What the heck are sugar apples? I've never even heard of them! (I'm really ignorant about some of the exotic sounding fruits you guys grow!)

Marcia

I don't think mine are quite ripe yet, but I keep watching it. Thanks for the heads up. I can't wait to try it. ;o)

Marcia, Lisa will have to give you some infor on it. It is a fruit I am growing for the first time.

I've been checking mine daily, still not ready, including my atemoyas. Should be this month though. Both my trees had a splitting problem last year. Not sure if its always excess water, but uneven watering sometimes. Very much looking forward to them. Last year mine were splitting and didn't taste very good at all.

Marcia, they're from the annona family, which contains our native pond apple. They are widely considered one of the better tasting fruit available. Cherimoya is from the same family. Pawpaws are related also, but not as closely. The fruit is bumpy, usually green, tastes custardy sweet, decent amount of seeds which you don't eat.

Let us know how yours taste Lisa, that's great.

Gary

Here is a photo of one of mine, Marcia, from last year. Currently I'm picking Green ones, the Reds are not ripe yet.
They also come in Golden(G).

Aren't they a beautiful fruit!?

Lisa

Thanks for the info, guys! Wow, they ARE pretty, Lisa...I would love a big bowl of them on the table. Wonderful texture and color. I'm a "tart" fruit person, myself...eating only Granny Smith apples and preferring grapefruit to oranges...so I don't know whether I'd like the flavor or not, until I try one. But I sure do love the look.

Thanks again for enlightening me, everyone!

Marcia

Wow yours is so much larger than mine...I've got one the size of a walnut and one the size of a lime. Oh well maybe next year.

I call my sugar apples my splatt fruit. I walk by them and they are very solid and green. As I'm walking away I hear a soft thud behind me as another splatt fruit has ripened and fell from the tree.

Marcia,

Google soursop. They're related to SA and are an awesome blend of sour and tasty. I take a bite and think, wow that's too tart, but when I'm done downing that bite, I want more!

You'd probably need to raise it in a pot to protect it in winter.

Gary

i would love to have some sugar apple seeds, i don't have anything to trade just yet, but i would send the stamps for postage. thanks.

It was full of seeds, but the taste of the fruit was good. Are they always like that? Like a pomgranite only the seeds were hard. I had to spit them out.

Most have a moderate amount of seeds. The seeds are toxic, not edible, so I'm glad you spit them out. There should have been lots more flesh than a Pomegranate. Did you let the fruit get soft? How large was the fruit?

Lisa

Mine are still hanging on the trees, not ripe yet.
The trees are small yet, being in the ground only since spring. There are only a few, and I probably should not have let them hold any fruit this year, but they're so cute!
It's hard to believe the red sugar apples were seeds only a couple years ago.

Ok, maybe it wasn't ripe enough. It was the size of a small apple, maybe 3 inches acrossed. There is another one, I'll leave it much longer and see what happens. This new one wasn't as far along.:o)

Katkin, it should feel soft and rubbery when ripe. The segments should be juicy, tender, and almost melt in your mouth. They have a sugary, delicate, milky taste.

See how in the photo the fruit almost looks lit from within? The segments of bumps get light areas around them, in the creases.

Lisa

Lisa, I thought it looked like that, but maybe it needed more time. I think it was smaller then the one in your picture, to me that looks like the size of a baseball.

If anyone needs Sugar Apple seeds, I have plenty of Green ones, with Red (Kampong Mauve) available soon. This plant is one that should be used more! Small, attractive, and can fruit in 2 years or less.

I'll have Atemoya(Geffner and 4826) seeds soon too.

Lisa

Do you have any red and green sugar apple cuttings.

Thanks

ezhil