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Posted by plummy 9b nor-cal (My Page) on Thu, Sep 29, 05 at 20:09
I was wondering if its possible to bonzi any type of annona. I want to bonzi sugar apple the most, but just a fruiting bonzi annona would be cool.
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RE: bonzi annona
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| First of all, it is spelled BONSAI :o) Now, how much do you want to follow the bonsai "rules" or are you just interested in keeping it short? |
RE: bonzi annona
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| More short then bonsai I don't think it will grow outside where I live, but If I keep it short it could go in my greenhouse. |
RE: bonzi annona
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Hi
Sounds like you really want to dwarf the tree rather than Bonsai?? Any woody type plant can be dwarfed but it results in all the features being dwarfed also. The flowers ,fruit
and other features will also be reduced.
Probably your best bet would be to look for grafted dwarf types.Don't know if they have them in Sugar apple but they do with many types of tropical fruits.
Look at some specialty nursuries that keep fruit trees.
gary |
RE: bonzi annona
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| Where do you live in Nor Cal? I'd try it in a pot here in Sacramento, then the few days that it actually gets close to freezing, I could bring it in... |
RE: bonzi annona
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| ok. I remeber hearing somewhere there was an annona root stock you could graft on to dwarf cherimoya,and other moyas I live in sonoma it will get down to 25 one rare year it snowed! not very much, but way to much cold for tropicals. THat was the first snow in like 30 sumthin year or so. Oh and has anyone taisted an of the tree atemoya? I have a small fruit growing on my tree.thanks fo tha help :) |
RE: bonsai annona
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- Posted by tapla z5b-6a MI (My Page) on
Tue, Oct 4, 05 at 17:27
| Gary - plants grown in containers can have the leaves & distance between leaves (internodes) reduced in size/length respectively by using techniques common to bonsai culture, but fruit/bloom size cannot be reduced by these techniques. Trees other than genetic dwarfs that are reduced in size by grafting to a less vigorous root stock still exhibit the same size blooms and fruit as the parent source of the scion. Dwarf trees don't yield dwarf blooms/fruit unless the source of the dwarfing mechanism is genetic. Al |
RE: bonzi annona
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| Plummy, how big do Sugar Apples get where you are? They are small trees here in Florida, plenty small enough to grow in a greenhouse. I have two adult trees, and neither is over 7' tall. I recently found three adult trees loaded with fruit, outside a local restaurant- they were small enough that I had to duck under the foliage, and I could easily reach the fruit. Here, they are "little" trees. In containers, I would think it would be easy to keep them even smaller.
Lisa |
RE: bonzi annona
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- Posted by Eggo z10soCal LBC (My Page) on
Sun, Oct 9, 05 at 14:50
Plummy, like Lisa says, sugar apples are rather small trees compared to other fruit trees. You can get one to grow and fruit in a container, even from seeds. A cherimoya will definitely need more space and extremely difficult to get a seedling to mature in a pot. Unless its grafted. Cherimoyas get large, I just recently pruned about 8ft off the top of my tree. Filled up a whole trash can.
I never had an atemoya, but its growth habit is intermediate between the two. Some types may grow large and some may stay small. I seen some that looked exactly like a sweetsop in growth habit. There are some Atemoya X cherimoya seedlings I have. A few has small sweetsop leaves but most has large cherimoya like leaves. |
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