Lychee Mauritius finally blooming ....
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Comments (13)Bryan: I have not kept a separate log regarding lychee fruiting....although this Forum has now become my "log" so to speak. However, since I did not begin posting in this Forum until Fall of 2009, my posts only encompass one lychee season thus far. From memory, removing the post-Hurricane Wilma 2 year period (when canopies were severly compromised) my largest Kaimana tree had borne consitantly each and every year. Some years the crops have been heavier than others, but I would not classify it as an alternate bearer. Because I thought it was one of the best lychees I had ever tried, I planted out two other Kaimana trees. These trees are much smaller and neither has ever bloomed. Not sure why that is, but I am hoping that this year will begin blooming on one or both of those smaller trees. Stay tuned. Harry...See MoreA sad sad day for my Lychee Mauritius ...
Comments (25)Seeing all these freeze damage pictures sends my mind back to our Hurricane Wilma aftermath. My trees, most of which were 8-15 years old at that time......80% blown over, some uprooted entirely. I have video of my yard and I can't even bear to look at it. I had to hat rack all the canopies and pull the tree into the best up-right postions that I could with the car, propping them up with the heavy branches that we cut as braces. Worked non-stop for the better part of three weeks (while we had no power) cutting and hauling what seemed like mountians of debris and cut branches to the roadway for pickup. I shudder to think about ever having to do it again. The good thing about tropical fruit trees, however, is that they are resilient. I think I had Post Traunmatic Stress disorder after that storm 5 years ago. Anyway, the good news is no one froze to death and trees can be replaced if necessary in the worst case. But it is still very saddening....See MoreSweetheart Lychee Blooming- December 2009
Comments (28)Hey ch3rri, I don't want to send the wrong message, I'm not an expert on Lychee, I just got an Emperor last Summer and its hanging on by a thread, however ... This was my observation: I brought it in from outside, just before we started getting hard freezes in NY, and I watered it. I figured it was going to be semi-dormant all winter so I'll give it a good drink and let it be for a while. It must have already been somewhat dormant and I didn't know it because it didn't soak up the water and instead started dropping leaves. The leaves dropped from the bottom first and at a fast pace. I took immediate action and drilled some extra holes in the bottom of the container, put some string in the bottom to let it drip out, tilted the container, and even put a fan on the wick to try to dry it up faster. Needless to say, it kept dropping for a couple days then I started seeing it slow as the soil dried. I don't remember for sure, but I think I read lychees like it dry in the winter. Also, I was reading about signs of over/underwatering recently and noted that some articles said a sign of overwatering is a tree dropping leaves, starting with the lowest and moving up the tree. Thats the long winded way of saying I would agree with your synopsis and assume it was overwatered. Timothy...See Morelychee tree flower bloom
Comments (23)They fly in from the surrounding neighborhood. They land on the tree. They don't go near the ground. I shake them off the tree branch and into a 5 gallon bucket where I smash them dead. These diaprepes root weevils are tough. I don't think that even a small contact with that stuff will kill them. I knocked one of them off a branch into a red ant pile. The red ants attacked but couldn't penetrate it's exoskeleton. It walked away with all the ants on it and the ants eventually let go of it. I thought the yellow jacket hornet was going to attack it but the hornet was waiting for it chance to suck on the honeydew after the weevil leaves that spot. The only thing that caught one of those weevils was a dragonfly. The dragonfly caught it while the weevil was flying. The dragonfly don't hunt for weevils in the tree....See Morebananafan
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