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bodavid Citruholic
Joined: 30 Apr 2007 Posts: 67 Location: kuwait
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Posted: Tue 01 Apr, 2008 2:30 am |
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on 25/feb/2008 i cleft grafted a myer lemon on an unknown orange tree.
yesterday 31/mar/2008 i tried to remove the polythene bag slowly were i noticed it had a bloom. that is strange?
here are some picture but it seems unclear because i took the photos from my mobile:
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bodavid Citruholic
Joined: 30 Apr 2007 Posts: 67 Location: kuwait
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Posted: Tue 01 Apr, 2008 4:05 am |
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Skeeter Moderator
Joined: 23 Jul 2006 Posts: 2218 Location: Pensacola, FL zone 9
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Posted: Tue 01 Apr, 2008 11:32 am |
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Not strange at all. I have had a lot of my bark grafts that bloom as soon as they break and a few of my T-buds-- I had one T-bud that produced 3 grapefruit in the first season (this year it did not bloom). _________________ Skeet
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bencelest Citruholic
Joined: 13 Nov 2005 Posts: 1596 Location: Salinas, California
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Posted: Tue 01 Apr, 2008 12:05 pm |
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I think it would be good for the graft to remove the flowers so it can concentrate on vegetative growth instead of fruit.
That's what I did to my clemenule.
I have a bunch that flowered but I clipped them. Not only on my citrus but other plants as well. |
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Skeeter Moderator
Joined: 23 Jul 2006 Posts: 2218 Location: Pensacola, FL zone 9
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Posted: Tue 01 Apr, 2008 2:56 pm |
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I think it depends on the situation. If it is a seedling that you are grafting to make a new tree, I would definitely remove flowers.
If it is a cocktail tree that you have added a new variety to, you may want to have the fruit. I grafted 3 varieties of grapefruit onto my lemon tree in the fall of 2006. I forced them in the spring of 2007--one of 2 ruby red grafts flowered and produces 3 nice grapefruit on a 6 inch sprout. The other 2 varieties and the other ruby red did not flower, and most of them grew about 12 inches last year.
This year none of those grafts flowered--they are all putting on a lot of new growth including the one that produced fruit. I had one mystery bud that broke after a year and a half-- it is obviously a grapefruit and it is flowering--if it sets fruit I will let it develop. _________________ Skeet
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bencelest Citruholic
Joined: 13 Nov 2005 Posts: 1596 Location: Salinas, California
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Posted: Tue 01 Apr, 2008 4:56 pm |
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I guess this is to each its own.
I had one pomello that fruited but died the 3rd year. It did not grew at all the 2nd year. It just withered and died on the third.
I had one fomoko orange grafted unto a Eureka and it fruited the first 6 months and I harvested the fruit but it stayed the same size for 2 years . It is just now growing vigorously after the 3rd year. Luckily there was no flowers or fruit for 3 years now.
Someone said that in grafting, if you let just one fruit stayed on the tree you are taking away 4 feet of growth on that branch . I am not sure how true that is.
I also have a Prince Ranier Cherry grafted on a Stella Cherry, After a few weeks you could only see flowers on that graft branch, then turned into fruit and I harvested that when riped. They were very good eating. But the whole branch died afterwards. It never sprout any leaves.
Oh, I have many more experienced that I can tell and experiencing right now but that's all for now. |
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bodavid Citruholic
Joined: 30 Apr 2007 Posts: 67 Location: kuwait
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Posted: Wed 02 Apr, 2008 3:07 am |
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thanks for the sugestions but i dought that the flower will hold and not drop off.
i did not intend to graft i just had an extra bud wood so then decided to graft. i'll try keeping that tree a cocktail tree but i fear the taste of friut will change. |
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Skeeter Moderator
Joined: 23 Jul 2006 Posts: 2218 Location: Pensacola, FL zone 9
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Posted: Wed 02 Apr, 2008 7:33 pm |
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The rootstock can influence the flavor of fruit, (lemon rootstock in particular will reduce the quality of other fruits but increase the juice) but I do not think orange will flavor your Meyer that much (and of course the Meyer will not influence the taste of the orange). _________________ Skeet
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