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03-02-2012, 04:14 PM | #61 (permalink) |
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We just ate our first two loquats and man these things are TASTY!!!! Hard to describe the flavor. Maybe a little apricot/cherry/apple ish. These particular ones have the juicyness of a cherry. No tartness, sweet, but not sugar overload. Could sit under a tree and eat handfuls!
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The loquat here should be ready soon
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Just tasted the first loquat of the season, and it's GREAT. Also, a question: Do loquat seeds come true to type? My sister is trying to germinate some.
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Where do I get Big Jim budwood or scion?
What is the difference in a scion and budwood?
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From someone with a Big Jim tree. Generally not sold online or in stores because (a) its perishable and (b) most consumers find it easier and cheaper (money plus labor) to purchase a grafted plant.
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Well we harvested all the fruit off our loquat last week. It seemed that the fruit stopped getting any more ripe, and instead started to have splits. I would usually associate split fruit with over watering, but we did notice some mealy bugs had spread from our pomegranete trees so idk if they would have any effect. Either way here is what we harvested.
The big pile we ate(YUM!!) the little pile i just split out the seeds to dry just for fun.(i know they do not grow true to seed). Without the fruit, we now have the plant outdoors full time. Still very close tucked up to the house for a little bit of protection but the weather has been so mild lately! I think it'll be an early summer. Thanks -Luke |
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Wow, lucky you! Loquats are one of my favorite fruits. Here in California, we get tons of them, and they're even bigger than those. I wonder how growing them inside affected their taste.
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[IMG][/IMG] This is a pretty typical leaf: [IMG][/IMG] This leaf is one of the biggest on the tree, and a newish one. [IMG][/IMG] So, what do the you think Richard? Correctly labelled cultivar or not? |
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It appears to be the correct species of Loquat to produce fruit. The non-fruiting ornamental species is different in several respects.
If it was a grafted variety, it should have fruited by now. I think you are growing a seedling -- perhaps the rootstock of a grafted tree that somehow lost the fruit stock at the retail nursery. That can happen at chain stores and big box stores: the ground crew sees a damaged plant, "cleans it up", and puts the tag back on. If the plant had a tag from a major grower like La Verne then that's probably what happened. Then there are some small unscrupulous suppliers who will grow from seed and name them after the parent. It's a beautiful healthy plant.
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Big Jim refers to the size of the fruit. Note that fruit is born on green and semi-hardwood shoots, so removing new growth is a sure way to not get a harvest.
The shape of your tree looks normal for its age. A typical footprint for an unpruned loquat is 12 x 12 feet with a height of 16 to 24 feet. This is a "narrow" form compared to an unpruned pit fruit tree. For Loquat, if you want a smaller foot print it is easy to obtain by thinning adventurous side branches and letting verticals continue. One of our friends has 20 year-old Loquat kept to a compact form of 8' x 8' and 9' high. For the height, I would let the plant go to 10' or 12', then thin some of the verticals so the overall height is 8', and then every other year or so again thin the verticals to bring the height back to desired level. I think you should feed your plant a "bloom and fruit" supplement in the late summer; e.g., September. The potassium phosphite you have would be a good choice.
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Whats the main difference between fruiting and ornamental typ?
Well thats beside the other one doesnt beare a fruit
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Eriobotrya japonica (fruiting) vs. Eriobotry deflexa (non-fruiting ornamental). That link that Sunfish posted shows E. deflexa nicely. It's a very attractive tree, just useless in the sense of not producing fruit -- which makes it about the same as my E. japonica so far!
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So in general its better to avoid pruning at all?
Im pretty sure all nusery stock here are seedlings not grafted trees so what I have is "cat in the sack" Whats the best way to graft a loqat?
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