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You eat them. Excellent for eating out of hand. The red outer shell peels off very easily exposing the grape-like flesh beneath. There are many varieties and they all taste different but they're sooo sweet and juicy and possibly tart, depending on the variety. The best varieties are the ones that abort their seeds and instead of fat giant seeds you get skinny long ones and more fruitmeat.
Last year we couldn't eat them all so we made some bubbly lychee wine(or would it be a cider?) - it turned out soooo sweet with a sour finish - awesome.
The fruit, seeds, bark, roots, and even the dried shell have medicinal properties and have been used in traditional Chinese medicine for thousands of years. I've made a tea from the dried shells - excellent for diarrhea or a raging infection or the flu or smallpox. Too bad smallpox isn't around so I could whoop its ass with a lychee nut. They're not really nuts tho', they're fruit. I guess the nut thing came around 'cause they're roughly(This one guy has one that gets the size of racquetballs(smaller than tennisballs, right?)) the size of a walnut.

pretty cool Pip. I think I will open the door to lychee nuts and give one a try

doser said:

Citrus is a bitch to graft from my experience. Very small margin of error.

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you want to make sure to use the correct graft for the species youre working with. timing plays a part, as does polarity, cambial contact, and the craftsmanship of the graft.


2 species within the same genus CAN usually graft. 2 different genus cannot, however, without use of an interstock.

put it in a perm.

Bonkleesha said:

you want to make sure to use the correct graft for the species youre working with.

put it in a perm.

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Permanent location? Other than that, good advice. Some of my peach grafts have taken but I;ve noticed (so far at least) that the early fruiting trees make a good host for later season grafts but the later season trees do not make good hosts for earlier variety grafts. Timing seems to play a part and once you figure out the "timing" you should be able to replicate the success much easier.