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.
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
Cherimoya is SO tasty! Very cool.
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 ![email protected]You might need to wait a few seconds for it to pop up.
If all else fails, go to https://lemmy.world/c/[email protected] 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