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.
I think you meant to post it in another community ;)
But congratulations :)
Yes, thank you for mentioning this or I would not have realized what I was doing wrong
You should post over in Plants!
I can’t actually find a… sublemmy? named ‘Plants’, is there a more complete link you can provide?
Put
plantsin 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
thanks the direct link worked perfectly, subscribed
Cherimoya is SO tasty! Very cool.
