Updated 2/5/24, Oviedo, Florida: This is my on-going documentary of my atemoya trees’ growth progress.

Post Outline:

• General Information
• Geffner Atemoya
• PPC Atemoya
• Lisa Atemoya
• Priestley Atemoya
• African Pride Atemoya
• African Pride 2 Atemoya
• Dream Atemoya (potential rehoming)
• Red Geffner Atemoya (to be added)
• Images of other people’s atemoyas
• Recommended Sellers

General Information

I’m be brief since this documentary primarily focus on my atemoya trees’ growth progress from a 3-gallon grafted branch to a fruiting age tree. Atemoya is a hybrid fruit in the Annona family. Atemoya is the hybrid between a sugar apple and a cherimoya. Keep in mind there are different varieties of sugar apples and different varieties of cherimoyas. When a particular sugar apple variety cross pollinated with a particular cherimoya variety creates that unique named atemoya. Atemoya trees like sugar apple trees, they can start producing quality fruits when grafted. Atemoya seedlings DO NOT GROW TRUE from seeds because atemoya trees are hybrid trees to begin. We can use the atemoya seedlings as a rootstock to graft the named atemoya scions on. Cherimoya rootstock is most commonly used. Sugar apple rootstock can also be used as well. Atemoya trees strive in the ground. From my experience, they are fast growers but we can prune the trees to dwarf the size. Atemoya trees need full sun, about 3 days of watering per week, and do best with fish fertilizer once every two weeks during its growing season. Atemoya leaves turn yellowish brown and looks very ugly during the winter time when they go into dormancy. I strip the leaves off at the end of winter so the tree can gather its energy to produce new healthy green leaves for the coming flowering and fruiting season.

Geffner Atemoya

This Geffner Atemoya tree was purchased from Nick’s Edibles on Facebook in 2019. I planted into the ground in November 2019 near the fence in the backyard. It was just one single continuous long grafted branch. I cut off the branch at 4 feet height so it can branch out more. Then I potted it up because it started to have scales infestations and I didn’t think it was happy in the spot near the fence. New branches shoot out and by July 2020, the side branches were about 3 feet long out. I sold it on Facebook to make room for my Dream Atemoya tree.

Dream Atemoya

Below is a grafted Dream atemoya that I bought from Leaph’s Fruit Trees in West Palm Beach, Florida. The grafted incision has closed up and doing well in a pot. I’ll wait until the trunk is about three inches in diameter before planting it into the ground. Contact Leaph Michaelson directly on Facebook if you are interested adding a Dream atemoya to your edible food forest or edible garden.

PPC Atemoya

Lisa Atemoya

Priestley Atemoya

African Pride Atemoya

African Pride 2 Atemoya

Red Geffner Atemoya

This is my least favorite atemoya variety on my list in this documentary. It has the most chewiest texture of all atemoya varieties I have tasted. Sweetness level isn’t comparable to the other superior tasting varieties. The red atemoya fruit is beautiful though. I do not have this variety in my collection yet but will get one from Leaf’s Fruit Trees in West Palm Beach.