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Yeah, they close after you pollinate them. They only bloom for a day. If you properly pollinated the flower and pollinated it in the morning, it will probably form a fruit! If you didn't properly pollinate, the closed flower will fall off.
Plant some flowers around so bees can pollinate for you. When your vines grow bigger, it'll probably will attract bees automatically.
Probably they did not get pollinated, or the stigmas were already too dry, from low-air humidity, to receive pollen.
Hi my fruit forum friends. My wife and I are going to Thailand next week for a 10 day durian trip... Along with much more fruit eating. It's a tour that Lindsay Gasik (yearofthedurian.com) is hosting and gonna be our tour guide. I'm very excited for the trip and I'm hoping to eat my body weight in mangosteen and longkong. Oh and durian.
My question is are there any must have fruits I can try while in Thailand that are in season? I'm hoping to try marang and chempedak and salak and maprang and others. But I honestly don't know if it's the right time of year for those. If any of you out there are Thailand experts let me know!
Also I've got my usda seed permit it hand. Any seed requests??
Hi Kona fruit fram,
How lucky you are to travel to Thailand to try all exotic tropical fruits ! Thailand is well known for Phet Pakchong, durian, long Kong , mangosteen .,,, if you can bring back home all the seeds you can that would be awesome ! Whatever seeds you bring back please include me.
How do you obtain usda sees permit? Please share me the steps and process, so I can prepare myself before taking vacation trip to Asia country.
Deagon, just read on Purdue University's (new crop resource online program) it says you can graft loquat to apple-pear-quince- pyracantha , quince and pyracantha being for extreme dwarfing. this is from a book by Julie F. Morton 1987 titled fruits of warm climates pages 103-108 ....i tried it before and it did not work for me could have been timing. Patrick
Argh, my Jazzy loquat is still tasting like lemon despite being the first cluster to flower this year, well before any other clusters or playstation from the areas did. One fruit left. I'll give it another half month.
Feng,
I just went to Jim's again on Monday and ate a lot more loquats, The ones I believe that were Jazzy were real good. Some of the white ones were real amazing. And some of the trees had fruit that was ripe probably a month ago, and I wasn't able to taste those.
You're welcome, I hope they are sweet for you. The sellers often do not know the variety names of the fruit they sell. The big fruit usually get bought up first. Don't be shy to ask the seller if they have more big fruit in the back. They usually put out only a portion of the prime fruit at one time so that they don't all get bought up at once.
The X large fruit are nice but don't pass up some of the smaller fruit. There are many white/beige flesh fruit that are smaller but sweeter than the orange fleshed varieties.
Simon
The Mira Mesa farmers market is every Tuesday from 3:30pm till 7pm if I remember correctly. You may also find loquat fruit at whole foods, Jimbos or Sprouts when they are in season, call first to see if they have them in stock.
Simon
I went to farmer market today and saw big loquat fruits. I bought all the big ones. I asked the seller what the variety but he did not know. Thanks Simon for showing me where to get my favorite treat.
OK Dragon, lets start over , these are seed starting bags for starting seeds not for growing plants longterm. they are clear plastic and you have to punch your own holes in them with a hole punch or cut the bottom corners off with sisors. patrick
I don't have quince so can I still graft loquat on Apple ?Hi Dragon , if your thought is to graft it to an existing apple tree you can do that BUT you must first qraft quince to your apple then graft loquat to quince these can both be done at the same time. Patrick
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The Mira Mesa farmers market is every Tuesday from 3:30pm till 7pm if I remember correctly. You may also find loquat fruit at whole foods, Jimbos or Sprouts when they are in season, call first to see if they have them in stock.
Simon
Hi Dragon, look at uline.com then look for poly bags then look at 1 mil then look at to mil if you can use the size i have i have plenty of extra, just PM me. Patrick
Dragon,
Jim does not sell any of his fruit or trees as far as I'm aware. I've seen very large fruit which I believe is likely Big Jim for sale at the Mira Mesa farmers market.
Simon
Thanks to Mark I was able to try several of the varieties collected from Jims yard and a couple of the white ones were just out of this world. The #1 and #2 white ones were so sweet, it's like comparing a Kent mango to one of the newer Zill mango varieties like Lemon Zest. Diabetics will not be able to eat number one and number two.
Now back to the topic of this thread, here is a handful of Big Jim loquats, harvested a bit early, not fully orange and not at maximum sweetness yet.
Simon
Hi Simon,
Your big loquats make me drooling! DOes Jim sell any of his fruits? Do you know his address if he selling trees or fruits? I wish I can try the big Jim and white Jim.
Hi Steve i found them on the www from uline. Patrick
