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Any advice on how to avoid fungus in loquat trees? most of the trees I have seen in Brisbane do not seem to fruit at all, the flowers develop a blackish fungus and do not develop into fruit even if the rest of the tree seems healthy. I have planted a new tree and love the fruit... Any advice on how to develop a strong and healthy loquat in the subtropics would be wonderful.

Time: 21st February 2012 8:07am

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Db says...
I've no advice for u. But please don't tell me that, just recently I planted loquat but in a pot n expects some fruits after few yrs, I'm sure there is some solution.

Time: 21st February 2012 8:18am

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BJ says...
Anthracnose effects lots of unloved loquats. The ones people care for are usually not badly effected. Fairly easily fixed with copper based sprays meant for fruiting trees (Mangoes and avocadoes). The worse afflictions for loquat are fruit flies and late winter rains, which split the fruit a week before ripening! Still, most trees will roduce far more than you could pick. Champagne and Mizuho are my top picks, and Champagne is nice and compact. Db, you should get fruit the season after this if you dont already have blooms.

Time: 21st February 2012 9:20am

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db says...
BJ, no blooms yet for my Nagasakiwase variety, its so young only 2-3 ft high from soil surface.. Do they start blooming n fruiting so young?

Time: 21st February 2012 9:42am

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BJ says...
Yes. They produce very quickly, especially the smaller types. My Nagasaki is under 4ft and has heaps of blooms, though I pruned it early summer to get more fruit bearing branches, so it would be around 5ft if unpruned and probably a season ahead of yours. Hopefully you'll get something the winter/spring after this comming.

Time: 21st February 2012 9:59am

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john says...
Champaigne and Mizuho are v. difficult to obtain . There is a guy in Brisbane that has Champaigne but will not post.

Time: 21st February 2012 1:38pm

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BJ says...
Yes, he also has Mizuho, and usually all quite advanced trees. Usually at Chandler markets and the BOGI fair.

Time: 21st February 2012 2:02pm

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john says...
What is his name again? He does not respond to emails (or maybe I have incorrect details)

Time: 21st February 2012 6:21pm

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John Mc says...
My seedling Nagasakawasi (7-8years till first fruit)in my opinion tasted nicer than the Champagne graft on the same tree. Thanks to the organza bags, I could leave the fruit on the tree till the picking day.

Both the grafted Bessell Brown and Nagasakawasi loquats fruited well in the first year from Daley's.

Time: 21st February 2012 7:23pm

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BJ says...
John, i might have to try this year (after fruiting) for a bit of scion wood. I have some spots on my grafted Mizuho and Nagasakiwase that I could try grafting your loquat onto. I also have lost of seedling champagne plants I am going to practice on over the next year.

Kert, I think his name is bob McGuffin.

Time: 21st February 2012 9:05pm

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John Mc says...
Actually, the seedling Nagasakawasi looks like it's pushing out some nice fat buds now if you want to try some?

Everything is behind the eight ball this far south.

Time: 21st February 2012 9:28pm

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BJ says...
Sure, that sounds great. My email is didge underscore 2001 at hotmail dot com
If theres anything you are after let me know.

Time: 21st February 2012 9:45pm

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Helena says...
Thanks for all the info, I have not been online for a few days but feel more confident after hearing about possible treatments if the tree develops fungus.

Time: 25th February 2012 9:31am

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BJ says...
Does anyone have ripe loquat now? mine have a light crop of small seedless fruit. is this normal?

Time: 25th April 2012 9:31am

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BJ says...
We had a very light crop again this year. Champagne is still the best, but the trick is to keep it on the tree until there are a few wrinkles in the skin. Much better than any peach I've ever had! The Mizuho was close, but much larger, and again, its best to wait until its soft, not at firm-ripe stage or it has very little flavour. Nagasakiwase had the most fruit, but came in a respectable third.

Time: 28th August 2013 9:36am

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Jason says...
All my Loquats other that one tree have set fruit this year. That's 1 2 3 4 5, Five trees that have set fruit, four of which are seedlings. Another seedling is still on the way. All the fruit is still only a few mm wide so still some time to go until they are ripe (Should be starting to ripen by Novemberish). Always exciting times to try a new seedling for flavour.

