Out of these three cultivars, Lemon Gold tasted the best, followed by Vernon and then Suebelle. The Lemon Gold skin should be peeled as it is bitter. Lemon Gold has the most intense flavor with some caramel in it. It also seemed to be denser, in the texture. Vernon is mild and soft, but also very nice. Suebelle had some notes of not pleasant flavor. The fruit could be past its prime time.
I got this cultivar from CCPP only because it had Russian name. "Shirokolistvennyi" means "Wide leafed". The CCPP page says that it originated in the USSR. I wasn't impressed with the flavor last year, when it fruited the first time for me. However, it is different this year. I can taste the exact flavor of the mandarins, which we had in our New Year presents distributed through the Soviet schools in the 1970s (sponsored by the parents). Those who grew there would know what I'm talking about, a mixed bag of candies, walnuts and a couple of mandarins. Unfortunately, no photos of those bags are online, and if I would manage to find any, they would be black and white. Below are mine from today's tasting. The flavor is very nice, but the membranes are pretty hard now. Maybe I should be tasting them earlier in the season. I only had a few fruits from the graft on my Algerian Clementine.
Back in the spring of 2015 I started with 150 cherimoya seedlings in 1 gallon bags. Ninety one plants survived their first summer. About half were up-potted to 5 G pots to go into their first winter. The remaining plants were left in 1 gallon bags.
A couple dozens survivors were planted in ground (by the building wall) in the following spring (2016). More trees died in the following years. Now there are only one strong vigorous tree that bloomed and fruited in 2021. The tree experienced the range of temperatures between 23F - 114F. It grows by the Southern wall and does have some protection from the building.
The first fruit was produced in fall of 2021 without hand pollination. There is another small fruit developing on the tree. The ripe fruit was very pleasant in flavor and sweet, medium in size. I collected all seeds and started germinating them.
Now on November 12, I still do not see Tagan II forming gel in the middle of the fruits. It might be specific to this cultivar. My tree fruits the first time ever, and the fruits might develop in a different way in the following years.
The fruit form is unusual, irregular with depressed bottom. The flavor is sweet - sour, well balanced but gritty. The ripening period seems to be late. The skin is tough.
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These white sapote fruits were collected from a friend’s orchard on November 6 and tasted on November 7, 2021.
This year, my earliest fruiting cultivar was Redland, I picked two fruits on October 4. I greatly disliked Redland fruits. They have some very unpleasant medicinal flavor. I tasted the same flavor in the fruits collected from a friend's tree a couple of weeks later.
On October 30, I harvested a few fruits of Delta Gold (earlier known as Harvey B3, picture below). These turned out to be excellent fruits. They have a very pleasant intense creamy caramel flavor with thick, but not bitter skin.
On November 4 and 5, I harvested more of Delta Gold and four additional cultivars, see the pictures and descriptions below. These five cultivars are all good to excellent and definitely worth growing. I don't want to give exact scores as these would be based on a few fruits from single trees or grafts.
I measured the BRIX and pH values for 9 different selection of yangmei on June 15, and for 5 selections on June 24. Whenever possible, 3 f...
