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Topic Title: CHERIMOYA Topic Summary: Created On: 01/16/2005 11:12 PM Status: Post and Reply |
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01/16/2005 11:12 PM
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Sugar Apple = Annona squamosa
Cherimoya = Annona cherimola Atemoya = Annona squamosa X Annona cherimola Here are my 2 photos of Cherimoya, grown in Chile and bought from a supermarket in Rockledge, Florida. The fruit from the Incas is originally from the region of the Andes (the mountain area) between Colombia to Bolivia, at an altitude of 1000 to 2000 meter. Not known to grow in Florida. Product Look-Up code is 4257. Photo #1: Looking at the top of the fruit. =======================================================================  ======================================================================= Photo #2: Fruit cut vertically in 2 halves. =======================================================================  ======================================================================= |
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01/20/2005 06:34 PM
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Cherimoya is delicious. They do grow in Florida, I have one. They just don't fruit very well. Mine is too small to fruit, but the person that gave it to me said it will fruit in Florida. He called it a mountain cherimoya. I have it in a container and was thinking of planting it in the ground to see if it does indeed fruit.
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01/21/2005 02:30 AM
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they do grow in Florida - if it survives and fruits in Orlando is probably questionable.
I have several 2 year olds started from seed of fruit purchased locally. No variety name, but if I recall correctly the label did say Florida. The fruit was smooth skinned with thumb print dimples. Like the squamosa, they get ratty looking through winter. The squamosa are 4 yrs old now and I did get flowering but no fruit set this past summer. The cherimola have already exceed the squamosa in height and seem not to tend to branch as much as the squamosa do. here is a photo of Cherimoya growth in early summer of past year ------------------------- OinO Otto in Orlando |
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01/21/2005 05:01 AM
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Everyone knows about hand pollinating annonas, right? I hand pollinate my sugar apple and cross it with my atemoya to get more fruit set. Maybe the cherimoya has a problem being pollinated, or needs a cross pollinater???
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01/22/2005 04:34 AM
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CentralFloridave - "Everyone knows about hand pollinating annonas, right?"
Well - for my part - sorta Have read about how to and timing etc. but still don't 'get it'. Will be trying hard again this year. Is this something that has been exhaustively discussed already? Should I be searching the archives? ------------------------- OinO Otto in Orlando |
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01/22/2005 05:57 AM
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The sugar apple/atemoya have different flowering timing, so it basically is like this:
A single flower is first a male then a female. Sometimes, depending on the variety, it is female in the morning then male later on in the day, or next day. Or opposite, male in the morning, then turning female. You need to collect the pollen when it is male. Use a small paint brush and put it in a camera film case, close up and keep in fridge until you see the female flower. When it is female, use the brush and 'paint' inside the female with the pollen collected the day before. There is probably a good website that describes this better with photos. I do this and it works well and I get more fruit set. ------------------------- surf forecast |
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