Time: 28th August 2013 6:08pm

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John Mc says...
I've just discovered that next doors escapee goats just love loquat leaves and branches, amongst other tropicals, otherwise I'd have some nice fruit also.

Time: 28th August 2013 7:20pm

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amanda says...
Bummer John Mc..! Of all the pets they could have - it's one that is one of the worst to have next door to plant tragic hey..?? :-(

I would be terrified to see a goat anywhere near my Patch! :-O

Time: 30th August 2013 7:41pm

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John Mc says...
Yes, thanks for your support Amanda, it's been a bit of a nightmare really. Even the owners have had enough, The new neighbours, who are renting, thought it would be great not having to mow, but the grass lasted two seconds and then the goats turn to eating everything in reach. After that, they start looking over, under and through fences for feed. Then they have four baby goats to teach how to get through fences as well. They love loquat trees for some reason, they ate them down to quite thick branches, amongst other tropical, except the Avocado trees, somehow they know they are poisonous to them.

Time: 30th August 2013 10:39pm

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Jason says...
My neighbours escaped sheep love eating my Avocado's leaves... Not only that when I lived in Mexico the native lady next door often made a dish with beans and avocado leaves, just how poisonous are they supposed to be? Kangaroos love them too. The ringtail possums here eat the young leaves also. _Nothing_ eats white sapote leaves though and they are supposed to be fine to make tea from :S Since weve had a lot of resident Kangaroos and don't have to mow the grass anymore I've got zillions of white sapote seedlings coming up because they don't get touched.

Time: 30th August 2013 11:51pm

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JakfruitEttiquette says...
The Mexican race Avocado vars have anise scented leaves,so do some Mex hybrids.
Other vars are unscented, or very weak, so these not useful for cooking. I have heard that an insecticidal compound was extracted from Avocado leaves.
You cannot reliably equate poisonous/non-poisonous with what animals eat or dont eat, and many human foods should not be fed to animals.

Time: 31st August 2013 6:38am

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John Mc says...
They still had to have a taste of the Dade and Chris before moving on, and haven't touched them in subsequent expeditions.

Time: 31st August 2013 8:30am

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Bangkok says...
I also bought a blooming loquat today and it has black leaves as well.

Mine is about 1 metre tall and has blooms on every stem-end.

It was terribly rootbound in a pot of 20 cm wide, roots from more then a metre.

I untangled the roots and cut some off then planted it in a big pot.

I keep it covered for a while since i cut the roots and don't expect fruits, i hope it stays alive.

My question is: Can they fruit in the ultra tropics?

I don't know the variety and have never seen a loquat in thailand at all.

I guess it is an airlayer or grafted one, couldn't see it well when i untangled the roots.



Time: 26th August 2015 10:49pm

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phil@tyalgum says...
I have a couple of seedlings of American "Vista White" loquat trees which are doing remarkably well in the subtropics. I hope they are similar to the parent plant, pure white fleshed fruit.


Time: 26th August 2015 11:03pm

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Bangkok says...
I 've never eaten nor seen a loquat fruit in my life but are they all nice?

On some websites i read the japanese had very good variety's with big fruit.


Of course my loquat has to become a cocktailtree finally but first my goal is to keep it alive.

Is Vista White one of the better variety's?

Time: 26th August 2015 11:52pm

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Markmelb says...
Hope your Loquat survives BK - an interesting experiment in the Tropics - they do very well here in Melbourne - the first fruit of the season to eat = have plenty to pick from back fences on my walks foraging - think they like a bit of cold to set a good crop - lets see if that wrong if you can get fruit - try Ice on roots during a few evenings when its a bit older during winter if you can time it??

Time: 27th August 2015 12:05am

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Bangkok says...
The shop had a few loquat tree's and all had flowers. It isn't "winter" here yet so i wonder how they did it. The soil was very dry though, that might be the trick.

But if it never fruits i will try the ice or give the tree to a friend up north.





Time: 27th August 2015 10:23am

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