I hope you gave the plants away instead of tossing them, many people would love to have plants already grown!! Thank you for the video ✨

Dude! This is an amazing series! Exactly what I needed, so thorough. Thank you! 8yrs later & you're still making an impact. Ps--- I hate culling too...

In 2019 I had a loquat harvest in Germany on my planted since 2013. This year I briefly wrapped them with air cushion film over the winter and put in a floor heating cable. It looks like some fruits will stay on it, so that there can be a harvest in summer this year in August.

Thanks for the video!! Looking to grow some loquat trees after picking some fruit in my neighborhood park and this was very helpful and informative

I can never find my favorite childhood favorite fruit so I planted one! Not many people know how yummy it is!

@danikasrc4206

3 жыл бұрын

I know it so delicious

@AshleyAshleyAshley395

3 жыл бұрын

Yep. When I lived in Houston Texas my dad had one growing in his front yard. I was so excited when I realized it was a loquat. I asked my dad to help me get some and he told it wasn’t food. I told him it is today lol. I told him it was fruit. Everyone was looking at me crazy saying I was going to get sick. They realized I was right. Everyone tasted and liked it. They grow all over Houston and southeast Texas where I love now. Someone gave me a tree last year.

@debbie0greer164

3 жыл бұрын

@@AshleyAshleyAshley395 Wow! Thank goodness you showed them so they all can enjoy it now. Mine is still young and not bearing fruit yet😕

@rogerwilco6355

3 жыл бұрын

10/10 A +

@apriljoycanlas6488

2 жыл бұрын

@@danikasrc4206 i

Love the video. Thanks for the info.

Love your videos, thanks for sharing

I lovvve this fruit. Would love to grow my own soon. Great vid.

Thanks for taking the time to make this video. It is very helpful for me. I had a friend give me a loquat tree that was in poor shape. The leaves were all being eaten up by something. So I removed all the leaves and replanted it in a good size pot. I don't know anything about whether it will fruit because I don't know how it was grown. However, it is getting nice new green leaves and shows promise. Now I need to learn more about the tree so I can hopefully dedicate an appropriate space for it and take care of it. Hopefully it will grow fruit. It has leaves forming on top and now has some coming out the sides of the stalk. I didn't know if I should remove the ones on the stalk or see what happens. Any suggestions will be helpful. I will subscribe to your page. I am a gardener of sorts, but it started mostly because of COVID and being home. Thanks!

Just for my cursor count and I didn't really count it all it looks like out of the 30 seeds that you planted you got at least 20 to germinate which is awesome

I have a few seeds from a Neighbours tree ,it's quite hard to find an established plant to buy around my area so growing them from seed or even propagating them is my only alternative. love their fruit so much which is why i want to grow my own tree ,thanks for your series on this plant it was pretty interesting!

great video! I just planted 4 loquat seeds

Impressive, really enjoyed this series

@TheMelvinWei

7 жыл бұрын

Thanks!

Very nice compelete information

Great video man, thank you for this, keep up the great work! please for the good gardeners everywhere both amazture and intermediates this has helped me a lot!

I started growing them too and 4 have sprouted

I live in a apt and have 4very large trees .Thanks I may try growing some.!!!

@TruckTaxiMoveIt

5 жыл бұрын

Are you saying you have loquat trees in your home if so are they fruiting?

Really happy to discover this. Super informative and great production value. Keep it up!

@TheMelvinWei

7 жыл бұрын

Thanks for watching my channel!

Nice!

@TheMelvinWei

7 жыл бұрын

Thanks for watching DragonFire!

Hello sir, thanks for the video. Is been couple of weeks now and by following the process in the video it worked really nicely! However, currently I have two little plants similarly to 07:04 and their leaves becoming brownish, almost like burnt/dry. I moved them away from the window and put them somewhere next to a fish tank, taking light from a "quite good" LED. I see them growing fast but in parallel the effect still going on. Any recommendations for this? Thanks again!

Hi, my name is Ceci. I've taken a great liking to gardening and plants lately, and am planning on starting some Loquat trees. There is a tree in my neighborhood and some near my school, and I've grown up picking the little yellow fruits to eat with my family. I'm starting a gardening club (really it's just an eco-friendly club) and would like to hear any advice you'd have on transferring the seedlings to the ground itself or just any advice you might have. Thank you so much! I love your videos!

