Thai Longan Fruit, Longan Out Off Season

Longan fruit out off-seasons the price is much better than Longan harvest on naturally.Because the demand on the market need more while productions is small amount not sufficient up to requirement of customer is high Due to the small amount of product ,while longan harvest on the naturally of productivity too much of each year.The Price of Longan is too low on the market that why many of the owner Longan plant doing and planing to Product Longan out of season. If it’s off-season longan production in the month. November to early February. The price is quite so good. Since the festival falls on Christmas Day, New Year and Chinese New Year. Most of the fruit out of season, so popular in the months from May to July. To be harvested in November and early February This is the market demand so high. And made popular during the off-season longan. November is the month prior to harvest the fruits of nature will come to market is the month from May to June. Forced to bloom early, so be prepared to complete. Before you pour the water project potassium chlorate. The rate of appropriate learning techniques and seed production in each season. To be successful. The off-season longan production procedure 1. The preparation and pruning. 2 to induce flowering. 3 treatment for yield and quality. 4 harvest and post harvest. It is important to prepare for the seed to stimulate the leaves and branches are completely ready to bloom. Productivity and quality. For pruning fruit should be cut as soon as possible after harvest. By cutting the main stem of the bush in the middle of the 2-3 tree to tree fruits. Receive more light. It also helps slow down the height of the tree. Then cut the branch or twig mast dew. Branches that are not light, branch is not complete. And cut the branches that are diseased or insect-damaged leaves. The remaining branches are about 60% of the canopy of the trees. The benefits of pruning are as follows. 1. Accelerate fruit bud This has resulted in fruit trees recover faster. The new act. To collect food for the flowers to the following season.  

My first longan farm

Since 1997 I have brought the land in the Northern part of Thailand in Lamphun province nearly 30 Rai {approximately 12 Acres} the first things,I thought that what else I should select to growing on my first land,to make much money in long term many people has suggestion and give me advised should growing longan is better than another kind of fruit tree ,At that time I was very exciting to have my own land and also it was my first farm too , This land far away from my home where I live about 48 kilometer take time 30 minute by driving a car to get there ,I still remembrance at that time the way to my land not to easy because the road nothing smooth no asphalt throughout the way unfortunately i could not find the photo ugly road how it was,The time is running fast here the picture I will show my first longan farm at this day.

Longan Fruit out off season

Longan now day can growing every part of Thailand former only can grew up only Northern side of Thailand,since longan can produce and harvest out off season through all the year by use potassium chlorate mix with water spray over longan leaf or use potassium clorate around longan tree after that spraying with water on potassium chlorate dissoveling through root of longan after about 35 day Longan will flowering and developing for the next 6 month  after flowering blooming are ready for havesting longan fruit and selling for merchant in local area who will exporting the product to China, Indonesia ,Hongkong including Europian country.

Thailand now export fresh Longan mainly to China and another to European country every day since the farmer known how to product longan out of season the price of longan depend in order and how much longan harvest in that time if farmer havest longan not much reach to order of customer then the price is growing up in the meantime if the fresh longan too much on the market then the price will growing down ,Farmer try to avoid cheap price of longan by use big oven to make dry longan and selling with good price better than selling with fresh longan otherwise the farmer can not survive because product cost of how to make longan out of the season so high and more difficult than harvest in naturally.

The longan tree can grow up to 6 to 7 metres in height, and the plant is very sensitive to frost. Longan trees require sandy soil and temperatures that do not typically go below 4.5 degrees Celsius (40.1 degrees Fahrenheit). Longans and lychees bear fruit at around the same time of the year. The longan translated literally as “dragon eye is so named because it resembles an eyeball when its fruit is shelled (the black seed shows through the translucent flesh like a pupil/iris). The seed is small, round and hard, and of an enamel-like, lacquered black. The fully ripened, freshly harvested shell is bark-like, thin, and firm, making the fruit easy to shell by squeezing the fruit out as if one is “cracking” a sunflower seed. When the shell has more moisture content and is more tender, the fruit becomes less convenient to shell. The tenderness of the shell varies due to either premature harvest, variety, weather conditions, or transport/storage conditions. The fruit is edible, extremely sweet, juicy and succulent in superior agricultural varieties, and apart from being eaten fresh, is also often used in East Asian soups, snacks, desserts, and sweet-and-sour foods, either fresh or dried, sometimes canned with syrup in supermarkets. The taste is quite similar to lychees. Dried longan, called guìyuán in Chinese, are often used in Chinese cuisine and Chinese sweet dessert soups. In Chinese food therapy and herbal medicine