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Lychee grafted onto Longan?

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fruit4me:
Has anyone on this forum had success yet? I decided to give it a try by using my 2 year old longan seedling thats in a pot and inarched to my in ground maruitius lychee. This was done on July 4th and i plan to leave it on until winter to see if it takes.

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bradflorida:
I heard secondhand that the late bob Murray of treehouse nursery said that he experimented with grafting lychee onto longan and the only cultivar of lychee that succeeded was sweet cliff.

Brad

Jackfruitwhisperer69:

--- Quote from: fruit4me on July 28, 2012, 01:54:07 AM ---Has anyone on this forum had success yet? I decided to give it a try by using my 2 year old longan seedling thats in a pot and inarched to my in ground maruitius lychee. This was done on July 4th and i plan to leave it on until winter to see if it takes.
Heres a picture


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Hi Fruit4me,
Yes, you must let it be...till the union is totally formed. When approach graft a tree, I like to use approach-tongue graft to get a large area of cambium contact...never lost a plant with this method :) Keep us posted ;)

It will be most awesome to see a lychee successfully growing on a Longan rootstock 8)

I got a few seedlings of longan that i collected seeds at the Botanical Garden, which i will use for grafting in spring with budwood from a top notch Longan tree at the B.T. From what i have read...is that shield-budding is very successful, Hopefully this method will be successful :) 

simon_grow:
Hey fruit4me, I ended up not trying this experiment because I do not have a lot of Lychee nor Longan material to work with.  I believe Behlgarden attempted a Lychee grafted onto his in-ground Longan but the graft failed if I remember correctly.  I believe you will have a better chance of success because with innarching, both stock and scions still have their roots.  I believe the issue of incompatibility arrises when the stock and scion have different number of chromasomes.  My memory is horrible but I remember reading somewhere that even Lychee grafted onto Lychee can fail because of the difference in the number of chromasomes.  If you are lucky and both your stock and scion have the same number or chromasomes, you have a good chance of success with this graft. 

Just be careful that you did not bind the tree so tightly as to girdle the plants.  Normally this wouldn't be much of an issue but since your plan on leaving the two trees bound until Winter, it may be advisable to check your grafting sites occasionally or even un-bind and re-wrap your union after a month or two.  When I innarched my Maha Chanok with my seedling mango, I almost lost both plants to girdling.  I left my two trees bound for about 3 months and my tree is now doing great.
Simon

fruit4me:
Simon,
Thanks for the advice, I will unwrap and re-wrap every two months and keep you guys posted.

Max

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