caliboy1994

My grandfather's loquat tree.

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venturabananas

Any blooms on that one Andreas? I don't see any from the photo. My neighbor's tree has one branch that is already blooming, but the rest of the tree isn't. Seems early. But then, there's a bunch of confused fruit trees around here: pears that have ripe fruit on them and are blooming, nectarines that already ripened this year's crop and are flowering again, etc.

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[quote=Darkman;204032][quote=barnetmill;203951] Killed a water moccasin in that fence line area about two Saturdays ago which is another reason to remove that cover.Alabama coastal regions got a lot of high tides and rain from Hurricane Issac. Likey his snake moved because of the flood waters. We have had a lot rain this summer that may be why my snake left the creek bed also. He had been there a little while and my chicken neighbors did not tell me and they were afraid to kill it w/o a gun. It is much faster to grab what ever is handy before it gets away into the brush then to run back to the house for a shotgun. Taking a water moccasin bite to the ER for treatment can easily run $50,000 or even more in medical bills.

Darkman

[quote=barnetmill;204082][quote=Darkman;204032]Glad you got it. Not a bad as a rattlesnake bite but nothing to play around with. You won't just ignore it that's for sure.

One of my Loquats, not a grafted one, has blooms!

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venturabananas

Congrats. I'm still waiting on my grafted one, hoping it'll finally bloom this year.

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Richard,

Mine (a seedling) is in a pot but it is set in my blueberry grove (do BB have groves?) and it get full sun, regular irrigation and fertilization. It should set fruit and if it does I'll thin it to one fruit per cluster and give it a shot. The tree is small only about five foot and it only has about five flower clusters so it will be easy to do.

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caliboy1994

This pic was taken several weeks ago, and there were no blooms yet. I doubt there are blooms yet anyways. They usually don't begin blooming around here until well into fall if I remember correctly.

My grandfather's apple tree was blooming in the middle of August too....

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Darkman

OK I got around to looking at my other Loquats and found all of them except the grated Yehuda have blooms. I guees I need to start moving them out of the shade and into the sun.

Maybe I'll go ahead and plant one in the ground.

Maybe I'll have fruit next spring!

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barnetmill

Loquats seem to tolerate partial shade better than do a lot of other fruit trees. They do not seem to require a lot care to grow.

Dalmatiansoap

So, back then I marked the tree with the biggest fruit with a small yellow ribbon

and hoped that nobody will buy that ugly humped sick looking creature sitting in a back row nursery corner ( I just wonder how did it get there??).
It sat there for a enough and I waited for me few days ago

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venturabananas

Drum roll please... my "Big Jim" loquat is finally blooming! About 2.5 years after planting. The tag on it said it should produce fruit in 3-4 years after planting, so I guess they knew what they were talking about. It doesn't have tons of blooms, but some is better than none! All the loquats I know of if in my neighborhood are also blooming.

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Dalmatiansoap

Congrats Mark!
Same thing about blooming is happening here and isnt that a bit to early for blooming?

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venturabananas

Thanks Ante. I'm not sure if it's early for here because mine has never bloomed before and I haven't paid enough attention to other loquats in my area. They are supposed to bloom in autumn in my area, so it seems about right.

Interestingly, I stopped by my local nursery today and noticed that all of their small (3' high plants in 5 gallon pots) grafted loquat cultivars were flowering -- all except the Big Jim ones. Maybe it is just a slow-to-fruit cultivar.

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Darkman

It takes a while for these to bloom. Mine are still blooming. Very slow from bud to bloom fade.

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barnetmill

The bud to the flowering and then finally fruits takes a long time. Mine are still going at it. This year I will thin them out a bit to see if the fruit are larger.
I was given a bunch of loquat seedlings by a friend last week already potted. If they survive I will plant these on the boundary with a neighbors property quite close together to form a boundary screen. If I get frut this comming season then I will try to generate more seedlings. I have over a 1,000 ft of perimeter that is high & dry that I plan to plant in various trees once I get it cleared of brush, trees, fallen logs, and interwoven vines. Vines make it so that when I chain saw a small tree or sapling it remains standing and well secured to other trees by the vines.

Darkman

I had that same problem when I cleared the lot for my citrus trees. Makes for dangerous cutting of trees as they may fall backwards as easily as forward!

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barnetmill

For now the bigger trees are left standing. I will come back later with a ladder to attach cable/chain and use a coffin hoist or an engine hoist to control which way they fall. But first getting rid of the small trees and saplings does help out a lot.

venturabananas

Here's the other way of making sure of getting a loquat that flowers early: buy one that is already flowering. Here's a McBeth I bought a couple of weeks ago that was already in flower. Now it's planted in my yard. Looking forward to trying the fruit in spring.

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Interesting now it is almost December and the loquats are still blooming and so far I only see some fruit that is definitely growing. The largest is one inch long and about the third the size of a small mature loquat. There have been a lot of insects buzzing around, many of them black bees with occasional honey bees so there seem to be enough pollinators. Obviously I can expect the fruit to ripen from very early spring to maybe june or later. There was a mild frost last night which should not bother the loquats. It did kill the mature leaves on my only banana plant, but a new leaf that had not yet unfurled appears to be alive. Once the afflicted leaves drop to the side I will surround the plant with mulch in an effort to keep the remaining above ground parts alive until next spring. I will use steel reinforcing mesh and sheet plastic to confine the woods chips.

barnetmill

It got down according the thermometer on the house to almost 28 F at 6:00AM and was warmed up to above freezing by 9AM. At 11:00 AM was up to 54 F. There is damage to the larger loquat fruit. Those that were ripening and turning yellow are now turning brown. Perhaps the more immature ones will survive.

My banana plant was covered with mulch to its midpoint and protected last night on the upper part with a blanket still has it newly sprouted leaf in good shape. The earlier leaves were killed by an earlier frost prior to being protected.

A cold resistant tangerine seedling shows slight damage to the youngest leaf tips which were curling anyway likely from leaf miners.