Overview

Bring the taste of the tropics to your home with the exquisite Lisa Atemoya fruit tree. This listing offers a healthy, vibrant atemoya live plant, carefully nurtured and ready to establish in your garden or a suitable container. The Atemoya is a hybrid of the cherimoya and sugar apple, renowned for its sweet, creamy, and fragrant fruit, often described as a blend of pineapple, mango, and vanilla. The ‘Lisa’ variety is particularly prized for its excellent fruit quality and robust growth. Growing your own tropical fruit tree is a rewarding experience, providing fresh, nutritious produce right at your fingertips. With proper care, this young tree will mature into a productive specimen, gracing your space with lush foliage and delectable harvests.

Our Lisa Atemoya fruit tree is a fantastic choice for enthusiasts looking to grow atemoya fruit. It’s a captivating addition for anyone passionate about unique edibles or tropical horticulture. This live plant is cultivated to ensure a strong root system, promoting vigorous growth upon arrival. Whether you’re an experienced gardener or just starting your journey with tropical plants, the Lisa Atemoya offers an exciting and delicious challenge.

Key Benefits

Investing in a Lisa Atemoya fruit tree brings numerous advantages, from the pleasure of growing your own food to enhancing your garden’s aesthetic and biodiversity. This remarkable tropical fruit tree offers a unique blend of beauty and bounty.

• Exotic Fruit Production: Enjoy the rich, sweet, and custardy flesh of the Lisa Atemoya fruit, a truly gourmet experience that rivals store-bought varieties. Growing your own ensures peak ripeness and flavor.
• Beautiful Ornamental Value: With its attractive foliage and unique flowers, the atemoya live plant adds a tropical, lush aesthetic to patios, conservatories, or warm-climate landscapes.
• Rewarding Gardening Experience: Cultivating a tropical fruit tree from a young plant provides immense satisfaction as you watch it grow and eventually bear fruit, a testament to your gardening efforts.
• Freshness and Quality Control: Harvest your own fruit at the optimal moment, ensuring maximum flavor, nutritional value, and freedom from pesticides or post-harvest treatments.
• Versatile Growing Options: While thriving in warm climates, the Lisa Atemoya fruit tree can also be successfully grown in containers in cooler regions, allowing for protection during colder months.
• Unique Flavor Profile: The complex taste of atemoya, often compared to a blend of various tropical fruits, offers a distinctive culinary delight not easily found in local markets.
• Educational Opportunity: Perfect for teaching children or curious adults about where their food comes from and the fascinating world of tropical botany and how to grow atemoya.

Plant Care & Growing Tips

Caring for your Lisa Atemoya fruit tree requires attention to its specific needs, especially regarding light, water, and soil. As a tropical plant, it thrives in warm, humid environments. Full sun is generally preferred, meaning at least 6-8 hours of direct sunlight per day. If growing indoors or in a greenhouse, ensure it receives ample bright light. In extremely hot climates, some afternoon shade can be beneficial to prevent leaf scorch. The ideal temperature range for atemoya is between 65°F and 85°F (18°C-29°C). Protect your plant from temperatures below 40°F (4°C), as frost can severely damage or kill it. This is crucial for successful atemoya care.

Watering should be consistent, keeping the soil moist but not waterlogged. Allow the top inch or two of soil to dry out slightly between waterings. Overwatering can lead to root rot, while underwatering causes stress and leaf drop. A well-draining potting mix is essential for container-grown plants. For in-ground planting, ensure your soil has good drainage and is rich in organic matter. A slightly acidic to neutral pH (6.0-7.0) is ideal. Fertilize regularly during the growing season (spring through fall) with a balanced, slow-release fertilizer or a liquid feed formulated for fruit trees. Reduce fertilization during winter dormancy. Pruning is important for shape, size management, and encouraging fruit production. Remove any dead, diseased, or crossing branches, and thin out overcrowded areas to improve air circulation and light penetration.

Monitor your atemoya live plant for common pests like aphids, mealybugs, or scale insects, and treat promptly with organic insecticidal soaps or neem oil if necessary. Good air circulation and proper watering practices help prevent fungal diseases. Understanding how to grow atemoya successfully involves patience and observation, adapting your care routine to the plant’s responses and local environmental conditions.

Size & Details

This offering is for a vibrant Lisa Atemoya fruit tree, a live plant that stands approximately 1 to 2 feet tall from the base of the pot to the top of the foliage. It is shipped securely in a 1-gallon nursery pot, providing a robust root system ready for transplanting. Atemoyas are moderately fast-growing tropical fruit trees, capable of reaching heights of 15-20 feet in ideal conditions when planted in the ground, though they can be maintained at smaller sizes through pruning in containers. This young tree will typically begin to bear fruit within 2-4 years under optimal growing conditions, offering delicious rewards for your cultivation efforts. The fruit itself is typically large, heart-shaped or conical, with a bumpy, green skin and a creamy, aromatic white flesh.

Frequently Asked Questions

• Q: How big does this Lisa Atemoya fruit tree get? A: This particular plant is 1 to 2 feet tall when shipped. In ideal conditions, a mature Lisa Atemoya fruit tree can reach 15-20 feet tall when planted in the ground, but can be kept smaller with regular pruning in a large container.
• Q: What size pot does it come in? A: The atemoya live plant is shipped in a 1 gallon nursery pot, providing a good head start for its root system.
• Q: Is this an indoor or outdoor plant? A: The Lisa Atemoya is a tropical plant best suited for outdoor growing in USDA Zones 9-11. In cooler climates, it can be grown outdoors during warm months and brought indoors or into a greenhouse for winter protection, making atemoya care adaptable.
• Q: How much sunlight does it need? A: This tropical fruit tree thrives in full sun, requiring at least 6-8 hours of direct sunlight daily for optimal growth and fruit production.
• Q: Is this plant easy to care for? A: While not strictly a beginner plant, with consistent watering, proper sunlight, and protection from cold, the Lisa Atemoya is manageable for gardeners willing to learn about tropical plant care.
• Q: What condition will it arrive in? A: Your atemoya live plant will arrive carefully packaged, with a healthy root system in its 1-gallon pot, ready for planting or continued container growth.
• Q: How long until it bears fruit? A: Typically, a young Lisa Atemoya fruit tree like this one can begin to produce fruit within 2-4 years under optimal growing conditions.
• Q: What’s the best way to grow atemoya in a pot? A: To grow atemoya successfully in a pot, choose a large container (15-25 gallons or more as it grows), use well-draining potting mix, ensure full sun exposure, and protect it from cold temperatures.
• Q: Will it survive winter in my zone? A: The Lisa Atemoya is sensitive to cold. If you are outside of USDA Zones 9-11, you must provide winter protection, either by bringing the potted plant indoors or into a heated greenhouse.