"Thai Lessard" A. squamosa.

[NewGen]

2 years ago I got a smallish one from Top Tropicals, have kept it in a pot ever since, right now it's in a 5--gallon rootpruner. I've gotten 1 fruit/year  , I removed all flowers except for one. I also never had to hand pollinate. Love the taste, and would like to plant out some of the seeds. How long do you think it'll take for it to fruit?
Thanks,
Trung

[Bananaizme]

    Hi Trung

I would guess that the amount of time for your seedling thai lessard sugar apple trees to fruit would be atleast a couple of years . You also have to factor in the type of care that you're giving them along with the environmental conditions that they are growing in . There's no way to know for sure how long they will take to fruit. I have read different posts where on average it takes 2-3 years. Sugar apples do very good in pots . I have a few seedling sugar apple trees myself in pots and because of our hot summer sun I grew them under shade cloth , they did great under it .

William

[JF]

2 years ago I got a smallish one from Top Tropicals, have kept it in a pot ever since, right now it's in a 5--gallon rootpruner. I've gotten 1 fruit/year  , I removed all flowers except for one. I also never had to hand pollinate. Love the taste, and would like to plant out some of the seeds. How long do you think it'll take for it to fruit?
Thanks,
Trung

In two years they'll try to fruit, a. squasoma are very slow growers compare to other anonas here in Socal. I would wait 3-4 years to let them fruit in a pot.

[NewGen]

Thanks, 3-4 years is acceptable to me.

[Mike T]

Pure A.squamosa in a tropical climate can set fruit within 2 years from being a seed as I see with my big eyes variety.Three or four years might be more usual. The vagaries of growing in a pot or outside a tropical environment can come into play. Lessard looks to me to be half way between sugar apple and atemoya and growing seedlings to fruiting is a different and perhaps more challenging prospect if it is a hybrid.

[Bob407]

Pure A.squamosa in a tropical climate can set fruit within 2 years from being a seed as I see with my big eyes variety.Three or four years might be more usual. The vagaries of growing in a pot or outside a tropical environment can come into play. Lessard looks to me to be half way between sugar apple and atemoya and growing seedlings to fruiting is a different and perhaps more challenging prospect if it is a hybrid.

Two years from seed for this Big eye Annona.

[Guanabanus]

I believe Lessard Thai is simply Sugar-Apple.