Has anyone had any experience with this?
I am having trouble finding info on exactly how to take cuttings from citrus trees. Is this even worth doing?
Any help would be apprieciated.
The Guest.

You can cut pencil sized diameter branches. Remove leaves, just leave the petioles, cover and stick to the ground. At least that's I would do.

But if you want to increase your chances:
Cover the top 40% of the stick with parafilm. As an option, you can dip or wipe the exposed portion into rooting hormone.
(Sample below is pomegranate, but this technique should work very well for citruses)

By joereal at 2008-05-10

Then place in the soil or potting media like so:

By joereal at 2008-05-10


And don't forget to water (every other day) or when the surface soil is dry.

Thanks very much, I actually stumbled across one of your posts with that info in it, but did not know if it was relevant to me.
I will post how it goes, thanx again Joe!

Meyer is about the easiest of all citrus to root. I just cut budsticks off my tree about 8-10 inches long. Make a 45 degree cut at the bottom & stick them in soil. Keep the soil moist & they shout start to flush in a few weeks. Here are some photos of some I did this past summer, nothing to it. I don't use rooting hormone or anything else on them, just leave them in the shade until you see new growth & you know they have rooted...

Agree with Laaz there. Probably the lemons are one of the easiest citruses to root. I've tried Lisbons, Eureka, Meyer and I simply cut them, remove leaves, and stick them to the ground (near my drip emitters) and they grow.

The others require more sophistication to have them grow from cuttings.

I must have the best luck in the world doing citrus cuttings.

This past August, the lady I work for wanted all her eighteen varieties of citrus increased by cuttings. (Yes, I told her some would do better on grafts, but she ignored me) I struck several hundred cuttings and got about 80% take on the entire batch. All I did was take about 6 inch tip cuttings, stripped all but about 4-5 leaves (if leaves were really big, I cut in half) and dipped in Hormodin #2 and inserted in her brand of propagating soil. She didn't even put them in her greenhouse. She stuck bamboo sticks in each corner of the flats and inserted into large transparent garbage bags and tied them up and placed in a bright but out of the sun place. I had never hurled any citrus cuttings in my life, so it must have been beginner's luck. LOL!!

I would add but one thing here. Citrusgalore, the title of your post is "Propagating Dwarf Meyer Lemons". Dwarf Meyer lemons are produced by grafting a regular Meyer to Flying Dragon rootstock. Rooting a cutting from you plant will produce a normal sized tree. A prefectly good tree for most purposes, but normal size (for a Meyer lemon) none-the-less.

Joe, I like you technique for rooting cuttings.

Ned

I understand that the content of these posts were supposed to be on the subject line......but if you read each post, only one or two specifically mentions the dwarf Meyer Lemon...in fact the administrator talks about rooting (instead of grafting) citrus cuttings. I merely replied in the same manner. I fully understand that seedlings or cuttings will be normal size. That wasn't the point of my post. My point was this----citrus cuttings in general are usually easy to root with very few exceptions, of course.

Excuse any mistake....it was my first post....and it's already gone wrong.

Sorry Citrusgalore, I did not mean to imply anything with my comment, simply to provide a little additional info. I wish you great success in rooting your lemons.

Ned

Ned is correct. The only way dwarfing can be done is on Flying dragon or Cuban shaddock. Good luck with the rooted cuttings. Many varieties of citrus do not do well on their own roots, lemon is one that does fine on their own roots though.

Okay, for just one moment, can we start all over again?

We can agree that this particular forum is "Propagating Dwarf Meyer Lemons" but apparently it is mis-named. The Guest initiates the first question and it pertains to citrus cuttings......not dwarf Meyer Lemons.

The poster goes on to ask if it is even worth trying to take cuttings. Site Admin. Joe Real goes into detail with a pictorial describing how to do cuttings, again, nothing about Dwarf Meyer Lemons. Finally later, Site Admin Laaz mentions Meyer is is about the easiest to root.
My post was simply a response, in kind, to that question. My post explicitly states I tried to tell my boss that many did not do well on their own roots but needed to be grafted, but she ignored me and had me strike them anyway. Irregardless of what should have been, I had a huge rate of success considering all factors. In fact, I might add, they are all currently vigorously growing and blooming, but we are taking the blooms off to prevent early fruiting. Bottom line, employees generally have no say in decisions, but must do what the boss wants!

Ned, no offense taken, but I felt I had to clarify on my part, since you pointed out that I had posted about cuttings on this post. Again, we weren't trying to 'dwarf' any Meyers so that wasn't the intent of this post.

All simply put, I wanted to tell The Guest how easy it was to strike most citrus for cuttings. I do believe the title of my post says: "propagating citrus from cuttings" though if that makes any difference.
Now moving on............

Welcome to the forum nerving. Lemons take about 3-6 weeks to root in the warm months.