Darkman

Carl,

Thanks for the update!

I unfortunately had a frost but no freeze. It might has well been a freeze. I lost 90% of my green banana leaves which I was counting on to feed the bunches I have hanging and the blooms that are still blooming. My area was forecast to have a north wind at 3 and 34 was the lowest temp. I thougt with the wind no frost but I guess the wind quit. This is very discouraging to see what was nine healthy mats with many green leaves to brown mush. I'll be able to cut three of the bunches but the others are too small and we'll just have to see what will happen.

Now back to the loquats. I still have fruit hanging with no apparent ill effects. I actually had a fruit that was almost ripe, had turned yellow, and something got it. I have a couple more that are close so maybe soon. My loquats are still potted and are under heavy Oak tree canopy which offered frost protection.

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barnetmill

I have found that one has to use the weather forecasts as a guide. When the sky is clear and it looks like it might get cold, I start checking my thermometer for tender plants like my little curry plants and banana plant. My thermometer is about 10 feet above the ground and often there is a frost on the ground when the thermometer is reading just above freezing. Anyway I tend to make a judgement call and cover those few plants up.

The few loquats that have just turned yellow seemed to be the ones most impacted by the freeze of Sunday morning. I had tried one prior to the freeze and one that survived the freeze. They were still not sweet and not quite fully ripe and still not up to normal size. My squirrels so far seem to be content with last yrs acorn crop. I have been trying to interest them in a squirrel feeder stocked with corn and an exposed ear of corn w/o luck so that they could also be properly managed. I took out a raccoon a week ago and on Sunday night something dragged the carcass off the cold fireant mound where I left it for disposal and other than some hair it has disappeared which is ok with me. It is generally not permitted to relocate captured raccoons. I handled the cage with gloves since they carry rabies in my locale.
I am still planning to get some traditional southern dogs to run off the squirrels and larger animals.

venturabananas

We've been eating the first of our homegrown loquats for a few weeks now. I'm very happy with the Big Jim tree -- it is aptly named. I'd heard that loquats could get the size of apricots, but I'd never seen it in person. Some are even bigger than apricots. Nice flavor and very juicy. The smaller loquat in the photo is typical of the size I typically see -- it is a McBeth. It's supposed to have big fruit, too. Maybe it will when it gets older and more established, but not yet.

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Darkman

My young trees did not set fruit to have any left over now I managed to eat about a dozen or so and they were tasty not fantastic but good.

I hope to plant some inground this year and maybe next year I'll have more fruit.

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Darkman in Pensacola

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Snookie

Loquat? Is that what I call Japanese Plums here in Lizard Creek?

Here's what I have 6 of planted but why no fruit or flowers yet?

Hummm.... WAZ UP with dat?

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CountryBoy1981

That looks like the loquats that are growing all over in my neck of the woods. All of the literature on loquats states that they will not successfully fruit in my area because of the cold, but every year the trees are loaded with them.

venturabananas

If they were seedlings rather than grafted plants, they might take several years before flowering for the first time. And some grafted varieties take longer to bloom that others. Took 2+ years for my Big Jim to flower, even though the tree was already bigger than the ones in your photos after the first year in the ground. Patience.

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Snookie

LOL there's that darn word PATIENCE again lol

Thanks:}

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