Robert mine is about three years old now. I have 12 sapote on it, I thought I had lost it due to a very light frost we had a few months after I planted it, but just before digging it out I noticed a bit of green and decided to give it a few months. My experience is that "if" you can get it past the first year frost , it can survive, but I'm not at all sure about your zone. You'd probably have a problem finding a garden center that carries them! I think the place I bought mine lost all of their ones for sale with the same frost. My tree is now about 15 ft high and very bushy now. I suggest you learn as much as you can about eating them, my first time I was crapping water for two days
not a pleasant reward for the time and effort I put into growing this thing, I'm kinda scaired to try eating them again. I have folks who walk by and steal fruit, so I hope they steal a few of these, that would be revenge with a capital V.
