Heh, just dug up your older posts doing searches related to our current discussion:
EVERYTHING you wanted to know about Loquats!
Can send seedlings/babies or seeds anywhere anyone wants, provided shipping costs reimbursed. Specific variety is in question, but life is a box of chocolates anyway.
They seem to do well with a little cow crap compost and/or 10-10-10. Mine tolerate all extremes of rain/drought well enough. Reasonably frost resistant. Even with the unprecedented 2010 2 weeks freeze/frost here, the trees survived, uncovered.