Loquat Tree Dying
bunnyhouse
14 years ago
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Loquats Dying??????? They're supposed to be tough!
Comments (2)Not very hardy and also prone to various rose family diseases, including leaf spot (and I guess fire blight - we have little of that here so I haven't paid much attention). When those present here were blasted by the 1990 winter, the damage looked like they had been torched. Recovery was did not seem vigorous at the time but by now most that I see in my travels are looking pretty much normal. If your area is marginal for these warm, sheltered nooks would be the desired locations....See MoreAnyone tried a Loquat tree in zone 7 ?
Comments (23)You are welcome Haley! Jan if you haven't tried Kaempferias, you NEED to! I only have one so far and it is so slow to break dormancy. I keep wanting to use that empty space for something else. I'm going to get some more but my budget is busted for plants right now. They are beautiful low growing plants. On my bananas I have overwintered Manzano and Ice Cream every yr with no protection. Have lost a heck of a lot more that DIDN'T overwinter. Sorry to highjack your thread telly, now you have all this information that you have no need for! LOL!...See MoreIs my Loquat Tree dead?
Comments (14)I have occasionally had a little bit of fruit on my loquats but usually there is a freeze that freezes the winter blooms which keeps them from developing the fruit. When it does have fruit, be sure and plant the seeds in a pot and you will get baby loquat trees. That way you can replace it if you do have a really cold freeze that kills it. I had a large one against my house for years that was killed by a hard freeze one winter. But the young ones I have now have been growing here for about 10 years and they are surviving the winter ok so far....See MoreCherry blossom and Loquat trees in Massachusetts: possible??
Comments (6)eoren, My hubby says he got it at Mahoney's in Winchester. Jane, There's a funny story to that tree. There's an old wives tail that my grandmother reminded me of before she died. We had been trying to have a second baby and getting no where and my grandmother reminded me of this tale. "When having trouble getting pregnant, plant both a dogwood and a kwanzon japanese cherry tree, You will be pregnant within 3 months. You will know the sex of the baby before it's born the following spring. Which ever tree survives will tell you the sex. Dogwood is boy. Cherry is girl." Well hubby got both trees and we planted them in Mid May. Sure enough I was pregnant by the beginning of August, due the end of May. Come the spring the baby was due and well, the dogwood tree was dying and the cherry tree was fine. By the time my baby was born, the dogwood tree was deader than a doornail and I had my daughter in my arms. 2 years later the cherry tree was just barely blooming, but was blooming and kind of looking a bit sad in my opinion. My mother was here for 4th of July that there and was looking at the tree and said "well the rest of the story on the cherry tree goes like this. "it will bloom poorly till it is attacked by a bad insect infestation. Kill off the infestation and you will have a huge blooming tree from the next year on." then she said "looks like you will plenty of blooms next year, you have termites in one part of the tree." We turned green and hubby ran for a saw to cut off the part that was infested with termites, cut it off, bagged in is several layers of plastic bags and brought it to the local county extension service for proper disposal. We sealed the cut section of the tree, as the main trunk had split into 2 sections and we had one side left. We saw no further termite problem and, YES, the following year on it has bloomed and bloomed profusely. Now, my neighbor across the street was with my husband when he bought the trees and she got the same ones I did. She wasn't trying to have a baby, far to old for that and just wanted the trees. Her dogwood, a white Kousa, has bloomed beautifully for years and years, but her cherry tree was always a pathetic little thing. Then about 5 years or so ago, the tree was attacked by little green worms and badly defoliated. She nursed it all summer with extra water and some fertilizer, and the following year on, it's bloomed it heart out an looks more like mine now. Are the old wives tales true? I don't know, I can only tell what happened with mine and my neighbors home and see what we have. Fran...See Morebodiggly
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