My Edible Fruit Trees: Loquat Trees

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

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 - 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

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

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 - Nagasakiwase (Grafted) ^8/10

Comments: - The fruit is rather small but the seeds are also small. Good taste. Have moved the tree to Katoomba where it continued to grow well and produced very tasty fruit. Coddling moth was a serious problem in Sydney but have not had this issue in Katoomba so far. The tree is now doing very well, no transplant shock, and has produced good fruit.

Fruiting Months December

Planted: 2012

Height 1.5 metres

Growing: In the Ground

Qty: 1

Fruit Harvest: 20 Fruit Per Year

First Fruited: 2 Years from purchase in pot

Sun/Shade: Full Sun

Pollination: Self Pollination

Dwarf Loquat Nagasakiwase

Loquat - Nagasakiwase

Loquat - Nagasakiwase ^9/10

Comments: - Yummy fruit , grew all over Brisbane . Leaves have tiny prickles but fruit is worth it , place n a low trafic area to avoid contact with plant . growing in a 250 l pot.

Fruiting Months July, August, September, October

Planted: 2014

Height 2.5 metres

Qty: 1

Fruit Harvest: 3 kilograms per Year

First Fruited: 4.5 Years from purchase in pot

Sun/Shade: Low Sun

Pollination: Self Pollination

Loquat - Nagasakiwase (Grafted) ^9/10

Comments: -

Love loquats, so see how it goes. Have only ever eaten seedligns before

Planted in Oct 2018.

Height 0.7 metres

Growing: In the Ground

Sun/Shade: Full Sun

Water Given in: Spring

Loquat - Bessell Brown (Grafted) ^8/10

Comments: -

Love loquats, so see how it goes. Have only ever eaten seedligns before

Planted in Oct 2018.

Height 0.7 metres

Growing: In the Ground

Sun/Shade: Full Sun

Water Given in: Spring

Loquat - Nagasakiwase (Grafted) ^10/10

Loquat - Nagasakiwase ^10/10

Comments: - fruits early in Spring before fruit fly appear. Survived transplanting from pot to shady spot in the ground ( southern facing fence ) but still blossomed and now has about 20 ripening fruit in Spring and getting much more sun

Fruiting Months September and October

Planted: 2017

Growing: In the Ground

Qty: 1

First Fruited: 1 Years from purchase in pot

Sun/Shade: Medium Sun

Water Given in: Winter

Pollination: No

Fertiliser or Organics Used: chicken pellets

When I Fertilise: When Fruiting, Winter, Spring

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

Comments: -

Great shade for the chooks plus tasty fruit

Have to keep it pruned quite short as under chicken wire 

Growing: In the Ground

Sun/Shade: Full Sun

Pollination: Self Pollination

Organic Status:Organic

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 - Nagasakiwase (Grafted)

Comments: - Delicious fruit, medicinal tea from the leaves.

Height 1 metres

Growing: In a Pot

Qty: 1

Sun/Shade: Medium Sun

Pollination: No

Loquat - Nagasakiwase

Planted: 2016

Loquat - Seedling

Planted: 2015

Height 1 metres

Growing: In a Pot

Pollination: Self Pollination