Re: Lychee
- To: f*@aloha.net, m*@ucdavis.edu
- Subject: Re: Lychee
- From: J* M*
- Date: Sun, 12 Mar 2000 10:08:02 -0800
My question is, what happened to the tree the following year?
John MacGregor
jonivy@earthlink.net
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>From: Mach Fukada <fukada@aloha.net>
>To: Michael Mace <mikemace@worldnet.att.net>
>Subject: Re: Lychee
>Date: Sat, Mar 11, 2000, 10:09 PM
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> On Sat, 11 Mar 2000, Michael Mace wrote:
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> Not too complicated. My kid brother did it once with fire. He was
> burning the dropped leaves and branches and managed to burn an allmost
> complete ring around the base of the tree. Let me tell you, did the tree
> produce a huge crop of fruit that year. What the girdling does is allows
> the branches to store sugars and prevents translocation to the roots (i.e.
> blockage of the phloem). The sugars get storred inthe branches and this
> promotes flower and fruit production the following season. May want to
> avoid doing asomething as radical as my younger brother...
>
> MTF
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>> I think some of the growers reported that they partially
>> girdle branches (using a twisted wire) to increase fruit
>> production. Sounded kind of complicated.
>>
>> Mike
>> San Jose, CA (zone 9, min temp 20F)
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