Our Backyard Lychee Trees - Yard Tour 2019 - Sarasota, Florida
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- čas přidán 21. 08. 2024
- Here is a tour of our lychee trees filmed May 2019.
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Wow, fabulous trees.I had no idea they are such an elegant tree.I'm growing some from seed ! Thank you for posting.
Greeting from St Pete! Beautiful looking spot you have and thanks for the video! I’m trying to grow some myself so it’s good to see that it’s possible in our area :)
Thank you for your video. We had about 350 Lychee fruits on on tree last year. But, this years, my Lychee tree did not grow so well.
Yeah, lychee and Logan are tropical fruits, but you can grow them in central Florida (although it’s not tropical area). You can grow mango and coconut in the none tropical area like central Florida, but you have to take care of them very well.
I had a friend from Malaysia who said that Malaysia is too hot for lychees so apparently, lychees prefer subtropical weather. They don't mind the summer heat in Florida but need minimum chill hours to initiate flowering, I think.
This is great news to hear. I have property in Central FL zone 9B/10A. We sometimes rarely will get down to the mid 20s F in winter and that had discouraged me from planting my beloved Lychees. Do you really think they can do well here?
Thanks for the encouragement! I may just give it a shot!
Nice lychee trees. Thank you for sharing.
Such a beautiful tree...I started a tree from seed up here in Canada...I had it under grow lights over the winter and it's about 3 feet tall right now. I don't know it I will ever get fruit out if it but it sure is a fine looking tree. Cheers from Ottawa, Canada.
Hope you do get fruit on it! That would be so cool to have lychees up in Canada.
Yes yes i have my own garden's flowers planning yes Lycee fruit long red's lucky money's yes yes growing a lot's of its yes
Yes yes best forever always.
God's blessing you me amen yes yes
California's is best USA of state's in our country's yes yes
Theres nothing wrong with that one. Just keep it. When it fruits in its time youd be amazed...
Graft the branches for new trees. It will help for blooming early within 2 to 3 years.
Coming from Hawaii check it out I’ll give you all a tip, plant the lychee in good dirt, fertile 2 times with only nitrogen chicken manure. When you see pinky size nail fruit starting cut all nitrogen out and hit with k mag, you will have the biggest lychee ever, each of my trees produce 1000 plus pounds and they are only 12 feet high.
Thanks for the tips, which variety you'll recommend to grow in the caribbean?
Carl, I live Kailua, Oahu. I have a Lychee tree approx.15' tall, probably 15-20 years old and have only been able to get it to fruit 1 time (8-9 years ago). I girdled it. Was just wondering if you lived in the area and could give me any tips besides the comment above. Thanks
You are adding potassium during fruit production? What do you about adding food waste to the soil. I bury it around trunk coffee, bananas, bones … everything.
Here in Galax Virginia we pay $10 per a pound soooo expensive frut but soo delicious!
Increíble plants of litchee
Thanks
TY for teaching me the diff varieties. Never knew
They look beautiful, do you grow longans also?
We do have two Longan trees - Big Jim and Biew Kiew. The Big Jim is a huge producer or nutty flavored fruits
Here is a tip do not water during Winter months. When flowers appear you can do deep watering for larger fruit.
WooW lychee my fav fruit.
Nice lychees! You mentioned grafting, is that commonly done to lychees there? Almost all our lychees here are air layers.
Practical Primate All of our lychee trees are airlayed except for the No Mai Tsze. Those need to be grafted to grow well here from our experience. I’ve heard someone was able to successfully graft it onto longan rootstock.
I'm getting ready to plant my Mauritius tree. How much space do you think I need for it? Is it realistic to keep it bushy? I was hoping to keep it under 15ft height and 10-12ft spread. Any advice would be appreciated! Happy New Year!!
Lycee fruit the best ever yes yes yes is bestest
Gosh I love lychee
I like to grow LYCHEE TREE in Oregon.
nice!
It sounds as though water management is paramount to the successful growth of the Lychee tree. Probably applies to all plants. Constant stress doesn’t bode well for plants.
From my experience, consistent watering from just prebloom to fruiting seems the more important. It tends to be dry here when they want lots of water.
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It is Florida, our soils don’t hold moisture, at least not in my area. I have customers who “water as needed”. I find this very problematic and try to dissuade this practice. A good irrigation system and rain shutoff are the best tools to have. Thanks for the videos, you have a neat place. I live in Pinellas and trying to find a large piece of land is impossible, unless you have tons of money. Spencer
Thanks for the video! 2 years ago I planted a small Mauritius lychee tree next to my house. It grew well and become 8 ft tall, but didn’t flower yet. Recently I learned that it would grow really tall and decided to transplant it into a different spot, away from the house. I watered it regularly, but all of the leaves dried up and turned brown. Do you think it’s dead, or there is still hope for it to recover? You mentioned some of your trees recovered. How long did it take? I might be watering a dead stick. Thanks!
