finally my cherimoya tree has its first fruitlet

This in-ground grafted 'El Bumpo' tree is 3-4 years old and requires regular pruning to avoid hitting the greenhouse ceiling, but has yet to produce any fruitlets until now. Cherimoya unfortunately requires hand-pollination to set fruit, and even worse the flowers & pollen are only viable for a few hours... and I only even bother to try paintbrush pollination when I am already out there and see some fresh flowers.

If this fruit is not fantastic I'm digging this whole tree up and replacing with a Geffner atemoya I already have in a pot that is a better producer, without any hand pollination.

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INeedMana@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 3y (1 reply)

I think you meant to post it in another community ;)

But congratulations :)

tlongstretch@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 3y

Yes, thank you for mentioning this or I would not have realized what I was doing wrong

DulceMaria@lemmy.one · 2 pts · 3y

Cherimoya is SO tasty! Very cool.

Doombot1@lemmy.one · 1 pts · 3y (3 replies)

You should post over in Plants!

tlongstretch@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 3y (2 replies)

I can't actually find a... sublemmy? named 'Plants', is there a more complete link you can provide?

INeedMana@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 3y (1 reply)

Put plants in the search and you should see !plants@lemmy.ml
You might need to wait a few seconds for it to pop up.

If all else fails, go to https://lemmy.world/c/plants@lemmy.ml directly. It's a federated link that points to plants community on lemmy.ml, viewed through lemmy.world which recognises you as logged in, so you can subscribe

tlongstretch@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 3y

thanks the direct link worked perfectly, subscribed