Star apple

Star apple 

Soil and climate

• Grows on any type of soil.

• pH 5.5–6.0 is desirable

Seed preparation

• Select seeds from healthy, sound

and ripe fruits

• Plant 1 cm deep & 2–3 cm apart

• Cultivate in shaded area

Transplant

• When 3–5

leaves have developed,

transplant the seedlings

Propagation

• Sexually by seeds and asexually by

marcotting, inarching, grafting and

budding

Land Preparation and planting

• Clear land & plow deeply

• Spacing: 10 X 12 m row x hill

• Put 500 g to 1 kg organic fertilizer or

animal manure in each hole

Intercropping

• pineapple, root crops, perennial

leguminous crops and vegetable

crops

Irrigation                       

• Water newly cultivated plants

• Water plant while fruiting to keep

their juiciness

Fertilizer

• Organic fertilizer.

• 0.5 –1 kg of chicken or cow manure

Pest management

• Twig borers, carpenter moth, mealy

bugs, scales, fruit flies, ants and bats

Harvesting

• It bear fruits at the age of 3–5 years

• grown tree bear 1 000 fruits

• Ripe fruit change color and are soft

Food value

• Used as ingredient of ice-cream and

sherbet