Cherimoya Season

[Slurm]

Cherimoya fruit has just came in to the farmers market where I live. Usually, It's only available for about 1 month of the year. Does anyone else here eat cherimoya fruit?

 

[7santiago]

yes, i make it into a juice.

 

[Slurm]

I like to eat them frozen. They taste like ice cream that way

 

[BigCarnivourKid]

Never heard of them. What do they look/taste like?

 

[shokuchuu]

Mmmm.... Custard Apple. Love it, always have and always will...

 

[Dave S.]

I just bought one today ($5) and tried it for the first time. I think I'll take the above suggestion and try the rest as a frozen dessert. The flavor reminds me of mango/vanilla pudding a little bit. It looks like an apple with fish dark fish scales in a cool pattern.

They are white inside have pretty decent size seeds. I'm going to try to grow a few trees from the seeds.

 

[Slurm]

I've heard that the seeds have a very high 80+% germination rate, last summer I planted some outside in a pot of topsoil but none germinated, maybe the variety I got produced seed, but was sterile. Also, the cherimoya tree likes a mediterranean climate. They are grown commercially on the coast of southern California. They problably didn't germinate because of the hot night temps in the summer where I live.

 

[PlantAKiss]

The consistency sounds like a Durian...from what I've been told.

I want to try one!

 

[Rubra]

Never ate one, but I've got a few seedlings outside!

Anyone here tried Cherimoya?

Peter