My air layered plant I propagated last year has this wound on it. I can’t tell if it’s just some wound that is healing weirdly, or if this is some disease. Top growth looks normal, and it’s still in a pot. Existed when it was still on the mother tree last summer but was just more subtle. Would appreciate some thoughts! I have a more mature scion I was going to graft on anyway so I think in any case I’ll just cut below the wound and cleft graft in the coming weeks.
I am from Tacoma growing an Oliver and a Gold Nugget as center plants in the front yard. My GN had a bunch of flowers this year. I was so happy looking forward to enjoy some loquats this summer but that one dreadful day of snow on March 13 killed them all. I have a couple more spots next to the brick house that I am planning to place a couple later blooming cultivars. Thinking about Angelino, Novak, or Tanaka. Any suggestions are appreciated. Thanks
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Have you heard about the Bullock-1 on Ocas Island? How about the tree in the Seattle International district? Both of theee trees are reliable producers of fruit in the region.
Bummer that your blooms died in March. I can’t remember having any temps below 28 in the Willamette Valley this winter.
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When visiting the tree in Seattle’s Chinatown district about 3-4 weeks ago,a cluster of fruit was further along than the rest.I’m not sure why.
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I’ve been away from the forums for a bit now
I’m getting a nice production on my loquats finally. Hundreds of fruit. Zero winter protection needed
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Anyone have any success fruiting these in pots?
They fruit ok in pots but the yield is tiny.
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It was a warm winter here. Too bad none of mine were in bloom!
Very nice.
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Hi, @ramv do you think it’s because your trees are more mature/have reached a certain size, so the flowers or fruitlets can better tolerate cold temperatures? Or could it be something else? Also, how cold does your winter get? Thanks.
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It is almost entirely variety dependent.
I have over 30 varieties - lost track of how many. Only about 5 or so have any fruit. Only one has a huge amount of fruit.
Sam@OGW nursery has a similar experience. He has a random seedling that outperforms everything else. Bob Duncan in BC thinks that only a few varieties can make it here.
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@ramv Would you mind sharing what they are?
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Please name names!
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I saw Bob last week and he showed me his loquat trees. His most successful varieties are from fruiting trees (likely seedlings) from various communities within Vancouver, BC (he also has one sourced from a tree in Nanaimo). He’s named these successful varieties after the street of the mother tree - one he calls “Cornwall” is his best producer. It had good fruit set, versus his mature Gold Nugget which I don’t think had anything on it or was very sparse. He said he tested a bunch of varieties he brought over from Spain with no success as well.
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Very neat! This is a known variety or a seedling?
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