Did you prune back hard after replanting? If not, I would recommend cutting back as short as you can and see if it will leaf back out.
@@SulcataGrove thanks for taking time to reply, I really appreciate your help. I was going to pull the tree out, because it looks dead, but then I scratched the bark and it’s still green underneath, so there’s still hope. I give it at least 5 buckets of rain water every day after the sunset. Hopefully it will make it. It’s been really dry here in Palm Harbor with scorching sun. Sometimes I think that we live in the desert.
How long lychee before giving a fruit.. I asked because we have a lychee plant here somewhere backyards and its been a long years since my father buy a plant of lychee but they are not produce fruit..what the best that you can give some ideas or what can i do to produce fruit
Donie G We bought our trees as 3 gallon, airlayered trees and had fruit on most varieties the second year. Our Ohia lychee has not produced. Trees should be pruned each June/July and followed by organic fertilizer. Water well starting in February.
Hi, Nice collection of lychee trees you have.I notice you have good variety of strains.I live in Hawaiii and i was wondering if you tried the strain from Hawaii called “Kaimana”, it’s sweet,good size fruit with small seed and requires no drop in temperature for it to fruit.
Thank you so much for that information. I have tried a Fruit’s labeled Kaimana which were grown in Florida. I’m not sure if the fruit was from an actually Kaimana tree or a seedling tree. It wasn’t as sweet as others we have, but the fruit may have been picked early. I have never seen trees available at our local nurseries.
Can you tell me your irrigation frequency? My parents got 9 or 10 9 year old trees that never flowered/fruit…. They never mulched it or watered it…. Got about 2 dump trucks full of mulch from Big Earth…. I need to get them irrigated until our summer rains kick in.
We have a ring of micro irrigation line around each tree with 6 drip holes. Water drips through slowly 24/7 unless we have heavy rains.
Very nice video and good looking lychee, do you have to cover them in winters
Bob C. We don’t cover anything we grow. Our lowest temps have been 28f for 1 hour. Most years we do not hit 32 at all.
Perfect size tree - do they allow to be trimmed regularly to keep the size compact?
We prune our lychee trees every year
I wish I had a lychee tree. I’m missing the fruit.
This was a bad year for lychees at our farm. It’s such a great fruit, especially chilled.
@@SulcataGrove yeah I can remember eating them non stop when I was on holiday. Now you can't seem to get them in New Zealand. When they do go on sale they are expensive.
Nice grove.. any Idea how long does it take to fruit if grown from seeds
I am not sure. All of our lychees are air layered trees.
Thanks for the tour most enjoyable i was again excited to see this video, i have Hai kyp , Empor, Maris, had a sweet heart but it diedwhen i was away from home on a trip and didnt get enough water .
How have the others done for you?
@@SulcataGrove there all baby trees right now, the Hai kyp though it's small fruited well I've just got to keep in mind to keep water on them and I'll then keep my fruit !!🤔
Do you know if raccoons will steal lychees from a tree? What animals will steal it? I have woods nearby in front of my house and will likely need to put my lychee tree in the fenced-in back yard. Thank you for this great video, btw. I would've burned my tree with fertilizer if you hadn't warned me.
Raccoons, birds, and I think opossums may eat lychees too. The raccoons will eat all of the Jaboticabas in one night - not as bad with lychees.
@@SulcataGrove Thank you for the response! I hope they never find their way into my back yard! The fence is vinyl and therefore (I hope) a bit difficult to climb. I love all animals, but I want them to leave my fruit alone!!
I net trees[very labored]but not if kept 8'high,same circum.birds not a problem in Orlando,I pitch out cayenne pepper around trunk for coon,possum.Squirrels are an F'n nightmare.I bait a "Squirrelnator"trap with peanut butter and dispatch em due to their massive repro rate.D Con for rats.EVERYTHING OUT THERE WANTS YOUR FRUIT.Pinetree seed has nice size nets that arent too pricey.Also,weaving bouganvilla branches over top of clusters is a help too.good luck!
Hi I need your advice my sweetheart tree half the leaf is turning brown and dying any suggestions for me to save my tree?
Maybe lychee mite? Defoliated, spray with sulphur regularly
you should try grafting some successful lychee branches to the unsuccessful trees & vice-versa
Ernie Ferguson We ended up removing the Ohia tree. Craig made me chop sticks with some of the wood. We planted a Dwarf Hawaiian Mango in its place 😊
my lychee looks so sad. what fertilizer do you use? your trees are looking great.
HaibTshajHaib We use an organic fertilizer made with bird manure once a year we also have the trees on drip irrigation.
