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Citrus scion perishes fast, even in the fridge you’d have up to nine months until they are moldy.
I have never tried rooting Eureka Lemon, or Persian Lime, yet all citrus I have tried rooting either perished, or rooted very slowly. Me I would graft them on to something, or gift them to someone who can.
I’m happy with the trees they sent me and now planted in my greenhouse. They are growing like weeds, maybe too fast. I may be pruning a lot since they are planted 7x6ft. Citrus do fruit pretty young so that’s a big plus.
I don’t typically root much I cut off (with lemon as the outlier) but I would leave one and a half leaves when rooting. But I have stored citrus scions in the fridge for a short time. I’d say a month or two is usually fine to keep a few buds of use; obviously the less time spent stored the better with the best time being zero. But in the future trying to root citrus cuttings I’d leave a couple half leaves on the cutting. As mentioned they tend to take a long time to develop roots but I make 6-10 new Meyers every year when I prune to sell and give to friends.
I had them shipped to my daughter in Colorado and then here. I’m 300 miles of heat and desert from the commercial groves. My trees even if infected are no threat.
Ordered several scions and four Rubidoux rootstocks from them last year. Those were all fine and arrived in good shape. I’m bad at grafting citrus (weird spiraling stems), but got one take that’s still alive. This year ordered US942 cutting (tree), Kabosu papaeda hybrid, Thomasville, and Indio Mandarinquat. They arrived in good shape as well.
They’re on the right. This is after two and a half weeks of me mis-watering them. US942 is own rooted, one’s on Rubidoux and the other two are on Citrange roostocks. I’d have preferred 100% Rubidoux, but I’m going to try and graft to the ones I put in ground last year, anyway, and didn’t reach out to see if they could honor any specific request. The tops are probably about as hardy as the bottoms, so it doesn’t matter much. I forget if they were less hardy, but more vigorous (US812, and I forget the other).
The Thomasville immediately grew flowers on the new growth as it has a reputation for doing. So I’ll protect it and hopefully get to try the fruit this year.
I’ve had a smooth experience and would recommend them.
The Yuzu I grafted to Trifoliate survived its first Winter (dying back to the grafted branch) and is pushing new growth. I covered it with plastic and stuck about 15 gallons of water by it, but didn’t have any active heat for it. I’ve got it by the South wall of my house.
My feijoa (Takaka) survived on the East side with about fifty percent defoliation. We got down to single digits two or three times and stayed below freezing for a couple of those days. It’s got new buds ready to break. I don’t think it’s going to flower this year.
How do you know what rootstock your Kabosu is on? What do you know about the qualities of the rootstock. I think the stuff I already have is on Flying Dragon.
I see in a video that US942 is supposed to be relatively tolerant of wet feet.
Good point, although its not obvious to me why it would be worse that the area with my 3 established feijoa. I thought perhaps it is poor establishment.
I put my Shangjuan lemon on that hillside although near the West end of the property where the feijoa are closer to the middle.
I’m thinking to put the US942 where my runty Chocolate persimmon had been but need to find a spot for the Kabosu.
Nice touch, I wish everyplace did this. Also lists DOB, I assume that is graft date.
I planted the US 942. Looks like they just folded it up, didn’t prune it. Over 4 feet tall, maybe 5/8" caliper. Roots perfectly to edge of pot with almost no untangling or cutting required.
