Why I’m Harvesting & Propagating Loquats 

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Very interesting thankyou😊

I'm happy to learn that you experimented with Mediterranean plants and unfortunately it didn't work. I now experiment with vachellia trees from Africa and I await the results. Once again a thank you for sharing.

Thanks for information i am ur new friend stay connected 🌹❤

I love your shade house. It looks like such a wonderful sanctuary!

Make a “Dibble Stick” to use, not your finger. One of my friends lost his Wife to Melioidosis which she contracted from the soil in their garden.

Ask your correspondents if any of them have ever grafted Loquats, as noted, there are some great named varieties.

One more point, keep your trays small, because you have to pick up the tray, sooner or later you will rupture a disc if you continue to use your body as a Crane. I’ve a friend, who was opening his fridge door, his wife called to him, he twisted to face Her in response. He is very lucky his wife is a General Surgeon, she recognised what had happened when he crashed to the ground. Long story short, major laminectomy to him. He is a Civil Engineer who previously spent a lot of time on site, no more, he has had to change to a more sedentary position.

I found Loquat 1:29 trees all through Portugal. There are some named varieties that have large round fruit. Watch the fruit fly with loquats, you need to trap them. I was with a souther American from the US and was surprised she had never seen a Loquat, because she has travelled much more widely than me.

Hi, which mediterranean trees dd you plant?

Your friend's name is Lawton? Any connection to the mighty Geoff Lawton? (My ears perked right up, eh?) [after continuing to watch the video...] Zaytuna Farm! Now that sounds very familiar! Hmmm... Do I feel a bit of jealousy bubbling up in my soul? he he he Just a jolly good version, of course. I am so happy that you have access to such a wonderful place. I need to look into the locations that Bill Mollison worked in here in Arizona. I think he even did stuff in Tucson, but I have not had the opportunity to watch much of his video stuff, yet. So much to do, watch, and learn...so little time, comparatively speaking.

I brought back some loquat seeds from a holiday in Sicily many years ago. Grew a nice tree in my old garden, and it survives even the coldest winter. Little chance of any fruit here in north Wales, UK though.

My advice from childhood experience, don’t eat green loquat fruit unless you want a pretty good dose of diarrhoea!

Has a rep for fruit fly but I eat all mine so I haven’t has a issue. Mine get a lot of what looks like Macca nut borer in the fruit. Totally recommend grafting them. The Bessel brown and nackasakki have much smaller seed to flesh ratio than most and good flavour plus fruit very different times of year.

The "soil" here at my place is total garbage. It is "urban dirt" in the middle of a city. Construction debris. Fill dirt that was brought in at construction. And years and years and years (decades) of hot sun and compaction, taking the urban concrete and making it, if it is even possible, worse than it started out being, which was bad. Covering it with the woodchips has improved it dramatically, but still, if I dig it up and use it for potting soil, it is like planting seeds in pure death. Argh! So, I am going to be using some of my compost (yard waste from my wife's yardwork company and hot composted), sifted, and planting seeds directly into it. I'll keep you posted on how that goes. I have not forgotten your method of getting sharp sand from stream beds, but here in Tucson, streams are non-existent. (Argh! take two.) I have not given up. Perhaps in the two huge washes I can find some decent sand, but I have not had the time to go in search of any. Maybe today? Hmmm... Oh well, I am just rambling now. HA HA HA So, back to work. I only have this and one more video of yours to watch, and I will have binged your channel. I know, I need to get off my butt and record more than just one tour video of my food forest...Yard Farm as I call it. rumble.com/v3kdmju-a-tour-of-yard-farm.html

Beautiful loquat tree

I didn’t know that it would be so easy to propagate loquat seeds. Thanks for the great know how tips.

That’s Amazing