@TheMelvinWei

7 жыл бұрын

Hi Ceci, transplanting is never something that feels right or comfortable but always has to be done. Some plants recover seemingly the next day and keep growing, others just stay in stasis for weeks or even months it seems. I think loquats are really robust plants. Just put on some gloves and give them a wide berth when digging in with your hands. You should probably do it when they're smaller because as you can see at the end of this series, but the time they're medium sized the roots go throughout the pot, so you'd be ripping up more roots doing it later rather than sooner...but on the other hand smaller seedlings are damaged more easily during transplants. The other thing to keep in mind is that transplanting sooner when they're small means less potting mix (if you used potting mix) ends up in the ground where you plant them, and that's better. I would transplant sooner rather than later. I've read that some potted plants get used to the synthetic growing medium they're in and the roots stay confined to it even after a very late transplant.

Yeah I wanted to know I want to grow a few I just picked them

Kinda funny because I've got hundreds of loquat seedlings that just sprout on their own below my loquat tree. But it's much harder when you actually try to sprout the seeds. Lol

I have some seedling that barely sprouted like 2 days ago they are getting dark brown at the tip I water them every day they do have some tiny white/gray bugs in the soil could that be the problem

@d.lynncarmichael9240

2 жыл бұрын

Too much water -- not every day! Some root rot has probably happened & that is preventing water from reaching the edges of the leaves, according to various experienced growers online.

3:08 I thought he was joking...

Thank you for the video which is very informative. I am curious if you planted the loquat trees from Finale, and if you did, how are they doing. I got some seeds and want to try to grow them. I subscribed to your channel as there are other videos I want to learn from.

@TheMelvinWei

7 жыл бұрын

Hi munchulli, I didn't continue after this, I have very limited space/pots so I wanted to grow other things. Thanks for subscribing and have fun growing loquats!

Where are your pots from? Thanks for the video, going to try to plant some seeds I have also. Wish me luck!

@ChristopherEPineda

4 жыл бұрын

I’ve seen those pots at Walmart.

What's the blue color fertilizer do you use??

You could've saved some of the other seedlings to use them as rootstocks to perform a double rootstock loquat.

In Miami Florida these trees are so easy to grow in fact I got to be careful eating the fruit and just tossing them on the ground because I'll have to many I already have about 9 loquat trees

@d.lynncarmichael9240

2 жыл бұрын

Precisely! That's how most loquat trees get started and grow, often very robustly. There are old neighborhoods in San Jose CA where nearly every yard has a big old loquat tree -- most were not planted with a lot of fuss & bother, but germinated there naturally, the seeds having been dispersed by birds & little critters. Also, as you can see in a few videos on KZread, there are neighborhoods in Los Angeles where the streets are lined with loquat trees, even in the medians! The biggest, most robust & Beautiful loquat tree I have seen in Silicon Valley is right beside a busy expressway, at the edge of someone's yard!

Well sir. Some of your wanna be viewers have never grown,, for max productivity. Plus they seem not to have ever waltched other organic gardeners. You showed the best method and an i dustry method.

I used boiling water to sterilize. I bought a cheap electric kettle I keep with my gardening stuff that is really easy to have water boiling while I do other things. 💦😁👍🌱🌼

Love from pakistan

Could you grow mulberry from a cutting? From a cutting they fruit the first 6 months

Nice content! You should use social media, like Twitter, Google plus, and Facebook to push your channel out there, you could be getting a crap ton of views, this stuff is quality! Thumbs up!

@TheMelvinWei

7 жыл бұрын

Thanks Bob! I still have no clue how to use social media effectively for promoting my channel/videos, it's definitely an investment in time and effort too. My Google + has only 28 followers. I'm streamlining my channel and content in order to attract more subscribers and viewers.

@fastfishwater9787

7 жыл бұрын

Ah, it is quite easy! For example, with Twitter you can make an account, and link it with your KZread channel and whenever you post a video, it automatically Tweets it out! Then you can add your Twitter as a link in your about section.

@TheMelvinWei

7 жыл бұрын

Setting that stuff up would be easy, but wouldn't I just be telling people who already watch my channel and like it to come watch my channel? I've already been doing it with Google+ for a long time for new video publishing and nobody follows my account there, so I just use it to add a comment in the comments section. Trying to add a lot of commentary and funny memes & content to multiple social media accounts (which would all require unique content) would be very time consuming and I'm not sure it would really do much in terms of getting new people to come watch videos.

