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Sugar Apple Harvest
« on: July 21, 2012, 03:00:34 PM »
My "Big Green" sugar apples are ripening by the bunch. I picked a five gallon bucket today at 9am and sold them all by noon. I only harvest perfectly ripened fruit when they are at their peak flavor. These are among the sweetest fruits and the Brix levels must be off the charts. 

Sheehan: Bring your refractometer over one day to see what level they reach.
 





This basket shipped to one of my customers in Virginia

« Last Edit: July 21, 2012, 03:14:27 PM by FloridaGreenMan »
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Re: Sugar Apple Harvest
« Reply #1 on: July 21, 2012, 03:39:36 PM »
They look very tasty.  :)
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Re: Sugar Apple Harvest
« Reply #2 on: July 21, 2012, 04:24:59 PM »
Wow Noel, absolutely beautiful!  How tall is your tree btw?

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Re: Sugar Apple Harvest
« Reply #3 on: July 21, 2012, 04:59:34 PM »
The tree is around 20 ft tall and 15 ft around. I need to trim it back!
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Re: Sugar Apple Harvest
« Reply #4 on: July 21, 2012, 05:27:22 PM »
Sent you a message. Thanks.

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Re: Sugar Apple Harvest
« Reply #5 on: July 21, 2012, 05:51:01 PM »
Good stuff. I love sugar apples.

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Re: Sugar Apple Harvest
« Reply #6 on: July 21, 2012, 06:44:49 PM »
Sent you a message.  Hoping for some seeds:). Thanks. Dave

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Re: Sugar Apple Harvest
« Reply #7 on: July 21, 2012, 07:10:31 PM »
I wish I can just go out and buy fresh annonas like these, your fruits are just awesome to look at, and I'm sure even better to eat.

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Re: Sugar Apple Harvest
« Reply #8 on: July 21, 2012, 09:29:04 PM »
FGG, can you mail some to Hawaii? I'd love to try some. Especially the big reds and a few of the greens.
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Re: Sugar Apple Harvest
« Reply #9 on: July 21, 2012, 09:57:29 PM »
Noel,

I'd also be interested if I could order a couple of reds and greens to be shipped to Punta Gorda, FL.  They look amazing.

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Re: Sugar Apple Harvest
« Reply #10 on: July 21, 2012, 10:28:35 PM »
My Big Reds are running a few weeks behind the Greens. They are a variation of the green but have a bit of raspberry flavor to them. They are my favorite of all annonas
 


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Re: Sugar Apple Harvest
« Reply #11 on: July 22, 2012, 12:48:05 AM »
ABS0LUTELY INC"RED"IBLE!!!

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« Reply #12 on: July 22, 2012, 02:18:07 AM »
ABS0LUTELY INC"RED"IBLE!!!

Inc"Red"edible!
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Re: Sugar Apple Harvest
« Reply #13 on: July 22, 2012, 07:25:39 AM »
Those look really nice Noel ! Amazing.  My crop has been almost nonexistent this year ..

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Re: Sugar Apple Harvest
« Reply #14 on: July 22, 2012, 07:45:16 AM »
Noel you are the man for annonas and one of the most knowledgeable about in America. If I had more space I would plant some

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Re: Sugar Apple Harvest
« Reply #15 on: July 22, 2012, 07:58:02 AM »
FGM I bet you're feeling a bit seedy after celebrating the harvest but sATISfied.When it comes great sugar apple trees you're annona.
I having harsh words to my trees at the moment and showing them pictures that you took.Like I told Saff I haven't thrown in the trowel with the size challenge.
Great pix and great fruit by the way.

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Re: Sugar Apple Harvest
« Reply #16 on: July 22, 2012, 08:20:56 AM »
Are they easy to graft?
I have 6-7 small seedlings that are producing fruit already, it would be cool to try grafting.

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Re: Sugar Apple Harvest
« Reply #17 on: July 22, 2012, 09:51:34 AM »
Hi FloridaGreenMan,
What a gorgeous bunch of Sugar apples...Truly impressive 8)

Thanks for sharing :)

 
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Re: Sugar Apple Harvest
« Reply #18 on: July 22, 2012, 11:34:02 AM »
WOW WOW WOW

so beautiful and impressive
how do you do that ?
If you don't mind, would you please share your experience of growing sugar apple ?

