Lychee (forum)

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Hi there,
Are those lychee plants Wai Chee and Salathiel on sale grafted or seeded? If they are grafted how many year to go before they fruit?
Thanks
Peter

Time: 9th October 2011 10:10pm

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Nick says...
Im pretty sure most lychees nowadays are sold marcotted (air-layered). :)

Time: 9th October 2011 10:12pm

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Nick says...
I bought a salathiel last christmas and a bosworth only a few weeks ago and both were air-layered.

Time: 9th October 2011 10:13pm

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Mike says...
They are always air-layered like longans and nearly all rambutans.The lychees I like best are fai zee sui and the common old tai so mauritious because of taste,size and flesh yield.

Time: 9th October 2011 10:44pm

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MaryT says...
You guys up north are SO LUCKY with mauritious (love that word) tropical fruit. Makes me want to relocate.

Time: 10th October 2011 8:40am

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John Mc says...
Mary T, don't give up just yet. I have three cv's (6 trees)in full flower this year. Will keep you posted on how well they fruit just an hour north of Sydney. They are in their third year so I'm leaving all the flowers intact for the first time so here's hoping. They are awfully slow to get established. I'm anticipating them to put on some real growth next year and beyond.

Time: 10th October 2011 10:10pm

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MaryT says...
Good luck with yours, John Mc; I hope they turn out mauritious :) I suspect an hour north can make all the difference. I do have one lychee and some longan seedlings, and I will be patient.

Time: 11th October 2011 7:45am

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Mike says...
Lychees and Longans are species where growing them from seeds is a big risk and a long wait compared to marcotted ones.If the Bosworth is kwai mai pink you will find the fruit are smallish,spherical,sweet with good flesh yield but lacking the 'rose' taste of many types.It also has the lowest lychee chill hours (hours below 10 celcius) of all except tai so.Haak yip (canning lychee) and yook ho pow are two other very good types that are hard to get.There was finally a cool enough winter in FNQ on the coast to get many lychee varieties to flower as they are a subtropical fruit not tropical.

Time: 11th October 2011 8:59pm

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MaryT says...
You're right, Mike. They are not tropical; that's why I wanted to try the lychee in the first place - my family had a share in an orchard back in Hong Kong when I was young, and HK is subtropical.

My lychee is putting forth flower buds and I am torn between wanting it to fruit and wanting to save it from fruiting. I mean it's in a pot so I am not after a lot of growth. Also I read recently that if you remove flowers it would encourage the tree to put forth more flowers and the thing to do is to remove young fruits before they get to size. (?)

Time: 12th October 2011 5:56am

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