What are the seasons for the various annona... the approximate dates for blooming to ripe stage for So. Flo. ?

I'm looking for info specifically on cherimoya, sugar apple, atemoya, soursop, and custard apple. 

The only worry point is that the crotch angle between those two branches that were grafted together is very acute and will be a weak point in future winds -- pretty easy for one of those limbs to tear right off through the fused cambium. I would nip off the thinner of the two branches (the one on the left) right at the top end of the graft.

Caimito trees are notorious for being difficult to fruit here. Noel had a tree that produced flowers quite profusely every year for nearly a decade but never set a single fruit. My theory is that they sometimes need another tree to cross pollinate with. I planted both purple and green caimito to hopefully ensure some fruit set. With a pollinator, I think you can expect fruit when the tree has been in ground for a good 4 to 5 years.

I also planted a purple and green, but my purple is lagging in growth rate behind the green, but it's healthy. Your advice is noted about the weaker branch but I'm going to let it go for now and see what happens.

My gold nugget was maddeningly S-L-O-W too, but it's gone nutso fruiting the last two seasons! My Bangkok lemon is also being a challenge, it's in the ground four years and was bought as a fairly large tree. Today it's very large and not a single flower.

Oh, wait a sec, there are going to be SIX MILLION FP&L customers chanting...

FP&L is my SAVIOR, they got my power on after 5days, God bless them... public service commissions award them ANYTHING THEY WANT to make it better.

When do the power companies get called on the carpet for poor routine maintenance being the cause of power outages?

Before Wilma I had several poles on my block that looked like swayback horses because they were in generally poor condition with splinters and crack / fissures up and down the length of the pole. Add to that hundreds of poles had trees growing all around them.

I called FP&L several times in the years and months before the storm and they either said the poles were on a schedule for replacement or that AT&T owned them.

So, Wilma took down many poles, and what happened? FP&L petitioned the "Public service Commissions" for a "temporary" rate increase to PAY (meaning the customers get to pay for the poles) for replacing poles.

What are the incentives for doing proper maintenance during the year when utilities are rewarded by having a utility boot licking authority in their back pocket to pay for maintenance? None! Year end bonuses, stock dividend payments, and raises in executive compensation all around and yup WE sat in the dark once again.

Unfortunately there will be hearings on those who died in the wake of this last storm, but not one dim little candle of light will shine onto FP&L asking "WHY" the power went out for over 6 MILLION (1/3 of the residents) people.

Pass the executive retention bonuses around folks, I bet WE get stuck for the bill again.

I tried, and gave up. Read the following link, I think I had all of the problems listed :-) I have gotten into tropical fruits that are impossible to get retail and figs I can get anytime, they weren't worth the problems.

https://www.gardeningknowhow.com/edible/fruits/figs/common-fig-tree-diseases.htm

I just pulled a sturdy / hardy red PS banana that was just too big, damn thing won't die, if you want stop by and I'll snatch a segment of the mat for you.

My Madame Francis and Carrie were very good, but my Julie Seedling kept dropping the fruit before ripening on the tree, and were bland. The lone Ice cream was very good but the single Lancetilla split wide open from the rain :-(

Glenn did not have one fruit.

I planted it in 2011 as a 7 gal?  I was good at recording dates but back then not size. Maybe cookie monster remembers?

I tried making the cooked pulled pork deal and it tasted like bbq jakfruit. IMO, dont bother the rag tastes better :-)

I have some folks coming 2morrow 2 get some, maybe they will update this thread on their observations.

I have deliberately let the tree get away in growth maybe that is what has had the effect on the large crop?

I had a double, cut one, and the other snapped from the weight of the fruit. I'd not waste my time again and plant another.

New information is coming up all the time, like my friend's unknown till recently avo which was my all time fave and was just recently identified as a lula. Over 20+ years her tree was ignored, uncared for, not trimmed, fertilized, or watered... and only this year did it succumb to some infection in the wood.

A few months ago even though I have had a number of avo, I never cared enough for any to remember their name, now that I know the Lula I can answer openly here and in the poll.

BTW, thx for the poll, I missed it the first time around.

Also the "average palette" probably isn't that discerning either..and what we may think as substandard is good to the average palette. Most people simply want sweet.

I would call "people simply want sweet" an "average" palette, no? I mean really who buys a fruit tree other than citrus that craves sour?