My Edible Fruit Trees: Loquat Trees QLD

Loquat - Nagasakiwase (Grafted) ^9/10

Planted: 2020

Height 1.6 metres

Growing: In a Pot

Sun/Shade: Medium Sun

Water Given in: Spring

Pollination: Self Pollination

Loquat - Nagasakiwase (Grafted)

Comments: -

Plant arrived in Feb 2020 in great condition with soil still damp. Will plant this into a pot after 1-2 weeks outside and provide updates. 

May 2020 - Has put on several inches of new growth. The rootstock seems reasonably active - keep finding new shoots and leaves from it.

Spring 2021 - Has flowered and fruited for the first time this year - currently holding onto ~8 fruit (cut the rest off). Now in 45L planter bag. Leaves easily burnt by sun - under shade cloth to avoid this. Also remains very top heavy since purchase - needing a stake, still waiting for trunk to strenghten & am continuing to prune branches to lighten the load.

Planted: 2020

Growing: In a Pot

Qty: 1

First Fruited: 1.5 Years from purchase in pot

Sun/Shade: Full Sun

Pollination: Self Pollination

Loquat - Nagasakiwase

Loquat - Seedling (Seedling) ^8/10

Comments: -

Purchased from Daley's, and I love how fast it was delivered, as well as how well it was packaged. I love the clear seedling tubes!! My posty lady was very careful with it. I think it's brilliant, making the packaging clear so the delivery peeps are a bit more careful.

I waited a bit too long to repot I think. I popped it my bathroom for a few days, in the window, because we were having a very hot week, and I didn't want it to die, as so many things do on entering my hotbox urban rental yard (Brisbane Southside!). When it went outside a week later, I promptly forgot about it for another week, while the poor thing was sitting in a tubestock pot!!

So when I repotted it, it had lost two of the seven lovely healthy leaves it came with. I repotted it immediately into a huge 70 L pot I had, with lots of compost and some coir soaked in mollasses and seasol to help it retain some moisture in the last of the Summer heat. I also threw in some blood and bone, and a handul of dynamic lifter pellets. 

It lost another leaf after that, and then just... sat there. It wasn't dying, but it wasn't living, either. Since then, in the available soil around it, I've put two different succulents in, a rose cutting, and my son's bean plants he grew at school. And they ALL just sat there for a while, doing nothing.

Despite it being the middle of winter, and cold, and dismal and cloudy and rainy, suddenly, I have new growth on the loquat! And the two succulents I thought were going to die are looking good, and the beans are actually flowering. Sadly, I did not remove enough of the skin of the half a potato I stuck the rose cutting in, so I have had a massive potato plant shoot out the side, and I had to remove that (and repot it once I saw all the baby potatoes growing off the roots!). I am quite surprised at its sudden growth, and once looking at it, despite it having only the four leaves it started with, I am startled to realise it is actually taller. Quite a hardy little thing after all!

I think I'm a few years off a harvest, but I'm hoping that it will be a good grower once the warmer weather sets in. The plan is for dynamic lifter and seasol once spring rolls around. No pests have touched it, despite the persistance of mealy bugs, grasshoppers, fruit fly and aphids all through winter this year. I'm hoping it will be hardy enough to grow to shade my bedroom window this summer!

Planted: 2016

Height 0.75 metres

Growing: In a Pot

Sun/Shade: Medium Sun

Water Given in: Spring

Loquat - Bessell Brown

Planted: 2016

Height 50 Centimetres

Growing: In a Pot

Sun/Shade: Medium Sun

Water Given in: Spring

Pollination: Self Pollination

Loquat - Nagasakiwase ^10/10

Comments: -

Height 3mts (18/01/2012) Its a nice compact size here in brisbane . The fruit are fantastic but i have to net them to keep the crows/bats/birds/fruit fly/possums out of them .

