I had no idea lychee were so hard to graft. It probably won’t work but I might as well mention it. Years ago I tried grafting two seedling carrot wood trees (Cupaniopsis anacardioides) with lychee budwood. These are a common ornamental here in So Cal and they always reminded me of lychee and longan, so I tried it. To my surprise one pushed, grew through the parafilm and produced a couple of leaves. Unfortunately in my exuberance and inexperience (it was like the second thing I had ever grafted) I unwrapped the graft after about a month (way too soon) and of course it dried up and died.
I don’t know if that means much, maybe someone with cross-genus (if that’s a word?) grafting experience would have a better idea, but it might be worth a shot if someone has one of these trees around.
PS they are listed as invasive for Hawaii and Australia
Wow, that would be amazing if carrot wood would support a lychee graft. They are very invasive here in Florida and sprout up everywhere. I have some experimenting to do.
Ive done this with kohala longan on carrotwood. Approach grafted it about 3 months ago. Its looking great so far. I plan to fully remove the scion tree on 3 weeks. Ive already removed 3/4 of the bark below the graft, 1/4 per month.
