Lychee Trees Update
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Comments (5)Lycheeluva, Glad you had a good time in Florida. I am excited to be going in late July beginning of August. I too am hoping to meet Harry and see his tropicals. You did the same with your mango as I did, LOL!! It amazes me that the security guys say nothing. My package was larger and I was worried about it fitting in the compartment but it worked. The only thing that made me angry was this guy who kept on smashing his bag into my mango tree. Thought there was going to be a riot on the plane!! I got julie mango back in November. I am sure you were told how slow it grows and that it is an anthracnose magnet. Mine had some(came from Top)but I think the dry air in my apartment is keeping it at bay. Good luck with it, supposed to be a great mango! Andrew...See MoreMy Lychee Trees Update
Comments (2)My Sweetheart lychee is pushing out a lot of flower spikes. My Hak Ip is just starting to show a up coming flush of something, either growth or flowers. DM...See Morelychee blossom update
Comments (21)The M1 (male) pollen has a tendency toward faulty/aborted pollination and chicken tongue seeds. The M2 (hermaphrodite) pollen is more reliable and provides fully formed seeds, generally. The M1 blooms first, then the females, then the M2's. This is why cross pollination benefits lychees since every cultivar has a different proportion of the three flower types, and the timing can be tricky. My Emperor had an overwhelming majority (~70%) of M1 pollen, so I used that, for the most part. My advice to you would be to pollinate with anything and everything available. Most of the females will drop off at later stages, so you need to pollinate as many as possible, using any pollen available, for success. There's no hard and fast rule with the temp issue, all I know is what has been insinuated in the resources I've read. The gist, of which, seems to be that lychees prefer cool/dry winters, warm/mild Springs for flowering, and hot/humid summers for ripening. Also, that hot temps are an issue during the flowering period. Remember that cultivar also plays a big role here. In hawaii, 'Kaimana' fruits regularly, but 'No Mai Tsze' rarely if ever flowers, and never fruits there. My tree is right on schedule, so that's what I attribute my success with. Ideally, you should get your tree on a similar schedule so that the flowers form in December/January. Hope that all helps....See MoreFirst mangoes of the 2011 season and lychee update
Comments (15)The second batch of a scattering of ripe mangoes this early season was just consumed at my office. We had rather slim pickings as the main season is still a couple of weeks away. We had a tiny, tiny Maha Chanook, another Jean Ellen and 3 Cogshalls at varying stages of ripeness. Cogshall this year seems to be ripening somewhat unevenly and is getting anthracnose black spots on the more ripend sections of each mango eventhough there is still part of the mango that is firm and to the green side on the part of the mango away from the sun. I must say that the Jean Ellen was better than the first one I had. It had a touch of that intense Indian mango vibe that I envision coming along with Alphonso and the like. It is still not one I would have planted if I had tasted it first....but I haven't closed the book on it entirely as of yet. The Maha Chanook was so small that it was a mere tease. They are usually fairly uniform in size, but this oe, for some reason colored up on the tree way ahead of all the others. In anycase, it rounded out the platter nicely. Harry...See Morepuglvr1
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