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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: Longan trees too close, what's next?
« on: January 12, 2020, 08:47:29 PM »
Longan and Lychee and probably many other fruit trees would produce bigger and sweeter fruit if grown close to a river.
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Anyone else? I would think that there has be larger Luc's growing in SoCal.I grafted one on an Imbe that is in the ground a few years ago, the Luc's is now 6 feet.
Bill
I have an isolated kwai muk tree that produces nice large fruits on its own and gets loaded with fruits.
Never heard of anyone selecting out choice varieties of kwai muk. I have one large tree that produces large fruits that are very tasty. Am willing to send scions to anyone interested. I just planted at a different location a whole row of kwai muk as windbreak. They were from seeds sourced from Florida some years ago from 3 different trees, so hopefully eventually i'll have more to select from and come up with different strains.
Like all other artocarpus, kwai muk have different shaped leaves at different stages of growth, even on the same tree.
Your point is? I am well aware of the intraspecific variation of kwai muk. It's all the same species. But that species is NOT A. hypargyraeus (White kwai muk), which has long peduncles, velvety underside of leaves, male flowers very pale and female flowers white and bumpy. Neither you or anyone else is growing it, though I'd love to be proven wrong. If anyone wants to upload their personal photo of a tree in cultivation, go right ahead.
In sum, the two species are only superficially similar, and that is why they have similar common names. But no one has the real A. hypargyraeus and if you did you would not think they are all the one species of "kwai muk".
Never heard of anyone selecting out choice varieties of kwai muk. I have one large tree that produces large fruits that are very tasty. Am willing to send scions to anyone interested. I just planted at a different location a whole row of kwai muk as windbreak. They were from seeds sourced from Florida some years ago from 3 different trees, so hopefully eventually i'll have more to select from and come up with different strains.
I have a seedling tree, still smaller than me, so I don't expect a harvest for a long time. That said, I'm keen on trying its own fruit, so I don't wanna top-work it. Can the scions be used as cuttings to root directly? Is there a decent strike rate? I'm interested in some proven good trees myself. Come to think of it... If cuttings were a viable strategy, I could always take cuttings of my current seedling and top-work the proven scions over it, without losing the original... I'm seeing no downside here, though it's contingent on cuttings working well for this species.
How about A. hole ... a lot easier to remember.Yes, but you forgot, it has to be in latin?
Oscar,Oscar
Were you successful in your grafting efforts to add this " Jay Ram " canistel to your collection , and if so how long do you think it would be until bud wood would be available ? Maybe a couple years ?
William
Yes scions will not be available of this canistel for at least a couple of years.
Most of my guava cleft grafts have flattened graft unions, meaning poor graft unions.
Now I prefer bark graft.
I've lost a Tice, White/Australian, and FL Giant to standing water (greater than 7 days). So this time I'm gonna grow them on mounds 1-1.5 ft high. I don't think they are drought tolerant. Even in pots they require moist soil or else the leaves go droopy.
I remember meeting the guy who developed the "Tice" mulberry at a CRFG-festival of fruit many years ago and for the life of me I can not remember the alternative name that Tice also goes by but there is another name!!
Any body out there have that other name?
Old fruit brains seem to ferment
