Roger Meyer has plenty of a/l Kohala longans. Kohalas are the ones propagated in Hawaii from a Hak Ip seedling, if I remember correctly.

It's further south than you'd like, but it's closer than San Diego. You can ask if he ships, too

Roger Meyer
16531 Mt. Shelly Circle, Fountain Valley, CA 92708
VOICE: 714-839-0796
E-MAIL: xotcfruit@yahoo.com

I go to Fountain Valley all the time, I can pick it up for you, and we meet in Bakersfield, that's a little closer for you. I'm trying to heal a Kohala myself, it had too much transplant shock, so I put it back in a container for now.

Oops, I got mixed up with Kohala longan & Kaimana lychee.

He, Roger Meyer, has a lot of longan tree and also some virities of mangos, cherimoyas, dragon fruit and Chinese date. You might consider getting more than longan if you gonna come by this way just bring a check or cash with you.

it's a private residence? and how is the pricing?

I got in contact with Roger and he was very helpful telling me what could grow in Hayward. Also thanks Newgen for your suggestion. He also has Mangos and some lychee so I might have to buy those also although my wife already thinks our back yard is a jungle. Anyways thanks for all the help, I will keep in touch.

The pricing is not that bad, all grafted mango is 75 dollars. Other plants in 15 gallon is 75 and 7 gallon is 35 dollars something like that.

hmm i could have saved some money on longan if it is only 75 bucks. his place is only 2-3 miles away from me too.

He said the longan was 35 bucks but didn't tell me how big it was. Also Manila mango for 35 as well. Don't know about the lychee tho.

went to the goldenwest college swap meet in huntington beach this morning. it got a lot of fruit tree vendors selling wax jambu, atemoya, and longan etc. i thought they would be cheap since it was a swap meet after all and mostly people growing stuff out of their back yard, but wow, almost everything was over $100. the cheapest wax jambu was $35 at about 1'6" but a lady next to me said the fruit is small and try to get the taiwanese variety. then there was a $35 vietnamese guava tree at about 3 to 4 feet for $35 that i was really tempted to buy, but i didn't want to carry across campus to the car and the leaves were kind of yellow.

anybody on this board earn some money on the side selling trees at swap meet etc?

phucvu, were these named cultivars?

not sure, only one guy got names around the trees, i think it was black diamond wax jambu or something. yea, i wish they would have the names and price on each tree so i don't have to ask. it feels kind of weird asking knowing you probably can't afford to buy. there was another plant that maybe i should have bought, the vanilla bean, this one guy had, it was pretty good size for only 20 bucks.

they probably bought the plants from mimosa or something and was able to air layered them since some of the trees had tags from the original nursery. but they did have those huge nursery pots for $8-12 that i couldn't find anywhere at lowes or home depot.

Hi,

I live in San Diego, CA and I'm wondering where can I purchase grafted longan trees. Please help! Thanks!

Longan is a little bit more cold-hardy and drought tolerant than lychee.

There are several nurseries in the Los Angeles, Orange County, and San Diego area that specialize in tropical fruit trees. Many of them are run by Vietnamese people and are small and difficult to find because they don't advertise. One place I would definitely recommend is Emily Garden Nursery. They carry a great selection of exotic tropical fruit plants, and other ornamentals as well, and excellent customer service. There's also Mimosa Nursery in Anaheim that is staffed by a very kind old Vietnamese man. They can be a bit pricey but the size of the plants are larger, and they have bigger variety. Also a lot of pomegranates. It's amazing to see everything they have growing. Another one is California Tropical Fruit Trees in Vista.

While the aroma of lychee is wonderful and highly perfumed, I find longan to be kind of bland. It's mostly just sweet (and kind of watery) with the flavor of honeydew melon. The fruit size is also smaller and the shell being hard makes it more difficult to open than lychee, at least without puncturing the inner fruit membrane and getting juice all over the place. I sometimes question whether longan (or rambutan too) is worth eating when you can grow lychee. I understand though that longan can be easier to grow than lychee and the harvest is less seasonal. Also, eating too many lychee fruits (as delicious as they are) can make the back of my throat feel a little irritated and "hoarse". I have never noticed this with longan.

I have read reports that, while lychee can be grown in the Bay area, because of all the coastal fog the summers are not warm enough for the fruit to fully ripen. not sure if the temperature requirements for longan to ripen are any different