Grafting Ken

From your tower you should be able to use 40 or so of these little fellas at a time with no pump.

1 hour ago, faraday said:

How do you know which rootstock goes with which Scion?

 

Do you have any experience with Mango grafting?

There’s lots of info about on varieties and rootstock compatibility.. some lemons are no good on troyer rootstock so for lemon we use volka.

a little on mango grafting, mango can be grafted on the tree and it’s a good method with high success rate same as avocado grafting.

Im waiting for my avocado trees to fruit then We will graft from them..

To try to show rootstock incompatibility on the finger lime trees here’s 2 red champagne trees of the same age.... photo 1 grafted onto troyer, photo 2 grafted onto pomelo.

both planted at 6 months old during last years rainy season.

huge difference!

Finger lime are really tricky to graft, scions are so thin so we use the side graft again.

I can’t stress enough how important it is to graft the finger lime into the correct rootstock and take scions from a mature tree of true variety.

this variety is judys.

Pink varied lemon

mayer lemon

navel orange.

Eureka lemon.

Rootstock we grow our own ready to graft at about 6 months... we are just on with 3000 rootstock and some will be ready to graft next month.

Good quality disease free bud wood is hard to find but after a few years of collecting citrus we are able to grow and graft from our own trees.

spanish Lisbon.

For bigger sticks a cleft graft is good for this just bog standard grafting tape is ok.

sorento lemon.

7 minutes ago, faraday said:

Could you post about the rootstock please?

 

How long do you grow the rootstock for, & when does it become ready to accept a graft?

 

Thanks

Sure.

I’m with the Honda guys on this one..

2 minutes ago, carlyai said:

Lawn looks a bit shabby. ????

Lol... don’t water the lawn anymore Carlos.. tired of cutting it????.

will pop up for a swim and a few beers when we can move around.

17 minutes ago, faraday said:

Do you have มะนาวแป้น please?

 

Manao Bpan, think they're called Key Lime...

 

If you don't have them, what would you recommend?

 

Thanks

 

Mate sent you a pm yesterday.

Guys please don’t post about moderation.. CharlieH has been helpful and offered advice. I’m sorting things out so I hopefully can continue.

39 minutes ago, cheshiremusicman said:

Which of the 'Lemon' trees is the closest to what I call proper lemons that you would use for G&T's please? I had a friend, who unfortunately is no longer with us,but he had two massive 'Lemon' trees in his garden in Hua-Hin and they were heaving with lemons. He swore that it was because he peed on them each day!

Spanish lisbon

eureka

sorrento

assam is very juicy big fruit great for lemonade grows very fast and fruits very heavy here no seeds or very little. Assam and Lisbon.... some not ripe yet.

Pest control is becoming harder just because we have so many trees now so you just got to stay on top of things.

3 minutes ago, Grafting Ken said:

Faraday I’ll get back to you this afternoon.

But for ants use ambectin once then back to my mix.

10 hours ago, drtreelove said:

Nice! 

I'm curious, what pest and disease issues to you encounter in your nursery and how to you manage these? Psyllid/HLB, leaf miner, mealybug, canker, crown rot, etc. 

 

Are you willing to share info on your container soil medium, fertilization, pest and disease prevention program? 

Hi Drtreelove.

for pests I spray every 2 week with a molasses based mix of Em, neem oil, seaweed extract and soap it keeps most pests in check. I had a problem with what I found to be a matalic borer a year or so ago constant spraying has sorted it, I believe the em kills the larvae. I just had a big outbreak of thrifts and had to go a little stronger to kill it off so used ambectin once then back to the neem and that’s sorted it.

leaf miner is not so bad on the finger lime and I’ve found they love nice young pomelo leaves over other citrus so keep some young pomelo around.

Only canker I’ve had is from trees I’ve had has been on young trees or rootstock I’ve had sent in.... I remove and burn them.

soil mix in the baskets I use my soil, sand, rice husk, burned rice husk, coco cior, coco husk... ad manure for orange lemon lime and pomelo but not for finger lime... no manure for finger lime.

keeping up with the spray is important and Spray everywhere trunk and all dripping wet.

ive found it much better to grow all citrus on for a year or so in the baskets then plant out start of rainy season when the tree is a nice size and much stronger.