Susana, you could grow Sugar Apples in containers. You could bring them inside when a freeze is predicted. They go dormant in Winter, but may die if temps go to 28. They are small trees and are easy to keep under control. They are heavy producers, and start at young ages. I consider them terrific fruit trees, easy, fast, small, needing minimal attention, and the fruit is oh so good! I have Red, Green and Golden Sugar Apples, Geffner Atemoya, 4826 Atemoya and Golden Atemoya. I will have lots of seeds available within a few months, as the many fruits are maturing. Lisa

I think the plant at this stage would only be able to sufficiently support one fruit. I say go ahead and try to hand pollinate as many flowers as you can just to get some practice in for next year but at the end just let it hold one fruit. A while ago, I put a step by step instructions for cherimoya hand pollination. Flowers are very similiar for sugar apples and has the same characteristics. Here is a link that might be useful: How To: Cherimoya Pollination

Yes. Since you want to hear it. If your tree just is sprouting its leaves and the flowers with it, it should have some more in store. I go out late every afternoon if I see some of both sex (and usually do). I'm mostly paying attention to my atemoya, but do my sugar apple too. How big is your plant? Gary

TheNewLandscape, I hope you get some fruit to form for you soon. Your planting zone there should be suitable for this heat loving tropical plant. Mine, unfortunately, died in this past Winter and never came back. I left it out in the pot because I simply had too many plants to move inside my home during the cold this past Winter. I also noticed when mine fruited last year, there was a lot of white cottony stuff on it. I think it's the white flies. For some reason, the white flies love to attack it. I harvested a couple of fruit before the infestation got worse. We all loved the taste of it, but it was too delicate plant to have for me around here. It would be nice if you have some pictures to share of your plant. Have you thought of using a brush to hand pollinate the blooms? I think I did that to my blooms as suggested by some forumer in this thread here and had some success to get fruit formed that way for me. Hope to hear some good news of your fruit forming for you soon.