Citrus Growers Forum

David. · Posted: Mon 19 Apr, 2010 8:56 pm

I finally got to meet with this doctor here at our citrus center, and he wowed me.

http://www.themonitor.com/news/weslaco-18684-citrus-orange.html

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mgk65 · Posted: Tue 20 Apr, 2010 4:06 am

Interesting.

Followed some links and found:

http://kcc-weslaco.tamu.edu/Newsletter/2007/April_2007_Vol_25_No_2.pdf

http://aghs.tamuk.edu/agro_skaria00.html

David. · Posted: Tue 20 Apr, 2010 11:23 am

mgk65 wrote:

Interesting.

Followed some links and found:

http://kcc-weslaco.tamu.edu/Newsletter/2007/April_2007_Vol_25_No_2.pdf

http://aghs.tamuk.edu/agro_skaria00.html

yes very interesting, I found someone who implemented skarias idea large scale. He said he grafts seedlings that are about 6 inches tall!!!! And he sells the grafted trees once they grow out about 4 inches for 3 bucks. I will visit and take pics of his plants tommorrow and if I lime what I see I'll buy tons of trees lol.

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buddinman · Posted: Tue 20 Apr, 2010 1:38 pm

Treesource in California has been doing this for years. I have a friend in the nursery business that buys thousands of these each year.

turtleman · Posted: Tue 20 Apr, 2010 7:41 pm

Daurty has been doing it for years also, Last Sept I was at our IPPS conference is San Diego, just about all propagators are into it or at least tissue culture. A few are splicing genes (tissue cells) from tissue before moving into Harding off..