Growing loquats in the Pacific Northwest

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Couple of observations – when all my other loquat flower buds froze out last year, so did the Chinatown tree.

The China town tree is large. Parts of the tree that are exposed to full sun flower earlier. These are exactly the same flower buds that get destroyed by cold freeze. You can observe which were open flowers in December and notice which ones are producing fruit in April. They are not the same.

Good to know! I didn’t realize you’d grafted that variety and compared it to other varieties. I was just impressed that the fruitlets I saw in January (near the edge of the lower part of the canopy) looked healthy after those mid-teens temperatures, even with the microclimate there that seemed surprising to me. But maybe I’m just not giving enough weight to the microclimate effects!

Here are some photos of that tree that I’ve posted in another thread for anyone curious what we’re talking about:

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and:

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