@HistoryHighwithLisaMarrie

7 жыл бұрын

How active are you on KZread within the gardening community? The key to social media is the social part. Do you visit other channels with similar content and leave comments, offer advice, talk about things you are growing in common or common issues? The way to grow more subscribers is by increasing your visibility on the platform. You can also use your analytics to see how people are finding you, which videos get the most views and how much of your videos people watch. You may find your videos need to be shorter, you need to focus more on certain kinds of content and go where the people are finding you. You might need to look at your keywords as compared to other channels like yours because maybe people can't find you. I watch and am subscribed to a lot of gardening channels but I found you doing a random search which is not the best way to be found if you want to grow your channel. The most important thing is to make content that you are really passionate about and not what just brings views you may never get a ton of viewers but the one's you have will be loyal viewers. However, I believe you have the potential to build a large viewership but it does take time.

@HistoryHighwithLisaMarrie

7 жыл бұрын

Instagram would be great to grow your channel. You can post stills from your videos and also do little clips and direct people to your channel. The hardest part of Instagram is using the correct hashtags. It's a lot easier than other social media because it's only suggested posting 1 or 2 times per day. However, you do also need to be social and interact with other's on the platform.

Soooo you sterilized the soil but not the pot?

@d.lynncarmichael9240

2 жыл бұрын

No kidding -- good point! And later, watering only from the bottom, even after more than a week! No, those young plants with shallow roots still need some top watering -- their roots are a long way from that bottom water outlet!

You should grow one seed in one pot. so you don't have to cut them. I feel sorry for them.

I saw another video where a guy made tea with the leaves. He scraped off the fur and cut off the middle vein.

@zoar541

5 жыл бұрын

I'm growing a garden.I realize the row that has more sand isn't as big and healthy as the other rows.

sweet! Fruit in 8-10 years!

@zwirou1994

4 жыл бұрын

graft your loquat and u'll have fruit in 3 years

@zwirou1994

4 жыл бұрын

@Mat Matic hahahahahahha.. sorry i mean "graft"

Hi i have many loquot trees and mine are as big as the ones in the video and its has only been 3 monthes because i planted ot in the ground so for yours to grow faster dont put it in a tiny pot

@shibahe

5 жыл бұрын

How do you know if your seeds are gonna fruit?... I heard some won't

@d.lynncarmichael9240

2 жыл бұрын

Absolutely correct -- & way too many seeds/pits crowded into one small pot! *Also, pruning away & discarding seedlings is senseless -- they took months to reach that size -- grab a small teaspoon & repot them! Yeah, of course it's 'painful' to snip & discard seedlings -- & strange, sorry to say. *Also, I would not reuse the same soil! It was a small pot! *Start with fresh seedling mix -- it's not expensive -- & Way better than baking a Miracle Grow product! Amazon carries a selection of seedling mix, as well as most nurseries & gardening stores.

They are so beautiful im waiting for mine to fruit they still dont!

@d.lynncarmichael9240

2 жыл бұрын

*Most loquats don't fruit for at least 3 or 4 years. Still, that's way faster than many other kinds of fruit trees.

I have laquat trees and seeds . I like my little trees they only about 6inches or so tall

Is the second episode of this out yet ?

@LoveforGarden

5 жыл бұрын

Yes

Hi, i have a nispero tree about 45cm high, but there is just the stem and no branches.. is it normal to cut the top off (under the leaves) to make it grow branches? Really hoping for an answer.

@TheMelvinWei

6 жыл бұрын

I don't know, I didn't get that far. I read that these trees can grow over 10 meters tall, but the typical height is 3-4 meters, which is still awkward to harvest for a lot of people. Pruning the shoot apical meristem and and other buds on the very top will make it grow more laterally.

Can i stick the ones you cut in water to grow roots and then plant them

@TheMelvinWei

6 жыл бұрын

I think cuttings would grow well for loquats although I haven't tried it myself.

You should try and propogate those cuttings or use the leaves for tea

@TruckTaxiMoveIt

5 жыл бұрын

Have you made tea from loquat leaves, if so what is the flavor? Also is it better to propagate from a young tree or from a well-established adult tree?

