Dr. Jonathan Crane of the Tropical Research and Education Center in Homestead, Florida talks about growing Sugar Apple trees. The main website for TREC is: trec.ifas.ufl.edu/
i cannot believe i bought ORMI listed fertilizers i feel bad just garbage i bought when i coulda spent it on compost and organic worm castings and organic teas
Lol, I can see why my custard apple tree is doing so badly. I did not prune back the long branches, thinking that the fruit are borne on older branches! Thank God I came upon this most helpful video. THANK YOU and God bless you.
I've been hand- pollinating my cherimoya here in Cali for the past week. It helps to have different varieties because my flowers open simultaneously. I have cherimoya knight and Chaffey variety. One has male flowers when the bother have female flowers open vice versa but currently only the Knight variety have mature flowers so I've been using it's pollen to pollinate it. And they most annonas have the same type of flower except for the soursop that have a different looking flower. I do notice some flowers that I didn't hand pollinate set fruit which I think it's the ants that do that .
I have ants and scale on my one cherimoya, three sour sop and several sugar apples they are a real pain, I use a hose with good pressure regularly to slow them down.
Good topic but i need MORE. Seeing pollination (male - female) will be great. But how about doing one covering from seed and cutting to pots to in ground to pollination? I have one about a year old and have no clue what to do for it or when it should go in ground.
Dude it's a one year old....do what you'd do with any one year old tree lol. Sugar apples are "tropical" so unless you live in a tropical region or have built/planning to build a greenhouse large enough to cover in ground trees, putting it in ground should be nowhere near your concerns, especially with a one year old tropical tree. If not, you just up-pot them as needed. It's only a year old, don't make it harder than it already is lol👌🏾
Mine hasn’t pushed out leaves for 7 months even now as we get to the hot days it still hasn’t pushed leaves. Do I just consider it dead? The branches don’t feel dry, they can bend. What should I do?
Thank you for your video. Where is your farm located at, Florida? Question: I have some sugar apples trees to the ground. Now, most of the leaves are dark burned, why?
I am in west palm beach the video was made in homestead. The leaves fall off in the winter sometimes but get black before they do. But could be other reasons also maybe
@@FruitfulTrees I knew you had to be lower than zone 10b. The people who lived in Lehigh acres Florida ( fort myers area) were in zone 10 b, and even so they lost their entire crop. I love planting sugar apples, but they can be picky buggers. I’ve been getting a little weary of hand pollinating them, do you have any way to encourage those beetles to come in a regular basis?
@@nobull772 Leaving the area around the tree messy/mulched and feed the inulid beetles rotting fruit. If you have native pawpaw/asimina you may get other types of pollinators depending on your area.
Im in zone 9a/9b all of my sugarapples handled the freeze like a champ 29° thick ice came back a bit later an flowering a bit later but holding fruits an doing well even icecreambean an peanutbutterfruit came back good. Only things i wont try again is Yellowsapote,Camito,Cacao so far.
@4:30 You need bees. We needs bees. Why would any grower or gardener discuss pollination without mentioning the natural pollinators and the chemicals that kill them. Rule number 1: We need to be one with nature.
Its much more than just bees here in Florida we get a wide variety of pollinators. Ive personally never seen a bee go near my sugarapple flowers. And you can lose your pollinators just from trying to control nature without the use of chemicals.
Interesting topic but this could be a much better video if there are more demonstrations. I would learn more from a video showing the applications. Otherwise, I would be reading from books for information rather than listen mostly from talking points
Do you know that you have a horribly rude habit of cutting people off when they are talking? I love your videos, but this happens in all of them and I can't stand that behavior. I'm from NYC and find that very disrespectful. Just my 2 cents...
You have options….either continue watching, don’t watch anymore, or make your own videos. He is the interviewer, producer, videographer, editor, etc…. He’s trying to get a certain amount of information out of people within a specified amount of time and sometimes he may need to lead people in the direction he sees fit. The one thing I see all across CZcams is people that make it their priority to belittle other people’s work but they will never make their own videos. Reminds me of welfare recipients who do nothing to contribute to society but will complain if there are potholes on the road.
