[Pil-pc-oceania] Longan trees

[permaculture at apollobay.org.au]

Has anyone had experience with growing longan trees?

Especially in cool temperate regions, and if you've got them to fruit.
Also if you've had experience with grafting them and what different
varieties you have, and what you've found to fruit the best etc.? (again,
especially those growing them in cool temperate regions).
Also if anyone has grown and kept them small and in a pot, and if they've
still fruited. If so, did you trim the roots or just prune it's branches?
or did you have a dwarf variety?

Would appreciate the guidance, as I'm currently growing a longan inside
(seedling), and looking into grafting it, keeping it alive in the cool
temperate region that it's in, and I'm not quite sure whether to keep it in
a 60L black garbage bin pot, or to put it in the ground. And whether it
will survive if I put it outside and in the ground. I so want it to survive
and flower and fruit!
hope you can help
cheers!
Fern

PS.  The dried longan fruit I always found was the best tasting oriental
medicine... it's much tastier than Gou zi ("Goji"/wolfberry/chinese
lycium/boxthorn) or jujube (red chinese date) or Lo han gou (mangosteen)...
I suppose it won't be long until those "wonder fruit" marketers "discover"
longan as well
  it’s a lovely sweet tonic.


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