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Re: Lychee grafted onto Longan?
« Reply #200 on: May 14, 2022, 11:57:15 AM »
I got a success! I think. I attempted over a dozen grafts of lychee onto longans. It looks like I got 1 or 2 that took.  This is pushing and was taken several days ago. I'm pretty excited.


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Re: Lychee grafted onto Longan?
« Reply #201 on: May 14, 2022, 01:27:36 PM »
Eggo, congratulations, it looks like a good graft !

You may want to keep it shaded from the hot sun if your temperature gets in the high 80s or 90F. I had some new grafts that didn't make it when it was in direct sun like yours and I didn't give it some shade.

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Re: Lychee grafted onto Longan?
« Reply #202 on: June 13, 2022, 09:02:23 PM »
Seven out of eight lychee cleft grafts on my longan pushed out.  The only one that didn't take was a thinner scion that was offset to one side of the thicker longan branch.
Of the seven grafts that took, two died in a 105F heatwave that were in a hotter part of the yard and one dried up in a 112F heatwave.  The growth is very slow.
Many of the buds and leaflets fall off or dry up from the heat before they can fully develop and harden off.  They get 90% shade from a starfruit tree and 100% shade in the PM.
Will they survive the summer? :-\











This last one dried up in 112F heat.
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Re: Lychee grafted onto Longan?
« Reply #203 on: June 13, 2022, 09:20:23 PM »
Man, mines have not shown any sign.  One of the lychee on lychee, took.

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Re: Lychee grafted onto Longan?
« Reply #204 on: October 04, 2022, 12:40:13 PM »
Did they survive the summer?  :(

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Re: Lychee grafted onto Longan?
« Reply #205 on: October 04, 2022, 06:47:21 PM »
It still alive, but no grow.  I have multiple longan trees that produce more than enough fruits to feed people we know.  I might chop one to plant air layered lychee .  Also want to plant 3 more lychee in my backyard, since we love it more than longan.

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Re: Lychee grafted onto Longan?
« Reply #206 on: October 05, 2022, 12:40:41 PM »
Unfortunately mines pushed out one growth and kind of just hung around for months and eventually fried from several of the heat waves we had. I'll probably give it another shot next year.

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Re: Lychee grafted onto Longan?
« Reply #207 on: February 01, 2023, 11:42:22 PM »
All my lychee grafts died in the summer except for one.

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Re: Lychee grafted onto Longan?
« Reply #208 on: February 02, 2023, 05:59:56 PM »
My oldest graft is almost 5 years old. Not sure how much longer it can last. You can see from the union that there's definitely incompatibility issues.

I have this same problem on one of my lychee grafted on lychees.

Lychee on longan graft union




Lychee on lychee


Lychee on lychee


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Re: Lychee grafted onto Longan?
« Reply #209 on: February 02, 2023, 07:00:53 PM »
I grafted 3 NMT varieties on my longan and they were growing good for 2 years, even had flowers and small fruits which i removed. Now only 1 surviving NMT on the longan and it hasn't grown much since the first year with fruits. I'm giving up on grafting lychee to longan, waste of time. I should have focused on grafting all the NMT varieties onto the big lychee tree I have. Now you can't get any lychee scionwood from the GRIN-germplasm in Hawaii.

I have no problem with any grafts on my lychee tree so I will stick to that. I only have one NMT vareity grafted on the lychee tree and it is still growing fine, but it grows very slow. I recently grafted some Sweetheart lychee from two sources (Ken, Son) and those grafts are doing well. In 2 yrs the Sweetheart, Maurituis (Frank), Seedless(Max) has grown about 12 inches. The largest growth was on the Sweetheart, some grafts are now 3 ft long. All have flowers and should have fruits this year.
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Re: Lychee grafted onto Longan?
« Reply #210 on: February 04, 2023, 09:32:28 PM »
Great updates everyone. Many experiments end up giving results that are not positive. The sample sizes are pretty small but early results seem to point towards a thumbs down for this type of grafting.

For those of us with less than ideal soil conditions such as higher pH soil, it may be wise to plant a Brewster or Mauritius and top work the tree with the desired variety.

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Re: Lychee grafted onto Longan?
« Reply #211 on: February 04, 2023, 09:53:36 PM »
I agree, it is much easier for me to graft any variety on my large Brewster tree, then air layer that branch to take it off to a separate pot. I've got 10 air layers started, now that I know how to do it better than the first time tried air layers (3 out of 12 good).

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Re: Lychee grafted onto Longan?
« Reply #212 on: February 07, 2023, 12:10:52 AM »
I'll have to be happy with just longan.  Phoenix 8.x pH soil, water and heat is just too much for any lychee variety.

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Re: Lychee grafted onto Longan?
« Reply #213 on: February 08, 2023, 05:41:17 AM »
I'll have to be happy with just longan.  Phoenix 8.x pH soil, water and heat is just too much for any lychee variety.

What I can't understand is how Lychees can thrive in Israel.

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Re: Lychee grafted onto Longan?
« Reply #214 on: February 08, 2023, 10:35:31 PM »
I'll have to be happy with just longan.  Phoenix 8.x pH soil, water and heat is just too much for any lychee variety.

What I can't understand is how Lychees can thrive in Israel.

Not all of Israel is desert correct?

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Re: Lychee grafted onto Longan?
« Reply #215 on: February 08, 2023, 11:39:47 PM »
Israel is right in the middle of mesopotamia, the fertile crescent
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Re: Lychee grafted onto Longan?
« Reply #216 on: February 09, 2023, 01:55:29 AM »
Israel is right in the middle of mesopotamia, the fertile crescent

I think modern world Israel is a bit on the side. You would be surprised, it's also very alkaline desert sand with a lot of heat in the summer and a lot of cold in some places.

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Re: Lychee grafted onto Longan?
« Reply #217 on: July 06, 2023, 10:58:21 AM »
The NMZ on longan has completed defoliated. But still pumping out fruits. This might be the last year



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Re: Lychee grafted onto Longan?
« Reply #218 on: July 06, 2023, 01:47:15 PM »
Oh oh, not good. My grafted NMZ on longan did the same thing before it die the next year. But your grafted branch is much larger than mine that died so yours might survive.