Hello!!

I am thinking of grafting but i dont know where to get certified rootstock or bud wood....i recently destroyed all 10 citrus trees of mine because i bought them at the flea market and I much rather grow disease free trees does anyone know where i can get certified rootstock and scion woood??? Also growing them from seeds is another option i would consider. Can i germinate the seeds from sour orange or do they need to be certified as well??? I would buy them at a nursery but i want the experience of making my own trees from ground up so to speak

Oh I live in South Texas RGV and was wondering when is the best time to start grafting down here??? any valley growers on here know???

Trees grown from seed are for all practical purposes disease free. Mr. Texas purchases a lot of bud wood from a source within Texas. He should see this post soon, and answer with the information. You can also send Mr. Texas a private message asking for his help. - Millet (539-)

Cool thanks!!

I will see if he replies if not i will contact him this weekend

XavierDLC61887,

I'm in SE Texas and assume we have similar climate. I think you will need to wait until September with your grafting experiments (assuming you will try t-bud as, perhaps, the simplest technique) - the temperature now is too high.

Good luck!

ok thanks Do you know a source where I Can buy some Certified rootstock?

Not really... Your best shoot would be to find a citrus nursery nearby. Try to google them. Also, as Millet suggested, contact MrTexas - perhaps, he might help.

Good luck!

I just befriend a certain salesperson at the nursery. They prune the trees to maintain their shape so just ask them for the trimmings.

When I was at a nursery I was talking to a salesperson and during our talk he just pulled out his shears and cut off a vigorous branch of a nearby lime tree. I asked him if he throws those away and he said yes. Then I asked him for the trimmings to graft. After explaining what I wanted to do, it led to him getting me a scion of almost every variety they had in stock.

Certified, by whom and for what purpose ??
If they are certified they should be true to type, however many interesting Citrus types are not in a cert scheme.
It probably doesn't matter to a hobbyist if their rootstock seedlings are true Troyer Citrange or from a next gen seedling, such as a rootstock sucker.

Are they virus indexed, this means they are virus screened and indexed, for graft transmissable virus(they may have some types of virus)
Citrus seeds dont carry virus from the parent plant, but the seedlings can get infected in the nursery if insects not controlled.

Certification is a measure of tree health, ie propagated from "clean" propagation material, and being true to type, you still have to consider other diseases and pests, and growing practises.
Certified are not 100% disease free

Hi pagnr!

I just thought because Texas is under Quarantine that i should use graft wood that is disease free but as i have been researching more and more i have found that germinating the seeds for root stock is not a problem. I am just wanting to collect scion wood that i can graft and not have any problems in the future I do have in mine to grow for resale....but that is in the future when i get better at grafting and hopefully have my plant nursery i am here to learn and i am in fact learning!! Thanks for the clear up

I believe Mr. Texas obtains his cuttings from the Texas certified budwood program. - Millet (539-)