Melvin if you want a great propagation rate take the brown coat off the green seed mine all grew

@d.lynncarmichael9240

2 жыл бұрын

The brown outer 'coat' is filled with nutrients & protection for the germinating interior. It's there for a reason.

"grows plants twice as big" oh wow ;p

me sitting here crying for the trees... why not just repotting it i can't grow these beauties :(

I didn't sterilized during fall once and had nats all winter.

@TheMelvinWei

7 жыл бұрын

I keep all my plants outdoors for that reason, I have fungus gnats! I also learned that buffalo gnats and eye gnats outdoors are the real pests that bug me on hikes, not flies.

@TheMelvinWei

7 жыл бұрын

I meant I hate fungus gnats. I did see some occasionally as they got inside but I sterilized a lot of my soil and currently I'm not seeing them.

So did you get rid of the loquat plants then?

@TheMelvinWei

6 жыл бұрын

Yes, nobody watched the series at the time, so eventually I threw them away. I really liked the leaves though.

@TruckTaxiMoveIt

5 жыл бұрын

@@TheMelvinWei if you don't see any videos on a particular item especially of a natural nature it will eventually get views Natural things go slow remember that

yes, it’s called pipa.

Thank you for your effort👌 but the white lettering on your pale skin was hard to read😟

Will you get the same verity as the mother with seed ?

@TheMelvinWei

6 жыл бұрын

I don't think so, with any fruit tree grafting with cuttings is the best way to try to clone the same eating experience. Here's one post I saw on the web: "I gave my friend some Loquat fruit from my grafted tree and he planted the seeds many years ago and the tree has had lots of fruits for the last several years. The fruit were very tart compared to the original fruit I gave him. They were about the same size, maybe just a tad bit smaller. If you plant seeds, I would recommend grafting them when they reach the appropriate size or just purchase a grafted tree."

I really don't get you. Why would you plant all of them so you have to cut and kill them later 😣😠you kept cutting and saying too crowded !! You're the one who made it crowded.

@annamamo3645

5 жыл бұрын

My sentiments exactly - he should have used a larger pot or more than one ppppfffft

@justinfiorini3142

5 жыл бұрын

He didn't know the germination rate, and perhaps he had no more pots or space to grow.

@jimpike7346

3 жыл бұрын

For God's sake, it's a plant! Quit worrying that he's causing something pain. It's a plant . . . . . . . .

@d.lynncarmichael9240

2 жыл бұрын

Agree -- just so bizarre. Uncrowd them by uprooting them with a small spoon & repot them in store-bought repotting mix or peat pellets (so easy & inexpensive & ideal for the seedling) to reduce transplanting shock. Forget oven baking Miracle Gro!

@d.lynncarmichael9240

2 жыл бұрын

Most viewers of this peculiar video will Not Get that -- you have lots of company! *So easy & nice to uproot those baby loquat 'trees' & give them away!

Why didn’t you grow the seeds in individual pots so you could keep them all?

why not just repot the ones you don't want and gift them? especially the persistent ones that keep coming back ;)

@d.lynncarmichael9240

2 жыл бұрын

Seriously! And after months of germinating! Just does not make sense at all! Some very funky growing tips in this video -- hard to watch. Lots of fussy, quaint, needless nonsense, imho.

I'm growing 2 loquats right now, but one is growing, the other is drooping despite receiving the same treatment. How do U fix the drooping one? It's watered well and there's no root rot. Thank you!

@TheMelvinWei

7 жыл бұрын

Hi Christine, how big is the pot they're in? Are they close to each other? What kind of potting mix or soil are you using? I noticed this season, especially with the passion fruit vines, that some seedlings in the same pot just stagnate either due to chemical warfare between the root systems or lack of water uptake despite constant watering. I think it's mostly due to airspaces in the potting mix (it's not compact enough so the roots of some seedlings aren't getting enough surface area contact with the potting mix to draw up enough water).

@BubblesXplode

7 жыл бұрын

Hello, thank you for replying! Recently I have repotted them to two different small pots, so they are not fighting for dominance, but growing in their own place. The soil - I am not sure as I have long run out of it and cannot find the name, and a bit of multipurpose compost in the soil. Do you wager that I should re-pot them both to bigger pots? As I have tried pulling them out to see what's going on with the roots, and the little seedling lifted up EVERYTHING, it took up most of the pot's space despite JUST being planted there.

