i planted a suebelle white sapote in the ground last spring and it had flowered late autumn/early winter but didn’t hold any fruit since it was getting cold and then when i had a bad freeze in january it totally defoliated and i lost a lot of thin branches even though it was protected (now i know to protect it better next winter). since spring it has bounced back well and has a bigger canopy than last year. hasn’t flowered yet. i have a redlands in a pot that flowered and has little fruitlets.
and i have a vernon also in a pot that has flower buds now
so i am confused because i thought they flower in the winter but i’m not really sure now. i have two seedlings in pots that are too young to flower, probably both are about 2-3 years old. i’m not sure i want to keep them since i am running out of room. i’d sell them but only local pick up because it’s too expensive to ship. i’m in the coastal FL panhandle if anyone is looking for seedling white sapote trees.
Unfortunately you are a little too far for me otherwise I would go and pick them up. I will probably be buying some seeds soon to grow them out for grafting in a couple of years.
I have a number of white sapote seedlings that I started from seeds. The seeds came from fruit I got at our local farmers market and from fruit I ate at fruit and spice park. I could give you 1 or 2 sharq. I think I’m not too far from you.
my in-ground white sapote (suebelle) has several flower panicles now, i didn’t think it would flower at all because how much i had to cut it back from freeze damage
don’t laugh! these are my first white sapote fruits from my redlands grafted potted tree. the tree is very small still so i’m surprised it even fruited though as you can see the fruit are minuscule compared to what they’re supposed to be. the fruits were not only edible but delicious! they were super creamy with a vanilla and banana flavor. i peeled the skin and spit out 3 or so tiny flat seeds.
Did you ever get any fruit set on your Suebelle? I’m in 9a (Tucson, AZ), and planted a Rainbow in 2013. I have since grafted on Redlands and Suebelle, and more recently Max Golden. It gets cold enough in my yard to kill flowers and fruitlets if they aren’t protected, but I covered it one year and got lots of fruit from Redlands and Rainbow; Suebelle bloomed like crazy but set no fruit. This year all four have bloomed, and all have fruitlets except Suebelle-- the flowers just fall to the ground. Anyone have a suggestion for getting Suebelle to set fruit?
no fruit from my suebelle or vernon. but redlands (potted) in my greenhouse is flowering and fruiting again. suebelle is flowering again as well (in ground) but even if i protect it from freezing temps. this winter i doubt i will get fruit. i think in my climate white sapotes need to be potted up in the greenhouse for the winter.
How are your white sapote doing? I had planted a MacDill in the fall that was still very small and i think it died in our unusually bad freeze. Probably only because it was so small and recently planted. It being grafted probably was part of it as well. I have two other seedlings that are just as small that I planted at the same time that did just fine totally unprotected.
mine totally defoliated and has several dead stems, i dug it out and potted it up because the winters here are too harsh (did bad last winter as well), even though it’s still alive, i won’t get fruit because it fruits in the winter, so it’s going to spend the rest of its life in a pot, along with starfruit which also fruits in winter. got 6 starfruits this year. and my banana racks survived because i wrapped them up very well, better than the rest of the in ground tropicals.
