The Tropical Fruit Forum

Galatians,

How long for lychee AL there?
What is your after care for them?

Most new homes here use pex for hot water lines.
Heater at 140F.
Pressure at 50 psi.

If you can regulate temperature and pressure pex would be fine.

Run a couple of loops of pex pipes.
Water flow of 1st loop should be opposite of 2nd loop to get even heating.
If not enough add another loop.
Or coil the pex to gain surface area to dissipate more heat.

My cold water dispenser has 20 loops of plastic pipe inside the refrigerator to cool incoming water.
No need for a radiator.

Use opaque pex so low algae growth inside pipe.
Or a few meters of copper pipe should transfer enough heat.

Small $65 tree is sold out.
$85 tree is available.

I thought it was a good idea when I bought 1 last month.
Now I have a good size cauliflora to use as a rootstock.
I’m waiting Grimal to grow a little to cut scions to graft.

Friend 1” trunk tree is at my home.
1st time flowering.

It had a fruit.
I ate it last week.
Much better than Trunciflora I tasted before.

Tree is holding another fruit. 3 weeks later than 1st one.

Tree is flowering again, much more than last month.
So maybe more fruits later.

Infected trees in cities around me are being pulled.
Could be my turn soon.

Fruit loading for Fino de Jete cherimoya is around 0.22 kg per cm square of trunk area.
Other research concluded less than 0.22kg.
After conversion it comes to roughly diameter squared kg.
For example, a trunk of 2” should hold 2x2= 4kg of fruits.
That’s 4 big fruits.

Link here https://pubag.nal.usda.gov/catalog/719092

Thank you for those photos of your graft unions.
Those black barks on those graft could be this?



Full text here https://journals.flvc.org/fshs/article/download/91535/87733/0

The trend in my area

Thai Ruby Seedless expensive.
Taiwan Ruby Seedless less expensive.

Both are crispy.

I started to tip tall shoots to around 15 leaves since mid June.
Most shoots are tipped by now.

Fruits don’t seem to ripen earlier.

You could cut half the trunk then bend tree top down to ground.
Cut it off after trunk have shoots with big leaves.