Don’t see too many citrus grafts on this board so here goes.
Bark graft on sugar belle citrus seedling. Budded seedling bud wood to swingle rootstock which is very vigorous to get the tree big faster and faster fruiting. Seedling already has shiranui/sumo branch and Turkish sugar orange branch. One seedling sugar belle branch has fruit this year. This branch had no fruit. Cut off lots of thorns so I don’t get stuck and then the branches. Turkish sugar orange fruit are from a prior graft. Don’t like to graft in the heat of the summer but, Bill Arendt’s white grapefruit 17brix tree is not looking good so graft when you have the bud wood. His tree didn’t have a lot of bud wood either. Weather here near Houston is 95F and 100% humidity, like Bombay.
Big pile of branches with giant 3 inch thorns.
Nice green marsh white grapefruit 17 brix bud wood. Current growth but hardened off. 17 brix is sweeter than most all sweet oranges. Fruit is fabulous and way better and sweeter than any texas red grapefruit I have eaten IMHO.
Wrap seions in parafilm so they don’t dry out.
Make two slits in the bark which is slipping. Chisel cut the scion.
Put the scion in the slot and wrap with vinyl budding tape.
Wrap stump with sheet parafilm.
Wrap stump with aluminum foil to keep sunlight off the stump. Now wait until the scions grow. Should be 2-3 weeks.
You can see the foil on the grafts. Well if this attemp fails I’ll do it again next spring.
Some shiranui/sumo fruit on one branch. It has dozens of fruit.
