My Edible Fruit Trees: Loquat Trees

Eriobotrya japonica (Loquat | Bessell Brown)

Eriobotrya japonica (Loquat | Nagasakiwase)

Height 80 Centimetres

Growing: In a Pot

Qty: 1

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

Planted: 2008

Height 2 metres

Growing: In a Pot

Sun/Shade: Full Sun

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

Height 10 Centimetres

Growing: In a Pot

Loquat (Seedling) ^9/10

Comments: -

Fruiting Months November and December

Height 2.5 metres

Growing: In the Ground

Qty: 2

Fruit Harvest: 10 kilograms per Year

First Fruited: 6 Months From Seed

Sun/Shade: Full Sun

Pollination: Self Pollination

Organic Status:Organic

Loquat (Seedling)

Planted: 2009

Loquat

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 ^3/10

Comments: - Pretty hardy

Height 2 metres

Sun/Shade: Full Sun

Water Given in: Spring

Organic Status:Organic

loquat

Loquat

Growing: In the Ground

Pollination: Self Pollination

Loquat - Enormity (Grafted) ^7/10

Comments: -

This is a very sick loquat! It is very exposed and was a bad choice of plant from the start - as the graft was so low on the trunk. With the constant wind and salinity it has not fared well.

I recently discovered a large stem canker (collar rot) hiding under the bark at the graft point - which just peeled away. I have scraped it back and treated but it probably won't survive.

Fruiting Months July, August, September

Planted: 2006

Height 1.5 metres

Growing: In the Ground

Qty: 1

First Fruited: 2 Years from purchase in pot

Sun/Shade: Full Sun

Water Given in: Spring

Pollination: Self Pollination

Fertiliser or Organics Used: Usual mix plus trace elements

When I Fertilise: Winter

Pest Control:

None except for copper paint for canker.

Organic Status:Partially Organic

Loquat - Enormity (Grafted) ^8/10

Comments: -

Does not need full sun.  Large sweet fruit when thinned.  Reliable producer.  I never had problems with birds eating my fruit until last year and this year they were early and vicious.  I had to net the tree this year.

Fruiting Months September, October, November

Planted: 2006

Height 2 metres

Growing: In the Ground

Fruit Harvest: 200 Fruit Per Year

First Fruited: 12 Months from Purchase in Pot

Sun/Shade: Medium Sun

Water Given in: Spring

Pollination: Self Pollination

When I Fertilise: When Fruiting, Winter, Spring

Organic Status:Organic

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 Enormity

Comments: -

Bland fruit, So I have grafted a Neighbours unknown tasty variety on to it.

Fruiting Months September

Height 1.5 metres

Growing: In the Ground

Fruit Harvest: 10 Fruit Per Year

First Fruited: 2 Years from purchase in pot

Sun/Shade: Full Sun

Pollination: Self Pollination

Loquat seedling

Comments: -

Growing: In the Ground

Qty: 1

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-seedling (Seedling) ^10/10

Comments: -

Grown myself from seed. growing well

Planted: 2009

Height 1 metres

Growing: In the Ground

Qty: 4

Sun/Shade: Full Sun

Pollination: Self Pollination

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

unknown loquat ^10/10

Height 3 metres

Growing: In the Ground

Sun/Shade: Full Sun

Water Given in: Summer

Pollination: No

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

Dwarf Loquat Nagasakiwase

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 - Bessell Brown (Grafted)

Comments: -

Growing nicely, not fussy.  Easy.

Height 1 metres

Growing: In the Ground

Sun/Shade: Full Sun

Loquat - Bessell Brown

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