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- Grow a cherimoya tree yourself - tips and tricks
- Sow the cherimoya
- A cookie on the terrace
- Sporadically pour only
- Harvest fruits
- Tips & Tricks
Grow a cherimoya tree yourself - tips and tricks
Growing a cherimoya tree is easier than you think. However, the plants can only be kept in a bucket because they are not hardy. In winter you have to put the tubs in the house. With luck and patience, you can even reap the benefits.
Sow the cherimoya
Remove the large, black seeds from a ripe fruit and remove the pulp completely.
Individually insert the seeds into the potting soil by about two centimeters and place in a warm place. Cherimoya seeds germinate at temperatures of 25 to 30 degrees. The location should not be too sunny.
It may take up to two months for the first plantlets to appear. As soon as leaves appear, warm the pots without direct sunlight.
A cookie on the terrace
When the cherimoya trees are well developed and have reached a height of 30 to 70 centimeters, plant them in tubs. As a soil cactus earth has proven itself, because the plants do not like it too wet. If necessary, mix normal garden soil with some sand.
Older trees thrive in a sunny spot.
Minus temperatures do not tolerate Cherimoyas. Hibernate in the bright conservatory at temperatures of ten degrees. Older plants throw off their leaves. That's no reason to worry.
Sporadically pour only
You do not have to water much. Let the soil dry out again and then give water again.
You should be careful with fertilizing. Every four weeks, add some plant fertilizer to the irrigation water.
In winter, only a little is poured and not fertilized.
Harvest fruits
In our latitudes the usual pollinators are missing. To harvest fruits, you must pollinate the flowers themselves with a brush. This is complicated because the flowers are female in the morning and male in the evening.
If the pollination has been done with a brush, you can harvest ripe cherimoyas from your tree in late autumn or winter.
Tips & Tricks
The seeds of the cherimoya are poisonous. They contain alkaloids and must not be eaten. Because of their toxicity, they were even used as insect repellents in the past.
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