I have a cherimoya and my soil is sandy and its thriving it's like 9 ft tall and 4 ft wide they grow fast I like how the fruit looks like the skin is like a snake skin very cool tree to have in your collection I live in Southern California
Cherimoyas do have a deep taproot and it's very important for the taproot to develop correctly from a young age. The pot and the time it spent in there most likely stunted root growth and led to the nutrient deficiency and the yellowing of the leaves. Water less often and deeper to promote root growth also add mycorrhizae to the soil when planting and plant in a spot that has old roots in the soil. As seedlings you can fertilize with Willow bark (salicylic acid) an organic rooting hormone, the store bought rooting hormone should not be used on edible plants.
You only shortened the main branch. The remaining branches looked very long and thin. I wonder why you didn’t cut them? This video was a year old, I’m curious to know how your plant is growing now. I just bought a cherimoya plant that looks similar to yours, a bit taller, and many long branches. I’m looking for advices how/when to prune
Thanks for the vid! Just found your channel and love the info! Do you think you’ll try a cutting propagation with El Bumpo? Waiting to see how your greenhouse mango held up!
I wondered why you hadn't propogated the cutting - and, aren't we supposed to make the cut at an angle? Or is it different where it's rainy? I envy you your garden! @@AJTheGraftMan
Hello. Which Lowe's did you find El Bumpo cherimoya? I found it once at the Lowes in long Beach..made the mistake of passing it by. Havent been able to find one since.
Hi AJ. I planted a Cherimoya 6 months ago. Tree is now 4' tall but has developed a lateral branch 12" above the ground. Should I prune off the new side branch in order to maintain a central trunk?
Depends how you want your tree to be shaped. Personally I like lower branches because I can easily pick fruit from them. Some people prefer a classic tree shape though, with a central trunk, etc
I haven’t successfully been able to get them that big in containers. Others have told me the tap root likes to take off and once I planted it in the ground she bounced back
Ok thanks for that . A friend let me put some of my bees on there place. an have big trees one branch to heavy splitting at Y . So I thought I would take it home and try to make grow . Love my garden have grown a lot of everything. So thank you . You know what makes all things grow up and helps root? B1 , seaweed, mushroom bat an worm bird. I go get free droppings under overpasses from pigeons best of luck to you 🍀 two green thumbs 🍀
Doing well. A lot of new growth. 1 small fruit on there now. I’m not sure how long seedling trees take to fruit, but I’ve read that seed grown cherimoya trees usually produce high quality fruit
USA. You can grow cherimoya in a container and keep it indoors in the winter. Might be too cold to grow outdoors in the UK. If you want something like cherimoya to plant outdoors in the ground, you can grow the Paw Paw tree (Asimina Triloba).
@@LostInThisGardenofLife whenever I travel to a new city I always check out the nursery sections of the local Lowe’s and Home Depots, just to compare what they have to my local spots. It’s always fun to do. Believe me, your local Lowe’s likely has some cool stuff that we don’t get out here
My cherimoya quality is very different from previous years. The fruit is very seedy and falls while the fruit is still small. It was not like this in the previous years. This cherimoya tree is more than 20 years old. I had hand pollinated the tree since 2015 and had wonderful quality production between 2015-2021. Every year I had more than 90 fruits with big ones more than 2-1/2 lbs. To say the least, it was delicious. This is the first year I seriously hand pollinated with pollen only without anthers. Before 2022, I pollinated with pollen and anthers because I didn't know better. But this is the first year I have small seedy fruits. What makes seedy fruit? Did I over pollinate causing seeding fruit, touch the base of the flower too many times with too much pollen? What inhibits fruit size and makes fruit fall before it grows big? Thank you,
Could be the tree wants to take a break this year. 6 straight years of 90+ big fruits requires a lot of energy and nutrients from the tree. This might be your tree’s resting year, which is why it will drop fruits, because it can’t use energy to fully mature them. This happens sometimes even to mature trees
Do you have any contacts for Cherimoya growers in Santa Barbara? I heard they use Rove Beetles for Cherimoya pollination. I wonder what species of Rove Beetles they use
@@dbo9984 it is subjective. El Bump is plain flavor and very sweet. It depends by what you rate it BRIX or complexity of flavors. Pierce is generally more liked than El Bumpo. Go to cherimoya tasting events in OC and you will see it by yourself which var samples disappear quickly,
@@greenblood3708 So el bumpo is considered the 'Edward' of cherimoya because of its supreme complex flavor. It is highly perishable due to its thin skin so you may not get the top quality fruit on a sampler plate in the sun that you would with home grown. Pierce is more consistently flavored...but that's it
@@dbo9984 Edward is ok. Not carrier or PPK. Taste is subjective. It is Edward alright. Pierce is Carrie of cherimoya. I personally prefer even Honeyhart over El Bumpo. Samples at OC cherimoya fests from fruit grown onsite or locally grown and picked in the morning. I did not notice any difference in samples from fruit on my own El Bumpo.
