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Atemoya, can you have too much fruits on a single tree?
« on: August 21, 2022, 05:04:38 PM »
This is our first season with an atemoya tree, its just over 5 ft tall and 3ft wide. Its in a pot at the moment and we have quite a few fruits from hand pollination, I'm guessing 30-40 fruits.

I have since stopped pollinating because i dont want to haveore fruits than the tree can handle. Is there a rule of thumb or way to kind of tell if i need to remove fruits or keep on going and get as much yield as possible.

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Re: Atemoya, can you have too much fruits on a single tree?
« Reply #1 on: August 21, 2022, 06:33:25 PM »
Right, you don't want to have more fruit than the tree can handle, thereby weakening the tree.  Also, having too many fruit will mean they're all going to be small.
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Re: Atemoya, can you have too much fruits on a single tree?
« Reply #2 on: August 21, 2022, 06:35:47 PM »
Yes there is such a thing as too much.  It stresses the tree and feuit will be nothing but seed.
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Re: Atemoya, can you have too much fruits on a single tree?
« Reply #3 on: August 21, 2022, 10:00:07 PM »
I have geffner in a container about the same size.  I have four or five fruits on mine and I was thinking it is too many.  30-40 sounds way excessive.  I am pulling off any new ones that appear, I do not even pollinate it and still most flowers seem to set fruit.

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Re: Atemoya, can you have too much fruits on a single tree?
« Reply #4 on: August 22, 2022, 12:30:13 AM »
Fruit loading for Fino de Jete cherimoya is around 0.22 kg per cm square of trunk area.
Other research concluded less than 0.22kg.
After conversion it comes to roughly diameter squared kg.
For example, a trunk of 2” should hold 2x2= 4kg of fruits.
That’s 4 big fruits.

Link here https://pubag.nal.usda.gov/catalog/719092



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Re: Atemoya, can you have too much fruits on a single tree?
« Reply #5 on: August 22, 2022, 11:32:07 AM »
good thing I checked, I'm going to have to start cherry picking now. Thank you

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Re: Atemoya, can you have too much fruits on a single tree?
« Reply #6 on: August 24, 2022, 10:24:43 AM »
Recommendation is for high yield, good enough fruits.
If you want better than supermarket fruits you keep less fruits.

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Re: Atemoya, can you have too much fruits on a single tree?
« Reply #7 on: August 24, 2022, 11:37:50 AM »
Fruit loading for Fino de Jete cherimoya is around 0.22 kg per cm square of trunk area.
Other research concluded less than 0.22kg.
After conversion it comes to roughly diameter squared kg.
For example, a trunk of 2” should hold 2x2= 4kg of fruits.
That’s 4 big fruits.


Thanks for this!  Very interesting.

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Re: Atemoya, can you have too much fruits on a single tree?
« Reply #8 on: August 24, 2022, 06:06:49 PM »
Problem with too much fruits:
-small fruits and many seeds.
-before riping, majority will fall prematurely.
-stress on the tree.

Thinning the fruits:
-wait until the fruits reach about the size of your toe or bigger.
-get rid of the one far away from the main trunk.  Kee the one in the shade.
-get rid of the misshaped ones.  Also get rid of the ones have pointed tip (it will not grow big).
-the remaining fruits should be spaced out the whole tree, not cluster up.