This happens to be my most favorite fruits

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Re: Sugar Apple Harvest
« Reply #19 on: July 22, 2012, 07:58:53 PM »
WOW WOW WOW

so beautiful and impressive
how do you do that ?
If you don't mind, would you please share your experience of growing sugar apple ?

This happens to be my most favorite fruits

Thanks

I think Noel uses Photoshop to doctor his photos! OK, until i get a box of fresh sugar apple fruits in the mail i won't be totally convinced. HAHAHAHA

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Re: Sugar Apple Harvest
« Reply #20 on: August 01, 2012, 10:12:16 AM »
My Big Reds are running a few weeks behind the Greens. They are a variation of the green but have a bit of raspberry flavor to them. They are my favorite of all annonas
 



Selling+shipping any of these?? I have yet to have the privilege to taste a ripe sugar apple :-)

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Re: Sugar Apple Harvest
« Reply #21 on: August 01, 2012, 07:59:54 PM »
Are these Big Red and Big Green cultivars available as grafted trees in Florida?  I think I have 2 new items to add to my wish list.  My puny seed grown local sugar apples are embarrassing!

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Re: Sugar Apple Harvest
« Reply #22 on: August 01, 2012, 08:11:38 PM »
Are you shipping to CA?  if yes, please let me know the price of the fruit + sh.  I'd like to order some!


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Re: Sugar Apple Harvest
« Reply #23 on: August 09, 2012, 02:48:22 AM »


Another out of season but less runty giant sugar apple that can't crack the 2 lb barrier.I hope to crack the 3lb barrier during the season in 6 months.This particular type has very small seeds and many seedless section yet has a great taste.It will be the last oneouta season one  and I don't know how I missed it.What out FGM  weighing your whoppers because this bad boys big brothers will be back in town! 

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Re: Sugar Apple Harvest
« Reply #24 on: August 09, 2012, 09:16:59 AM »
It use to be that everything is big in America - at least when I was there back in 1989; are the Aussies trying to spoil that reputation with giant fruits? Or is the origin really an Asian cultivar.?
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Re: Sugar Apple Harvest
« Reply #25 on: August 09, 2012, 11:47:05 AM »
Soren until the 1890's when pinks mammoth first turned up from South America in the shape of a few mailed seeds, it was wall to wall sugar apples on the annona front.They remain the most popular annona in yards in northern australia and no one seems to know the source of local sugar apples.

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Re: Sugar Apple Harvest
« Reply #26 on: August 09, 2012, 01:59:44 PM »
From the shape of the skin, this is a different strain from that of Noel's but probably has a common gene. One of Noel's Big SA has a skin that is partly similar to that of Mike's Giant SA shown here.




Another out of season but less runty giant sugar apple that can't crack the 2 lb barrier.I hope to crack the 3lb barrier during the season in 6 months.This particular type has very small seeds and many seedless section yet has a great taste.It will be the last oneouta season one  and I don't know how I missed it.What out FGM  weighing your whoppers because this bad boys big brothers will be back in town!
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Re: Sugar Apple Harvest
« Reply #27 on: August 09, 2012, 05:02:22 PM »
It use to be that everything is big in America - at least when I was there back in 1989; are the Aussies trying to spoil that reputation with giant fruits? Or is the origin really an Asian cultivar.?

HAHA, that was in Texas! Texas is just one part of America. If you go to Vermont or Oregon you would have a very different impression of America.
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« Reply #28 on: August 10, 2012, 01:48:15 AM »
Lol - very true; Dallas-Fort Worth to be precise  8)
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Re: Sugar Apple Harvest
« Reply #29 on: August 10, 2012, 02:18:36 AM »



I bet the atemoyas over there are big.After the mammoths here everything else is small.I might need BMc to help me identify this type that I picked up today.

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« Reply #30 on: August 10, 2012, 04:56:52 AM »
On reflection the pictured type is just a variation on Pinks Mammoth.None were more than about 6 or 7 lbs at the market today but the taste and relative seedlessness will be the clinchers.

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Re: Sugar Apple Harvest
« Reply #31 on: August 13, 2012, 04:38:41 AM »
An update on the sugar apple on scales below is that an unauthorized person ate it while I was at work. Luckily the perpetrator kept the 7 seeds it contained.

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Re: Sugar Apple Harvest
« Reply #32 on: August 13, 2012, 08:59:11 AM »
That massive bad-boy had ONLY SEVEN SEEDS????? Good god, that's excellent in my book! 
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