It hard to tell from that picture if it is grafted.  If you have a chance, can you take pictures of all around that area.  Basically just walk around the tree taking a picture of that same area.  Thanks.

I have been reading up on annona threads recently, and wanted to have one where we just rank the annonas into tiers (top-tier, 2nd tier, 3rd tier etc.  I am trying to figure out what annonas to plant, and which to admire from afar.

I know there may be variability within fruit (for example, big red sugar apple may be top-tier, while most others are 3rd tier, etc.), but in general where do they rank in relate compared to each other?

I haven't tasted many annonas, but from what i have read, I would guess the following:

Top-tier:
cherimoya (though it doesn't fruit in FL, at least well)
reticulata (custard apple)
soursop

2nd tier:
atemoya (some varieties may be top-tier)
ilama
rollinia

3rd tier:
sugar apple
(fingersop)
A. cornifolia
A. glabra (pond apple)

Thanks!

I agree Sugar apple belongs in 3rd tier.  Pond Apple would probably be 10th tier.    Definitely not in the same tier as Sugar Apple.  I am not sure anyone who eats this fruit except for the alligators.  Its also known as  Alligator-Apple because the alligators eat it.

I only have Kadota and it is fruiting.  Have not tried growing Black Mission.

Thank you both of you.  Much appreciated.

It will be interesting to see how the actual fruit turns out since, some pictures show a cherimoya fruit (page 2 of this thread) but some more pictures show an atemoya/sugar apple (page 4 of this thread).  Since it was just mentioned that there are two trees in his house, would it be possible that the fruit from one tree are different from the fruit in the other tree?      And to cause even more confusion, could it be possible that one is an atemoya and the other is a cherimoya? 

Quote from: gunnar429 on March 31, 2014, 06:58:00 PM

the 26th is a thursday...just fyi

Thanks, so on Friday the 27th or Wednesday the 25th. Mango Madness is the 28th, so I dont think that day.

I agree it will be too much activities for one day.   My +1 vote for Friday June 27th.

adiel, what persimmons are you growing?

I am growing Winterset, Hudson (from Richard Campbell, some call it "South Florida" but that is not the original name) and Hachiya.  Hachiya is for testing only, not sure if it will fruit down here.

In general, I love gardening in the tropics.  I love the fact that it is year-round and there's always something coming into fruit; I love that you don't have to stop for winter and spring, and stare at your barren, snow-covered orchard (I hate that I live in Alberta now).  I love the fruits -- mangoes, lynchees, mangosteens, and dragon fruits are awesome, and I hope that abiu, biriba, and jaboticaba join the list.  But there are three things that I specifically hate:

- no persimmons, especially the deep red kind shaped like a huge bell pepper
- no apples
- no peaches

You can have those 3 in subtropical environments:

Persimmons - I have 3 varieties
Apples - I have 1 variety with fruits on it right now (Dorsett Golden)
Peaches - UF Sun variety does very good here

I am sure Whitman meant 12 x 12 x 4 feet deep.  Deeper than 4 feet would not be easy considering our limerock.

Maybe it is drinking from that lake? So it doesn't get a dry spell.

Very good point.  Is the tree getting too much water somehow?


Also try to get your hands one some 0-0-51 Potassium and add it in early fall.

Does this looks ready? It was soft to the touch but did not seem physiologically ready. Any opinions?

That one did not look ready yet.

Interesting. A neighbor a couple of blocks away has a tree that looks just like the one in that gardenweb thread. It's a bit bigger and gives about 1/2 dozen fruits a year. I always thought it was some sort of atemoya. Maybe not.

Jeff, can you get some budwood from that tree?    Have you seen the fruit up close to see if it's atemoya or cherimoya?