Nice tour, thanks man. If one has only space for one tree in your yard, would you choose the Sweetheart with its chicken tongues or the Mauritius?
Jaco Viljoen Mauritius due to heavier productivity.
@@SulcataGrove thank you.
Hello TY for the video , really enjoy , question i have is what do we spray the tree with to keep the white bugs of the leaves,. and last my tree is very mature and for the pass 3 year , the tree has so much flower but yet much fruits, very little fruit last 3 year, could u able to help.
We don’t spray anything, we just smush the weevils when we see them. Consistent watering from flower to fruit time seems to help for us.
When emperor they start blooming?
Thanks for excellent video friend fantastic and lovely presentation Friend obrigado
Thanks for excellent video friend 💐🌸🌺🥀🌹🏵💮🌻🌼🌷🌼🌻💮🏵🌹🥀🌺🌸💐
Nature degree Thanks for watching 🌱
Do you all have a type called 'dwarf waichee'??trying to find,help,anyone that does know!mahalo
Beautiful I from Portland Oregon I want to be your neighbor.
How did you get it to handle full sun?, I put mine in full sun it burnt up I had to move it to the shade
All of our lychee trees are in full sun and in drip irrigation.
Hi nice varieties! Where can the No Mai Che Lychee be purchased? Would you be open to selling a nice air layer? Thanks
Our No Mai Tsze tree died. The other we knew of at a near by farm isn’t doing well and they have lychee mite now.
@@SulcataGrove Oh no! Sorry about your loss. Thanks for the reply
@@jparker2387 It’s the best tasting lychee we have ever tried.
Thanks for a very informative video. I just started growing several varieties, which I planted in a circle, along with several longan varieties. Do you grow longans, too?
J Jonas We do. We grow Big Jim and Biew Kiew
Can u please give me some advice, my trees have so many flowers every year but no fruit at the end all flowers drop, this has been going on for 4 yrs now . Please help any advice u can give me
This happens with our sweetheart and hakip lychees. These trees are not on irrigation like our other trees. It could also be a pollination issue. There may be more info here growables.com/information/TropicalFruit/LycheeOnline6.htm
@@SulcataGrove TY so much
Do I need two trees for them to produce because I have one over some 8 years and it not producing,thanks for your advice,
Melvin Brown I have never heard of two trees being needed. Sweetheart seems to flower a lot but not hold a lot of fruit for us. Our Ohia was removed for not producing. Is your tree airlayered?
No emporer lychee? Is that not a good variety for Florida?
@@user-jz7ny1qc6j I don’t care for the flavor of emperor lychee
@@SulcataGrove gotcha. I had heard that they're more of a finicky grower, so was wondering if that might be the issue
I love lychee
So do we!
Great video but tell please how you care about the lychee trees. I have it for 3 years, but never get any fruit :((
I read up that it can take up to 5-25 years to produce fruit
@@Espresso_plz so sad...😢
good job..how old thus tree?
We planted our lychees in 2013 as small airlayed, 3g trees. The video was after 6 years in the ground.
Do lychee need acidic soil?
should I water our 3 month old lychee daily?
It really depends on your soil, amount of water, and location. Most likely daily watering is not necessary.
I live in Australia & I am growing it from seeds & for 5 years its only a tiny 6” tree. I don’t know how to make it big? Pl help me
Best to buy an airlayered tree. There are some nice varieties available in Australia - more than we have here.
You put the litchi plant in temperature control area. You maintain 25 to 30 digrees temperature. And give some shade net. Best of luck.
Do you sell any sweet heart or other lychee trees?
daniel yeung I have a Mauritius lychee tree available now. We will be airlayering many of our other trees this year.
Hi do you sale your Lychee fruit when in season to customer? If you do would like to go get some from you. thank you
Yes. I post on Instagram stories when I have them available. My availability list is also on my website sulcatagrove.com
Hope you gave the one another year to show some production. Especially if it finally bloomed
UNconventional Me It’s still in the ground, looking flowerless as usual 😂 have you had Ohia? Wondering if it’s worth keeping.
Sulcata Grove
Lol
(sheeepish shrug)
I have no idea. I just know that some of the best stuff takes longer to fruit.
That maybe it’s be worth the Waite?
Maybe leave a good branch of it to grow when you decide to top work it?
Is it sweetie not.?
Where do you buy those bags for the fruit
I found them on eBay
@SulcataGrove okay I will get them for the squirrels, thanks
Love your videos! Can we get a lychee yard tour for 2020? Mango yard tour would be nice too! Thank you!
Max Trees Thank you! Our lychees had a no so great year. I did a yard tour video, but still need to edit and post it- more difficult to have time for once the rains and weeds take over :)
@@SulcataGrove The weeds are unbelievable this year. I'm having trouble finding some of the smaller trees I planted.
