Pics of some of cangrejos sugar Apple. I've heard a breeder claim he has sugar apples growing in Georgia but never showed any prove
Here is a true cold hardy sugar Apple grown in Santa Ana CA at latitude 32* tree still loaded
I dont care about latitude! Can this variety survive 28 degree for a week? That mean there is no dieback? If so I will be interest in some seeds!😀
We've never seen 28F Cangrejo's SA can withstand lows below 50 highs sbove 100 with 5% humidity in the winter and will not defoliate.....this SA is the total package and it's been field tested for over 20 years.
We would love to see pix of those SA that survive 28F for a week
When people tell me it is cold hardy, to me it mean that it can survive in 32 degree for a week for establish tree with 8 inches diameter, with no dieback and of course it loose it leaves when its cold; which mean know dieback in my experiences; if leaves dont fall off shit you will loose a tree. I have five Boca chewy Z23OA Selection thriving in North Orlando on south side of my uncle house and planted in 2001. We always top work ten feet off before winter arrival in North Orlando, making sure it level with his 20 feet roof north of Semoran. Of the 1,000 seedlings we plant on a two years rotation among the Vietnamese community for last two decades, they keep selecting better and more cold resistant. Calling something super cold hardy confuse its merit when it is not that cold resistant by temperature rather than latitude metric. I had a guy growing my SA seedlings in Texas & Some part of the Crimea outside.
Why in the heck you guys out there in CA not selecting more cold resistant selections from this cold resistant SA better for your area than keep passing the scions of what is already known and achieved. I was lucky here in Florida Three decades ago to run into large fruit Vietnamese Chewy that adapted to the brackish water of the calahoosa river bank by the lehigh acres in cape coral, took it and develop the Boca Chewy & The Orlando Chewy today and keep improving upon it. There is a Tawainese Professor from Taitung, an Annona Breeder in Jacksonville , Fla that have developed quite a cold strain of Green Jade SA tm. The fruit is grayish green a selection develop from the famous green diamond. His trees are dwarf size 10-15 feet, I think another five years and you will see his fruit in the northern part of Taiwan by the thousand hectares!
The Big Eyes Sugar apple trees in field trial from Boca to Jacksonville-Tampa has so far done poorly for the Taiwanese Community here. My 200 trees have done poorly in sandy loam, canal muck, as soon as they bulldoze the five intercoastal properties in we bought in Boca, Jan 2015; I will get a chance to trial them on the sea canals. I have some trees planted behind FLorida Atlantic University Research Center and they so far a crying shame. Big Eyes might done so well in Taiwan develop for those environment but so far all it has done for this Sith Breeder is two Blackeyes of disappointment; maybe I order another 1,000 seeds and trial the 2016 class and stop wearing glasses?😣
One thing I have learn from selecting the Boca Chewy & Orlando line over the years, Commercial fruit production are heaviest & of Japanese Export quality tend to be best in the humid dry Boca area of the state rather than central Florida or southern super humid wet & flood zone like Miami Area. I like to see the CA breeder select a better higher cold resistant cangrejos SA For California dry environment that is self fruitful; by the way what is the eating quality chewy or mushy of your West Coast SA?😊
