The lychee seeds are easy to sprout when placed in good potting soil, I have a number of them sprouted up in my pots. I'm lucky here in Florida as I can transplant them outdoors and let them grow into trees. You will have to keep them in pots and bring them inside before any freeze. They flower & start to set fruit in the wintertime and will ripen around June-July. They will grow well in large pots 10 - 15 gallon size but growing from seed it will take a few years before they set any fruit. Growing a cutting from air layering from a fruiting tree will take much less time for the new start to set fruit. Good luck, have fun.

I thought all the imported fruits have been irradiated, thus rendering their seeds unviable? They will germinate and grow but will not bear fruits.

Only the fruit that enters California is irradiated due to their fear of the fruit fly & other bugs, the rest of the worlds fruit doesn't glow in the dark.

I was told that the radiation method was just low x-ray and that it only affects some of the fruit, plenty of them will have seeds that still sprout.

Awesome, let us know if they germinated or not!
My wife loves them, but I've only tasted the chinese type and they were very bland and not impressive at all.
Danny

Hello Candie:
Do you think you could send me about 8 of those Lychee seeds? What I'm going to try to do is get them to germinate and then try to turn them into Bonsai. I have never tried sprouting seeds or tried doing Bonsai but your Lychee seeds seem like a good place to start. If you can include your email address, I could send you my snail mail address so that I could send you payment for the seeds and you could know where to mail them. Thank you.