The Tropical Fruit Forum

we are started getting fruits from seedling trees on our farm. goal is low latex easy peel jackfruits. its exciting to evaluate them. some are setting fruit now and should be ready in summer. here's one video of the new fruits from this summer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-BV6rS0qDMc

interesting seeing the how the reticulata genetics in this fruit push back the ripening season.  even more in California where its cooler.

it seems like dec-feb is the seasoning Florida where winters are warmer. I've got some trees even flowering now, but the hurricane stripped them back in the fall.

The fruit does seem to hang for a while and many people end up picking it earlier than it should be.  I know here in Florida we get two sugar apple seasons, one in July - Sept then a Dec/Lan season, the winter sugar apple don't have the same sweetness as the summer or fall sugar apples.

its that time of year. We are pruning and grafting and offering fresh cut to order scions for grafting. We will update inventories as we work our way through the farm.  No Isan Indigo scions available.

https://greenplanetfarm.com/products/annona-scions-budwood

thanks,
Luke

I've got these growing, still haven't fruited so its impossible at this time to know if they are unique or not.  they are growing more upright than an Argentine selection of strawberry guava I have thats for sure, but those are definently more reccumbent.

I am experimenting with cherimoya varieties in my hot SW Florida climate, its even hotter than Pine Island as Im over 20 miles inland and get higher highs most everyday in summer expecially during the heatwaves.

I grafted some varieties on different roostocks to evaluate but all of them seem to drop leaves and stall growth these last few months. plants are young and sample sizes are small but DR white looks the best so far.

Regarding cherimoya or annonas in general offseason fruit. I first recall when i visited the late Wayne Clifton at his home he was showing off his Dream cherimoya tree. It was febuary 27th and he was selling me scions from his Dream tree. He pointed out the branches he stripped the leaves prematurely on to induce off season flower and fruit. He had fruits fairly large on his Dream annona at this time and flagged the branches with flagging tape to keep track. When the climate is mild the annonas especially the hardier didnt defoliate so stripping the leaves is important to get them to flower as they flower on new growth.

 here are photos of Wayne Cliftons Dream annona tree from my visit back in in Feb 2017

I once read an article if you get rid of the most vigorous and the smallest and weakest on the one in the middle is usually the clone but its still gambling.

its is all  climate dependant and also depends on which species you are trying to graft and grow.

Annonas have all type of incompatibilities and rootstocks affected production also.

for me in south Florida I've settle with pond apple rootstock. its native and handles flooding, all I have to do it keep it from freezing. not everything grafts onto it however. lfor example: sugar apple and most atemoyas. ifor these cases I'm uses interstocks to graft onto to overcome graft incompatibilities but its still experimental long term.

cherimoya might do well for you and seeds are readily available.. alot of things graft onto cherimoya. atemoya is probably better in some cases but you want f1 hybrid seed if you can find it.(meaning someone hand pollinated their cherimoya  fruit with sugar apple pollen) you buy the cherimoya and grow the hybrid seed. not sf2 atemoya seedlings from atemoyas as they usually have poor germination rates, but  they will work also.

im documenting some of our Annona farming on our YouTube channel greenplanetfarm

Peace River Organics has them in Punta Gorda

hit 100 today on the farm.

this is the story I heard regarding Tim atemoya. Tim atemoya was a Scion collected from LC Pages tropical fruit collection in Naples, FL.  Tim (from California) shared scions with Steve at Fruitscapes in Bokellia Florida on Pine island and its been propogated under that name.  It has since been a mystery but now we are trying to identify it and some people believe it to be Pinks Mammoth.  It being a large fruit with low seed count matches that description.  any input from the Aussie growers would be nice

I have white illama 7 gal grafted available and some purple red types I did this season. Green Planet Farm in Punta Gorda. also have Painter Cherilata and 47-18 red geffner Teymoylata.

we grow Inga Vera, best Inga I've grown so far and fruits in 3-4 years from seed. I have some large 7 gallons available that will fruit soon.