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Re: Seedless Lychee In Florida...??
« Reply #50 on: August 01, 2018, 04:17:30 PM »
Finally able to get one fruit off this late season lychee from Toptrop. Bought this tree in Feb 2014. Been in ground for two years.
Mauritius on right to compare















One fruit not enough to completely evaluate taste. Would of had more, but the damn heatwave. It was sweet, had a softer flesh then Mauritius,  not as fraqant and no acidity. Small seed of course. Still a ok lychee to have.

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Re: Seedless Lychee In Florida...??
« Reply #51 on: August 01, 2018, 04:47:27 PM »
Kwai mai pink?
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Re: Seedless Lychee In Florida...??
« Reply #52 on: August 01, 2018, 09:03:22 PM »
Kwai mai pink?

No, its clearly evident the variety is, "Late Season Large Size".  Gotta love Top Morons .
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Re: Seedless Lychee In Florida...??
« Reply #53 on: August 05, 2018, 10:06:07 PM »
i bet if you called TT they’d try to blame the grower instead of fess up to the cr@p they pull on a regular basis

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Re: Seedless Lychee In Florida...??
« Reply #54 on: April 05, 2020, 01:26:23 AM »
Any update on this variety?  Fruit4me how is the tree doing?  Have you had any more fruit from it?

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Re: Seedless Lychee In Florida...??
« Reply #55 on: April 05, 2020, 11:05:48 PM »
Any update on this variety?  Fruit4me how is the tree doing?  Have you had any more fruit from it?

Bill
Tree is still the same size like it was in 2018. It flowered in 2019, but didn't hold any fruit. This year, it only replaced its old leaves.   
Here's a picture taken today



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Re: Seedless Lychee In Florida...??
« Reply #56 on: April 06, 2020, 12:45:11 AM »
I am Chinese, and we really have seedless litchis. But no one tried to smuggle the branches back home?


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Re: Seedless Lychee In Florida...??
« Reply #57 on: April 06, 2020, 03:20:34 AM »
How is the taste compared to seeded varieties?

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Re: Seedless Lychee In Florida...??
« Reply #58 on: April 06, 2020, 06:37:56 AM »
How is the taste compared to seeded varieties?
The taste of ordinary varieties, the selling point is nuclear

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Re: Seedless Lychee In Florida...??
« Reply #59 on: April 06, 2020, 12:03:45 PM »
The “late Seedless” lychee that is popular in India is supposed to be very productive and taste very good. I’m no expert but the fruit from your tree appears to look like it. Please keep us posted this year on the plants progress. I would like an airlayer when the plant gets big enough.

The “seedless” lychee in China looks great also. It appears to be the same seedless lychee that was recently introduced to  Australia.

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Re: Seedless Lychee In Florida...??
« Reply #60 on: April 20, 2020, 03:18:45 PM »
Here is a description I found on the web for "Late Seedless" Lychee. 

Late Bedana (Late Seedless): In this cultivar the seeds are present,
but are shriveled and very small. It is a late maturing cultivar grown in
northern India (Anonymous, 2001). This is a late maturing cultivar, usually
ripens in the second week of June. The fruits mature in the end of May in
Jharkhand, first week of June in Muzaffarpur and last week of June in
Uttarakhand. The trees are vigorous having an average height of 5.5m
and spread of 7.0m. It is a high yielder, giving an annual yield of 80-100kg/
tree. The new flush is dark pink in colour and its leaf can be distinguished
from other cultivars. The panicle is compact (Singh and Babita, 2001). The
fruits are conical with vermilion to carmine in colour having dark blackish
brown tubercles at maturity. The fruit skin is rough, firm and non-adherent.
Pulp is creamy white, soft, juicy (65.4%), sweet having 19.5 brix TSS, 13.0
percent total sugars and 0.30 per cent acidity. Although the fruit size is
medium, the pulp content is high and the fruits are of very good quality.
Seeds are small (2.0 x 1.0 cm in size and 2.18 g in weight), shrunken,
glabrous, chocolate coloured having fusiform shape similar to dog’s tooth.
The rind: pulp: seed ratio is 14.76: 81.89: 3.35. Overall quality is very good
(Rai, et al., 2001; Morton, 1987; Chauhan, 2001).

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Re: Seedless Lychee In Florida...??
« Reply #61 on: January 03, 2021, 01:48:16 AM »
I have a small plant that seems to have seedless fruit. It's only a few feet tall, grows very slowly. It flowered every year but only had 3 fruits in 2019.
Maybe 2021 will be a better year for me. Can't remember if this was a seedling or if I purchased it as a small plant somewhere. Fruit tastes good, my other fruiting tree is a large Brewster.
 


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