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Best pot Lychee?
« on: October 29, 2024, 12:15:57 PM »
I love lychees and want to get a tree. Which variety would work the best in a container? i am looking for ones that would fruit prolifically and produce while small. thanks!

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Re: Best pot Lychee?
« Reply #1 on: October 29, 2024, 02:05:38 PM »
They all want to grow out!
Eventually, you run out of space.
Additionally, for some reason, growing them in pots is more challenging than growing in ground...
Many zone pushers have had that phenomenon for some reason.
Honestly, if you are in a pot, you can't expect much fruit at all.
All of mine are in ground.

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Re: Best pot Lychee?
« Reply #2 on: October 29, 2024, 02:26:39 PM »
They all want to grow out!
Eventually, you run out of space.
Additionally, for some reason, growing them in pots is more challenging than growing in ground...
Many zone pushers have had that phenomenon for some reason.
Honestly, if you are in a pot, you can't expect much fruit at all.
All of mine are in ground.
  :-\ guess I better get a greenhouse to put one in ground soon...

are there any good pot growers that check the same box?
« Last Edit: October 31, 2024, 02:09:09 PM by SplorKeLZ »

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Re: Best pot Lychee?
« Reply #3 on: October 31, 2024, 08:36:33 AM »
Lychee in pots has been impossible for me. Longan seems ok (one has way to much top growth and no lower limbs) and I have had some fruit. My lychee always looks terrible. I threw my last one out last week.

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Re: Best pot Lychee?
« Reply #4 on: October 31, 2024, 12:50:06 PM »
I have also had only bad results with lychees in containers.  They were steadily declining so I planter the still-alive ones directly into the ground iny my greenhouse.  Too early to tell if this will help

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Re: Best pot Lychee?
« Reply #5 on: November 01, 2024, 07:18:49 PM »
I only had one look good in a pot and it was in a tall ceramic pot 50% Perilite, 25% peat potting mix and 25% fir bark. Looked great for 2 years, but I watered it all the time (2x week) using distilled water and low dose fertillizer. Then I missed a watering and it dried out and died. Not worth the work.

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Re: Best pot Lychee?
« Reply #6 on: November 01, 2024, 09:20:34 PM »
We fruited Emperor lychees in 25 Gal pots. Keeping enough water on them with a fruit load was a pain--many fruits split. They went in the ground.

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Re: Best pot Lychee?
« Reply #7 on: November 02, 2024, 03:19:14 PM »
Just wanted to join the chorus and say that my potted Lychees have grown super slowly. I had 4, but culled one this year that failed to make any progress in over a year, it's new growth was constantly dying back. I repotted it several times thinking my soil composition must have been off, but it never improved things. It had fantastic roots though! It's a mystery.

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Re: Best pot Lychee?
« Reply #8 on: November 02, 2024, 11:48:43 PM »
It’s easy to grow in pot but it’s very sensitive to fertilizing.

One time I switched from Omocote Plus to organic fertilizer and killed 3 lychee trees but none of the other trees in pots died.
All 6 lychee trees were in 15g pots, with same amount of fertilizer.
The 3 bigger lychee trees survived.

I water them every day.

 

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