Sugar apple flowers | Sweetsop flowers - A closer look (Annona squamosa)

Hello everyone, in today's video we are taking a closer look at one of my favorite fruiting flowers - the sugar apple flower (Annona squamosa).
Sugar apple flowers appear on the sugar apple tree typically on new growth (so after you prune your tree). The flower has 3 pedals (sometimes 4) and first appears on your tree in the 'female' stage. Roughly 24 hours later the 'female' sugar apple flowers turn into a 'male'.
During the sugar apple flower transition from female to male, its sexual reproduction parts dry up (female) and also produce pollen (male).
If your sugar apple tree has no flowers you may create flowers by removing leaves from the tree. By removing leaves you invigorate the sugar apple flowers to re-appear.
Sugar apple flowers at times when first producing may turn black and fall off - this is normal as the sugar apple tree is preparing itself to go through its natural bloom cycle.
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  • @wendyaa4160
    @wendyaa41602 жыл бұрын

    you are a wonderful teacher. thank you!

  • @adifferentcookie
    @adifferentcookie2 жыл бұрын

    Great vid. Stripping leaves worked like a charm!! Thank you!!

  • @DallasHVac
    @DallasHVac Жыл бұрын

    Informative, thanks!

  • @juwanatani8356
    @juwanatani83563 жыл бұрын

    Nice videos. I Pressed the like.Thank you for sharing👍👍👍

  • @RomeliaGomez-Calmell7934
    @RomeliaGomez-Calmell79342 жыл бұрын

    Me encantó el contenido.

  • @aminstropicalgardening8371
    @aminstropicalgardening83713 жыл бұрын

    Thanks for sharing

  • @gardenflorida

    @gardenflorida

    3 жыл бұрын

    You are very welcome! Thanks for the support.

  • @GardeningUrduHindi
    @GardeningUrduHindi2 жыл бұрын

    Beautiful

  • @gardenflorida

    @gardenflorida

    Жыл бұрын

    Thank you.

  • @anamariaguadayol2335
    @anamariaguadayol23353 жыл бұрын

    Congratulations! My sugar apple tree already has several fruits. I'm in Miami. 💚🌺💚

  • @gardenflorida

    @gardenflorida

    3 жыл бұрын

    In the future my dream is to buy a farm out in homestead! I love how all your fruit trees always produce so much faster and abundant than us up north, but regardless I love driving to Miami and eating all the fruits. I was in Kendall area visiting my cousins last week I ate so many pounds of lychee 💚

  • @tillytexdard4263
    @tillytexdard42632 жыл бұрын

    Have you made a video detailing the hand-pollination process? I have to pollinate my Pitaya and Passionfruit, but those flowers are much larger and the pollen is much easier to access. I just found out that I have to pollinate my Sugar Apple & Soursop, but not having any success at collecting pollen, most likely due to lack of knowledge & experience. If you have made a video on this, or know of a good one, a link would be very much appreciated. (I am in Bradenton as well)

  • @johnnyv303
    @johnnyv3033 жыл бұрын

    Bruh you're video and garden is 🔥🔥🔥! Do you sell any of the small plants you got growing?

  • @gardenflorida

    @gardenflorida

    3 жыл бұрын

    Hi Johnny! Thanks for your comment on my garden you need to visit it one day. Yes I have some small sugar apple plants and cherimoya and soursop available.

  • @naliale3346
    @naliale3346 Жыл бұрын

    Hello, how many times do you water the trees and when do you fertilize it?

  • @katesaengvanhpheng805
    @katesaengvanhpheng8052 жыл бұрын

    Thank you so much. I learned a lot from your teaching. I was such a dummy, I thought the brown flowers was a dead flowering.🤦‍♀️ I went and removed them from my sugar apple tree.😭😭😭

  • @Easycookingandtips

    @Easycookingandtips

    Жыл бұрын

    😁

  • @Lily-Gardens28
    @Lily-Gardens282 жыл бұрын

    What fertilizer do you use and how often do you apply??

  • @jjj-iz6pp
    @jjj-iz6pp18 күн бұрын

    So once you pollinate the female flower . Does the female flower still turn into a male flower when fully open and can I still collect pollen from it?

  • @MultiNyc1
    @MultiNyc1 Жыл бұрын

    Do you strip all the leaves of the sugar apple tree in spring or just a few old leaves?

