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I pruned mine when they got out of control after they set first round of fruits and stopped flowering. So, I pruned the tree back to the size I want, and then defoaliated the leaves from branches that had no fruit. Now those branches are loaded with new flowers and setting fruit again.This is interesting, does this work for other kinds of fruit trees besides Cherimoyas/Atemoyas? Thanks for sharing!
In Southern California, I prune mine once in March at leaf drop and once in August/mid Sep. Defoliating gets me 2nd crop for late season that runs thru end of March/mid April.
Here's my grafted Tai wu yuen longan
Up close shot
I only tried one piece so far. It was not as sweet as my other longans. The skin seems thicker and has larger seed, but it still has decent seed to flesh ratio. Im leaving it on longer to see if it can get bigger. Flesh was pretty crunchy with some mild sweet juice.
Unfortunately, my fuk yan didn't make it to maturity. My mom cut it off too soon. It was big and brown just like the tai wu yuen longans. I noticed with these two varieties, they turn brown at a very early stage. So gotta be careful when to pick. Notice in the first picture, the longans in the background is green and smaller.
My Bad, I didn't mean to edit(only to Quote), I did click on the quote button, but it appear this way. Sorry, I am a Newbie after all. Those longans looks great. I harvested about half of my longans because the squirrel has been eating them on average of 6 a day.
. I wish we have one grower in Southern California with those pricings.
Basically you need a permit for everything you import. There's a list on their website of stuff they want to keep out. They're generally invasive species, roots, and things whose pests might endanger local agriculture like grapes and citrus.
There's no specific whitelist of things they allow. There's a thread here about getting the small lots of seeds permit.
For plants there is often a 2 year post-entry quarantine period before you're allowed to plant it in the ground. The permit is harder to get than for seeds too. Inspectors will come see if your quarantine site is suitable before issuing you the permit.
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