Which species did you try rooting? And any idea what’s eating those leaves? Nice looking roots on those plants btw!
I haven’t tried rooting, but I did dig a fair number of root suckers. Those were pretty easy if I got at least some of the rhizome to come up with the sucker. The suckers alone themselves wilted quickly, but if they had rhizome and sucker they did well and rooted out quickly. For species that don’t sucker much, I suspect if you could dig up lengths of the rhizome and cut it up, the pieces would root and send up a sucker.
Interesting, I’ll have to look into these (though I’m still on the fence about trying loquats. I tried the ones I did because I had the seeds and figured “why not” to which the deer replied, “bro, you just forgot about us or something? Disrespect…”).
My seedling tetraploid I’m sure will not ripen any of the 6-8 fruits because gulf Fritillary’s have completely stripped every single bit of foliage off of it. However Marjorie sherwin has no fruit and is basically untouched. I’d assume it’s from them also.
P. Edulis “Purple Possum” and gulf flitteries. I had the cuttings out in some water and sun to attract the butterflies so they didn’t eat my seedlings, and then it grew roots. They are supposes to eat the 10 or so corkystem passionvine (p. Suberosa) we have planted, but they go to the edulis first usually (they really like the yellow one, then the purples). Over the summer we probably had over 100 caterpillars.
My 3 edulis haven’t pushed out any suckers, but none of them have been in the ground for more than a year.
I guess you can’t leave jamun seeds in a sealed container thats humid. They start to sprout. The roots dont look as dry as I thought they would, maybe I can save some.
When grown by seeds each seedling will vary in cold hardiness at least a little. Out of 6 seedlings I started out that came from the same tree, only two of them were cold hardy enough, and next year I will be using the 2 surviving seedlings as root stock.
I have decided to possibly choose only 2 of the 4 varieties, one with a ‘very sweet flavor’, and one with an equal balance of ‘sweet/tart’. Based upon what I was told, it seems that the main differences between loquats is ‘very sweet’ verses ‘sweet/tart’. As well as time of blooming, and time of crop. So I don’t need 4 varieties.
I will post about my loquats after I graft the new varieties on, if you decide to grow some loquats, you could technically get the varieties from me, since you are not in a rush. I could give you seeds, or cuttings, or both.
I have no idea about any of those 4, yet most loquats appear to be moderately self fertile, so chances are that those 4 are.
Also the two repeat bloomers I think that it’s safe to say that they bloom at the same time., And I believe that the ‘Bullock 1’ probably blooms at the same time as the second bloom of the repeat bloomers. If so then only the ‘Harvest’ variety might not match up.
One good thing about me growing them, is that I can learn these things myself. I also have a climate that is close enough to yours.
I have a couple hundred seedling loquats @a_Vivaldi if you want any you can gladly have some. I wouldn’t think anyone could graft them yet, but when they size up I have plenty of varieties also, I’d be happy to swap sticks in the future @alanmercieca for these cold hardy types. Mine are currently flowering, and budding, so any later or way earlier blooming varieties would be welcome. On my two trees I have (other than the 2 seedling varieties they are) Avri, Argelino, Kando, Peluche, Orange Dream and Strawberry. Strawberry being by far the earliest bloomer, I think around early October was the first bloom open. The seedling is starting to open a few blooms but all other varieties aren’t blooming yet, at earliest some buds are visible.
Good train to be on, loquats are delicious. Even the unnamed landscape trees that grow around here have a good quality fruit. I bet a selected fruit tastes even better.
Lakeland had a plant sale at their street fair this month. Picked up mostly stuff for work, but I got this black sapote. It is the “Maher” variety, which is supposed to be self-pollinating and dwarf. Pretty excited for it. Also picked up some Vanilla × tahitensis cuttings, which has been something I’ve wanted to get, but the prices haven’t been there. He gave me 2 cuttings for $10 and they don’t have to be shipped in a box from an online nusery, so I am pretty happy with that.
Down goes Frazier! Haha this stuff is really susceptible to wind. Luckily I have more than I can handle of it, great chop and drop. Or in this case drop and chop and drop
There are females, males, and trees that produce both types of flowers. Some named cultivars produce very few male flowers or none at all.
@sharq I’d love to see photos of any flowers you see on that one, it sounds like a promising one for my planned attempt to cross D. texana with black sapote. I was hoping to find a fruiting cultivar that would also reliably produce pollen for the (entirely female) texanas I’ve grafted.
He said I should see flowers next year, but to not let them fruit. So if I see any, I’ll snap some pics.
Hopefully I’ll have alot of different flowers to take pictures of next year. My peanut butter fruit had buds but they never opened and my barbados cherry had a couple flowers but no fruit set. Probably will feed more next year.
I hear you; but what produces most for me and you won’t likely be the same. I think once a decade I won’t get a crop, due to some crazy temperature. Not sure about you but if you don’t select carefully it could be once a decade you get a crop. Curious to hear how yours fruit for you.