@@MrThumper1440 Triggered much? I'm sorry that it took you a whole 3 weeks to read my paragraph. I guess some people are slower than others..... Anyway, you can choose not to read my comment. Being rude and cutting people off in a video is just as rude as doing it when not filming. Makes no difference to me. I know I can choose to stop watching. I can do whatever I feel like. If I like the content but don't like disrespect, I am free to say so. This is America. If you do not like that, go move to another country where opinions and freedom of speech are not tolerated, commie..... 😒
You can watch his videos or you can find another channel. There's nothing rude about about someone reiterating the question when the person being asked isn't answering the questions directly. It's called redirection.
@Free_Falastin2024 same applies to you. If you don't like the comments or others opinions, you can either not read them, or mind your own business. Cutting someone off is exactly that, rude. I'm guessing that you have that in common and are defending someone with that bad trait. You simply do not talk over someone, end of story.
This fellow is a wealth of knowledge; love your videos with him.
I'm glad that we didn't have to pollinate our star apple trees, we had plenty of fruits when growing up in the Philippines.
Love the video I have 5 different sugar apple trees and never have pollinate. All my trees are loaded and some have broken limbs from so many fruit.
Nice... What fertilizer do u give them
Mine too
What an informative video. Much thanks to you both!!!
Another great video,good useful information.Thank you Paul 🙂
Thank you for the video and Dr Johnathan Crane. It’s very informative and clear
i cannot believe i bought ORMI listed fertilizers i feel bad just garbage i bought when i coulda spent it on compost and organic worm castings and organic teas
Very useful tips . Thank you for sharing in this video.
excellent source of information, thank you
This is so interesting and helpful.
Lol, I can see why my custard apple tree is doing so badly. I did not prune back the long branches, thinking that the fruit are borne on older branches! Thank God I came upon this most helpful video. THANK YOU and God bless you.
Love it! Thank you! Great information. 🌴
Good content right here straight to the point
I've been hand- pollinating my cherimoya here in Cali for the past week. It helps to have different varieties because my flowers open simultaneously. I have cherimoya knight and Chaffey variety. One has male flowers when the bother have female flowers open vice versa but currently only the Knight variety have mature flowers so I've been using it's pollen to pollinate it. And they most annonas have the same type of flower except for the soursop that have a different looking flower. I do notice some flowers that I didn't hand pollinate set fruit which I think it's the ants that do that .
I have ants and scale on my one cherimoya, three sour sop and several sugar apples they are a real pain, I use a hose with good pressure regularly to slow them down.
Love it
The wife and I always do our tree by hand. We get some apples the size of grapefruits. Just ordered a san Pablo Red Apple tree can't wait. Nice vid!!!
love it you have great info ❤
Amazing farm I like the trees 🌳 and place👍
Good topic but i need MORE. Seeing pollination (male - female) will be great. But how about doing one covering from seed and cutting to pots to in ground to pollination? I have one about a year old and have no clue what to do for it or when it should go in ground.
Dude it's a one year old....do what you'd do with any one year old tree lol. Sugar apples are "tropical" so unless you live in a tropical region or have built/planning to build a greenhouse large enough to cover in ground trees, putting it in ground should be nowhere near your concerns, especially with a one year old tropical tree.
If not, you just up-pot them as needed.
It's only a year old, don't make it harder than it already is lol👌🏾
@@ThatStevenLouis dude you’re obviously an expert. Where can i see your videos on sugar apples?
I try those fruits before it’s delicious 👍 wish I can grow them here in N.C
What an interesting content.
Good morning sir
Please take up a programme on identifying male and female flowers and how to do hand pollination in a practical way
Sugar apples, my favorite fruit
Good video ,- would never have known about hand pollination. How long does a tree grown from seed take to flower & fruit?
I wonder what are the best tasting cross pollinations for annonas…Rollinia & Lisa atemoya would be interesting 👀
Thanks 🌱
Gotta love it I been doing that as a rookie and boom all my trees are booominh
Mine hasn’t pushed out leaves for 7 months even now as we get to the hot days it still hasn’t pushed leaves. Do I just consider it dead? The branches don’t feel dry, they can bend. What should I do?
Do you pollinate all of them? My tree just about 3” inches and died! 😭 can anyone tell me how to take care of it, how often to water it, please!
Thank you for your video. Where is your farm located at, Florida?
Question: I have some sugar apples trees to the ground. Now, most of the leaves are dark burned, why?
I am in west palm beach the video was made in homestead. The leaves fall off in the winter sometimes but get black before they do. But could be other reasons also maybe
Sometimes leaves look burned from stress due to replanting, cold weather, or possibly lack of water to name a few reasons.
