Annona pollination question

[BayAreaMicroClimate]

Can you please explain to me what happens if I put sugar apple pollen in cherimoya flower or vise versa. Is that how Atemoya is made? If I use reticulata pollen is that how you get reticulata and then you have to grow the seedlings out?

[Oolie]

Har has stated it multiple times, but I can't remember clearly. I believe the female is the start of the name of the hybrid, therefore Atemoya would be Ate (sugar apple) pollinated with the pollen of a cherimoya. I do believe in common usage however that any hybrid of the the two would be referred two as Atemoya.

If I have remembered the naming convention properly the cherilata is a cherimoya pollinated by a reticulata. I do believe it was a reticulata thread where Har divulged the naming convention.

[Seanny]

The seedlings would give a mix of varieties.
You need to learn how to ID them.

[BayAreaMicroClimate]

Yes that’s what I was wondering how it was created but I guess the best seedling was eventually grown out and then grafted onto other rootstocks? Id like to buy a grafted tree but I also want to grow out some seedlings and see what comes out in the next 5-10 years or so

The seedlings would give a mix of varieties.
You need to learn how to ID them.

[Seanny]

You could grow out as many as you like and select the good ones to keep.
You only need to graft them if you intent to sell copies of a good one.