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Post by steffengot on Jun 30, 2021 16:27:44 GMT -5
Did your crafting work out?
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Post by mikkel on Jul 1, 2021 0:59:09 GMT -5
yes. it is a small tree now.
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Post by mikkel on Feb 19, 2022 7:09:49 GMT -5
Who has experience of grafts on Poncirus compared to other rootstocks? My Wintersii hybrid is grafted on Poncirus and grows very slowly. The rootstock makes long water shoots and is vigorous in itself, but the scion grows very slowly I wonder if it would grow better on another rootstock? Who has experience with this?
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Post by Sylvain on Feb 19, 2022 13:09:38 GMT -5
For my Papuan citrus I experimented several root-stocks. PT works well but grows slowly, macrophylla as not interest, volkameriana is easy to graft and grows fast.
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Post by mikkel on Feb 19, 2022 16:00:44 GMT -5
I will try that. I happen to have a large volkamer.
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Post by pissp on Feb 20, 2022 11:47:50 GMT -5
I have grafted wintersii hybrid and blood lime (if you want to count that) to USD-942 (Sunki mandarin x PT) and all are showing vigorous growth. These have been done using both established 942 plants (~1.5 year old) and 942 rooted cuttings (~3 months allowed to root before graft). All have shown impressive growth.
For what it is worth, I have had no success getting giant green fingerlime and Faustrimedin scions grafted onto my 942 older plants & rooted cuttings to push buds. However, I highly suspect this is a consequence of my inexperience and should not be taken as a conclusive result
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Post by pagnr on Feb 28, 2022 3:37:59 GMT -5
For most microcitrus I have used Rough Lemon, Citrange, Sweet orange, Rangpur and Swingle. For M inodora, I mainly used Rough Lemon, seems ok but has a huge bump at the union. Later I also used Flying Dragon and Trifoliata for inodora.
Early on I never got success with other microcitrus on trifoliata, but others have. For gracilis, (seedling budwood) only took on swingle,. A seedling of warburgiana( probably crossed ) has only succeeded on rough lemon.
Mt White lime seems ok on Citrange and Rangpur.
I was told that any rootstock with any Sour orange ancestry is not a great choice for microcitrus.
"My Wintersii hybrid is grafted on Poncirus and grows very slowly." I never tried trifoliata rootstock much for microcitrus because of it's dormancy period, whereas microcitrus are often continual growers/ flushers under ideal conditions.
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Post by poncirusguy on Feb 28, 2022 15:14:17 GMT -5
I have grafted Fukushu kumquats to both Poncirus trifoliata and Flying dragon. They are very hard to force growth but they grafted very nicely. I have grafted Poncirus Trifoliata to Seville sour rootstock. They grafted easily and grew well.
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Post by citrange on Mar 17, 2022 16:39:19 GMT -5
PAGNR - Are you sure? I think that must be an error because I don't think anyone has yet found a seed of Citrus gracilis. I've probably seen more trees and fruits of this species than anyone else and never yet found a single seed.
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Post by pagnr on Mar 18, 2022 5:33:37 GMT -5
Hi Mike. Some years ago I was in contact with a well known NT naturalist and was sent some budwood from a seedling that he was growing at his place. One bud took, I have had no reason to doubt it was a seedling. I guess there could be confusion with a sucker ? Perhaps It's also possible he transplanted a small plant ??
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Post by citrange on Mar 18, 2022 11:33:01 GMT -5
As I said, I've never heard of anyone ever finding any seeds and I've done a lot of research into this. The small plants I have seen have always been suckers from larger trees. These appear quite a long way from the parent plant but are connected by a long horizontal root near the surface. These suckers - even when 2m-3m tall - seem to have no roots of their own. I have twice dug up and potted a sucker but both soon died without being fed nutrients from the parent plant. Grafting C. gracilis on to normal citrus rootstocks normally fails. I know of only two successes. One is a nurseryman near Darwin - but the plant was sold and is now lost. The other is in the CSIRO research centre in Bundaberg. Any chance of some photos of your plant?
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Post by Sylvain on Mar 18, 2022 12:51:15 GMT -5
Going back to micro-citrus grafting. A very good trick: it is nearly impossible to wrap a very thin twig with extended parafilm. Before grafting, I roll le twig in the extended parafilm between thumb and finger like a cigarette. I even did it with a twig full of "branches" and leaves. All together rolled in one parafilm strip and it took! I am not sure my English is very clear...
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Post by millet on Mar 18, 2022 20:11:14 GMT -5
Sylvain, your English is very good.
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Post by pagnr on Mar 18, 2022 21:07:42 GMT -5
Before grafting, I roll le twig...still has french accent.
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Post by mikkel on Mar 19, 2022 1:27:59 GMT -5
Sylvain and then you cut the wrapped branch and graft it? I grafted the small branch under the bark, just like in chip budding. That worked.
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