Shalom ❤️🙏🏻
So once you pollinate the female flower . Does the female flower still turn into a male flower when fully open and can I still collect pollen from it?
Did you do a pollination video?
no yet
Is there a video on him pollinating ?
not yet
Can you prune sugar apple in summer?
Will planting cuttings of sugar apples bear fruit faster?
sugar apple trees do great from seed, i'm not sure about cuttings
Favorite nurseries in South Florida for rare tropical fruits?
All the ones i visit on my channel. Look at my play list nurseries
Where’s all the flower and fruit? LOL, thanks Paul.
How can I get a sour sop to flower earlier in the season
If you find out lite me no I have the same problem
I wonder you can tell us the location of this sugar apple farm?
Thank you.
homestead. the address is under the video
In what state you you grow trees
Where
Where is this? I know a family who lost an entire orchard of sugar apples this passed winter.
Homestead Florida
@@FruitfulTrees I knew you had to be lower than zone 10b.
The people who lived in Lehigh acres Florida ( fort myers area) were in zone 10 b, and even so they lost their entire crop. I love planting sugar apples, but they can be picky buggers. I’ve been getting a little weary of hand pollinating them, do you have any way to encourage those beetles to come in a regular basis?
@@nobull772 Leaving the area around the tree messy/mulched and feed the inulid beetles rotting fruit. If you have native pawpaw/asimina you may get other types of pollinators depending on your area.
Im in zone 9a/9b all of my sugarapples handled the freeze like a champ 29° thick ice came back a bit later an flowering a bit later but holding fruits an doing well even icecreambean an peanutbutterfruit came back good. Only things i wont try again is Yellowsapote,Camito,Cacao so far.
@@catlindarnell2367 Wow, did you use any techniques for them?
My sugar apple leaves are turning all black , what is wrong with this .Even new leaves ,it turns to black color.
What does a female flower look like?
BELO POMAR DE ATEIRAS.
I have one but only produces 1 or 2 fruit
Now I know why lol
@4:30 You need bees. We needs bees. Why would any grower or gardener discuss pollination without mentioning the natural pollinators and the chemicals that kill them. Rule number 1: We need to be one with nature.
Its much more than just bees here in Florida we get a wide variety of pollinators. Ive personally never seen a bee go near my sugarapple flowers. And you can lose your pollinators just from trying to control nature without the use of chemicals.
Interesting topic but this could be a much better video if there are more demonstrations. I would learn more from a video showing the applications. Otherwise, I would be reading from books for information rather than listen mostly from talking points
Too much reputation.
8-10$ lb. is worth it i prefer atemoya though
Do you know that you have a horribly rude habit of cutting people off when they are talking? I love your videos, but this happens in all of them and I can't stand that behavior. I'm from NYC and find that very disrespectful. Just my 2 cents...
You have options….either continue watching, don’t watch anymore, or make your own videos.
He is the interviewer, producer, videographer, editor, etc…. He’s trying to get a certain amount of information out of people within a specified amount of time and sometimes he may need to lead people in the direction he sees fit.
The one thing I see all across CZcams is people that make it their priority to belittle other people’s work but they will never make their own videos. Reminds me of welfare recipients who do nothing to contribute to society but will complain if there are potholes on the road.
@@MrThumper1440 Triggered much? I'm sorry that it took you a whole 3 weeks to read my paragraph. I guess some people are slower than others.....
Anyway, you can choose not to read my comment. Being rude and cutting people off in a video is just as rude as doing it when not filming. Makes no difference to me.
I know I can choose to stop watching. I can do whatever I feel like. If I like the content but don't like disrespect, I am free to say so. This is America. If you do not like that, go move to another country where opinions and freedom of speech are not tolerated, commie..... 😒
agreed i felt Doc might have been avoiding the answer on how long it takes to hand pollinate😅
Glad he kept asking i was very curious aswell.
You can watch his videos or you can find another channel. There's nothing rude about about someone reiterating the question when the person being asked isn't answering the questions directly. It's called redirection.
@Free_Falastin2024 same applies to you. If you don't like the comments or others opinions, you can either not read them, or mind your own business. Cutting someone off is exactly that, rude. I'm guessing that you have that in common and are defending someone with that bad trait. You simply do not talk over someone, end of story.