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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Unknown Cherimoya Disease
« on: June 28, 2021, 12:37:05 PM »
Hi team,

So immediately after spring bud break, I noticed one of my five mature cherimoya trees displaying some signs of disease. New buds were deformed, and covered in black spots. Instead of each node giving rise to a single new branch, many deformed branches seemed to form instead. After a few weeks, I was able to thin these deformed branches to encourage better growth. The leaves on these branches were curled, covered in black spots, and deformed overall. After a few more weeks, I noticed the newer growth began to revert back to a healthy shape, size, and the black spots seemed to vanish. It was as if the tree had beat the pathogen. Now, all that’s left is some gnarly fascination on some branches and flowers. However, it seems that the tree is also growing out of this.

My guess is that this is a pathogen, and not an abiotic issue, due to the fact that it was the only tree out of five that has this issue. All trees are from the same stock, and are kept within 6 ft of each other. Trees were pruned in the winter, and I always sterilize my pruners. Trees are thriving in large ceramic pots, and cultural and watering practices are consistent. I live in Santa Rosa, Ca (Zone 10 A). Has anyone seen this before? This one has me stumped! As always, thanks so much for the help!   ;D :o

Ps: Please ignore the awful suckers! This is an older photo and they’ve since been removed.  :P









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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Successful Cherimoya Fruit Set?
« on: June 27, 2021, 08:24:49 PM »
Hand pollinated about 10 days ago. Most male flowers have already abscised. Does this look like the beginning of developing fruit? Last year was my first successful fruit set, and both fruits were noticed later in development. Thanks for the feedback! :) ;D




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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Self-Pollinating Abilities of African Pride Atemoya?
« on: June 12, 2021, 02:18:52 PM »
Hi team,

I got my first African Pride Atemoya a few weeks ago and it has about 20 flowers that are about a week from opening. I’ve searched the web for a while and have found varying information on AP’s ability to self pollinate; mostly stating that Geffner is better at self-polling. I have experience with hand pollinating cherimoya, but I just want to know if I should hand-pollinate my new AP, or let it pollinate itself. The person I bought it from told me that it successfully set 2 fruits last year, without hand-pollination. My guess is that I’ll have better yields if I do it by hand, but would love some advice from more-experienced Atemoya growers. The tree is grafted onto Cherimoya root stock and the graft is about 2 years old, so it’s young, but able to hold a few large fruit.

Thanks!

-Corvid

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Unknown Cherimoya variety
« on: June 12, 2021, 12:17:47 PM »
Hi, I’m new here and will definitely be posting more as time goes on. Today, however, I am wondering if anyone would like to take a shot at identifying an unknown variety of cherimoya. The fruit in the photo belongs to a vigorous tree that is thriving in the Bay Area of California. The tree is about 10’ tall, with thick/shiny leaves. I’m my experience, the leaves are thicker and shinier than most (especially when compared to a Vietnamese type). Fruit from this tree is almost always perfectly round, with subtle scaling/texture.

This Spring, I grafted three scions from this tree onto my Vietnamese variety, and all three took. My guess at this point is Fino de Jete, but I’m sure there are experts out there who can offer a more accurate assessment. Thanks so much! :)






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