Black Sapote Fruit Tree | Dud for Dry Hot Climates?

Hey guys welcome back to Fruitopia in winter Australia. The Vernon are ready a lot earlier than usual. These don't normally come till July and onwards but this season they're ready as early as June. I already picked two yesterday and two today. Yeah the Vernon and there's two more that are ready. Very ready so the Vernon are falling. We're talking about Y Sapote. So this is the winter evidently slash spring variety here in Melbourne. Again guys every tree bears fruit at a different time of the year depending where you're located. So I'm in a cool to warm temperate climate in southern Australia and it's the second week of winter and we just finished with the Wilson. There's none left. Actually I threw out the last ones that were hanging because our bellies are full guys. The freezer is full. Everyone is full so there were like 10 left and I got rid of them because I didn't want them to splat on the ground. So now the Vernon has taken over. It's time for the Vernon Y Sapote to give us its bounty and these are much smaller than the Wilson and Lemon Gold. They're about the size of the Sue Bell. So I much prefer this variety than the Wilson although having said that these first ones aren't so good. I don't know why. Hang on let me just put one down here on the lychee shade cloth. Hi guys it's winter. Yeah I mean it's good but it's not excellent like these normally are. I don't know if it's because of the cold. It's okay. Let's try another one. Let's try this one. No this one's hard. It's not soft at all. I want to try that and the other one's hard too. So these are still hard. I took them off because they'll fall on the ground otherwise. Yeah this one's next. So yeah it is what it is guys. So that's just an update. For any of you who are interested in growing Y Sapote in the southern states of Victoria, South Australia, Tasmania and also southern New South Wales, south of Sydney. I just gave it a little prune. All right I'm always removing the the verticals at the top up there. Hang on let me stand back. It's easy to trip because I've got I've got trees really close to each other so when you step back it's easy to trip over an obstacle right. So yeah all these here were removed from up there like they were going towards the power line. Now these two should be next and that one there and three around there and one there. So there's five six more that I want to tip prune. These are just tips from the top. So it's a constant all year pruning if you want to keep the tree at a manageable size. I like the sweet spot for me is two and a half to three and a half meters which is exactly what the Lambert Gold is and the Hawaiian Supreme that's touching four meters. So that's going to need a prune at the end of winter. I'll be doing that later. All right so hope you enjoyed this quick update from the Vernon White Sapote. I still have the tag. I still have the tag after how many years? 11 no 12. 12 years and it's still hanging on. Yeah that's metal labels for you. They last forever. All right guys give me a like if you enjoyed the video and subscribe to the channel if you haven't and we'll see you from the next one here in Melbourne Australia by the way.