What is the best lychee? - tropicalfruitforum. com Girdling is a pretty questionable practice as it may increase yield on the branch but the branch often declines, dies or get prone to fungal problems afterwards I know I have posted about lychee varieties a bit before but kwai mai pink and Mauritius are the 2 recommended commercial types here (of over 25) for warmer areas
What is the best lychee? - Tropical Fruit Forum harry they sell those green lychees every year in NY china town and they are always unedible- so very much doubt they are the fabled hanging green, or if they are, they must get treated with a chemical to allow export to the US that absolutely kills taste they also sell a red lychee in china town every year that looks like a large sweet cliff
Are Hak Ip and Sweetheart lychee the same variety? Speaking of names, the Hak Ip name is a mislabel here in Florida The real Hak Ip (Black Leaf) in China has very different charicteristics For example the real Hak Ip has very few shrunken seeds, crisp flesh that does not leak juice, and medium sized fruit (none of these are true of the lychee going by Hak Ip in Florida)
How to Get Lychee Tree to Give Fruit? - Houzz My friends have had a great-looking lychee for years They live a mile east of 41 and the darn thing only fruited once with an end count of 40 lychees We bought a house west of 41, two blocks from the water, and the big lychee tree in our yard is packed with fruit, and I've seen two others in the neighborhood that look the same
Lychee like grapes - Houzz We purchased fresh organic red grapes at Whole Foods in New York City, Houston St and 2nd Ave I tested this batch of grapes on 7 people and all agreed that they tasted very much like lychee I have tasted ripe lychee in singapore, and this flavor was similar They still tasted like grape, but with a strong lychee flavor
Lychee frost hardiness? - Tropical Fruit Forum there was a breeze all night when it was -2 C The bigger the lychee gets the better but from what it sounds like I would plant the lychee in town in a good spot not the open fields I also usually water heavy the night before The water is 21 C coming out of the ground and I have heavy mulch around the trees I can get a little buffer going
Lychee Taste Comparison I did some lychee taste comparison and wanted to post this information I wanted to get the Kaimana from Hawaii fresh but my friend who lives there said I was 2 weeks to late, they don't have any for sale now So, here's my taste comparison of the ones I purchased on Weee, and my fresh picked Brewster from my tree
If you had to get one lychee variety. . . - Tropical Fruit Forum The wonderful Rose Lychee flavor of Brewster is growing on me and even though it has a large seed, it is a very good water type Lychee and is a relatively good bearer Mauritius is a great bearer but as Rob stated, it has a subacid component which some people enjoy and others not so much
Comparison of 4 Lychee Cultivars - Tropical Fruit Forum What has happened with Kaimana is that it's become very difficult to sell any lychee in Hawaii unless it's Kaimana, because that is what the buyers are so used to now But Kaimana, though very good, isn't the be all and end all of lychees Really no variety is The Sweetheart is quite a bit softer than Kaimana
Seedless lychee - Tropical Fruit Forum Yeah I do have other lychee trees not super far away Its possible bees are moving pollen between trees This one is kind of off on the end by itself but theres other trees around Now I wish this one was planted way further away Maybe someday I can make a copy but this stuff takes forever to grow and make copies of