I am very excited. My sugar apple has been blooming. I checked today and I have a nickle sized fruit on it. Yadda out.

That's great! Any pics? How old and big is your tree? My two are 3 yrs old and bloomed for the first time as well. They are in a greenhouse and I did not bother to try and hand pollenate them so no fruit for me.

I am assuming the tree is grafted. I bought it at a fruit tree sale here in Houston in January. The tree is probably two to three years old. I probably should take the fruit off, but I can't bring myself to do it. I will try to take pictures this weekend and post. Most of my citrus and fig trees have fruit so I will try to document some of what I have on hand. Yadda out.

Sugar apple can bear fruit within a couple of years from seed. I planted several in the Philippines when I was a kid. It is usually the first fruits that are the best and the biggest, which I think is due to the fact that we don't fertilize them nor thin them out. If I would do it again, I would do it properly to sustain big fruits, we used to plant fruit trees mostly via seeds and let them be.

Yeah...mine was grown from seed that I brought back from a Thailand trip. Being in the greenhouse, I'm having pollenation issues. There weren't enough blooms coming on at the same time where I could see both male and female stages. I finally did yesterday and tried my hand with two blooms. I give my chances as slim to none on being successful. This will be an issue with many of my plants. Just something I'll have to learn to overcome hopefully.

Hey Joe...you've mentioned before about fruit trees and your childhood. Was this something you were interested in at an early age?

There will be no current picture forthcoming. The fruit fell off the tree. I suspect if not because of the young age of the plant then it may be because of all of the rain we have been receiving recently.

The TV stations today had some really cool live pictures of a water spout near Galveston. It kept bobbing up and down from the clouds. Yadda out.

Not getting too excited yet but it seems as though two are starting to develop... both on the same plant. We'll see.

Is this sugar apple a Cherimoya? I know, Dumb question LOL -- hey, I just woke up.

Patty, they're different species belonging to the same genus, also closely related to paw paws. If you rub all their leaves and smell them, they almost smell the same peculiar medicinal aroma. the sugar apple is not as frost hardy as cherimoya.

Sugar apple: Annona squamosa
Cherimoya: Annona cherimola

Thanks Joe, I didn't know Cherimoya is frost hardy! I read they weren't. I keep mine in pots & they come in for winter. The Paw Paws can take our winters here - they are planted inground. Was hoping for some blossoms on all this year, but... nothing

Yadda-I most likely purchased my sugar apple at the same sale as you did. But mine sure was acting strange, as it did not leaf out untill the end of May(for your more northern people most things leaf out in mid March-early April here)

It was so late that I almost gave up on it and dug it up. But in the back of my head I remember reading something about sugar apples having delayed emergence for some cause or condition. I could not recall what caused it, only that it could happen. Maybe someone could fill me in on the delayed emergence of sugar apples?

It now is very very slowing growing out.

Selkirk

My two sugar apple fruit are forming nicely and look as though they will go the distance. Are there any supplements that I should be feeding the tree during this time for best development and taste? Thanks