Congrat....the plant seems to be very healty and i hope you'll get some fruits..

Trianglejohn,

Wow, I'm impressed. Very beautiful bloom and I love the red leaves. I think you must have taken very good care of it. I've grown some some 6-7 years ago just for the fun of it and then pretty much just left them alone without expecting anything out of them. They didn't do too good and they remain rather small, so I have not re potted them either. So, how did you take care of your longan? What have you been feeding it with?

Last year, I bought a couple Longans about 4 ft and planted them in the ground. Now, one of them is 4.5 ft and the other 5 ft. The smaller one is in bloom and the other one is sending out a lot of new red flushes. I'm hoping both of them will fruit for me this year. I'll take some pictures to share later.

Please do update us with the progress of your longan. Good job on your seedling and what an amazing surprise for 5-year old seedling to be blooming and soon to bear fruit for you.

I didn't get any flowers this year. My longan was almost dead with only three leaf two years ago. The red fire ant help bring my tree back to life. I also use 10-10-10 fertilizer which was the cheapest fertilizer price. The main branch died with only three leaves on it, but it sprouted out two more branch. There are hard lime rocks one foot below the soil. The red fire ants digs holes for the rots to grow and the holes also aerate the soil for the tree roots.

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Hi Tony Doe,

Your Longan there looks healthy to me and with a few new branches of new reddish leaves. They look very pretty there. I'm thinking if they have new flushes, they ought to have blooms? I'm asking this question as one of mine is also sending out a lot of new flushes and I'm hoping that eventually they'll push out some blooms as well. I've been feeding them with fish emulsion, liquid compost and epsom salt.

By the way, thanks so much for the link. The guy there suggested fertilizing with potassium chloride (?) I wonder if that is something you can get from Home Depot. I've read that this chemical has to be handled with cautious as it's something they use in fire crackers. But, if it works, I'm at least going to try as I can't wait to make my bloom for me this year. I don't have luck with growing longans as long as I can remember. I now realized that they are susceptible to web worm and they do not like shady areas. I planted a few of them in the south side of my yard where there are two huge oak trees overhanging and they are host to webworms. So, they died young with disease even though they were planted in the ground.

Last year, I planted two more new ones in my north side with plenty of sunshine and they seem to be doing well. Here are some pictures. Biew Kiew is blooming and Kohala is sending out new flushes.

Please update how your longan is doing. I do hope it will bloom for you soon.

#1 = Longan Kohala Flushing

#3 = Longan Bieu Kiew (almost 4.5ft in height)

#4 = Bieu Kiew's blooms.

I stay north of the Redlands in Florida. The lychees just bloomed. The Longans bloom two months after the lychees. They don't bloom at the same time. I haven't seen a street vendor sell both lychees and longans at the same time.

My neighbor chopped down 300 of his 25' longans down to 10 feet. They were overgrown and competing with one another for light. He only got a quarter of the amount of fruits. His spacing is only 25 feet because land is expensive. The tree can only be 10 feet tall and 25 feet wide in order for the lower branches to get light.

Not only did he lose fruit, but he had to climb high to get the fruits. There were hardly any that he could pick from the ground.

My neighbor with the dragon fruits has thirty behives on his property. He has about 10,000 dragon fruits and another 20,000 down the street that he is taking care of. I know my flowers are going to get pollinated.

You can see the dragon fruit to the right of the coconuts in the picture.

Bananafan2, you have those planters really close to one another. The two plants are going to be overcrowded in a few years competing with one another for light and space.

The wind just killed all my
new growth. Now my longan is starting to bloom.

I found out that you can get longan to induce bloom off season with potassium chlorate and bleach. Potassium chlorate is explosive material, so there is not to many sellers and shipping explosive material would be hard too.