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Cold is 1 way to trigger flowering.There are others.You could grow a few in big pots.In winter move the pots into the garage, or a big shed.Run A/C for 3 days.You could move a few mango in there too.Not much cost to stimulate flowering.
Quote from: sc4001992 on May 08, 2021, 04:45:02 PMJoe, nice fruits, what type are they?I think the side away from the sun usually will not have as much fruits as the side that get full direct sun. My large Brewster seems to have the most fruits on the south and west side and very little on the north side. My tree is large enough that nothing blocks the sun (branches above roof). My tree is only finishing with bees pollinating the flowers and some small fruits are visible on the panicles. Looks like I will have many fruits this year.Interesting take as the side with least fruits is north side 🤔, this is sweet heart. -joe
Joe, nice fruits, what type are they?I think the side away from the sun usually will not have as much fruits as the side that get full direct sun. My large Brewster seems to have the most fruits on the south and west side and very little on the north side. My tree is large enough that nothing blocks the sun (branches above roof). My tree is only finishing with bees pollinating the flowers and some small fruits are visible on the panicles. Looks like I will have many fruits this year.
I found another lychee tree loaded with fruit in the vicinity (North Broward County/2-3 mi. from ocean), so that makes two. Was the cold we experienced last winter the main reason for these trees setting fruit as I'm wondering what to expect in future years?
Leaves on my Florida Hak Ip are light green.My Brewster has darker leaves.Any idea on what FL Hak Ip is?
That looks like an oddly shaped Brewster to me. Are most of the fruit more oval?
KaimanaBy just seeing one fruit the shape looks like Kaimana. And also Kaimana is ripening right now
I have picked quite a few Kiamana. Ours tend to be heart shaped with a fully formed but small seed that gives a high flesh recovery. The peel texture in the picture is actually what makes me think its Brewster. It is the only one I am familiar with that frequently get a brown scruf (not anthracnose) such as is seen in the picture. Although they are mostly oval, Brewster occasionally throws some round fruit. Although we are growing it, I have not had the pleasure of picking Kwai Mai Pink (aka Bosworth 3) but have heard it was fairly small.
Tree was originally purchased in 2016 and put into the ground. It had a yellow tag from Hopkins nursery that said Hak Ip. It's about 10x10 ft right now. This is it's first fruiting and I haven't had any ripe ones yet due to rodents. There's still a dozen on the tree, so I'm hoping I can get some fully colored fruit. Fruit weight is over 30g with the bigger around 45g. Skin gets fairly smooth and pulp is crisp kind of like a grape. Super juicy, sweet as can be and a slight tartness. 19-20.5 brix on all fruit.It bloomed a little funny as well. First flowers opened in February and had fruit set by March and then more flowers opened and fruit set in April and then more flowers with fruit that fell off at pea size. It also sent out one last small panicle about 3 weeks ago. Only the first two cycles set, so I have the fruit just about ripe and a bunch about thumb size .
Rob, I agree with your description for 95% or better of Brewster fruits. As I mentioned above, occationally a tree will put out a few of these round fruits with a large round seed instead of the normal oval one. Strange things happen sometimes. One year we had a Brewster tree in our grove that produced ALL chicken tongue seeds. We thought we had something special, but the next year it was back to normal and has been that way ever since. More pictures would clear this up.
Quote from: Galatians522 on May 28, 2021, 08:28:11 PMRob, I agree with your description for 95% or better of Brewster fruits. As I mentioned above, occationally a tree will put out a few of these round fruits with a large round seed instead of the normal oval one. Strange things happen sometimes. One year we had a Brewster tree in our grove that produced ALL chicken tongue seeds. We thought we had something special, but the next year it was back to normal and has been that way ever since. More pictures would clear this up.Very interesting I was opining on this years crop off my sweetheart tree, very few seeds were chicken tongue while most were somewhere in between narrow on top round middle w shriveled tip. Two years ago almost every seed was thin and chicken tongue, tried germinating them and only got one to sprout which later died at a foot tall. This year I sowed probably ~50 seeds between a few 7 gallon pots so will see how many germinate. 🤷♂️-Joe
Was thinking that this year I was finally going to get a decent amount of fruit from my sweetheart.While in the yard yesterday I noticed that some of the fruits were starting to show color.Started looking and discovered that a lot of them have some splitting going on.Not from over watering, because we have been pretty dry and I don't go out of my way to water.Would under watering cause fruit splitting, the trees are not showing any signs of stress.