Longan Fruits

Oh yes, the tree is fruiting but we in the CG have yet to taste them because ..... the bats always get to them first ..... HAIZ! Now we are looking into how to protect the fruits from the bats. Maybe try to cover them with plastic bags or to cover the whole tree with a netting ... LOL



The batch of longans below were protected by a cloth cover by a CGer and we managed to get the fruits intact. One of the very rare branches with fruits intact.

Flowering Longan Tree

I have been wondering for the longest time how to get the tree to flower and fruit. There was a thread on GCS on getting fruit trees to flower and some of the suggestions were pretty hilarious.

About a month back I found the tree sort of messy and just trimmed off some branches and leaves. I just poured some garbage enzyme around the ground where the stem grows. With the rains recently, I happened to check on the tree again and realized that it has flowers. Oh ... such happiness and I realized that I don't need to wait for the tree to grow two stories high before I can get flowers and then fruits. On examining the leaves of the tree .... I think it looks like the Ping Pong Longan Tree ..... which means this tree is going to give the CG lots of fruits throughout the year .... Oh such happiness again!

Longan Tree

This is the common grafted longan tree planted in Nov.2008. This tree has to grow ten to fifteen feet tall before it will fruit according to some feedback I got from the GCS forum. This will take at least two to three years for it to grow depending on the kind of ground it's planted in. Now we are in for the wait. So meanwhile, we'll schedule it for the occasional prune and chicken dung feed for the next 2 years ... :-)