@TheMelvinWei

7 жыл бұрын

How big are the pots they're currently in? It sounds like very small. If the root balls are encircling the pot and lift everything up then they need to be transplanted. I found that steaming the potting mix removes most of the air space in potting mix. But if you don't do that for the new soil you're transplanting into you can always have something with a big bottom watering tray like my pots and the roots will go down into the tray to drink water directly and the drooping problem should be cured.

@BubblesXplode

7 жыл бұрын

They're very small compared what you ahve in the video, possible 4x smaller. I'll repot them this weekend asap! Thank you so much for your time an help, really appreciate you helping me out. But also, do you wager it's alright if I pour liquid fertilizer in them or is it best to keep to compost? Thanks!

How long will it take to fruit?

@d.lynncarmichael9240

2 жыл бұрын

Typically 3 or 4 years for most loquat varieties.

Still not clear. Should I dry seeds before planting, or I can plant fresh seed

@carolmatthews3545

3 жыл бұрын

Same thing I want to know, I have seeds from last year, saved from fruit picked off tree growing at a shopping center. lol

@d.lynncarmichael9240

2 жыл бұрын

They have to be soaked for 24 to 48 hours, according to various sources online.

😞aw, i was A little hurt when you started cutting.😔

@d.lynncarmichael9240

2 жыл бұрын

& completely Foolish!!!

I’ve never seen anyone bake soil. Does it make your house smell odd at all?

@d.lynncarmichael9240

2 жыл бұрын

And did he say how long he baked it? Honestly, I would call the Customer Service phone # on the bag of soil, be it Miracle Grow or another brand and get their expert opinion/advice. I am sure they will tell you to buy seedling mix or peat pellets for germinating seeds/pits.

People actually bake their soil? I couldnt imagine baking every bit of soil i intend on using in my life. Gardening is time consuming as it is. This isn't realistic.

@nhilistickomrad4259

Жыл бұрын

Also baking kills the beneficial microorganisms . So you're left with dead soil.

Why not trying to pull them out and plant somewhere else

@d.lynncarmichael9240

2 жыл бұрын

Seriously. I was nearly yelling at my smartphone -- "No! Don't do it!" So senseless to germinate seeds/pits for months only to snip & chuck them like that -- when he could have taken a teaspoon, dug them out & 'repotted' them in store-bought organic seed starter or peat pellets (so cheap & easy to do -- & ideal for seed/pit germinating!). *Perhaps Melvin wasn't motivated to bake more soil in the oven -- understandable ... & btw, quite sure Miracle Gro potting soils are Not organic!

The culling hurts! Why not repot?

Is that $1,400 for health for real or a scam?

Just brutal commentary.

whats with the gloves?

@d.lynncarmichael9240

2 жыл бұрын

A lot of sheer nonsense in this video, beyond the sterile gloves ...

why did you cut them🥺🥺😞😞

Mono What ?

@subtotechnoblade2692

3 жыл бұрын

monocotelyden

How do you know if the plant is an Alpha or Beta?

@TheMelvinWei

7 жыл бұрын

+Sandra Asher-Camden those are just names I designated for the plants based on development

@sandraasher-camden4381

7 жыл бұрын

Do all Loquat/Nispero's trees need cross pollination?

@TheMelvinWei

7 жыл бұрын

I read that some are self-fertile with both male and female flowers.

nice troll video lol grow plants to kill em hahahha

@d.lynncarmichael9240

2 жыл бұрын

So right you are -- just total nonsense, to put it politely ... 🥴😵‍💫

Just repot!

So sad to watch you kill the others

@d.lynncarmichael9240

2 жыл бұрын

Seemed like plant cruelty ... & pointless, no pun intended.

Cutting those poor little loquat tree's your a monster 😭😭😭😭🔪😁😁😁😁

@d.lynncarmichael9240

2 жыл бұрын

More to the point -- what was the point of killing them off when you planted way too many pits in that smallish pot! 😵‍💫🥴 ... People who genuinely love plants & gardening would never do that! Such a long exercise in Futility! Inexplicably strange, sorry to say.

@d.lynncarmichael9240

2 жыл бұрын

Not sure about the monster moniker but not thinking clearly ...

Too many seeds! 1 seed per half gallon nursery pot, any compost or hummice material is fine. And cutting out a wedge with the seed in it is fine, repot it and itll take off. Let them drain never leave them without water. 95% germination is totally doable