Planted: 2006

Height 3 metres

Growing: In the Ground

Qty: 1

Sun/Shade: Full Sun

Water Given in: Spring

Loquat - Bessell Brown

Loquat - Seedling

Planted: 2015

Height 1 metres

Growing: In a Pot

Pollination: Self Pollination

Loquat - Bessell Brown

Loquat - Nagasakiwase

Loquat - Nagasakiwase (Grafted)

Planted: 2015

Height 1.5 metres

Growing: In the Ground

Qty: 1

Sun/Shade: Full Sun

Pollination: No

Loquat - Nagasakiwase

Planted: 2015

Loquat - Seedling

Loquat - Bessell Brown (Grafted) ^5/10

Comments: - I had one as a kid, the fruit was delicious and the tree vibrant and lush looking.

Planted: 2014

Height 1.5 metres

Growing: In a Pot

Qty: 1

Sun/Shade: Medium Sun

Water Given in: Spring

Pollination: Self Pollination

When I Fertilise: Spring

Pest Control: Chilli and garlic spray once a fortnight.  More than that causes leaf burn.

Loquat - Nagasakiwase

Comments: - Variety unknown, seedling grown.

Planted: 2014

Growing: In the Ground

Qty: 1

Sun/Shade: Medium Sun

Pollination: No

Loquat - Nagasakiwase

Height 0.4 metres

Growing: In the Ground

Qty: 1

Sun/Shade: Full Sun

Water Given in: Spring

Pollination: No

Loquat - Nagasakiwase ^7/10

Comments: - A good loquat beats supermarket apricots. Hardy, productive. First season's fruit have been superb. Second season fruits ripened very early due to an unusually warm winter, and were very sweet but not as flavoursome.  Will consider thinning fruit for a better harvest next year.

Fruiting Months August

Planted: 2011

Height 1 metres

Growing: In the Ground

Qty: 1

First Fruited: 1 Years from purchase in pot

Sun/Shade: Medium Sun

Water Given in: Winter

Pollination: No

Pest Control: Cloth bags, so I have perfect fruit.

Loquat - Seedling (Seedling) ^5/10

Fruiting Months September

Height 3 metres

Fruit Harvest: 1 kilograms per Year

First Fruited: 5 Years from Seed

Sun/Shade: Medium Sun

Water Given in: Spring

Pollination: No

When I Fertilise: Winter and Spring

Organic Status:Organic

Comments

Arcobelina, can you comment on the taste, or is the 5/10 what you think of them? Can you elaborate? Thank you.

its fairly ordinary.... but we have a jabacotiba next to it, grumichama a few paces away, nectarine and banana and passionfruit in theyard too. but when I lived in Canberra the loquat was the exotic fruit

oh, thanks for this answer. Trying to find a fruit that i won't find at the supermarket, but i want something tasty. Jaboticaba and grumichama are definitely going in! I will look at some of the sapotes instead!

frenchie - had a think about it and the loquat fills a hole when there isnt much else in the garden as far as fruit goes. If you have the room plant on and you will have the first fruit of spring time from it

Loquat - Nagasakiwase (Grafted) ^6/10

Height 0.5 metres

Growing: In a Pot

Sun/Shade: Full Sun

Pollination: Self Pollination

When I Fertilise: Yearly

Loquat - Bessell Brown ^6/10

Height 0.5 metres

Growing: In a Pot

Sun/Shade: Full Sun

Water Given in: Spring

Pollination: Self Pollination

When I Fertilise: Yearly

Loquat - Bessell Brown

Comments: -

Purchased from Matildas early 2012.
Planted below the small dam.
Has never looked back
Nov 2012 has lots of new growth and about 1m tall

Planted: 2012

Growing: In the Ground

Sun/Shade: Medium Sun

Water Given in: Winter

Pollination: Self Pollination

Loquat - Nagasakiwase

Loquat - Nagasakiwase (Grafted) ^8/10

Comments: -

Lovely vigorous tree will have to protect fruit from fruit fly seems to like its position

Planted: 2012

Growing: In the Ground

Sun/Shade: Full Sun

Pollination: Self Pollination

Loquat - Champagne (Grafted) ^10/10

Comments: -

I've heard good things about this variety and it is slightly different to the 4 others most easily available. It has just gone in the ground, but it is a beautiful little tree!

