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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: Zone Pushing the Sapote Family
« on: April 11, 2024, 09:35:55 PM »
According my experience black sapote becomes dormant, loose leaves like persimmon during gradually cooling winter and doesn't suffer even from freezing temperatures ( 26-28°F ) at all. White sapote in contract to this despite of supposed being cold hardy completely loses leaves and has some dieback on small branches at the same location. Canistel and Ross sapote can't withstand the winter even in my unprotected greenhouse, they died ( interestingly, I have one canistel seedling which grew from seed in 2022. In winter 2022-2023 it died like others in greenhouse, but resprouted in May, is very weak, I put it indoors, still only 2", alive, but doesn't want to grow, does anyone see something like that?).
As I understood, green sapote and lucuma are very cold hardy, I'd also be happy if someone could sell me a couple of seeds-)
As I understood, green sapote and lucuma are very cold hardy, I'd also be happy if someone could sell me a couple of seeds-)