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Originally Posted by harveyc
By the way, Ken Love of Hawaii sent material of many different varieties to the USDA repository in Davis, CA several years ago. The former curator there was interested in them but it wasn't officially a species in their collection. I saw them at least once during my visits there and I think I was told they were unsure what was going to be done with them. Several of them had fireblight even though I've never seen fireblight on my trees or others in yards, etc. but a friend of mine told me he has had problem with fireblight in loquats.
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I did plant two loquats that were probably of seedling origin. After a hurricane one died and the other remained sickly and would not grow and seems to have disappeared. They were in a pear orchard that from time to time does get fireblight so it is possible that along with being weakened by storms they became suceptible to fireblight. The other 4 loquats at other locations on my 8 acres show no sign of illness.