How to plant a Soursop - Guanabana tree in the ground

[@conradcastillo9563]

I love your videos, I am in Houston and I have several tropical trees. My soursop survived this cold winter.

[@Pepesplants]

Thanks Conrad really appreciate that, makes me want to do even more videos. I will keep them coming. :-)

[@andrewyek]

i have a few of these at home town, but they don't bear much fruit. as compare to my neighbor, their tree with droopy branches and yellowish looking leaves.. beard tons of fruit, while mine vigorous tree bears only a handful of fruit. so there is definitely male and female tree.. anybody can help ? else i will have to chop it off to regrow of even grafting.

[@RichAlvaradoDR]

Great video. Very glad you are more active on KZbin. Finding good information for South Florida as good as it is for growing a variety of fruit trees is sparse. My soursop lost all its leaves this winter and this will be it's second year in the ground. It had a bunch of fruit that I had to cut off as well as prune it before the storm as I would have lost the tree completely. It is back to having it's leaves and hope to have fruit this year. Please keep these videos rolling.

[@Pepesplants]

Hi Richard, Thanks for visiting and being a subscriber. I will be posting videos on a regular basis. Hoping one a week. Takes a lot of time to make these videos. I do enjoy it a lot. Love the comments and sharing the knowledge. Great to interact with all the great fruit tree and other gardeners that visit this channel. Maybe one day, I can swing by and do a video with you. Have a great day and keep growing! :-)

[@RichAlvaradoDR]

That would be great. I have big plans for growing food that will expand out of the country. Learning how to be self sustaining is so important. Plus it's just fun. I live on the treasure coast, zone 10a, the very tip of it. I currently have about 50 different fruit trees, not including the 8 varieties of bananas on my property. Trying to cram in as much as I can on .5 acres. The learning curb on what will actually give you fruit here is key, but just learning the whole process is exciting. I would love to collaborate anytime!

[@devbachu7072]

Thanks guy

[@andrewyek]

hii, always loved fruit trees videos. i have a few of these at home town, but they don't bear much fruit. as compare to my neighbor, their tree with droopy branches and yellowish looking leaves.. beard tons of fruit, while mine vigorous tree bears only a handful of fruit. so there is definitely male and female tree.. anybody can help ? else i will have to chop it off to regrow of even grafting. thx

[@pfdad1]

Pepe, I live in Homestead,Fl. I have "maybe" 1 to 2 ft. of topsoil if any; the rest is coral rock. I have three Soursop trees on my property. Last year was the first year they started to produce. Hurricane Irma came and it seems they've taken a break for a year or so. I've applied some Milorganite for fertilization. What else do you recommend to kick start these babies?

[@Pepesplants]

I know, everyone asking me this same question. All I can suggest is to avoid too much nitrogen and increase the P and K. How large a tree and how much sun?

[@pfdad1]

Thanks for the quick reply!! After pruning to remove damaged branches from the storm they are approx 7 ft each. Full sun morning to dusk

[@Pepesplants]

High alkalinity can interfere with nutrient uptake. Soursop prefers 5.5 - 6.5 pH soil. Test your soil for nutrients and also get a leaf analysis from UF. Check the UF website for testing. You may want to increase the P and K. Also possible that girdling may work. Try this at your own risk: Soursop fruits year round here in Florida but mostly from June to early October. Girdle a major branch segment from the main trunk. If you girdle the entire tree you run the risk of killing it by starving the roots of nutrients, provided by the photosynthesis occurring in the canopy of the tree.Girdling is best performed by using a clean sharp pruning saw and cutting a ¼" deep groove, the width of the saw blade, 360 degrees around the limb section. The end of the groove should connect with the beginning of the groove to form a complete circle around the tree. The groove will heal and not permanently damage the tree.Perform the cut around a major limb comprising ½ to 2/3 of the total foliage. If your tree branches into two limbs off the main trunk (bifurcated) you can only girdle one of the limbs. If you tree has three main limbs (trifurcated), you can girdle two of them. Always leave one main limb un-girdled or you can kill the tree.After the tree has been girdled be careful to keep herbicides or pesticides from being sprayed into the open wound on the limb as these can be taken up into the foliage and fruit or can even result in the death of the tree.Don't be surprised when the girdled branch(s) has fruit and the rest of the tree fruits lightly or non at all.

[@VeganChiefWarrior]

must we dig a hole or can we plant on the soil surface with mound of compost?

[@Pepesplants]

You can but, if possible loosen the soil soil surface by digging at least one foot deep. Also the tree will need to be staked or it will likely blow over easily until well rooted. :-)

[@VeganChiefWarrior]

awesome thankyou for the reply

[@devbachu7072]

What seize container bro

[@Pepesplants]

That was a 20 gal container. :-)

[@andrewyek]

hii, always loved fruit trees videos. i have a few of these at home town, but they don't bear much fruit. as compare to my neighbor, their tree with droopy branches and yellowish looking leaves.. beard tons of fruit, while mine vigorous tree bears only a handful of fruit. so there is definitely male and female tree.. anybody can help ? else i will have to chop it off to regrow of even grafting. thx