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Been watching the longan the last few weeks for signs of flowering.
My suspicions have been peaked that it is going to bloom.
The last few days all doubts have been erased.
It is getting ready to bloom, at least on some of the branches.
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Others I've tried have placed "inappropriate" ads with the photo when viewed.
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Let me know if it does happen.
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The Longan tree began flowering in late Feb.
A lot of fruit did begin to form, but many aborted and dropped.
The tree was light on foliage probably because of the volcanic gasses giving a bad effect to fruit maturation.
What little fruit was left has matured.
it's easy enough to tell when they're ready.
I picked all the fruit on the tree today.
They are good.
In reading around about Longans, I find that they do not have a very good shelf life and do not keep well or long.
But, supposedly they can be frozen in their skin and will keep as good of quality as when fresh.
They'll probably have to be thawed before peeling them.
I just put some into our new freezer and will give them a try in a few days.
Ours is a Biew Kiew.
They fruit on alternate years.
Kohala might be better.
It fruits more evenly each year.
All our vegetation is looking nice now.
They seem to have rebounded very well from the eruption effects.
I'll treat the Longan again the coming Dec.
Should get a good crop of fruit next year.
I hope.
Avos are getting ready to ripen a for a light winter crop.
Everything looks to be growing nicely.
I'm expecting a bumper crop of fruits next seasons.
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Effects of gibberellin treatment during flowering induction period on global gene expression and the transcription of flowering-control genes in Citrus buds
"Gibberellins (GAs) affect flowering in a species-dependent manner: in long-day and biennial plants they promote flowering, whereas in other plants, including fruit trees, they inhibit it...In longan, high GA 1 , GA 3 , GA 19 and GA 20 levels in the shoot tips contribute to floral bud induction"
If you feel like playing Frankenstein you can try playing with gibberellic acid plant hormone. It's usually used to make unsproutable seeds sprout but it has interesting and often unpredictable effects and flowering cycles too. There are some good suppliers on eBay and elsewhere.
https://www.researchgate.net/publication...itrus_buds
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Yeah, that may be an option.
But, our only interest is in being after at least some edible fresh fruit coming each year.
May end up trying to preserve some, probably not more than one time, though.
The worst part of this is that longans are non-climateric and tend to have a short shelf life.
They do not ripen after being harvested.
Luckily, the tree seems to ripen all its fruit at once.
And, supposedly, the Biew Khiew's shelf life can be manipulated to make it longer.
Even so, a tree-full at a time might be a bit too much for just 2 people when the tree matures and begins to produce in quantity.
M'Lady is the longan nut.
I do eat some.
But, the tree is not for me.
She will have to gorge on them, and find ways to get rid of the ones she can't eat.
Not my problem.
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