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Is there a way to tell if fruit trees will bear sweet fruit instead of sour fruit before they ever fruit? (hexbear.net)

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[–] davel@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 day ago

I just saw online that they may bear sour fruit, and the best way to get sweet lychee fruit is to get a clone of the original, sweet-tasting plant.

I know fuck-all about lychee cultivation, but I know that this is true for many types of tree fruits, apples being possibly the worst. Banana trees are also basically all clones, in their case because the bananas we want can’t reproduce sexually.

Look into grafting (and lychee grafting in particular). You may be able to hobble together a Frankenlychee tree from several others. A farmer in Spain once showed me his Frankencitrus tree that grew oranges, lemons, and limes!