Lychee trees don’t begin producing fruit for 3-5 years from planting – when grown from cuttings or grafting. Bird pests of the lychee are lorikeets and fruit bats, and they can decimate an orchard in three days, so … Lychee trees grown from seed don't grow true to the parent tree and take 10 to 25 years or more to produce fruits. I am liveing in FUJIAN province, here have many many lychee tree, many of them are live more than hundreds years, are remain can grow out many lychee fruit. At four or five years you'll get a small amount of fruit, and by the time the tree is ten years old it is usually fully productive and can produce up to 200 kilos of lychees." You must expose the tree to cold temperatures for at least 100 hours in the winter if you want it to bloom and then bear fruit, and the female flowers have to be pollinated. Lychee trees begin producing fruit in 3-5 years. Refrigeration or any delay in planting severely reduces the viability of the Litchi seed. Lychee trees started in this manner bear fruit in five years or less. Normally, it at least take 5 years to have fruit, with a little turnout, it will grow out more and more fruit year by year. Cut the branch from the tree after sufficient roots develop, and transplant it to grow a new tree. To harvest the fruit, allow them to turn red. Remove the fruit from the tree by cutting it from the branch just above the panicle bearing the fruit. Lychee trees will take at least five years to mature before bearing any fruit. Fruit taken when it’s green will not ripen any further. By Krystal Folino and Bill Mee by Bill Mee & Krystal Folino - Lychees Online How long does it take for a Lychee tree to bear fruit? If a cold front moves in within the intervening 2 weeks you may still have a chance to get flowering and maybe fruit. In an orchard, pollination is done by insects, but for indoor trees, you will have to hand-pollinate. 3.5K views View 3 Upvoters Trees grown from seed, may take up to 10-15 years to fruit. Questions about growing Lychee. So a lack of fruit may just mean the tree is too young. Litchi seeds must be planted within 4 to 5 days to increase the chance of germination. It is possible to prune off part of the new growth thereby inducing lateral bud formation in about 10 days.