Just ignore the Chinese part of it. I blame the Taiwanese for all this fruit name confusion.

I said the same in the FB post, but it's basically a big confusion for everybody because there're no good Chinese terms that distinguish between the different annonas. 釋迦(translates to Buddha, because the fruit's bumps look like Buddha's hair shape) was a term created in Taiwan when all they had was the sugar apple.

釋迦 is sugar apple in Taiwan
釋迦 is cherimoya in the US, by Taiwanese immigrants, because they have something similar in their home country, and they thought cherimoya was our local variation of sugar apple.
鳳梨釋迦 is atemoya in Taiwan, after it was introduced there, because the ones in Taiwan actually realize it's something different, and gave it a different name.

Some people don't want to write so many characters so 鳳梨釋迦 might be shortened to 釋迦 as well.

And here I am always complaining about Taiwanese renaming fruit species/cultivars from other places to "Taiwanese guava/jujube/etc.".

Mimosa nursery in LA I'd say carries the most.

If you are looking for very specific things, you might have to go to the nurseries that are more specialized for them and call before to make sure they're in stock.

I have no idea. Never had the chance to see one on person. I heard it tastes like a regular sugar apple. Maybe you mean does a seedless banana/watermelon taste better than a seeded banana/watermelon? Probably, since your whole mouth is full of the flavor without those pesky seeds.

I'd imagine cherimoya will always be better than sugar apple and atemoya. The Spanish researchers are trying to create seedless cherimoya out of seedless sugar apple. They don't care about all the seedless atemoyas they will make in the process.

So if you pollinated a cherimoya with pollen from the seedless sugar apple, there's a chance that the resulting atemoya will be seedless as well.

Do you graft it or root it? I tried rooting in water and sterile media but never got one to root. Airlayering is also very slow.

It's from Portugal. You guys have the best figs in the world, according to all the fig enthusiasts around here. Search for preto fig or figo preto on ebay.

RiversOFT, I know some people in California that sell them on ebay. Just make sure their reputations are good. The one closest to me is in Simi Valley. They're probably waiting for the winter so the new growth hardens so they can sell or root them to sell. Taking cuttings now just means less cuttings since there's still more time for them to get longer.

Between 11:40 and 12:00, he cuts into the rootstock, only cutting off the flexible bark. You can see the round wood core underneath. All around that core is the cambium, as you know.

But isn't the cambium green? The cut looks white to me...

I think people say it's green to make it easier to find. It's a single layer of cells that differentiates into bark and wood cells and it's hard to tell what color it is. The layer or bark next to the cambium layer is probably green for most plants.

Hi, OCchris1,

I have not been to Little Saigon in San Diego.
Is there a specific shop that I should check out there?

Thanks,
FruitFool

I think OCchris1 meant Little Saigon in OC.

They should swell up and the skin becomes thinner and you can see the shape of the arils inside. Even then, my friend's Desertnyi in San Diego wasn't ripe. You probably have to sacrifice a few fruits to figure it out for your specific location.

If you got it in Spain, it's likely a Fino de Jete. It makes up the majority of the Spanish market.

I saw cotton candy at Sprouts in Burbank but they didn't look fresh. Many fruits were pulled off the clusters from people sampling so I took a sample too and it didn't taste like the cotton candy grape I remember. These were maybe overripe or a little close to being spoiled.

They recommend this trap now? This trap is less expensive for sure and looks as well-designed as the other one. The last time I heard from them, they recommended KM Ant Pro.

Both use the same Gourmet ant bait liquid sugar solution to attract Argentine ants. They were saying these ants don't like solid bait.