Longan Still Fruiting

After 4 months since the first flowers were seen on my langan tree many more fruits are still in the size of a ~1 cm in diameter. Although we have tested the 4 fruits last week, the rest just seem to be too long to wait. The rippened fruits were big (as last year's) and sweet. The arome was fantastic! Unfortunately the tree can't produce too many fruit. I guess it is because the tree is still young. There are more fruit to come but the quantity is almost the same as last year.

Dimocarpus Longan

LonganJust been to the free Wikipedia and realised that Longan is also called dimocarpus longan.

Whatever, I have no intention to call it dimocarpus anyway. As the rule of naming our kittens, I will call my longan tree the "longany". Does it sound ok?

To my surprise, after my Sabah Trip, I noticed some tiny spherical bits (with diameter ~ 1 mm), thought to be the flowers of longan, appear on my longany.

They look almost like the new leaves with almost the same colour except that they are lighter. So far only three branches produce them.

I am quite sure that these tiny bits are longan flowers because my longan is the last one to produce fruit this round. A big longan tree two housing rows behind my house had fruits weeks ago. The two longan trees along the last row of the house in the "taman", where the playground is located, are fruiting with the size of the fruits is around 5 - 10 mm in diameter.

My son is excited about both mangoey and longany. He is full of expectation and imagination of the flavour the fruits will bring. How excited!

Mangoey Is Fruiting

Whilst my son calls his kittens Longy and Shorty, solely based on the length of the kittens' tail, I thought I might as well call my mango tree "Mangoey"!

It is the 2nd time (3rd to be exact, the first time was bought with fruits but all fell prematurely) fruiting. The last one was in Dec 2010. 7 months ago!

I noticed the flowers a couple of days before my Sabah trip (6-10 June 2011) but was amazed how heavy the bloom was this time when I saw them just a few days later. According to past experience I should expect some juicy mangoes by early August if everything goes well. I intend to buy/make some fruit protector (mesh/cloth) this time to protect the mangoes from insects expecially the fruit flies.

I have a mission to produce perfectly rippened on tree mangoes this round as I read somewhere sometimes ago that fully rippened on tree mangoes produce the maximum taste. My month is watering even just thinking of it....yum yum!

Mangoes

Hurray! My first mangoes harvested!

Actually, one was picked in the first week of Jan 2011 and I can confirm it was not ready, but not far. I kept it wrapped with old newspaper, not one layer but manys. It took days to rippen. During my parent's visit on the 13 - 15 Jan 2011, I cut it and proudly shared with my parent. The taste wasn't the greatest but acceptable. My mum said it could be that I picked it too early. I agreed. 10 days after my parent went back to hometown I had another three picked. Shek Leng commented why don't let my son pick the fruit? Well, it was too late. (A few days later, I noticed one more turned yellowish and called my son to pick. He was reluctant at first but did it). So, I have 4 mango fruits at home. Still many on the tree. I have checked them yesterday and they are nearly ready. How excited!

Another few days to go before we break for chinese new year. I plan to pick most of my mangoes and bring home, just to share.....I was reading an article in 《有福同享》the guy was giving away his hard earn vegetables and fruits from his farm to his friends free, how nice if I can do so?

Mango Is Fruiting

It has been awhile since my last update due to a busy life. However, after reading what Bryan Dyson was speaking in one of the world shortest speach, I realise there are more things to do then just works. So, take five from work and here I am.

My mango tree is producing loads of fruits. I learned that baby fruits need to be protected from insects so I used lemon grass juice to spray the fruits when they are tiny. I can not confirm the result as I have not yet harvest the fruits but improvement is seen where fruits are growing bigger than last batch when they fell. Finger cross this time.

Besides mango, my ciku tree is growing well but fruits won't stay even I have tried spraying with lemon grass juice. Something has gone wrong somewhere and hope I will find it out soonest possible.

I Actually Bought A "Pair" of Papaya Plant

A few months passed and the two papaya plants that I bought from UPM, Serdang have grown up to a stage I thin kshould be equivalent to teenagers. The boy papaya has the male flowers and grown taller than the girl papaya. No flowers are seen yet.

I Snapped A Fruit Panikle!!!

I was looking at my mango tree yesterday and trying to pull the panikle down a bit because I saw some yellowish on the surface of the tiny fruits. Then it was snapped!!! OMG!!!
I wonder why the panikle was so fragile I don't remember pulling it hard? Perhaps it is like that. Who knows?