What is the best lychee? - Tropical Fruit Forum What is the best lychee? What is the best tasting lychee? The best I have ever tasted are also among the hardest to grow They are the Emperor and the Haa-Kip Mauritius is probably the easiest to grow and fruit in South Florida but which ones are you folks growing in Florida and all over the US? How many outside of Florida on the mainland US have fruited Lychee? The photo shows some gorgeous
Best Lychee Tree in California in terms of Size and Yield I am growing two varieties of Lychee and I am still five years away from making a determination in-terms of growth and production in SoCal Is anybody growing 4-6 lychee varieties in California and have compared the various traits?
What is the best lychee? - tropicalfruitforum. com Top Tropicals Nursery is promoting the 'Sweetheart' lychee as the best lychee in the State of Florida, USA I would love to see an honest comparison of the pros and cons between the 'Sweetheart' lychee and the 'Mauritius' lychee PIN was also billing Sweetheart as best tasting lychee, at least when i visited them several years ago
Comparison of 4 Lychee Cultivars - Tropical Fruit Forum Comparison of 4 Lychee Cultivars Thanks for posting the info, Oscar Also glad that you gave other comments besides oBrix (both pieces of info are very useful) I recall Dr Zee being very dismissive of other varieties (other than Kaimana) for use here so I am glad you posted it It would be nice if you could revisit this every year for a while to see if the results are consistent year-to-year
Lychee Season 2025 - The Tropical Fruit Forum Lychee Season 2025 This is my first year with producing lychee where I live! There are two seedlings in the yard which are 20 some years old and likely of Brewster descent I look forward to seeing them produce, and regardless of if the seed is huge and flavor so-so, I'll still be eating them by the bushel
WHAT IS THIS (GREEN) LYCHEE!!?? - Tropical Fruit Forum The lychee is GREEN with a red blush It is the kind that EXPLODES with juice when you open it it was SWEET with NO astringency whatsoever ok, maybe a tiny, tiny bit But i didn't pay attention to that i naturally saved every seed Also, the skin was a bit on the tough side and was very rough, with lots of projections SO WHAT IS IT? Pictures:
King Lychee - tropicalfruitforum. com King Lychee That is erdon lee alright and they can get even bigger Fay zee siu larger selections can get well over 50g Erdon lee are routinely over 60g and max out at over 100g in the biggest specimens They are a smaller tree than most regular lychees and an alternative name is dragon egg King would be an unfortunate name as it would cause confusion
Lychee frost hardiness? - Tropical Fruit Forum Just look at the order of say the top 50 or 60 varieties nad you will know that tai so, kwai mai pink and fai zee sui are examples of what not to plant in cooler lychee growing districts Logged Print Pages: [1] The Tropical Fruit Forum » Tropical Fruit » Tropical Fruit Discussion »
COLD HARDY LYCHEES LONGANS - Tropical Fruit Forum I believe another potentially cold hardy heritage of lychee could originate from the mountainous ‘Emperor’ heritage As for longans, from personal experience they are at least more frost tolerant as a species as a whole than lychees not sure about actual ‘cold’ tolerance though probably similar
More cold-tolerant lychee - Tropical Fruit Forum Lychee do fine in prolonged upper 30s and even the occasional dip into the low 30s and light frost I have had longans conk out on me in those temps but not lychee, thus I have always been confused when people say lychee cant tolerate cold weather when they are more tolerant than mango