Growing Lychee Trees From Fruits/Seeds

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[grannyplants]

Many years ago I had to wait til June and go to NYC Chinatown to get fresh lychee nuts. So delicious! Now they’re grown in Florida and Hawaii so are available more often. My daughter lives in Hawaii, before she bought her little property she worked in return for lodging at a small farm. She picked lots of them, they sold for about $3-4 lb, when they were $7-8 lb at the local Indian market here. ( now about $5). They are slow to start, but make a lovely plant. Plant only the biggest fattest seeds...I would love to see you grow more tropical fruit! An old book called After Dinner Gardening was a lot of fun -again, years ago. I’ve grown mango, ginger, turmeric, pineapple, taro, etc. Ethnic markets are great for scouting planting material to try, especially when the urge to grow something hits in winter. Thanks so much for this video! Oh yes of course avocado...🥑 🌿 🌱

[johngriffith]

I'm loving this series of growing plants from the seeds of fruit you eat. Not a fruit/seed, but I recently did this with the end of a horseradish; it put out roots and sprouted. It reminds me of science projects in elementary school!

[heathertroynak]

Muffin is such a petite little thing, so sweet.

The plants look phenomenal

[barkopolo]

I loved this video concept, as I too am an exotic fruit.

[norenedoll]

A little off topic but Lychee martini’s are so good! Thanks for sharing and I think I will try this!

[GreenhornBonsai]

Very interesting! I've never had lychee fruit, but now I need to!

[DeltaChi]

I love when Muffin make an appearance 😊

[miamianz]

Good luck with these def make a nice indoor plant. Although I don't know how long it takes to fruit. Definitely treat it as a banyan indoor plant. I'm a sucker for Japanese maples but I'm in Florida
So that's a no-go bt lychee trees are as abundant as mangoes and sugar cane.

[SuperManning]

Great video! It reminds me of the avocado plants popping up all over my garden. My husband eats lots and lots of avocados and puts the pits in the compost bin. As I use the compost around the garden they invariably pop up all over the place. The young plants are very beautiful and it would be great if they lasted, unfortunately they just can’t take our summer heat for more than one or two seasons. This is inspiring me to plant one intentionally and try moving it inside over the hottest months, as I have to do with my jade plants that seem to melt in our crazy heat, but completely thrive outside over the winter months.

[sandyg]

Hi Nick! This was another fun video on growing plants from seeds we get in our fruit. I've never had lychee, and never seen them in the stores. Hi Muffin ~ she's so adorable! Thank you so much for sharing!

[yvetteliu]

I absolutely love Lychee, they're just delicious! I just found this video today, I'd love it if we could have an update on these lychee trees!

[proletariatsgarden]

It’s the lychee season!! I’m living in southern China and lychee is everywhere in the market. But since there are more varieties to enhance the flavour and also reduce the size of the stone, most of the lychee I have consumed always with tiny size of stones, and I don’t think they are capable to germinate. But I’ll give it a try. Their foliage is very beautiful!

[jenc]

I’m from Hawai’i and lychee (pronounced lai-chee) is my favorite fruit hands down. However, trees take forever to produce fruit. 😩Your plants look very healthy. Nice video.

[kajalsingh]

When I was growing up, my sisters and cousins and I used to try to peel the lychees but still leave the paper-thin, white membrane on. We used to compete and see who could peel the most that way. We called them "eggs" when we were able to leave the membrane intact. One of the highlights of the summer holidays was waiting for the lychees to turn red. They make great ice-cream. And cocktails, or just plain milkshake.

[SuperManning]

Love, love, love all your weird plants!! Very cool.

[katiewilliams]

I have never even heard of those fruits before . Interesting project

[Lilybug]

I’m growing rambutan (very close to lychee) from fresh fruit. It’s been really fun to see them sprout.

[tonybezanson]

I grew a bunch of these before with great success. I've also grown longans and rambutan. It's fun growing the seeds we usually throw away. Try a series on growing popular food from seeds. Dragonfruit also grow easily from seed but it takes about 4 or 5 years to start putting on size

[Plantrums]

Interesting! Wonder how this would do in my dark-ass house during the winter (not great I bet lol). You've given me a new project to try

[sylviavezasie]

😢😢im from south africa .i plant mine in a 5 ltr bucket outside and they are doing well.only dont know how lng the y take to bare .lytchies are very well liked over here i also have orange and lemons and lime and pomelo all planted from aeeds and all types of avocado