These are some of the young citrus cuttings taken just couple of weeks ago. Without using rooting hormones or anything special. The progress is evident each day.

Although they're flushing at the moment, i really doubt they have developed any roots yet. Maybe they have in the meantime. Anyway I'll leave them sit for at least few months before transplanting.

What I'm considering now is to stent graft either one of them straight away. However it might be a chancy undertaking, and I'm not so sure if this method is applicable to citrus. What do you think? Should I give it a try and stent graft, or should I wait for roots formation and perform a common grafting technique? Could I spare a reasonable amount of time by stent grafting instead?





Best regards,
Igor

Just thinking about one variation of method:

JoeReal's topic "Rooting Cuttings in a bag"
explains technic where obvious plus is visual control of root development.
Lets intercept method after phase 1, and do grafting before moving cutting to plastic pot.

Is that maybe valuable enough to try?

Yes, that might come in handy... although it's not exactly the same method I had in my mind when posting.

Thanks, ivica!

I'm thinking about rooting some calamondin cuttings, could you tell me which soil you use for rooting your cuttings please?

I don't use anything special at all. Two parts of regular soil (aka potting mix), and one part of perlite. Just make sure your medium is compact enough, so it doesn't retain excess water, yet it does not dry out too soon. It's vital for cuttings in their first few weeks to have an optimum humidity and soil moisture. First thing, you achieve by keeping the cutting under the "cloche" - i found those 2l plastic bottles work just fine. Don't let the soil dry out as that might literally kill them. Keep misting them and hopefully you'll have your citrus collection expanded in just couple of weeks. G' luck!

I did a stent-graft with one of the less vigorous cuttings, posted above. I might post an update on its progress, soon.

igor

Thank you Igor for the detailed instructions, I will try it out!

Your stent-graft sounds very interesting, I wish you luck and look forward to any updates you give.

As promised, I'm posting an update on my stent-grafted cutting. If I'm not wrong, it seems like flower buds are forming at the top of the scion. Here is a close-up of one of them, as I couldn't get my camera to snap a decent quality shot of the other ones.





Best regards,
Igor