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2011 - Had a large crop of fruit (around 200) in its first year in ground. Taste is fantastic - a cross between pear and peach with a little tang. Must bag from fruit fly. This is a vigorous grower, but quite dense compared to other loquats.

Fruiting Months September and October

Planted: 2010

Height 1.6 metres

Growing: In the Ground

Qty: 1

Fruit Harvest: 5 kilograms per Year

First Fruited: 1 Years from purchase in pot

Sun/Shade: Medium Sun

Pruned By: 10% in After Fruiting

Pollination: Self Pollination

When I Fertilise: Winter and Spring

Pest Control: Bag for fruit fly

Comments

Where did you manage to find the Champagne variety? I like my Nagasakiwase but had a few other varieties including Champagne that I'd Iike to taste/grow.

The only person i know who still stockes them is Bob McGuffin. He usually has a stall at Chandler markets? and the bogi fair, which is coming up next weekend at Albion.

Loquat - Seedling (Seedling) ^10/10

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fruit is yummy like a pineapple crossed with a lemon and a hint of vanilla. Doesnt keep at all though. Good looking rainforest type tree would suit any large garden. the large furry leaves are generous suppliers of mulch. Plant a seed it will grow! Supposed to fruit in winter but I think mine was a bit late. Fruit is generous early in life we had a bout 10 in the first 6 months.

Fruiting Months July and August

Height 2.5 Centimetres

Growing: In the Ground

Qty: 1

Fruit Harvest: 8 Fruit Per Year

First Fruited: 3 Months from Purchase in Pot

Sun/Shade: Medium Sun

Water Given in: Summer

Pollination: Self Pollination

Fertiliser or Organics Used: mulch

When I Fertilise: Yearly

Pest Control:

This tree is known to harbour fruit fly over winter, as yet they are too busy with my tomatoes to notice the loquot!

Organic Status:Organic

Loquat - Bessell Brown (Seedling) ^7/10

Comments: -

Unknown variety, old and large tree which produced a large crop last June, but very light crop this year. Very tasty fruit and lovely shady tree

Height 4 metres

Growing: In the Ground

Qty: 2

Sun/Shade: Full Sun

Water Given in: Summer

Pollination: Self Pollination

When I Fertilise: Never

Organic Status:Organic

Loquat - Nagasakiwase ^10/10

Comments: -

This plant has taken off like a rocket! Nice big leaves and look forward to fruit. I remeber wild parrots at my parent place also enjoyed the fruit, but I wouldn't mind sharing if they attract birds here.

Height 2 metres

Growing: In the Ground

Qty: 1

Sun/Shade: Medium Sun

Water Given in: Winter

Pollination: No

Comments

Hi can I have a cutting for grafting you can email on boomdat@hotmail.com I can trade for something you like

eriobotrya japonica loquat (Seedling)

Comments: - Purchased yesterday and planted today - 25 March 2010

Planted: 2010

Height 0.6 metres

Growing: In the Ground

Qty: 1

Sun/Shade: Full Sun

Water Given in: Spring

Loquat - Nagasakiwase (Seedling) ^10/10

Comments: -

Abundant sweet yellow fruits year round here in the tropics of Central Qld.  Our family of 6 all try to beat each other to pick these little treats!  The tree is about 8 years old and has been fruiting well for the past 3 years.  Low maintenence, just an occasional prune every couple of years to keep the tree compact and the fruits easy to reach.

Fruiting Months January, February, March, April, May, June, August, September, October, November, December

Planted: 2003

Height 3 metres

Growing: In the Ground

Qty: 1

Fruit Harvest: 200 Fruit Per Year

First Fruited: 5 Years from purchase in pot

Sun/Shade: Medium Sun

Water Given in: Winter

Pruned By: 20% in After Fruiting

Pollination: No

When I Fertilise: Never

Pest Control:

No sprays needed.  Very little issue with pests, though occasionally the ants get in if the fruits are left to get over-ripe on the tree.

Loquat - Nagasakiwase ^10/10

Planted: 2008

Height 1 metres

Growing: In a Pot

Qty: 1

First Fruited: 2009 Years from purchase in pot

Sun/Shade: Full Sun

Water Given in: Spring

Pollination: Self Pollination