My dad hand pollinate all flowers. We ate a few red variety already. We have a few left.
Second season flowers are coming.

We gave cuttings to neighbor down the street.
He didn’t pollinate. He got 1 fruit out of 12 flowers.

Nothing so far from the white variety.

Plant addicts have insomnia.
The addictions get really bad so they need to call someone.

I prefer to graft on a big tree. Take my time getting a good rootstock to graft later.

Graft on whatever tree you got.
Then air-layer later or graft to a good rootstock.

You got yet?

I like Har’s method as shown by black lines.

Cheers!

That video shows how porous charcoal is, not how much water it can retain.
The presenter needs to put a filter over the glass and pour the mixture back into the empty glass.
That will show how much water is retained in the charcoal.

Cherimoya grows best at 1/2 light intensity of full sun.

If you have insane humidity why do you mist?

One strategy is to reduce height by 1 node per year.
If you cut 4' off today, next year you cut 1 node down from today's cut.

I'm going a different route.
I'll put shade cloth on an umbrella. Tie umbrella to leader.
I'll remove new leaves on any branches that grow straight up. Then cut it off in Winter.
Hope to maintain my Reed at 7.5'

Removing new leaves on the leader slow down the growth of the leader...less tall.
When there were no new leaves on the leader, the leader got thin.
Tree was growing 2-3' per year. Got it reduced to 6".

When it was in pot I draped it with shade netting.
The heat from the netting burned all the tender leaves underneath.
Leader grew 1-2".

It's weird that some side branches got sun burn but not the leader. IDK y.

This is how I slow down my Reed tree.

3rd year in the ground.