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simon_grow:
In an effort to try and improve the growth rate of my Lychee plants, I started to wonder if Lychees can be grafted onto Longan.  I did a google search and found this
http://chestofbooks.com/gardening-horticulture/fruit/Tropical-And-Subtropical-Fruits/Litchi-Propagation.html .  Higgin's has supposedly crown grafted Lychee onto Longan and even more exciting is that he observed that the stock appeared to show influence on the Lychee scion and produced more rapid growth than Lychee growing on its own rootstock.  Higgin's also noted that in some cases, the grafted Lychee foliage seems to undergo a change!

The increased growth rate is very exciting and the changes in the foliage may be beneficial if the Longan can impart its wind tolerance to the Lychee.  If the grafted Lychee does show some Longan characteristics, I wonder if it will affect the characteristics of the fruit as well, which can be a bad thing. 

Has anyone attempted to graft Lychee onto Longan?  I will be planting some Lychee seeds this year in hopes that I can innarch the seedlings onto my named cultivars to produce multiple rootstock Lychees.
Simon

nullzero:
Very interesting, I have always heard that Lychee's were very hard to graft. If Lychee's can be grafted to Longan, it would make Lychee's much more California friendly. It seems the Lychee leaves are not as thick and tolerant of the arid climate, compared to Longan leaves.

FlyingFoxFruits:

--- Quote from: simon_grow on February 09, 2012, 04:14:25 PM ---In an effort to try and improve the growth rate of my Lychee plants, I started to wonder if Lychees can be grafted onto Longan.  I did a google search and found this
http://chestofbooks.com/gardening-horticulture/fruit/Tropical-And-Subtropical-Fruits/Litchi-Propagation.html .  Higgin's has supposedly crown grafted Lychee onto Longan and even more exciting is that he observed that the stock appeared to show influence on the Lychee scion and produced more rapid growth than Lychee growing on its own rootstock.  Higgin's also noted that in some cases, the grafted Lychee foliage seems to undergo a change!

The increased growth rate is very exciting and the changes in the foliage may be beneficial if the Longan can impart its wind tolerance to the Lychee.  If the grafted Lychee does show some Longan characteristics, I wonder if it will affect the characteristics of the fruit as well, which can be a bad thing. 

Has anyone attempted to graft Lychee onto Longan?  I will be planting some Lychee seeds this year in hopes that I can innarch the seedlings onto my named cultivars to produce multiple rootstock Lychees.
Simon

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Whitmans book, Five decades, I remember him saying that some grafted Alugpag, did much better than airlayers...so I'd imagine this could be possible with lychee/longan...I think he grafted alupag on to longan, if I recall correct...with out having a Sr.Member moment....lol...

HMHausman:
I've never tried it, but I assume it could be done.  However, I wonder if it would really be worth the effort as longan and lychee seem to have about the same growth rate...at least at my house they do. I would also expect there would be some level, even if minute, of incompatibility. And of course, these are not the easiest trees to graft under any circumstances.

Harry

fruitlovers:
Because somebody did it doesn't mean it is easy to do. Lychee is kind of particular, preferring similar cultivars of lychee as rootstock for succesful grafts. So i'm guessing that lychee on longan is not an easy graft, and may show incompatibility issues at some point. But i would not be surprised that with some effort it could be done. After all lychee and longan can be cross pollinated to produce hybrid fruits. The hybrid fruits turn out sterile, but this has also been done, so these two plants are much more closely related than we may realize.
But as to alupag scion on longan, i think this is a lot easier, as these 2 are much more closely related than is lychee and longan.
Oscar

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