Ever since the great freeze of '21, I have lost 10 of my 11 loquat trees to subsequent freezes and droughts. My one surviving tree flowered and began producing fruit late last fall and with the mild winter, I had hopes of having the fruit mature. Well, then the ol' polar vortex arrived and brought temperatures into the single digits killing a bunch of branches and surely killing any developing fruit.  But, it turns out that some of the fruits survive. You may ask "what does this have to do with