The Tropical Fruit Forum

Hi,

Last year Anthony Ortiz at Atemoya Nursery posted some pictures of atemoya he does not know the variety.  Please help me identify these atemoya.  I took some cuttings to graft onto my tree and it is pushing. 

These are his pictures.  He specialized in wholesale of atemoya.  His new nursery is called atemoya tropical nursery.

Anothony said “This Atemoya splits easily, grows really fast, the inside of the fruit splits into sections like a sugar apple, the meat is not as chewy and firm like African Pride. The flavor is not very good similar to lisa Atemoya”

I saw the tree and it is near a pond so i think the lack of flavor is due to too much water.

I think it can be paxton’s Prolific?  What do u think it is? 

Wanted sumo citrus.  Please let me know how to get a sumo citrus in California. 

With recent rain, i started to dig out some dirt in my garden for a retaining wall.  The rain soften the soil but i cannot identify soil type.  It is not clay because it is very hard and sandy but it is not sand like the beach sand where everything turn into grains. 

Hi all,

If anyone is pruning their atemoya or cherimoya trees in the San Diego area and have any branches i can have for grafting please PM.  I can trade guava seedlings and wing bean seeds.

Thanks.

This season, i took the pollen of my african pride and put it on my Phet Pakchong.  The end result is one fruit.  Hopefully it will produce good offsprings.  I will name offsprings trinh or phet african pakchong

Hi All,

Do we strip the leaves now or in feb to generate new growth.  I live in san diego.   I usually let the leaves fall off on their own but i am reconsidering.  I recent finds some orchard in asia strips the leaves and trim the branches twice a year to generate two crops per year.    Thanks.

Hi All,

I do not know if you can help me.  I am going to vietnam on december 22nd and will bring some scions wood to Mr. Mai Van Tri at SOFR.  http://sofri.org.vn/About.aspx?l=1 He works at a substation of sofri in the south east region, based in Ba ria Vung Tau province. 

My annona collection are young and immature.  However I am able to provide scion wood for an african pride, Lisa, and a red Ilama.

I am writing to ask if you can provide some scions to help him in his research.  Because of his teopical climate, i am asking for atemoya scions.

Thank You,

Mike Doan

Hi,

I am looking for Lansium parasiticum and wants to know if you can deliver to san diego.

Thanks.

I had nothing to do today so i went to ong’s nursery and found his Lisa Atemoya.  He has Lisa in a yellow collor and this color.  I dont know if they are the same kind.  Maybe whrn it is imature it is dark and when it mature it turns yellow. 

Are there different Lisa Atemoya?  I see some that are pink in the forum.

Please help me identify this purple plant.

Have anyone try soncoya?  I just purchased the tree at the San Diego chapter of CRFG for cheap.  Have anyone try this fruit?  How would you rank it with other annonas?  What is its texture?  Smell?  And flavor?

Can sugar apple grow in San Diego from seeds mature to fruit?  I know grafted sugar apple on cherimoya can survive Southern California but can a sugar apple grown from seed survive?

Hi all,

Have anyone heard of cherimoya growing in Vietnam?  Is this even possible?  I read online that it can be grown in Thailand but that was Wikipedia which I don't believe until I see it.  Please let me know if cherimoya can grow in tropicals and which kind?

Thanks