| Jan – Feb |
– |
hand pollinate flowers |
| – |
apply
fertilizer after fruit set |
|
| Mar – Apr |
– |
fruit thinning may be required if hand pollinating was highly successful |
| – |
do
foliar analysis to determine a fertilizer programme |
| – |
any branches damaged by
cicada laying their eggs, that don’t affect tree growth or shape should be removed and burned |
| – |
keep controlling
thrips (if necessary) |
| – |
light pruning can be done if needed (but can cause too much vegetative growth if too much is taken off) |
|
| May – Jun |
– |
harvest early maturing cherimoya |
| – |
let the cherimoya
eating season begin |
|
| Jul – Aug |
– |
harvest mid maturing cherimoya |
| – |
eating delicious cherimoya continues |
| – |
apply winter fertilizer (nitrogen applications should be reduced) |
|
| Sep – Oct |
– |
harvest late maturing cherimoya |
| – |
the cherimoya
eating season slowly comes to a close |
| – |
tree pruning, shaping and training to be done after leaf drop |
| – |
control
thrips by either spraying trees or by collecting infected leaves and burning them |
| – |
plant out grafted trees that are ready |
|
| Nov – Dec |
– |
hand pollination of flowers can begin in December (generally only with early cropping varieties that begin flowering early) |
| – |
fertilizer application |
|
| All year |
– |
weed control around trees (either spray or mulch) |
| – |
mowing between rows |
| – |
irrigation as needed |
| – |
pest and disease control (dependent on location, climate etc) |
| – |
popping off
opossums. |