@@Vogeln Weeds have been very bad here too.
How long do lychee trees take to fruit from seed?
Lety Williamson I don’t know as al of ours are airlayered. I would assume 5 or more years.
@@SulcataGrove How big were the airlayers, and how long did they take to fruit?
Lety Williamson All of our trees were planted as 3 gallons. We had fruit within 2 years I think. Some probably fruited in one.
This plant name
Did you grown mangosteen too
Jacobe Ksor it’s too cold where we live
Greetings Could we talk I have a ton of questions
Hi , when is lychees and longans in season? Thanks
Lychees are May/June where we live and Longans are August this year.
@@SulcataGrove do you open your farm for pickings? Thanks
@@jimmyttay We do not offer upick, but we do sell fruit and fruits trees via porch pickup, by appointment.
Did lychee lem affect your trees?
We haven’t had any mites on our trees. We did buy some trees from a whole seller years ago that had the mite. We destroyed the trees. With so many not treating their infected trees, and the more possibly being carried by birds and bees, I’m not sure if we can continue to dodge it. We plan to start preventatively fogging with soluble sulphur.
the tree I am bigger n older but bear no fruit
Can they grow near a beach in florida
Brandon Baklayan I’ve heard they are sensitive to salt, but have seen them growing, mounded in the middle of the barrier islands.
@@SulcataGrove thanks
As a Brit I found the pronunciation of lychee very curious. Here in the UK it is pronounced liechee whereas the narrator sounded it as lee-chee. Interesting video nevertheless.
Here in the US, it is pronounced both ways.
@@SulcataGrove Thank you - though with an American husband from the South, who admittedly is an Anglophile, I haven't heard him use the alternative pronunciation perhaps because unlike me he loathes the fruit.
@@AGMundy 😂 Can’t imagine not enjoying a good lychee. I’ve heard it pretty equally here. Liechee sounds far superior and more sophisticated.
@@SulcataGrove I know, I love them - have you tried mangosteens ? I agree about the pronunciation, Ieechee sounds somewhat off-putting with connotations of the parasite. Good luck with this year's crop. Sadly where I live there is no prospect of growing a lychee tree as the temperature at times is a little too unkind.
@@AGMundy I have only tried imported mangosteens - delicious!
How many years old tree?
We planted our lychee trees from 2012-2016
sadly we cant grow them here in nz
That is sad. Do you receive Australian lychees there? New Zealand is such a beautiful country from what I’ve heard.
@@SulcataGrove the only lychees we get here are canned ones from china. NZ is too cold to grow lychees here. and yeah nz is very simple and beautiful here :)
Can i buy it from you ?
What's the age of your tree?
Our first Brewster lychee was planted in 2012. The other trees were planted between 2013-2015
can i use cow manure
Jacobe Ksor should be fine
does lychee need male or female partner for pollination?
Judas Bytes The trees we have are self compatible. I found this online 209.200.91.128/flowertypes.cfm
@@SulcataGrove thank you for the quick response. do you sell seedlings for the 3 varieties you mentioned?
Judas Bytes Lychees grow best from airlayered trees or when grafted. We should have some trees available next year hopefully.
@@SulcataGrove please keep me posted
I have leci but can not flowering, how to get the generative fase
Lychee tree is have male or female...?
Lancelot Salonga All is the trees I have seen in the USA are self compatible.
Hi o just want to know how to have fruits of my lychi. What felteliser do I use and what medecene. Yhey are already 6yrs now and big thank you
Orlando Olorozo are they seedling trees or airlayered trees? Trim after they normally fruit in your area and provide an organic fertilizer at that time.
Hi my lychi are grafted when i planted it one time they bears flowers but only flowers no fruit how about using chicken manure sir thank s
Orlando Olorozo I found I have more fruit set when I water well when trees are flowering.
Do you have Longan tree?
Ko Ma We grow two varieties of longan
Sulcata Grove
Would you make a video of how to prune ?
Do you sell lychee tree?
I am sold out at this time.
Plz give me a list or name or the fertilizer for lychee tree . Thank you for the video . Your lychee are beautiful.
@@Aloha894 some years I add a general organic fertilizer. Some years I add sul-po-mag. I mulch the trees heavily each year with hardwood mulch.
Lie~chi
nope. lee chee is correct pronunciation from where it comes from
Hi, can I grow it in Las Vegas Nevada 89183 Thanks
Not sure. I’ve never grown anything in that area.
I like to growing in Oregon to ?
Pronounced LIE CHEE not LEECHEE
Lol that's not how you say lychee.
Tomayto tomahto, potayto potahto......To each his/her own. It all depends on what you grew up with.
Vietnamese lychee is also very delicious, please support me