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Sugar apple.

Nice, good luck with your trees.

Hi betty, I live in santa maria and I bought 2 strawberry papayas at lowes! We are zone 10 down here now!

I forget about that method. I just bought some new seeds. Got 5 in the ground, I’ll try the paper towel method with the rest.

Thanks. Should be or else, return n refund. 😅

Fertilizes every 6 weeks n no prune yet this season. I was thinking of pruning them a bit to stimulate growth. I hardly got any new growth this season so far on my red flesh.

@thenoobgardener I would try pruning away short, undesirable branches. You may want to tip about 1 inch from the long branches. Make sure your fertilizer is powerful enough for such a bulky plant. I would fertilize more often during fruiting season--about twice a month. Make sure your water is adequate too. Several years ago, I had an issue with lethargically growing plants. My friend, Vin, also grows DF. He told me that he sprinkles about a tablespoon of 10-10-10 around each flower pot every couple of weeks and gets abundant growth and flowers. I tried his method and got the same results.

Nice, I will give that a try. Could be that I’m not feeding enough.

I see, it's was the only one in my yard. Fruits are getting big already this year so I'll wait and see what they look like when ripened.

Yes, homedepot soil. I do have left over sands so I'll add it on my next Mango.

No need. Soil is pretty well drained. 5 years ago, I waited, but not anymore. 😅

Thank you

Wow, thanks for the detailed suggestions. I’ll give that a try next year on my next mango.

It took about a month after the foliage spray and water increase for buds to come out.

The papaya videos are on my channel somewhere. 😅

No, I’ve tried before and it did not work.

Thx Sir

Yea…..

I’m not sure. First time hearing and have never seen a flower with no pollens. It could be a special variety and needs cross pollination.

Thanks

Nice, it's good to hear that it can fruit in a pot. Good luck to both of us.

Good luck, Dragon Fruit needs a lot of sunlight to produce.

@@thenoobgardener what if the sun is too strong to whewr it starts melting the flesh and it rots down to the core what do I do then do you still think it needs a lot of sunlight then ??

@@23dannyt Then maybe a sun sail right over it to shade the mid day sun. I'm in Socal and mine are under the sun all day without shades. My red flesh does get sun burn here and there. I prune it when it happens if I want my canopy to look good or leave it, the inner core is still there so it's still alive. They grow quick so I wouldn't stress too much. Anyhow, dragon fruit needs lots of sunlight to bud and reproduce.

@@thenoobgardener dam I’m 4000 feet high so cal idk what I’m doing wrong Mann I give them all the nutrients I water them not to little not too much it’s such a head scratcher I don’t know how to get it to fruit for nothing year 3 I’ll post on my channel I have this obsession to bring this tropical fruit to the high desert but it’s been real trouble some always new grown but hard to get flowers if I get them they usually Abbort I had my first Vietnam white flower and it aborted idk why , like a week after pollination it was green and just lost its mojo I guess I have too many varieties in big pots too stop now but it’s just sad that it fell off today I really thought it was about to get a fruit this time it was looking promising and it aborted I try so so hard I guess I gotta try harder . It sucks seeing everyone pop Off with it and I have multiple plants that are 2-300 pound n 25 gallon pots with trellis I fertilize with bloom granulated and fertilizer, I don’t know what I’m doing wrong such a struggle in the high desert Victorville 😭I will do it successfully one day

It is. It needs to be super yellow to be ready. It got a little sweet toward the end of the season.

Not sure who the like came from, but is that a "yes" to my question?

​@@cuongha2531 Yes, I responded yesterday by YT did not save my response. You can prune it anytime really. If you're doing it in the middle of Summer, maybe prune 1/3 of what you would do in the Spring max. Also note that new fruits set won't be ready until April/May the following year.

@@thenoobgardener Ok, thanks! I live in Texas and we've been getting 1-2 day freezes here late winter so I guess the fruits won't survive through that anyway.

@@cuongha2531 I’d still try. Won’t hurt. 😅

Thank you for sharing your knowledge and experiences. I will try this on one of my atemoya.

Good luck with your tree. Sometimes at the beginning of the season, it’s harder for the buds to set.

AP is a solid tree and is properly my fav ATM. Good luck with your tree!

Yes, cherimoya, atemoya, sugar apple. You can cross pollinate them all.

What I am having fruiting right now is sugar apple and I start having interest in cherimoya and atemoya couple months ago I have a question for you. If I use the pollen of cherimoya , pollinating to sugar apple tree, and the fruit set, I will call this fruit A, if I use the seed of fruit A to germinate new tree, and it has fruit, I will call this fruit B. Will fruit B have the flavor and texture as fruit A? Hope you will understand my question

@@dylanlandis493 I have not tried it so I don’t know the answer to your question. We do know that sugar apple is true to seed, meaning fruits from a germinated seed will taste like the mother plant. However, cherimoya is not, so I’m not sure with this combination. What I do know is, if you use atemoya or cherimoya pollens to pollinate a sugar apple, the fruit will look like a sugar apple. So, in that essence, fruit B may taste exactly like fruit A.

