A Sweet Tropical Wonder with a Custard, Banana and Peach Flavor
The white sapota, also known as the Mexican apple or Casimiroa edulis, is one of the rarest and most delicious tropical fruit trees you can grow at home. This unique fruit is native to Central America and Mexico, where it has been popular for centuries due to its exceptionally mild flavor and creamy consistency. The apple-sized fruits hide a pulp that literally melts in your mouth – smooth as pudding, sweet and velvety, with notes of banana, pear, peach and a delicate vanilla aftertaste.
The white sapota tree has a beautiful, tropical appearance – shiny, dark green, pinnate leaves and an elegant crown that can be easily shaped for growing in a pot where it can also be maintained as a compact tree around 2 meters tall.
Growing white sapote is surprisingly easy. Young plants need protection from frost in the first few years, but mature specimens can handle short-term cooling down to -6 °C. It can therefore be wintered like citrus. In a pot, it thrives in a nutritious, slightly acidic substrate and a deep container, because it has strong, vertically growing roots.
Our mother plant began to bear fruit for the first time in the third year after planting the seed.
The ripe fruits have a thin, smooth skin, which can be green, yellow or orange, and are so delicate that they are best eaten with a spoon directly from the fruit.
White sapote is a plant that delights all the senses - with taste, aroma and beauty.
HEIGHT OF PLANTS SOLD 10 TO 15 CM - PICTURE NO.2
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Instructions for growing White Sapota
Substrate:
Preferably acidic and well-permeable.
Recommended mixture: 2 parts peat, 1 part perlite, a little sand.
Watering:
Keep the substrate slightly moist.
Reduce watering in winter, pour out excess water from the tray after watering.
Growing location:
Home all year round: As close to a window as possible, with plenty of light.
Summering is possible outside on a terrace, garden, or balcony, only from spring to autumn: Partial shade.
Wintering:
Tropical plant - cannot tolerate temperatures below 0 °C for a long time. Winter at a minimum temperature of 0-5C and above
Place in the living room, bedroom, hallway, winter garden or tempered greenhouse for the winter, always as close to a window as possible.
Fertilization:
Common water-soluble or granulated fertilizers.
For plants under 2 years old, use half the dose.
Older plants can tolerate normal doses.
Suitable fertilizer:
OSMOCOTE long-term granular fertilizer