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i noticed that some of the lilikoi plants when allowed to grow wild tend to find a tree, climb it and then sort of strangle it. i am wondering if anyone here grows lilikoi for juice. Do you just build a lot of trellises for them or? what do you do for simplest way of keeping them? i have this boarder of guava trees, am wondering if i should put the lilikoi next to the guava trees so they can strangle those? could anyone tell me if they have done it and what has been the experience? what would be the simplest best way to hang them on to for fruit production?
thank you,
mary
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We have been making our own lilikoi juice for the past 5 years.Unfortunately my wife went wild planting the lilikoi and most of it is rambling through the trees on our property.This requires me to put my boots on and carefully avoiding pukas,I make the harvest.That said,I think if you build a trellis,like our neighbors,your harvest will be much easier.I'm fortunate that they don't use the lilikoi and we share some of our produce in trade with them.
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I built a trellis around my catchment. From my experience, no closer than 6'. It hides the tank & produces plenty fruit. I do cut them to the ground after fruiting stops, or else they would've grown to heaven by now.
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We have a chain link fence & confine it to the length of the fence (although it has reached out to the orange tree a couple of times....un-noticed for a bit then trimmed out...) It took a couple of years to fill the fence & now needs fairly regular trimming to stay confined to the fence... Ours is a fairly short run of 35ft, but have seen one lilikoi on a 200ft fences, & it also needed trimming to stay confined
