Wanted: Mountain Soursop tree( Annona montana)

[PedalaiMaster]

Hey everyone, for a good soursop alternative im' planning to grow mountain soursop here because of it's resistance to cold, and low humidity, just to keep things easy though, im' ONLY going to buy from someone in the US because I don't want to have to deal with all the ag stuff. Thank-you, seed sources for it would be nice too. Regards below

[davidgarcia899]

There are a couple people on ebay selling them from Hawaii.

[fruitlovers]

Mountain soursop is more cold hardy, but do you realize most mountain soursops taste terrible?

[edzone9]

I think benders Grove might have a few trees available.

[PedalaiMaster]

Mountain soursop is more cold hardy, but do you realize most mountain soursops taste terrible?

Yes I know that, but I'm planning to get my soursop to flower and get a mountian soursop to flower, cross pollinate and it might be good enough to grow here with the good taste and size! Are there any selected cultivars that taste better than the "bad tasting" ones you are reffering too?

[fruitlovers]

Mountain soursop is more cold hardy, but do you realize most mountain soursops taste terrible?

Yes I know that, but I'm planning to get my soursop to flower and get a mountian soursop to flower, cross pollinate and it might be good enough to grow here with the good taste and size! Are there any selected cultivars that taste better than the "bad tasting" ones you are reffering too?

A better and easier and faster idea might be to use the mountain soursop as rootstock for soursop. I've heard there are some mountain sour sops that are good tasting, but i've never seen or had them. Almost all have soapy taste similar to pond apple.

[PedalaiMaster]

I know but soursop will NOT grow here, fails everytime when tried OUTSIDE, I once germinated about 15 to 20 seeds out of 30 and not one was resistant to the weather, even so, It would need at least 80% humidity to fruit/thrive.

[fruitlovers]

I know but soursop will NOT grow here, fails everytime, I once germinated about 15 to 20 seeds out of 30 and not one was resistant to the weather, even so, It would need at least 80% humidity to fruit/thrive.

If you can't get soursop to grow then how are you going to get it to flower to do a cross, like you suggested above? 

[PedalaiMaster]

To grow inside, above I was talking about growing outside.

[davidgarcia899]

PM I think you are over ambitious with a lot of things.

[nullzero]

PM,

I would stick to one plant for now with breeding. After you obtain a good result you could move on. I still have not got around to breeding due to lack of space. Eventually I want to breed some vegetables and cross some Opuntia sp.

[davidgarcia899]

Here is my breeding program. Step 1, take random seeds from decent parentage. Step 2, throw along fence. Step 3, wait.

Thats as far as I have gotten.

[PedalaiMaster]

PM,

I would stick to one plant for now with breeding. After you obtain a good result you could move on. I still have not got around to breeding due to lack of space. Eventually I want to breed some vegetables and cross some Opuntia sp.

For now I do have a one main plant, cherimoya, passionfruit second, guavas third, and rollinia fourth because It takes a LOT of tending to get them to fruit here.

[bsbullie]

PM I think you are over ambitious with a lot of things.

thats being kind...

[fruitlovers]

PM,

I would stick to one plant for now with breeding. After you obtain a good result you could move on. I still have not got around to breeding due to lack of space. Eventually I want to breed some vegetables and cross some Opuntia sp.

For now I do have a one main plant, cherimoya, passionfruit second, guavas third, and rollinia fourth because It takes a LOT of tending to get them to fruit here.

 

Why don't you post some photos so we can see what you're doing?

[PedalaiMaster]

Because the forums image hosting has ads that I find very inapropriate, I have already discussed this with murahilin, I will either upload my pictures on another image hosting website that does not have these ads, or I will put an ad block on it.

[fruitlovers]

Because the forums image hosting has ads that I find very inapropriate, I have already discussed this with murahilin, I will either upload my pictures on another image hosting website that does not have these ads, or I will put an ad block on it.

Ad block takes about 2 minutes to download, so not a very good excuse.

[bsbullie]

Because the forums image hosting has ads that I find very inapropriate, I have already discussed this with murahilin, I will either upload my pictures on another image hosting website that does not have these ads, or I will put an ad block on it.

if you click on "family safe" the ads are not that inappropriate...

[PedalaiMaster]

Well it's just my opinion, I will post pictures of my rollinia, cherimoya, and passionfruit soon as well as my other tropical fruit trees

[BMc]

There's a MSS tree here that doesn't taste like soap. More like a full on yellow fruit wine with a hint of soap. 😓