My Edible Fruit Trees: Loquat Trees VIC

Loquat - Nagasakiwase

Tanaka - Giant Fruit TANAKA LOQUAT

Comments: - Named after Dr. Yoshio Tanaka, this variety produces remarkable sized fruit with excellent flavour and little acidity. The ratio of flesh to seeds is exceptional and the fruit have an extended keeping quality. The Tanaka Loquat tree is highly productive and said to be one of the best Loquat fruit varieties available.

Planted: 2020

Height 2 metres

Growing: In a Pot

Qty: 2

Pollination: Self Pollination

Loquat - Seedling

Planted: 2020

Height 1.5 metres

Qty: 1

Sun/Shade: Medium Sun

Water Given in: Winter

Pollination: No

Loquat - Nagasakiwase (Grafted) ^10/10

Planted: 2017

Growing: In the Ground

Sun/Shade: Medium Sun

Pollination: Self Pollination

Organic Status:Organic

Loquat - Nagasakiwase (Grafted) ^8/10

Comments: - Just received it today in a good shape

Planted: 2020

Growing: In a Pot

Sun/Shade: Full Sun

Dwarf Loquat Nagasakiwase (Grafted) ^10/10

Comments: - Beautiful tree and tasty fruit been waiting maybe a year for this baby to come on the market and i got it woo!!!

Planted: 2020

Height 60 Centimetres

Growing: In the Ground

Qty: 1

Sun/Shade: Full Sun

Water Given in: Spring

Loquat - Seedling

Planted: 2010

Growing: In the Ground

Loquat - Nagasakiwase (Grafted)

Height 80 Centimetres

Growing: In the Ground

Qty: 1

Sun/Shade: Medium Sun

Pollination: Self Pollination

Organic Status:Organic

Loquat (Seedling) ^6/10

Comments: -

Inherited this tree when I bought our current property. It was stuck in a small pot in the dark laundry and I didn't water it for the first 6 months as I didn't know what it was at the time.  Despite this poor treatment, it survived, although it was just one lanky stem with some leaves.  I repotted it into a larger pot, headed it to try to stimulate some branching.  This worked, although not quite as well as I'd hoped and it now looks like there's going to be an inclusion in the stem where I originally headed it.   But it is happy enough, although quite often it gets brown patches on the edges of the leaves. I suspect this is either fertiliser burn or damage from winds.

UPDATE 2014: Fruited for the first time last year. Got a decent amount of fruit off it, and some more fruit has just begun to set this year. Birds love them, though, so you need to net.

Really tough.

Height 2 metres

Growing: In the Ground

Qty: 1

Fruit Harvest: 2 kilograms per Year

First Fruited: 5 Years from purchase in pot

Sun/Shade: Medium Sun

Water Given in: Winter

Pollination: No

When I Fertilise: Never

Pest Control:

Occassionally gets aphids on the new growth, but these are easily controlled by squashing regularly.

Organic Status:Organic

Loquat - Seedling

Loquat - Seedling

Loquat - Nagasakiwase (Grafted)

Comments: -

I bought this plant mainly for it's medicinal value. According to the Traditional Chinese Medicine loquats help to relieve cough by soothing the throat. I chose this Japanese variety because it is said to be high flesh/seed ratio. 

Planted: 2010

Height 1 metres

Growing: In the Ground

Qty: 1

Sun/Shade: Medium Sun

Pollination: Self Pollination

Loquat - Nagasakiwase

Planted: 2009

Growing: In the Ground

Loquat - Seedling (Seedling)

Comments: -

to be used as rootstock for selected cultivars

Growing: In a Pot

Qty: 5

Loquat - Thames Pride

Comments: - Root bound in pot. Unrolled roots and cut some to open up. Severely shocked the roots but it seems fine.

Height 1 metres

Growing: In the Ground

Loquat - Nagasakiwase

loquat seedling

Planted: 2009

Height 20 Centimetres

Growing: In a Pot

Sun/Shade: Full Shade

Water Given in: Spring

Pollination: No

Fertiliser or Organics Used: compost and worm castings.

Pest Control:

We have about 20 seedlings donated from a gardener in Doncaster Victoria. Hundreds of seedlings come up every years from a very large Loquat tree in her back yard which makes wonderful jam and eating fruit. Four seedlings have been planted into large p

Organic Status:Organic

Question:

Has anyone got recipe ideas they would like to share?

Loquat - Nagasakiwase