The Tropical Fruit Forum

People are saying the fruits are sweet even still green.

In my yard, Gefner has male and female flowers around 5 pm.
It’s very easily to pollinate them.

Sugar apple and any varieties with high sugar apple genes have male flowers in the evening, but have female flowers in the morning to noon. So I have save pollens in the evening to pollinate in the morning.

Most of the time I poke the root ball with a stick 10-20 times.
Poke 1/4” from the edge, from top to bottom, to untangle the roots.

Breaking the roots is like trimming the branches.
It’s no problem.

Does the Provence quince give loquat off flavor like it gives pears off flavor?

I’m using saucers for all guava trees in pots.
The roots at the bottom use up the water in the saucer.

Pruning panicles reduces energy for flowering, increasing fruit set.
Seems pruning and cincturing is the way go.

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/362582139_Inflorescence_pruning_and_cincturing_after_full_female_bloom_improve_'Yu_Her_Pau'_litchi_Litchi_chinensis_fruit_bearing

Sounds like a productive year for you. How big is your tree?

A common practice in Asia is to thin the flowers when the male flowers start blooming.
Keep 1/3 or less.

My small 5th year tree has like 15 shoots.
It’s blooming for the 1st time.
I thinned flowers, but not seeing many fruits.
I’m hoping to get a few fruits.

It would take a long time to activate old dormant buds.
So trim it in winter.

I know a guy that boasts about not adding any fertilizers to his fruit trees.
When he goes out for errands his better half fertilizes the trees.

Any fertilizers would be better than none.
I prefer synthetic fertilizers because they have less heavy metals than organic fertilizers.
And they don’t smell.

My current fertilizer is Citrus-Tone.
It’s smelly and organic.
I use it because it’s easy to buy a mile away.

New shoots should have flowers by node 3 or 4.
I keep 5 nodes.
New shoots have more flowers.

It looks like a variety called chocolate being sold around here.

Wow!

@Bill

Wow!

My BC has 1/2” stems.
DK only have tiny green buds.