But there is nothing like home-grown cherimoya, Kratel maintains. "Backyard-grown fruit is tasty and delicious." And many Bay Area gardeners can grow cherimoyas, especially if they live in sunny ...

Q “I have a cherimoya fruit tree I planted about five years ago and need advice and help in growing it. My tree produced just one fruit a couple years ago and none since. I trimmed some branches ...

You can grow the trees from seedlings, but more often they're grafted on rootstock (a cutting of a cherimoya is attached to the root of another cherimoya or other plant in the same family).

You can't grow them everywhere ... which means the pollen must be collected from the male parts of the cherimoya flowers and then applied onto the female parts when they emerge.

On the East Coast, winter gardens and growing spaces are asleep ... fruit to ripeness—just not on this coast: It is cherimoya ...

Q “I have a cherimoya fruit tree I planted about five years ago and need advice and help in growing it. My tree produced just one fruit a couple years ago and none since. I trimmed some ...

Q “I have a cherimoya fruit tree I planted about five years ago and need advice and help in growing it. My tree produced just one fruit a couple years ago and none since. I trimmed some branches ...