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Erdon Lee and Giant Seedless Lychhess a dilemma
« on: October 10, 2020, 02:11:21 AM »


You may remember me talking about Erdon Lee lychees before like the ones in my hand here. They sure are big and of high quality but so few trees are in circulation yet that getting a tree of my own has been difficult.
The Jumbo Seedless lychee is equally glamorous being a crisper type described as having a long shelf life and of excellent taste with a hint of pineapple.
The eagle has landed and I have Seedless and an Erdon Lee marcot after much effort. I don't know if I have enough room for both and I might be a fraction too warm for them so they might fruit only erratically as I need to get below 10c regularly in winter. I don't seem to be able to post pics in this response at the moment but will show you what I have.

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Re: Erdon Lee and Giant Seedless Lychhess a dilemma
« Reply #1 on: October 10, 2020, 02:29:37 AM »


Looks like its hard to post pics currently but one made it through. The seedless averages around 46g and has a maximum size of around 80g so is intermediate between Fai zee sui big fruiting selections and Erdon Lee in size but the fruits are still whoppers.
My dilemma is should I just try to squeeze two in knowing I don't really have room and they might not even fruit. The trees were too hard to get to get to just let go of them.

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Re: Erdon Lee and Giant Seedless Lychhess a dilemma
« Reply #2 on: October 10, 2020, 03:14:16 AM »


They are only small yet and in spite of the title error I can spell lychee.

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Re: Erdon Lee and Giant Seedless Lychhess a dilemma
« Reply #3 on: October 10, 2020, 07:10:15 AM »
The tree on the right I think the erdon Lee was an interesting branch to airlayer!
Was it one single branch that immediatley branches out and is slightly covered?

I am at a similar point in my yard where I removed a second Silas Wood and
second Na Dai sugar apple to make room for my new must have acquistions. Is there a
plant in your yard that can be removed? If not another idea is to plant one in a friend's
yard. Both the Silas Wood and sugar apple ended up at one friends house and I have another
oddly shaped lychee that I want to replace with one I airlayered.  I wish I had your
dilemma I would find room and not over crowd the two trees. I also have a non productive
Sue Belle white sapote that could get removed.

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Re: Erdon Lee and Giant Seedless Lychhess a dilemma
« Reply #4 on: October 10, 2020, 07:52:12 AM »
Good point and I have 2 mature mandarins which bear pretty well. A honey murcott and an emperor might be able to volunteer their spots but its a big job to chop them down. I have a giant mulchi which has ben compromised by jungle fowl disturbance and a big Luc's that never fruited while 2 smaller ones have. If they get reassigned mulch patrol it is still a gamble that the lychees won't fruit. I guess you gotta take chances. I don't know why the Erdon Lee branch was marcotted being so forked down low. The both are in fact.

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Re: Erdon Lee and Giant Seedless Lychhess a dilemma
« Reply #5 on: October 10, 2020, 08:17:12 AM »
Nice pickups! I too would be looking to evict a couple of trees to make space for those rarities.

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Re: Erdon Lee and Giant Seedless Lychhess a dilemma
« Reply #6 on: October 10, 2020, 11:59:12 AM »
Beautiful looking fruits best of luck growing out your fines!

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Re: Erdon Lee and Giant Seedless Lychhess a dilemma
« Reply #7 on: October 10, 2020, 03:15:55 PM »


You may remember me talking about Erdon Lee lychees before like the ones in my hand here. They sure are big and of high quality but so few trees are in circulation yet that getting a tree of my own has been difficult.
The Jumbo Seedless lychee is equally glamorous being a crisper type described as having a long shelf life and of excellent taste with a hint of pineapple.
The eagle has landed and I have Seedless and an Erdon Lee marcot after much effort. I don't know if I have enough room for both and I might be a fraction too warm for them so they might fruit only erratically as I need to get below 10c regularly in winter. I don't seem to be able to post pics in this response at the moment but will show you what I have.

Those are beasts, incredible !!!
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Re: Erdon Lee and Giant Seedless Lychhess a dilemma
« Reply #8 on: October 10, 2020, 04:23:37 PM »
It seems for over 40 years farmers and back yard growers around here all grew about 10 varieties of lychees with a couple of poorer types like Bengal fading away. Suddenly Fai zee sui turned up with bigger fruit and caused a fuss around 10 years ago and now they are common and at almost the same price as regular lychees. I put some posts on here a few years ago showing this variety. Now Erdon Lee and the Seedless are kind of doing the same with the local lychee industry being big and surrounded with hype.The commercial growers who invested in and planted out kwai mai pink, salathiel and Mauritius in my local area are probably feeling a bit nervous.

