Custard Apple

Water

Rain is enough, even in a dry year.

Needs about 1,190 mm of water here in its growing months. Rain gives about 3,020 mm it can use in a normal year, and 2,550 mm in a dry year.

Heavy rain here can waterlog it. Grow it on raised beds or land that drains well.

Temperature

Grows best at 23–30 °C on average, and survives 11–41 °C.

Here, in its growing months (day / night):

• Jun 30 °C / 24 °C
• Jul 28 °C / 23 °C
• Aug 28 °C / 23 °C
• Sep 29 °C / 23 °C
• Oct 31 °C / 23 °C
• Nov 32 °C / 23 °C
• Dec 32 °C / 21 °C
• Jan 32 °C / 21 °C
• Feb 33 °C / 22 °C
• Mar 34 °C / 24 °C
• Apr 34 °C / 25 °C
• May 33 °C / 25 °C
• Jun 30 °C / 24 °C

Soil

Soil for Custard Apple: 8 out of 10 (good).

Not in the score: nitrogen.

• Soil here is often more acidic than it likes.
• Many fields here are short of potassium, which it needs a lot.
• Many fields here are short of boron, which it needs a lot.

Likes pH 7.0–8.0.

Money

Yield: about 39 quintals an acre, the typical figure across India (no figures for your state).

A new planting gives its first real harvest after about 3 years. The money here is for plants already bearing.

Mandi price at this season's harvest so far (September 2026): about ₹5,700 a quintal across mandis in your state.

This week: about ₹4,250 a quintal, the middle of 32 mandis across India (latest 13 Nov). At that price an acre would leave about ₹95,000 a year after typical costs.

Prices are usually best in April.

Typical costs are about ₹69,000 an acre: about half of what a usual harvest earns (2023–2025), as in farm cost surveys. They are spent whatever the harvest.