Atemoya for sale – Easy plant to grow with edible fruits, also grown for the ornamental leaves and for the structure of the tree, planting in spring to autumn and better to buy plant or grafted tree or another option to start from seeds yet more challenging.
Atemoya – information before buying:
Growing information: perennial plant, growing hardiness zone: 10+, water needed – average amount, light conditions – full sun to partial shade, height: 2-10 m, 6-30 feet.
Blooming in the spring to summer in bowl shaped flowers that appear in green-yellowish color.
Fruit harvesting in the summer to autumn in shapeless to round shaped fruits that appear in white inside color.
Fruit can be used for: Eaten raw, juice, cakes, jam
Alternative names: Annona × cherimoya, Annona squamosa × Annona cherimola, Custard apple, Annon, Chirimorinon
Atemoya for sale – Seeds or plants
Atemoya for sale – What need to know before buying Atemoya plant? What is the season to buy Atemoya plant?
Atemoya for sale
Atemoya for sale – need to know before buying Atemoya plant that it’s fruit tree hybrid between Sugar apple and Cherimoya, the tree need full sun, average amount of water, 3-8 m, but better keep it small in order to make hand pollination there is problem with pollination, season for seeds can be all the year but keep them in dark, dry, room temperature to cool place, sow in in the spring, for plant better in the spring, possible early summer.
Varieties –
African pride – the taste is considered better than Gefner. For a good fruit yield, manual pollination is required.
Bradley – manual pollination is necessary for a good yield
Elly – The fruits ripe earlier than Gefner. The texture is creamy and reminds pear.
Gefner – is a very productive Israeli cultivar and is one of the most satisfactory variety. It does not require manual pollination and produces good quality fruit. The fruits reach 450 grams and are well formed. The carpels are narrow and pointed. The pulp is white, juicy and resistant, that is, it does not allow the passage of a spoon. When chewing, the consistency looks like a chewing gum. The fruit is really sweet.
Impresa – are large fruits, with few seeds, fast growing and high fertility. The skin is covered with halos like the scales of a reptile or fingerprints. They have a sweet and juicy pulp.
Loevis – the skin is smooth and smooth.
Malamud – is a pink Israeli variety. The fruit yield is lower than Gefner.
Mamillata – characterized by its large size and smooth skin. It contains few seeds. The fruit is tasty and very fragrant.
Priestly – the fruits are very large
Rosando Perez – is one of the first Atemoya varieties
Tuberculata – is late ripening. The fruit is medium sized.
Umbonata – is a medium-sized and tasty fruit that contains many seeds. This fruit doesn’t handle transportation.
Uses – the fruit can be eaten raw or be used as a flavoring agent for ice-cream and beverages. The plant can be used as rootstock for cultivars.
Location – Full sun
Soil – well drained soil with a slightly acidic to neutral pH (6 to 7). Soil can be sandy to sandy loam.
Temperature – Frost resistant
Propagation –by seeds, by grafting or by cutting. The seeds usually germinate in a month.
Watering – Slightly soak the soil few times a week. Atemoya roots will rot if they sit too long in water. Mucky soil will lately kill the tree.
Fertilizer – When watering.
Harvesting – generally it will take 4 years to a grafted tree to bear fruits. The fruit is mature when the skin color switches from green to light green- yellow and can be taken from the tree. The fruits will totally mature in few days at temperature outside the refrigerator.
Pruning – In the spring to keep a height until 7-10 meters (25-30feet). Pruning helps light penetration as a mature tree has a dense canopy.
Pest and diseases – Mealy bugs, Philephedra scale, fruits flies
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