how so? Id think they’d be pretty easy to grow. Pests should be nil due to acetogenins. Pollination may be unreliable, as in other Annonaceous crops like paw paw. Ive tried growing cherimoya and atemoya a few times in containers and they don’t live long for me, really resenting the transitions of seasons and light regimes. They’re fickle in my experience, and unhappy with extremes, but trying to grow here is a big ask, so I guess Im not too surprised. Just wondering what your take is in terms of difficulties.
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Maybe it’s what you’re implying but there are some of these on sale by OC CRFG this weekend. https://www.ocfruit.com/Sale.php
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That’s a really OC cool list of trees, plants and website. Here’s my local CRFG page. Not very enticing.
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Yes! That’s it! I wasn’t sure where folks were located so didn’t post the link. I should have!
That is helpful! Thank you!
Cool, just wanted to make sure 
and to share with others who might not know but are close enough to make it. I’ve asked my Dad to pick me up a couple of trees and drive them up next time he visits, they live a few minutes away from the lot where the sale will be.
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Yes, they do a better job than ours as well. Reminds me of internet in the 90s https://golden-gate.crfg.org/
Sorry for the digression all, back to cherimoyas. One of the specimens I want to get from the OC sale is a cherimoya, which I’ve never grown. It’ll be an experiment to see if it’ll succeed here in USDA 9B, Sunset 14 (near border with 15) east of SF.
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I sprouted 2 cherimoyas last winter. Paper towel method. I planted them in the small pot. I dropped them in and hoping they find their way out from the soil. 1 came up perfectly and the other one crawl like a snake on the soil. I popped open the shell on the one that came up perfectly and I left the other one alone. They survived Winter. The one without the shell made 3 leaves. The one with the shell, died after dropping the shell.
I made 4 more seedlings this year. 3 of them I popped the shell open. 1 of them, I’m going to do nothing and see if i can grow faster with the shell on.
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I planted some seeds last summer and gave a few trees away and kept one in a .5g nursery pot and it didn’t like that. So about a month ago I put it in a 3g nursery pot and it looked pretty good until a few days ago I’m wondering why? The only thing different is we’re getting temps into the 90’s.
These are the same Cherimoya type I planted.
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I assume it’s gonna want shade as a seedling, most tropical seedlings prefer shade or dappled light. Every time I put one in full sun it hates it
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Thanks that makes sense coming from the rainforest and being little. I just moved it on a table under a shade cloth umbrella so it should get about 6 hours morning sun.
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Here are my less than 1 year old cherimoya. Planted from seeds. It got great leaves. It received the morning sun and afternoon shade.
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i am growing cherimoya trees. i have two seedlings, not sure how old they are, my guess is about two years old, one is definitely growing much faster than the other though i think they were close in size when i bought them last year. i read that cherimoyas are impossible to grow in my area (north Florida), but i’m stubborn and want to give it a try. i have a grafted atemoya that has flowered recently but i don’t want to try to hand pollinate it until it’s older.
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How have they done this relatively cold winter for you @californicus ? I had been getting frosts daily for a week or two in Jan and early Feb (near you-- San Ramon).
I have one in a pot that I will plant out this year.