The Tropical Fruit Forum

I hear you. If it works for you use it. In my small grove (60) trees I do not spray for miners. All the trees are mature and the miners damage is not worth the expense of combating them. I do spray my newly grafted and young trees. All summer I have fought the butterflies....seems like they have been extremely prolific this year.

Ditto.
Giant swallowtail caterpillars can devour a young tree in a couple of days!

I make my own neem oil spray (water, neem oil, dishwasher soap). It really reduces leaf miners if sprayed as new growth emerges. And repeated every four days until growth matured.

It was Sweetheart, a nicely grown five-years-old tree, that bloomed for the first time. It set only one fruit and suddenly the emerging growth got stunted and wilted, the old leaves got brown, but didn’t fall off. It is dead!

I’ve read in one post here it might have been a root pathogen that caused it. Does anyone know what it actually is and how to prevent it?

Dito!
Also it is best to keep the fruit in the brown paper bag to continue ripening instead of plastic.

My two sugar apples are in a shady spot not getting max by any stretch sun and fruit very well without any hand pollination.

OTOH, my soursop (bought as a 7' tree and in ground since 2014) gets lots more sun, has MANY ants in the flowers to pollinate them and as yet has produced zero fruit.

Soursop is not pollinated by ants. Beetles do the job.

Here is an interesting article on soursop pollination

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/261510642_Manual_and_natural_pollination_of_soursop_Annona_muricata_L_Annonaceae

I wouldn't spoil such a fine fruit like durian with anything else. Fresh is BEST!

I have both, and LOVE both.

I agree, I have both too and both are different. Hard to choose which I like more.

The inside is more creamy than chewy. No grainy part. Sweet and very aromatic.

Previous batch is SOLD.
More fresh seeds are coming in a few days. Excepting orders now.

Brad,
Unrelated question. Where do you get these pots?

As much as I understand, atemoya seedlings are not true to the type, as it is an interspecific hybrid. However, seedlings may often produce pretty tasty fruits in 3-5 years.

What are the lowest temperatures that Eugenia stipitata can handle?