I’ll do it myself then tomorrow. Coincidence works in my book
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Bumping this for any info on anyone rooting Jamun successfully? I’m curious if anyone has rooted it.
I never thought I’d see this.
Ripe loquat on a tree growing unprotected in Raleigh NC.
The winter low was 18 F. This tree was grown from seed collected in Taiwan by the director of the JC Raulston arboretum years ago. It’s in a favorable microclimate, on a slope with a Trachycarpus and a trifoliate hybrid providing evergreen protection that probably help with winter lows, could wind, and radiative freezing, and a large burm with a building and a small waterfall and koi pond about twenty feet away that probably store a fair amount of heat.
Suffice it to say, I tasted my first fresh loquat today.
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I love loquats and I’ve never even had a named variety. Hopefully that changes next year. Want to add a few more grafts, but the damn Mockingbird is determined to peck to death every fruit I haven’t bagged, doesn’t matter if I have over 100 fruits when they all have to be eaten before being ripe due to peck damage
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Big, healthy citrus trees in Raleigh NC. Both have survived near 0 F freezes.
Dunstan citrumelo
Ichang papeda, growing as an understory tree
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Those seeds grow easy, but only when fresh
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Those loquats look better than mine, someone must be posted up with a BB gun to thwart all pesky mockingbirds haha. So how was it?
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The arboretum gets a lot of foot traffic, I’m guessing it keeps the mockingbirds away enough.
I really enjoyed them. Kinda like a pear with peach/apricot flavors going on. Pleasantly sweet, and a good bit of flesh. One to two seeds per fruit. Decently juicy, and very easy to peel. Wet scar, so absolutely no commercial or market stand potential, unless maybe you cut the whole bunch.
I saved a few seeds, and while I really don’t have the pot space right now, I’ll plant them out regardless. I wish I knew when this particular tree bloomed so I could check the weather record to see what kinda of lows it delt with.
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Anyone growing Myrica Rubra (Yangmei) apparently it’s really cold hardy (8b+), but dioecious. Also seems to get super big, but China dedicates 2x the land to this that the US devotes to Apple production. I guess a better question is has anyone tried it?
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In winter I grafted orange dream and strawberry(2) to my small loquat tree. I just ordered 2 Avri, 1 Sunset, 1 Champagne, and a Michael MPJ-4 scions from Akme gardens. I hope they have similar vigor, seemed like it due to the description, just need to leave at least one seedling branch left for grafting Peluches whenever I can acquire that scion (they were sold out).
I plant everything close, because I’d rather have a little bit of a lot of different things rather than a whole lot of only one or two things. Hence why I also multigraft almost everything in my yard (with the exception of one red haven peach that is too productive to multigraft) and even that I should pump the brakes on. Waiting for the Che to get big enough to put a couple other grafts on it haha but that’s my only plan in the future as far as more grafts go.
Unless my arctic frost satsuma doesn’t taste good, it has been very unproductive, so it’s holding a few fruits for the first time now so hopefully I can taste a couple this fall. However if they aren’t as good as Owari I’m just gonna top work it to owari. Unfortunately I have two, due to one being shipped broken, above the graft so they sent a replacement hence the two. The second one I basically use as protection for my in ground Meyer, so I don’t mind it’s lack of production. It is still disheartening that the two oldest citrus trees I have have been by far the least productive. A total of maybe 50 blooms between the two of them.
Dispute your purchose and get a refund ASAP. Adem has not been heard from in 2 years. Its sad, the materials he did send in the past there top notch
Have not tried this yet but im looking forward to these frozen Yangmei’s
previous experances are that they are delicious.
@Gkight you have to try the forums search function
2024 Spring Grafting Thread - General Fruit Growing - Growing Fruit
My small fruit tree orchard - General Fruit Growing - Growing Fruit
Anyone Grows Chinese Bayberry? - General Fruit Growing - Growing Fruit
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I use the search function quite often, just hadn’t seen anyone discussing growing it to fruit and how the fruit was. Lots of orchard photo stock in those searches.
Damn, akme was recommended on the other forum in the loquat thread so I didn’t know that was the place I recall people talking about a while back.
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First time fruits off any citrus aren’t representative of how they’ll actually taste from a mature tree, especially with Satsumas from what I’ve read. I’ve seen on TFF that it is not especially productive or particularly tasty. Decent, but not amazing, the cost of the extra hardiness from Changsha I suppose.
If you decide to top work it, I can give you Kimbrough, Silverhill, or Xie Shan satsuma scions so you have something other than Owari.
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I have okitsu wase and brown select also. Kimbrough would be sweet, I put a clementine chip bud on it this winter, it’s growing well. Kind of high up tho. My owaris first year fruits tasted great, same with the kumquats, so I know they get better, but if they start off awful I doubt they get great.
@a_Vivaldi i don’t think it’s actually much more cold hardy, especially since these are grafted. I think the claimed cold hardiness is for own their own roots so they come back true. They were my first subtropical purchases so I knew almost nothing back then.
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There have been a few warning threads on both TFF and here. Every once in awhile he still sends an order out, but the vast majority don’t get fulfilled, and no one can reach him for refunds.
Well I pay for everything with a cc so I can dispute the charge but I’ll give it a couple weeks first
I really enjoyed loquats too. It was my first year having some, got the fruit of a median tree outfront of an Arby’s after my mom recommended them. Super good, I kept all the seeds and already have had 4 or 5 of them sprout up. I also went out a bought an older tree from a nursery because I liked them so much.
I have some seeds from it, but they are supposedly notorious to start. There is a long thread on TTF about people having difficulties, and even the place I got the seeds from said they were tough. I mentioned what I was doing with them on the bayberry thread here. Hopefully it goes well.
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Got my money back from Akme purchase this morning. I gave them 3 weeks and 2 emails as a benefit of the doubt. Unfortunately the overwhelming amount of people warning about them had me on a short leash. If they even replied anything I’d have patiently waited as I really want the cultivars that seemingly only they have, oh well. Guess it’s always next year for finding these scions, may order a couple from Marta as she has a couple id really like, with the exclusion being Peluche.
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I’m ordering some from Kaz on TFF, I think he’s limiting it only to people who have done business with him before, though, and only people with 6+ months on TFF. Not sure if you meet those requirements. But here’s the offer, as updated to include people outside CA:
If my grafts take then maybe I’ll have some to spare in a couple years!
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Yeah I saw that but all the exclusions applied to me, duration of membership and prior purchase and ca resident. Good luck! My experience is they graft super easy
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