Does this Sugar Apple Tree look good?

[AnnonaMangoLord45]

[fchiou]

 Lucky . Should pass 3 yrs   terrible  winter .  Buy the size of SG 3yrs before from  Florida .  One year one fruit  only.   Almost kill the plant this year( only 8 hours sunshine). Flower in  april .( Hand pollination as early as  possible)  Not easy to ripen  before winter DEC(especially  seed),. Very easy to Crack.&  Backen.. Good luck Think we live around keep in touch.

[gnappi]

Well... If you want a bush it looks fine, but if you want a tree you're gonna have to train it.

I have an atemoya. soursop, 2 sugar apples and 2 custard apples, all wanted to grow like yours, but I want trees not bushes, so...

Early on I trimmed off all of the low branches, tied it to a stake and as it grew I tied the new growth to the stake. Once it got to a height I wanted I cut the new top growth to force branching.

[kh0110]

Tree looks fine, but the leaves don't look like SA leaves to me. They look more like atemoya leaves. Can you get a close up photo of the leaves?

[AnnonaMangoLord45]

Im pretty sure it is a SA because the leaves a considerably smaller than the Atemoyas I have seen

[JF]

Thera is right it's an atemoya

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[AnnonaMangoLord45]

Oh, so where did you get your sugar apple tree

[AnnonaMangoLord45]

Oddly enough, the pictures you sent me look a lot like mines up close, as it is a very similar size

[JF]

Oddly enough, the pictures you sent me look a lot like mines up close, as it is a very similar size

Source is Santa Ana from a seed from Puerto Rico. Here are more samples
Big Red & other atemoyas
We need a closer pix

[AnnonaMangoLord45]

Thanks JF!

[Guanabanus]

Sugar-Apple?  Bush shape is good for Sugar-Apples.

Atemoya?  Check into why the leaves are so small:  Needs more fertilizer (Nitrogen and Zinc, especially), or needs insecticide to kill potato leaf-hoppers, if they are present.

[palmcity]

Sugar-Apple?  Bush shape is good for Sugar-Apples.

Atemoya?  Check into why the leaves are so small:  Needs more fertilizer (Nitrogen and Zinc, especially), or needs insecticide to kill potato leaf-hoppers, if they are present.

Well... If you want a bush it looks fine, but if you want a tree you're gonna have to train it.

I have an atemoya. soursop, 2 sugar apples and 2 custard apples, all wanted to grow like yours, but I want trees not bushes, so...

Early on I trimmed off all of the low branches, tied it to a stake and as it grew I tied the new growth to the stake. Once it got to a height I wanted I cut the new top growth to force branching.

I have 2 sugar apple trees now. I have never been concerned for the shape either way until recently. The bushy sugar apple does not turn the fruit ripe, with the heavy leaf shade, nearly as fast as the tall lanky more tree shape sugar apple. Also, the tall lanky tree bears more fruit; But it is sitting over the septic field and the bushy is not. 

I am considering opening up the bushy sugar apple over the winter to see next year if more sun in the center of the tree may be better. Has anyone else experimented with altering the growth habits of sugar apple trees?