White Sapote - First Ever Taste Test - UK home grown fruit.

This variety is called 'McDill'

[@PeterEntwistle]

Well done with your peanut butter tree cuttings, Dom! They look incredibly healthy! I’m glad you got to try a white sapote! It looked really good despite the bug damage. Hopefully, your others turn out to be really tasty too. I hope I can grow one to try someday.

[@MoebiusUK]

Thanks, Peter. I'm really happy with how the cuttings have come on. They're proper plants now and starting to branch out. Yes, I'm super pleased to have tried a White Sapote for the 1st time. Now I need my Black Sapote seedling to flower for me. 😂 I think you'll easily get a White Sapote to fruit. From my limited experience, they're not the most demanding subtropical.

[@myexoticfoodplants6727]

Wonderful stuff Dominic. I am pleased to report that the rooted Peanutbutter fruit you gave me is growing very well. I have also got hold of some White Sapote and awaiting them to soften before having my first taste test. On first site they look similar to a large greengage to me.

[@MoebiusUK]

Oh wow .. Did you buy the White Sapote here? You'll have to plant the seeds too. This way you can graft onto them when you get a named WS variety. I did a 2nd taste test video of my White Sapote. It was a much larger fruit and was on the tree longer. Very delicious. I'm glad you'll get to try it too. I'm glad the peanutbutter fruit plant is doing well for you. They're quite fast growers.

[@SussexTropicals]

Amazing peanut butter cuttings! I’m so sad it’s impossible to get that plant here in the UK (like many others!) well done you! I’m glad you had the chance to try the white sapote fruit, mine produces fruit but not yet big enough to be considered edible… maybe in a few years

[@MoebiusUK]

Thank you so much, Sussex Tropicals. Yes, it's so difficult to get many of the interesting exotic fruiting plants here, very frustrating indeed. I'm so glad I got to taste the White Sapote for the first time. I really enjoyed it. The McDill plant I have actually has a much larger fruit still on the plant so I'm really looking forward for it to ripen. I hope your seedling White Sapote flowers for you soon. Despite taking longer to fruit than grafted plants, it's still very worth while growing them here.

[@myexoticfoodplants6727]

Wonderful and Inspirational to see Dominic. I am hoping I will be able to get my hands on a grafted plant in the future.

[@MoebiusUK]

Thanks, Mike ... Yes, grafted plants are definetly useful as they produce fruit much quicker. It's ridiculous that in the UK we don't have better to these plants.

[@lyonheart84]

Fantastic success Dom, and considering that's not even your large fruit, that's way larger than I've managed to grow here so far. Glad it was ripe. Most likely dropped a little prematurely due to something having a nibble at it 🤪

[@MoebiusUK]

Thanks very much, Brett ... It's always a good day when one gets to taste a new fruit for the first time. It did occur to me that it dropped early because a bug had a go at it. The remaining fruit on the tree is quite a bit larger, green and hard so it might not be ready for a while ... I'm more than happy to wait.

[@VirginiaFruitGrower]

I like white support a lot and there's a lot of differences between the different varieties

[@MoebiusUK]

Thanks, G ... Yes, I want to get a Suebelle. I might have to take a trip to the U.S soon as they aren't available here.

[@cindyrichards9471]

Yes, I live in London.

[@MoebiusUK]

Cool. I'll try to source some for October.

[@garycard1456]

Well done with sucessfully getting an edible and good-sized fruit from your White Sapote. I don't know what's wrong with my 'McDill'. I've had it for a good number of years and have yet to see a single fruit. I hope that it ain't a seedling. I reckon I was sold a 'McDud'. I hope to get a named grafted White Sapote from a different reputable nursery and see how it performs compared to my 'McDill' (or 'McDud'?). My 'McDill' came from Canarius. Those are very healthy Peanut Butter Fruit plants, and what's remarkable is that they seem to be in an organic-rich mix (peat?). If I grow a plant in a mix with a very high percentage of peat, I inevitably get a fungus gnat infestation, and it is not long before the roots rot. I only get success when I amend peat with a very high percentage of aggregates (perlite, pumice, sand, horticultural grit).

[@MoebiusUK]

Thanks, Gary. I'm really happy to have got fruit from a White Sapote. I'm now keen to try growing other varieties. When I visited the nuresy in Italy to buy this plant they also had 'Casimiroa tetrameria' (Wooly leafed Sapote) ... I didn't buy it because I thought at the time it's fruit was inferior, but apparently they are also really good. Yes, I rarely have fungus gnat problems and when I do it's just the odd few which are easily got rid of with Neem oil (root drench, foliar spray or both). I really like the peat-based mixes I use. I'm able to recycle the substrate many times and it seems to solve many root rot issues. re Canarius - I have bought plants from them and they're a good resource but Iike all online sellers, they're not perfect. We're going to have to figure out how I can get one of these Peanut Butter plants to you.

[@garycard1456]

@@MoebiusUK In the past I've tried neem oil absolute (100% neem) sold by essential oil/aromatherapy sellers. It is a very viscous oil and smells rather 'funky' (I quite like the smell, in fact). I add a glob of the viscous neem oil to a few litres of water and thoroughly shake to give an oil-in-water emulsion, which can then be applied as a soil drench. RoyalMail do a free-of-charge parcel collection service. The postie can collect the parcel from your doorstep. I've sent plants by RoyalMail 2nd Class, which seems to be good enough. I've never had a RoyalMail 2nd Class parcel go missing (so far). You can use a garden cane, cut to the exact length of the cardboard box, to prevent the plant from moving around during transit in the mail system. Push the cane into the substrate of the pot. Kitchen roll, newspaper, bubblewrap, etc, are good for cushioning the plant and help prevent it from moving around in the box during transit.

[@cindyrichards9471]

Please tell us where you bought the tree of the White Sapote.

[@MoebiusUK]

Hi Cindy, I bought this tree while visiting Italy. If you're in the UK, send me an email and maybe I can track a grafted variety down for you.

[@cindyrichards9471]

Please me know when they com in. Are you selling any of the peanut butter cuttings?

[@MoebiusUK]

I sold all the Peanut Butter cuttings, if I do some more, I'll let you know. I'll give you a shout about the grafted White Sapote. Hopefully the first week of October.