Citation rootstock

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#21

How did your nitrogen dump do?

#22

Was wondering in recent years has anyone successfully rooted citation by cuttings? Attempting it this year with tree pots and dormant stock taken from in-ground tree. Will keep up to date if anyone else show interest.
Does anyone have a link to what can be grafted into this successfully? In general, not specific cultivars.

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#23

Citation is used mostly for plums and apricots.

#24

Ok great. Nice to know. I have a nectarine on citation and some pluots.

#25

Citation itself is a plum, but as a root stock is used for Peaches and Nectarines. Most of my peaches and nectarines are on Citation.

Here is a quote from DWN re rootstocks:
Citation - Peaches and nectarines dwarfed to 8 to 14 feet. Apricots and plums dwarfed to 3/4 of standard. Very tolerant of wet soil, induces early dormancy in dry soil. Very winter hardy. Resists root-knot nematodes. Trees bear at young age. (Zaiger)

I have never tried rooting stonefruit cuttings but would like to hear form those who have. I have small Citation tree that grew from a failed bareroot peach. I am currently attempting to Air Layer some of the branches. Will report on results, hopefully by April.

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#26

I have successfully rooted my peach x almond hybrid from cuttings. I rooted them with rooting gel. I dipped the cuttings into the gel cups. Then about a month later, I planted them in the soil and it look three more weeks for them to form roots.

#27

Here are Citation facts from University of California.

#28

The worst thing about Citation is crown gall in my area. Almost all trees ended up getting them. Iā€™m now grafting all plums on myro 29c rootstocks. Peach and nectarines on lovell.

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#29

Myro 29c rootstocks is much worse in my location. Citation get more bacterial canker.

#30

Same here with the failed tee. My air layers all failed both with dip and grow hormone and without. Going to try a few dormant cuttings along side the figs this winter.

#31

Ditto.

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#32

If you are in a hot area, citation has incompatability with most peaches.

#33

Reading this thread is making me wonder if my FlavorKing pluot is really on Citation. I got it from ACN in 2012. This rootstock suckers quite a bit. I cut off 3 foot tall suckers, transplant, and graft onto them after moving it. Donā€™t have any other issues with it except it comes out of dormancy too soon many years. Wonder what it could be.

#34

Are the suckers red? If they are, itā€™s citation.

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#35

My Flavor King on Myro29 put up a 4ft sucker before I knew what was happening this year. Never seen any sucker grow so fast, and I have M7 apple treesā€¦

My Geo Pride on Citation has grown just as well as my other two pluots on Myro, and no root suckers that I can tell.

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#36

@itheweatherman
No they arenā€™t red. Hmmmm. ACN still shows on their website that FlavorKing is on Citation.
This past spring I grafted 2 different nectarines and plum scions on this rootstock and they all grew very well.

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#37

@subdood_ky_z6b
ACN also notes their plums are on Myro. Possible that mine could be Myro. :+1:t3:

#38

Just a FYI, my 3 pluots are from Bay Laurel Nursery (California), planted in 2018. My other Myro tree is a Dapple Dandy.

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#39

I donā€™t know why nurseries still graft peaches on citation rootstock, even in the trials half the trees died. I have not had a peach tree make it over a year on citation. Lovell is the way to go here in Northern California!

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#40

I have 3 peaches that are 3 or 4 years old on citation. When they donā€™t die right away they form really nice sized tree with excellent fruit quality.

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