They're a much bigger fruit. They're a different flavour to the Kwai Mai Pink. But to be productive, they do need cool temperatures, below 20 degrees Celsius at night for about a week before flowering.
If the temperatures aren't right, you'll get a predominance of male flowers. You select a branch on the tree, you ringbark it, or cincture it. You have a plastic bag filled with peat moss and a seed raising mix. You put a slit in the bag and you wrap the bag around the cinctured area, tie it off tightly.
Very tightly, squeezing out all the moisture out of the bag and tie it off at the base and then within a few months, you will have the root system showing in the bag and it's ready to cut off the tree and be potted. And very important that you don't disturb the roots of lychees at any time. Remembering what Chris said earlier, don't disturb the roots of a lychee because they don't like it. I'm putting them into a potting mix that I know has a pH of 6. If it wasn't, I'd have to put some dolomite in the mix.
Just fill the potting mix up so that it's level with the top of your marcott, because if you make it too high, it then causes collar rot. Once it's firmly in place, give it a drink. No remember, lychees don't like much wind, so put it in a spot where there's no wind, plenty of sun and it'll do brilliantly. The ten year is usually the time they're fully productive and a fully productive tree can produce up to kilos of lychees.
They can decimate an orchard like this in three days. For that reason, we have exclusion netting which keeps them all out. Now this is erinous mite that I have here. It makes the leaves distorted, puts a brown mite under the leaf and it puts little black pimples on the fruit. Now this fruit is perfectly alright to eat. When you open it up, it's no different to a perfectly formed piece of fruit. So erinous mite can be treated with a little bit of sulphate of potash for the home gardener will help it go away.
But over a few years, it just goes away. In China, the lychee is a symbol of romance and I reckon, that's pretty logical, because when most people taste a lychee for the first time, they fall completely in love with it. And I can't think of a better reason to plant one of these fabulous trees. Well, that was a jam packed program and next week will be no exception. Australia has the longest lychee production season in the world producing fruit from late October to late March, and once ripe the bunches of fruit are harvested by hand and further sorted in the packing shed.
However the actual harvest season is short, sometimes no more than weeks on one farm. Work is generally available throughout the regional harvest period. It is a tempting sounding cocktail that will pair well with Smoked Chicken and Lychee salad this Christmas!
Source: B. Harvest Trail Information Service. Developed in Australia, they are bright red with a smooth skin but are small with a very small seed. A pretty red colour when ripe, they are a lovely eating fruit with a similar taste to B3.
Available from mid November to mid January. A large fruit with a sweet taste that is picked with some green mottling on the skin. Available from November to December, it is extremely difficult to get commercial crops on a regular basis.
A classic lychee with a bright red skin and large seed. Available from December to January but are in limited supply. Available from late November to February, they have a red skin with a slight orange hue and tend to be more round. The lychee Litchi chinensis is a subtropical fruit.
It is oval to round in shape and about the size of a walnut. Its thin, red bumpy skin is easily peeled to reveal a white, juicy, translucent ball of firm jelly-like flesh that surrounds a shiny brown seed. Lychees are berries and are produced on tropical evergreen trees. The trees are attractive with shiny, leathery green leaves and long sprays of green, white or yellow flowers.
After a few months, the sprays of flowers become bunches of fruit. Australian Lychee Growers Association — representing Australian lychee growers. Longest lychee season. The Australian lychee industry is unique in having the longest lychee production season in the world.
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