  • @subhanaqureshi620
    @subhanaqureshi6209 ай бұрын

    Which fertilizer is best for suger apple

  • @MegaThepow
    @MegaThepow2 жыл бұрын

    If we hand pollinate it, do I need to do it every female flower?

  • @jjj-iz6pp
    @jjj-iz6pp6 ай бұрын

    I bought three sugar apple trees. Two tress leaves are stiff than other one tree's leaves, which. I know is sugar apple. Do sugar apple have stiff leaves ?

  • @mariaante2221
    @mariaante22212 ай бұрын

    How do you pollinate the flowers?

  • @joshpatterson5959
    @joshpatterson59593 жыл бұрын

    Good info. Is there a specific season/size/age that is best to prune the sugar apple?

  • @gardenflorida

    @gardenflorida

    3 жыл бұрын

    I would let the sugar apple grow wild for its first few years before you start majorly pruning branches off. At the end of the sugar apple season you may prune selected limbs and branches to strengthen the caliber of the trunk to make it more thick and bear bigger sugar apples.

  • @ThanhNguyen-xd5bs
    @ThanhNguyen-xd5bs3 жыл бұрын

    Hi! How much do you sell your grafted sugar apple tree for? I live in California.

  • @lucyevidentedelrosario2019
    @lucyevidentedelrosario201911 ай бұрын

    Is it atis?

  • @douglasmccarthy1724
    @douglasmccarthy17242 жыл бұрын

    My trees are loaded with new growth but so far no flowers. It is April 16th

  • @tonypham9822
    @tonypham98223 жыл бұрын

    Hello i have sugar apple. But I don't know why they turn yellow leaf and do you know why ? Thanks

  • @gardenflorida

    @gardenflorida

    3 жыл бұрын

    Leaves drop is normal, it’s to make room for new growth. Sugar apple is also deciduous in Florida and in California meaning they will drop their leaves when the cold weather come (December) and regrow leaves in early March / early spring time.

  • @kelig24
    @kelig242 жыл бұрын

    I was about to set 3 fruit but they fell off any advise to keep them from falling ?

  • @gardenflorida

    @gardenflorida

    Жыл бұрын

    Your sugar apple tree may need more phosphorus

  • @scottsquire8119
    @scottsquire81193 жыл бұрын

    Do you hand pollinate your sugar apples?

  • @gardenflorida

    @gardenflorida

    3 жыл бұрын

    I do, but this year I am letting my trees grow more vegetatively. So if some do grow it will be because of it naturally set. Although I am hand pollinating my cherilata tree bud my sugar apples I am letting grow as well as my Atemoya. Also with custard apple I will be hand pollinating.

  • @harrellt1405
    @harrellt14052 жыл бұрын

    Sugar apple so awesome, in my place the baby fruit always turn black and die , not sure why

  • @gardenflorida

    @gardenflorida

    2 жыл бұрын

    Sometimes this can happen with sugar apples.

  • @hiqwerty7747
    @hiqwerty77473 жыл бұрын

    What if you crossed a Gaffener Atemoya and a Green Sugar Apple?

  • @gardenflorida

    @gardenflorida

    3 жыл бұрын

    I believe it will result in a atemoya that resembles more of a sugar apple.

  • @ThanhNguyen-xd5bs
    @ThanhNguyen-xd5bs3 жыл бұрын

    Hi! Do you have any grafted dwarf sugar apple tree to send to California?

  • @gardenflorida

    @gardenflorida

    3 жыл бұрын

    I have smaller sugar apple trees that are flowering and fruiting but I am out of town for 2 weeks in Colombia.

  • @ThanhNguyen-xd5bs

    @ThanhNguyen-xd5bs

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@gardenflorida that’s awesome! How much do you sell it for? I’m in no hurry. Asa it arrived healthy. I’m leaving to Mexico for 1 week so it’s perfect timing.

  • @lucyevidentedelrosario2019
    @lucyevidentedelrosario201911 ай бұрын

    What’s the tagalog translatio of anonna squamosa.

  • @gardenflorida

    @gardenflorida

    11 ай бұрын

    Atis fruit

  • @jugly8881
    @jugly88812 жыл бұрын

    2 sal mein hi lag jaate Hain phall

  • @gardenflorida

    @gardenflorida

    Жыл бұрын

    Thank you for your comment.

  • @lucyevidentedelrosario2019
    @lucyevidentedelrosario201911 ай бұрын

    Translate Annona Squamosa in pilipino

  • @gardenflorida

    @gardenflorida

    11 ай бұрын

    Atis