constantly have to chop and drop the inga beans which is a nitrogen fixer and grows like a weed.

Yes, you will need more than one flower to successfully pollinate with cherimoya.
But don't worry usually the first flowering is small but ramps up rapidly in successive seasons.

Pollen keeps in the fridge for a while but when you have a few larger trees you basically have unlimited flowers at all times during pollinating time.
Last season was crazy for the number of flowers(NZ so opposite seasons).
In fact just picked a ripe fruit today way earlier than normal as I saw it had split as I was walking past. Normally that type is ripe around late July to early August in NZ.

We used to have bad citrus white fly issues in Auckland until a small beetle got introduced and funnily enough that little beetle seems to pollinate cherimoyas.
They don't do it in early spring but once they have eaten all the white fly and their population has exploded they move on to pollen. I have two cherimoyas next to lime trees and they get pollinated without hand pollination now but a tree on the other side of the section does not.

The plant looks like NZ Karaka Corynocarpus laevigatus but can't be because the fruit is red not orange. There are other species of Corynocarpus in Australia maybe Corynocarpus cribbianus
https://florafnq.wordpress.com/2010/11/18/corynocarpus-cribbianus-corynocarpaceae/

https://www.thaicookbook.tv/thai-recipes/salads/green-mango-salad-with-fresh-shrimp/index.php
You don't have to add much chilli and it would still be tasty.
I don't know how Ugly Betty compares to Nam Dok Mai, but Thai green mango salad taste very nice.

Looking at the picture of my tree in my previous post, would it make sense for me to just chop off everything a node or two above the bottom two branches, and to do so at this time of year?

You could do that, you can do virtually anything to a Cherimoya pruning wise.
In one season I get between 60-120 cm growth on new branches and I prune it to 15-30 cm and thin weak, crowded and inwards facing branches.
Takes me less than 10 minutes per tree once per year to maintain a two meter tree after pruning(you will spend way more time hand pollinating them).
The summer growth height is not a concern for me because it doesn't contain fruit higher up.

Yes, it looks like Uvaia. They can have a very varied appearance and leaf size, even on the same plant, depending on growing conditions and age.

Great thank you, I was hoping it was but it didn't look like all the pics I saw when searching.
Significantly slower growing than my Jabuticaba which was the previous slowest growing plant in my garden.