Rob,
That's wonderful your getting the good CA Moyas. I'm sure your in the know for where to get them shipped from . That does not mean good cherimoya is easily available in CA. I have seen CA Cherimoya for sale outside of a farmers market once, from South Coast Organics , you may have had some shipped from them.
It would still never be a named variety.
I'm pretty sure you can get Arctic Star from Frog Hollow or Kashiwase , maybe even Twin Girls farm. They have tasting tables of 8-10 varieties that are cirrently being harvested to sample at the markets .
It's like if Zills, Squam and Don mango sold their mango's at the same farmers market side by side but a different farmers market location 6 days a week.
There's also Andy's Orchard that may ship you some amazing stone fruit varieties as well.
So it's stone fruit overload in Nor Cal at least but good luck finding a good Cherimoya in season, there's just not enough farms growing Cherimoya and some of them are only 1 acre.
I'd like to remember the commercial cherimoya acreage in CA that was stated at one of the cherimoya assoc. meetings , it's not huge though.
Exactly, plant fruits that you love that are impossible to buy in the grocery store.
The grass is always greener on the other side but those stone fruits are easily available here.
It can be hard to find good Cherimoya in CA even you know someone , they're just not nearly as widely grown .
I have no problems getting the best moyas Cali has to offer, thats why I have been making these responses.
Really, tell me, where can you buy those Arctic Stars (just as one example)? I have tasted a number of the better variety stones from you local farmer's markets and while better than in a grocery store, its no comparison to home grown (which I have also tasted). There are certain top notch fruits available in terms of taste but you will never see them in stores due to undesirable characteristics for commercial marketing. Oh. And yes, they are that good, as good as and some better than any mango or mo
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