You can shade with anything you want.  If you don't have a light meter you may have issues of getting the level of shading you want.
The issue for most is durability.  How long can it handle the UV, wind, rain and elements.  If you're in a grow tent the only issue you really have is how long before the material breaks down due to UV.  There is no law about what shade material is.

I wouldn't think cherimoyas wouldn't have any issue with grow lights, unless you are running some serious lumens.  You could also dumb down your lighting unless there are other plants you want to get more.  Even directional positioning may give you the tweak you want.

Quote from: HMHausman on December 02, 2013, 07:57:31 AM

I, for one,  am bit unhappy with this forum and its founders.  It seems that it causes me to spend an inordinate amount of time reading and writing about tropical fruit trees, and other less important subjects, taking me away from my work and family.  One particular moderator/administrator/founder is highly capricious and dictatorial. And there are numerous members that cause me tremendous tropical fruit envy.  So thanks a lot for forcing me to hang out in this forum, suffering all the while.  I will definitely be making a New Year's resolution to continue and intensify my complaints as outlined above. 

I am in the same boat, thanks for the good work

I think the real question here is where did you get that cool knife?

Quote from: omarudy on November 08, 2013, 12:55:15 PM

I am in! Two words...fruiting... durian. Any santas in hawaii? Cough cough... oscar

Well one can dream

Do you want a Santa or a magician?    Even Santa's not going to get a durian fruit out of here past ag inspection.

Wow, Ed! I've never seen anything like it, they are so small! Are they very seedy or astringent?

Quote from: Triloba Tracker on October 26, 2013, 09:26:31 AM

Cool! Interesting that you rate it better than American Persimmon. .that must mean it's REALLY good!  A ripe virginiana is a pretty good thing. ..

My wild tree has only four fruit left, please, how can you tell when they are ripe? I picked one that was practically dying on the tree, but was still disgustingly astringent.

Good luck! Here is inspirational photo for you sapodilla container growers.

Quote from: Sanddollarmoon on October 17, 2013, 06:45:16 PM

Here is the whole plant:

As I said, it is a seedling, so there is not much go on.

Ahhhh I see. Not much indeed. But it doesn't look like Asimina triloba to me

Quote from: Sanddollarmoon on October 18, 2013, 12:53:27 PM

Nice to have you on the forum, Cassandra! I have never tried longan, but have a small seedling, your love of them makes me wish I had kept more! Good luck with the jackfruit (another fruit I have not tried), I hope they all do well! Jackfruit are fast growers, so I have heard, and can begin flowering after barely a year.

 
Patrick, I was first introduced to them while staying in a small village up in the northeastern region. I don't know why, but once I started eating them, I just couldn't stop. I think I bought out all the fruit the local market had, which was maybe a few pounds (I suspect that they were at the tail end of their season). Then I bought another large bag of them at Suvarnabhumi airport on my way out of the country. They were my sustaining food for the flight home, since I ended up with last picks for my choice of "airline meals". Some folks say it's sort of a coconuty flavor. I don't actually think so. They are unique. And as for jackfruit... have you ever had Juicy Fruit Gum? I've been told that jackfruit is where it gets its flavor from! Folks in Thailand don't typically let their fruits ripen (case in point, green papaya salad is a favorite dish over there). When I had jackfruit there, it was yellow and OK, but the flavor sort of reminded me of a banana. Then when I got back to the states, I found a huge chunk of jackfruit at a local Asian market, and the edible pieces had a deep orange color. I brought it home, and that was that. Favorite tropical fruit #2. My other favorite I have not attempted to grow here yet; mangosteen. Fresh, it's awesome. Aged... well, trying to cut through the shell/skin once it's browned is like trying to saw through a log. And unfortunately all the mangosteen I've found locally is the tough stuff. 

I'm glad to hear that jackfruit grow so fast. I don't know what species of jackfruit I ended up with. The seed retailer just said the fruit is deep orange, sweet, thick and crunchy, with very little fibery membrane, and supposedly it's also "latexless". I personally didn't mind the latex. I actually thought it'd be cool to utilize the latex into materials for making art.

Good luck with your longan seedling! I hope you get some fruit from it.