Your favorite Annona squamosa variety? (sugar apple)

[FlyingFoxFruits]

Giant mexican has won me over!!!

What is yours?

[FloridaGreenMan]

Big Red......from Coral Springs FL

[gtw7983]

Hey Asaffron, do you have that giant Mexican tree for sale?
Floridagreenman, do you have that big red tree for sale?
I am in CA; and trying to collect some annona trees. Anybody can sell and ship sugar apples trees like those two above please let me know. I'd appreciate that.
Merry Christmas!

Mike

[siafu]

Hi,

I have two varieties, a green one from Brazilian seeds and a purple/mauve one from SE Asia seeds.

I prefer the green one. They are sweeter and when at top ripeness,
they are simply delicious with elusive exotic flavors that remind me
of vanilla and/or cinnammon.

The mauve ones are also good, but tend to be more watery.
The flesh near the skin often gets a pink tinge which makes
the fruit very attractive.

The only downside is that they are quite seedy.

[Felipe]

The best squamosa I have ever tasted was a big green in Koh Samui, Thailand. One of the best fruits I've eaten in my life. No idea about the cultivar. My guess is it was just a seedling.

Adao, yours looks delicious!!

[FloridaGreenMan]

Hi,

I have two varieties, a green one from Brazilian seeds and a purple/mauve one from SE Asia seeds.

I prefer the green one. They are sweeter and when at top ripeness,
they are simply delicious with elusive exotic flavors that remind me
of vanilla and/or cinnammon.

The mauve ones are also good, but tend to be more watery.
The flesh near the skin often gets a pink tinge which makes
the fruit very attractive.

The only downside is that they are quite seedy.

Not all Red Sugars are the same.  I sell both types to dozens of customer and 90 percent prefer the Big Red over the green ones after they taste it. . My Big Red is not watery at all.  Sounds like you have inferior red ones in your area. 

 

[ofdsurfer]

I vote for Noel's big red.  I hope my big red seedlings produce fruit that good.  It's by far the best sugar apple that I've ever had.

[kh0110]

Although I have never tasted neither one, Noel's Big Red and Adam's Giant Mexican are at the top of my list.

[johnb51]

Would I be better off with 2 atemoya trees, or 1 atemoya and 1 Big Red sugar apple?   Do you have to hand-pollinate the Big Red?

[murahilin]

Would I be better off with 2 atemoya trees, or 1 atemoya and 1 Big Red sugar apple?   Do you have to hand-pollinate the Big Red?

It depends on what you like. I would prefer two good quality atemoyas.

You don't have to hand pollinate Big Red but I think if you do you would get even larger yields. It already seems to bear a lot without hand pollination.

[siafu]

Would I be better off with 2 atemoya trees, or 1 atemoya and 1 Big Red sugar apple?   Do you have to hand-pollinate the Big Red?

I would not say an atemoya will replace a sugar apple in terms of flavor. There's enough difference between the two
to justify growing both.

 

[johnb51]

Then 2 atemoyas and 1 sugar apple sounds about right!

[siafu]

Then 2 atemoyas and 1 sugar apple sounds about right!

I concur!

[FlyingFoxFruits]

I forgot about the rubber sugar apple!  It's nice, with a uniquely gefner like texture.

It would be interesting to cross something like big red, with the rubber sugar apple.

I have both, so I will try this season.

[bangkok]

If we can grow the Pet Pak Chong Annona like here in Thailand then can we also grow the red Annona Squamosa or do they need another climate ?

[kh0110]

I forgot about the rubber sugar apple!  It's nice, with a uniquely gefner like texture.

It would be interesting to cross something like big red, with the rubber sugar apple.

I have both, so I will try this season.

Adam, this cross is at the very top of my list as I already posted in one of your posts on Annonas. But I only have a Kampong Mauve and it's not looking good right now. If it survives this winter, I might be able to try a KM-Chewy SA cross. It would be interesting to compare the results of a BR-Rubber SA and a KM-Rubber SA. In a few years from now...