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Re: Erdon Lee and Giant Seedless Lychhess a dilemma
« Reply #9 on: October 18, 2020, 10:12:43 PM »
Plant the big one.
Cut the other at 15cm then send to us here.

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Re: Erdon Lee and Giant Seedless Lychhess a dilemma
« Reply #10 on: October 18, 2020, 10:26:28 PM »
Seanny, that comment made you a real hero. US Customs would never allow it if I stuck a stamp on it and mailed it off this afternoon. Being so young it may suffer travel sickness also.

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Re: Erdon Lee and Giant Seedless Lychhess a dilemma
« Reply #11 on: October 19, 2020, 01:32:41 AM »
Best of luck they sure look fabulous fruits!

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Re: Erdon Lee and Giant Seedless Lychhess a dilemma
« Reply #12 on: October 19, 2020, 02:01:15 AM »


I meant that in a nice way Seanny as you reached 500 posts.

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Re: Erdon Lee and Giant Seedless Lychhess a dilemma
« Reply #13 on: October 19, 2020, 02:57:50 PM »
I need to look into how to get it here.
Or get someone with an import license to help me.

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Re: Erdon Lee and Giant Seedless Lychhess a dilemma
« Reply #14 on: October 19, 2020, 04:00:27 PM »
Ok, I’m envious of your Lychees:)

It would be great to get these new varieties here. I’d love to fly to Australia just to sample all the wonderful fruit growing there.

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Re: Erdon Lee and Giant Seedless Lychhess a dilemma
« Reply #15 on: October 19, 2020, 04:33:00 PM »
Count me among the envious as well.

Mike, when and where in Australia would be the best for sampling these gems? Do the Erdon Lee and seedless cultivars season overlap?

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Re: Erdon Lee and Giant Seedless Lychhess a dilemma
« Reply #16 on: October 19, 2020, 04:52:01 PM »
They are going to quarantine you guys on an island before thry let us infected americans in. 
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Re: Erdon Lee and Giant Seedless Lychhess a dilemma
« Reply #17 on: October 19, 2020, 05:16:57 PM »
I am sure your President said there was no problem so no need to treat people and parcels coming out of the US like nuclear waste. My state in a bit left out of all the covid excitement.

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Re: Erdon Lee and Giant Seedless Lychhess a dilemma
« Reply #18 on: October 19, 2020, 06:27:22 PM »
I’ve read rumor there may be a travel bubble coming between Hawaii and Japan, maybe Australia? Prob just wishful thinking

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Re: Erdon Lee and Giant Seedless Lychhess a dilemma
« Reply #19 on: October 22, 2020, 06:02:19 AM »
The news mentioned a Japan, Sth Korea, NZ, Australia and Sth Pacific travel bubble a few times but I don't recall Hawaii being mentioned.

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Re: Erdon Lee and Giant Seedless Lychhess a dilemma
« Reply #20 on: October 22, 2020, 01:21:20 PM »
Yeah, that’s an exclusive Asia Pacific club we won’t be invited to join; especially after reopening to mainland US. Also there’s an election approaching and an orange elephant in the room.

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Re: Erdon Lee and Giant Seedless Lychhess a dilemma
« Reply #21 on: October 23, 2020, 04:53:10 PM »
This is the biggest problem in today’s society 😭

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Re: Erdon Lee and Giant Seedless Lychhess a dilemma
« Reply #22 on: October 23, 2020, 05:06:11 PM »
Hawaii has low covid levels and I assume adequate testing so that wouldn't be an issue. Travel restrictions here regarding state border crossings are determined by states themselves. I don't know why the election would make much difference.

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Re: Erdon Lee and Giant Seedless Lychhess a dilemma
« Reply #23 on: October 24, 2020, 11:31:54 PM »


Looks like its hard to post pics currently but one made it through. The seedless averages around 46g and has a maximum size of around 80g so is intermediate between Fai zee sui big fruiting selections and Erdon Lee in size but the fruits are still whoppers.
My dilemma is should I just try to squeeze two in knowing I don't really have room and they might not even fruit. The trees were too hard to get to get to just let go of them.

Those Jumbo Seedless Lychee look fantastic! I sure wish that they were available in Florida, or at least anywhere in the States. It's great to know that they exist. Thanks for posting.
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Re: Erdon Lee and Giant Seedless Lychhess a dilemma
« Reply #24 on: October 24, 2020, 11:39:50 PM »
I know it would never happen but if a maverick got scion and it took they could be everywhere in no time. If they follow the FSZ pattern you could still be talking about it in 2035.