Any arborist out there?

[Gerald]

Originally Posted by speck-chaser

crab apples are alot smaller than that. Most of the time they will graft a certain fruit tree onto a different variety of rootstock because that rootstock is superior to the stock of the fruit they are trying to attain. The rootstock is usually faster growing or less disease resistant or just sturdier etc. Like Gerald said all of your orange trees are grafted. Not sure that most of em are grafted on lemon stock though. They are usually grafted onto trifolia stock,mostly because of the coldhardiness and stregnth of the trifolia.

That lemon grafting is what I was told years and years ago......like the internet, it might not be right.

trifolia stock....??? Now I need to do some more studying to learn more.

[speck-chaser]

Originally Posted by Gerald

That lemon grafting is what I was told years and years ago......like the internet, it might not be right.

trifolia stock....??? Now I need to do some more studying to learn more.

My dad and grandpa used to have a citrus nursery,and they budded all of their own trees. THey actually grew their own rootstock,then budded them at the proper times. One advantage of using the lemon stock is the growth rate is very fast,but on the other hand the cold hardiness isnt there. Very succeptible to freezes.

[Gerald]

Originally Posted by speck-chaser

My dad and grandpa used to have a citrus nursery,and they budded all of their own trees. THey actually grew their own rootstock,then budded them at the proper times. One advantage of using the lemon stock is the growth rate is very fast,but on the other hand the cold hardiness isnt there. Very succeptible to freezes.

That is very true. My lemon tree has not put out much fruit in the last 2 years now due to cold temp. Last year.....none. Right now only about 20.

A normal year has been 200 to 300 lemons.