@@thenoobgardener thank you

@@SoxInTheGarden good luck with your tree!

No, unfortunately, the tree was already dead so the branch was not alive when I tried to root it.

@@thenoobgardener too bad. I recently put several sticks in pots, so I’m waiting to see if any of them take root. It’s only a week and a half, so it’s early still.

Good luck! I’ll try again next year. My new tree is still too small.

Yes to keep it at manageable size. It did great last season after the prune. Check out my latest video on it. This season I did not prune as much bc parts of the tree died over the winter.

NICE! I would love to try different varieties but I just don't have space for them all, nor spend the money to get one :)

Where do you live?

@@EffectivePickyEatersSolutions ? I’m in Huntington Beach, CA.

@SomeKoolPlace where do you live?

@@EffectivePickyEatersSolutions Hawaii

Good question. I’m as dumbfounded as you are. Could be a bad airlayerd branch, who knows. Regardless, my new guava is looking good with lots of new growth.😅

I water my tree once a week. As long as the soil is moist and no standing water, it shouldn’t matter how often you water it.

Thank you

Atemoya would be first if we're strictly talking about flavor (lots of varieties out there). They are big, meaty (depending on the variety), super sweet and juicy. Cherimoya would be last. For me, I prefer sugar apples because that was what I grew up with :).

​@@thenoobgardener Thanks! I bought an atemoya and cherimoya but I was thinking of buying a sugar apple

@@angelherrera9952 I see. Sugar Apple is harder if you’re in a cooler region. Good luck with your trees!

The video doesn’t work for you?

Yes, you can even use sugar apple’s pollens. They are all interchangeable.

@@thenoobgardener awesome thank you 🙏

Nice, I'm still trying to get a Mango Tree off the ground...it has been 5 years and 3 trees....

@@thenoobgardener Manila rootstock and graft is the only way I would grow any mango. Corriente and Alfonso also works.

@@Atemoya26 I see, I’ll look into that for my next mango. Thanks.

I see, that makes sense.

No, first time I heard of that variety.

No, I only feed it with general fertilizers.

Yes, but they go away after awhile. The only thing that is really a bother is Aphids.

@@thenoobgardener thanks, they never go away here and spraying Neem and/or mixed with permethrin didn’t work (applied every four days) maybe it rains too much here. I’m going to put in some starfruit since that’s something we don’t have. You’ve been tremendously helpful.

3 years. One of my friends tried. Not sure if the fruit is true to the mother plant. I didn’t taste the fruit so I’m sure how good it was.

@@thenoobgardener thank you for your response

I have not tried it that way but I’m sure you can. Just not sure how long it will survive and how vigorous. Might be best to get some cherimoya seeds and start your own rootstock. As for the scions, I don’t really have time to sell ATM. There are plenty of other sellers on eBay and Etsy that you can buy from. I bought a bunch this season.

16-16-16 general fertilizer from Home Depot. Also a high phosphorus fertilizer in the spring when it first started to send out buds.

@@thenoobgardener thank you!

Check out my video below. th-cam.com/video/rNRhongYnT8/w-d-xo.html

Soil should be moist. I deep water mine once a week at the moment. Used to be twice a week when it was younger. Also, I have a lot of pavers where it's at so water is retained a bit longer.

@@thenoobgardener Thanks. my cherimoya tree this year has tremendous amount of flower buds, do you thin out buds on your tree, and to what extend...3 buds per stem or ??

Keep the buds until they bloom and set once you have pollinated them. I would thin out the fruits because some will be deformed and some might not set in the location where you wanted. Once they have all set, you can then decide how to thin. Normally, 1-2 fruits per branch, but it's the overall tree that determines how many fruits it can handle. If you watched my other Atemoya videos, my trees can hold 25 fruits each comfortably. I can push it to 30-40 easily, but then, what am I going to do with the fruits?

@@thenoobgardener I'll take them off of your hands if you have too many😁. but seriously, what do you mean by "might not set in the location where I wanted"? If I want as many fruits as my tree can handle, why it matters where the fruits are located on the tree? thanks agin

Typically, you would want to set fruits on a thick branch and close to the body of the tree. These get big and can snap the branch if you set at the end of a flimsy branch. So lets say you have 3 buds in anideal location and you decided to thin two, what if the third bud does not set? or no pollens when it blooms?