The Tropical Fruit Forum

This is awesome!!! Thanks so much for the informative post, event sounds amazing! Reminded me of a recent fig tasting gathering--50+ awesome varieties with rookies tapping out after the first 7 or so , a beautiful madness.

Hi all,

I had a really really good papaya 2 years ago home grown around Pasadena. It was small to medium in size with excellent flavor. I snapped a pic of the interior, I'm pretty sure this is the pic (even though it looks like a mamey). I think I must've scooped out the seeds?

If I want to plant variety similar to this which do ppl think it is? Vibrant deep red-orange flesh and excellent flavor. Was productive. I could've had the smallest one on tree so maybe can't judge by fruit size... but I really don't remember. Sorry my memory of its details are vague.

Thoughts?

Hi everyone! I was wondering if someone could confirm if this is indeed a soursop. It has little spines you can see and was not just sweet but also had some acidity. Not overbearingly acid or just straight up sour like a lime. It had very good sweet and tart balance like a really ripe pineapple. 

I've only had a few cherimoya which were from LA farmers markets and these had zero/near zero acidity. I actually didn't care for them too much. Should I try cherimoya somewhere else or maybe they are just not my thing? Tried them in various ripeness stages but all from same source.

The fruit from my pic for ID was from a friend's home tree in Praia (Santiago Island) in Cape Verde. He called it pinha which online is Portuguese for sugar apple which confused me... but this is soursop right? Wanted to check with the experts. One of the most amazing fruits I've ever had. Had an intense burst of flavor with amazing sweet-tart balance. I tracked down some soursop in a large Spanish grocery store near me, paid good money for it, and let it ripen till soft and mushy which it almost already was when I purchased it actually, the skin of one next to it at the store broke very easily with a slight touch... so it did have some sweet and tart and seemed to have a somewhat similar flavor profile but was just not even close to the intensity of the flavor/was bland compared to the home grown Cape Verdean fruit it made me wonder if I got the fruit right.

Is there somewhere recommended to purchase yummy soursop assuming that's what this is?