Gefner Custard Apple (forum)

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Has anyone had much luck with getting fruits from the Gefner variety of custard apple from Daleys?
My tree is now 6 years old, about 4 metres high and 4 metres spread and very healthy. I see flowers but no fruit set to date. Tried hand pollination with no luck. Thanks.

Time: 22nd April 2011 12:00pm

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peter says...
hi vanl
i got some young custard apples but no flowers yet.
ive got a cherimoya with one little
fruit on it now which pollinated itself
if your gefner is healthy and has flowers it should fruit.
maybe your not hand pollinating
corretly, if you have flowers now i
could show you how if you like.
im in the western suburbs not far from
arndale.

Time: 22nd April 2011 3:28pm

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vanl says...
Hi Peter

I am also not far from Arndale so you could show me how. Does this forum have a way of exchanging phone nums without going public? Thanks.

Time: 24th April 2011 10:18pm

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peter says...
hi vanl
you can post your email address and ill
get in touch with you.
what suburb are you in, im in athol
park.

Time: 24th April 2011 11:17pm

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peter says...
hi vanl
or if you have time on tuesday we could arrange to meet at a nearby land mark.

Time: 24th April 2011 11:46pm

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Phil@Tyalgum says...
Here's a good link to show you just how the commercial growers hand pollinate them

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YTaBVR-YrQc

Time: 25th April 2011 12:13pm

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peter says...
hi phil
yea good link, ive sen it before, he
has also got on on pruning cherimoya.
i got your email the other day,
did you get mine the next day.

Time: 25th April 2011 5:13pm

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Phil@Tyalgum says...
Yep all good Peter, looking forward to another seed swap when we have some more successes.

Time: 26th April 2011 5:22am

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vanl says...
Thanks all for your reply. Good utube link.

Time: 29th April 2011 12:14am

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Vanl says...
Hi Peter - I think I need your advice on pollination of my Gefner custard apple. Plenty of flowers again this year yet just 2 fruit sets.

Thanks

Time: 10th December 2011 1:51am

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peter says...
hi vanl,
do you happen to live on a side street
about 200 metres from hanson road
at the grand junction road end.

Time: 10th December 2011 8:34am

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Jantina says...
Hey Vanl, remember that cherimoya I was too scared to plant and you told me to just get it in? Well it's boomed and covered in flowers now, thanks again.

Time: 10th December 2011 8:41pm

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peter says...
if you want you can try and pollinate
some of your flowers with one of
my cherimoya flowers.
i think i may only be just down the road from you on emma st.

Time: 11th December 2011 9:13am

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Mike says...
My gefner sets fruit better than my african pride with hand pollination.I have 2 sugar apples close by and they set lots of fruit quite easily.Perhaps there are pollinators in my area.

Time: 11th December 2011 1:51pm

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peter says...
hi vanl,
actually the house i was refering to is on the corner of lavinia and another street which has many dragon fruit
in the back yard some of which are hanging over the fence.
ill email you shortly.

Time: 13th December 2011 12:09am

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