My Edible Fruit Trees: Lychee Trees NSW

Lychee

Comments: -

Died in pot due to accident

Qty: 2

Pollination: Self Pollination

Comments

Grew these from seed 8 years ago and had to dig them out 2 years ago. waiting to reposition. healthy in a pot.

Lychee

Comments: - I have a lychee tree that has a huge crop every year that the bats come and eat green before I get any ):

Pollination: Cross Pollination

Lychee

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Supplier - Cabramatta asian market

Seedling

Planted in ground 10 yrs ago.

It gave me 4 fruits 2nd year but the snails beat me to it . Every year from then on it give plenty of flower but the snails beat me to it every year since then . However it had only grown 1- 1.5 M in height .

Height 1.7 metres

Growing: In the Ground

Qty: 1

Lychee - Baitaying (Cutting) ^8/10

Comments: - Better than Kwai Mai Pink variety. This one is from Daleys and growing faster than I had expected.

Qty: 1

Sun/Shade: Full Sun

Water Given in: Spring

Pollination: Self Pollination

When I Fertilise: Spring

Lychee - Bosworth 3 (Grafted) ^1/10

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This is also one of my favourites.  Refreshing taste when eaten cold.

Fruiting Months September

Planted: 2013

Growing: In a Pot

Sun/Shade: Full Sun

Pollination: Self Pollination

When I Fertilise: Spring

Lychee - Bosworth 3 (Cutting) ^10/10

Comments: - This variety produces large fruit with very good taste and many have small seed. We prune the top after fruiting to keep the size manageable. 

Fruiting Months January

Planted: 1999

Height 3 metres

Qty: 1

Fruit Harvest: 15 kilograms per Year

First Fruited: 8 Years from purchase in pot

Sun/Shade: Full Sun

Pruned By: 10% in

Pollination: Self Pollination

Pest Control:

Macadamia nut borer is a problem which spoils some of the crop. A thorough spraying with insecticide all over the tree when the fruit is still quite small, including inside the tree to eliminate the moths which harbour there, is very effective. We have

Lychee - Bosworth 3 (Grafted) ^7/10

Comments: - dont fertilize when young very senstitive to wind

Planted: 2008

Height 1.5 metres

Growing: In the Ground

Qty: 3

Sun/Shade: Medium Sun

Water Given in: Spring

Pruned By: 10% in Spring

Pollination: Self Pollination

Organic Status:Organic

Lychee - Bosworth 3

Height 0.4 metres

Lychee - Bosworth 3 (Cutting) ^7/10

Comments: - I had it from Bunnings. Started flowering in first season which I had removed to focus on root development. Struggles due to winds.

Water Given in: Spring

Pollination: Self Pollination

When I Fertilise: Spring

Lychee - Bosworth 3

Planted: 2008

Growing: In the Ground

Qty: 1

Sun/Shade: Medium Sun

Lychee - Bosworth 3 (Cutting)

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just bought it late Feb this year. I changed it to a large pot and gave it a light liquid fertiliser, it is now cover in a new flush .

August 2012: it sends out new growth every season, set one fruit last year. I fertilise it twice a season: when new growth begin and when they harden. the tree has now double in size since I bought it. much more flower buds are forming this winter. 

Planted: 2011

Growing: In a Pot

Sun/Shade: Full Sun

Lychee - Bosworth 3 (Seedling) ^5/10

Planted: 2014

Height 0.3 metres

Qty: 1

Sun/Shade: Medium Sun

Pollination: No

Fertiliser or Organics Used: cow lucerne blood and bone

When I Fertilise: Winter

Organic Status:Organic

Lychee - Bosworth 3 (Grafted) ^9/10

Comments: - Steady grower - really starting to take-off now 2010

Height 1.5 metres

Qty: 1

Sun/Shade: Medium Sun

Water Given in: Winter

Pollination: No

Fertiliser or Organics Used: Just Compost as they seem sensitive to anything else

When I Fertilise: Never

Pest Control: None

Organic Status:Organic

Lychee - Bosworth 3 (Cutting) ^8/10

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This was labelled a Kwai Mai Pink but some say its the same as a Bosworth 3. It will be planted in the ground in time for spring 2015. Seems happy enough so far, no new growth yet.

This how now been duo planted in the ground with my Salathiel. B3 is on the left in the photo.

Height 1.2 metres

Growing: In the Ground

Sun/Shade: Full Sun

Pollination: Self Pollination

Organic Status:Organic

Lychee - Bosworth 3 (Grafted) ^3/10

Comments

died in frost (winter)- protected but died

Lychee - Bosworth 3 (Cutting)

Planted: 2021

Lychee - Bosworth 3

Pollination: No

Lychee - Bosworth 3

Planted: 2008

Height 0.8 metres

Qty: 1

Sun/Shade: Medium Sun

Pollination: Self Pollination

When I Fertilise: Yearly

Organic Status:Organic

Lychee - Chompogo

Lychee - Erdon Lee (Seedling)

Planted: 2021

Growing: In a Pot

Qty: 2

Sun/Shade: Medium Sun

Pollination: No

Lychee - Kiamana ^5/10

Height 0.3 metres

Qty: 1

Sun/Shade: Medium Sun

Water Given in: Spring

Pollination: No

Fertiliser or Organics Used: cow lucerne blood and bone

Organic Status:Organic

Lychee - No Mai Chi (Cutting)

Comments: - This is coming along nicely now, it is flushing new growth and looks like it is finally growing, very slow to get going.  But now after a couple of years it is wallaby sized.  (And no the wallabies have never eaten this tree.)

Planted: 2007

Height 75 Centimetres

Growing: In the Ground

Qty: 1

Sun/Shade: Full Sun

Pollination: Self Pollination

Lychee - No Mai Chi

Planted: 2009

Height 1 metres

Growing: In the Ground

Sun/Shade: Medium Sun

Water Given in: Winter

Lychee - No Mai Chi (Cutting) ^4/10

Comments: -

not in a warm enough position

Pollination: Self Pollination

Lychee - Red Ball (Cutting) ^8/10

Planted: 2018

Height 1 metres

Growing: In a Pot

Sun/Shade: Medium Sun

Pollination: No

When I Fertilise: Spring

Comments

Lychee - Salathiel (Cutting) ^8/10

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This one has grown faster for me than my other 2 varieites in Sydney. It will be planted in the ground just in time for spring 2015.

This has now been duo planted in the ground with my Kwai Mai Pink. Salathiel is on the right in the photo.

Planted: 2015

Height 1 metres

Growing: In the Ground

Sun/Shade: Full Sun

Pollination: Self Pollination

Organic Status:Organic

Comments

Lychee - Salathiel (Seedling)

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Waiting to see if it's survived winter

Height 0.5 metres

Growing: In the Ground

Qty: 1

Sun/Shade: Full Sun

Pollination: Self Pollination

Lychee - Salathiel

Pollination: No

Lychee - Salathiel (Grafted) ^10/10

Fruiting Months February

Planted: 1995

Height 5 metres

Growing: In the Ground

Qty: 50

Organic Status:Partially Organic

Comments

Lychee - Salathiel (Cutting)

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Slow, Feb 2012, my first lychee - the trick to beating the birds - eat them green.

Planted: 2006

Height 1.5 metres

Growing: In the Ground

Qty: 1

Pollination: Self Pollination

Comments

Fruit bats are a greater problem than birds. You can't stop them with bird netting over the tree.

Hi Kath, did you weigh down the branches to obtain this open shape? Thanks!