I planted a white sapote tree a few years ago out the back, it was fairly slow to get going and really scrawny, but over about 5-8 years it's come good and is now a reasonable size. At this time of year when the fruit are forming on the tree, it also drops a large percentage of it's leaves and re-shoots with new growth.
Very susceptible to scale and my tree always has a fair bit of scale on it, still, without any intervention it keep on growing and has started to put out a few fruit over the past couple of years. This year though it's fruit drop seems to excessive, I don't know whether this is normal and just because it has so many fruit on it, or whether it's not entirely happy. Here you can see how scrawny it looks at this time of year when it's dropping it's leaves.
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Here's the fruit drop, there's lots all over the ground under the tree, along with the leaves.
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But there's still a lot of fruit on the tree.
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