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This is a Prince Ranier Cherry grafted to my Tartarian Cherry again last year and they are now all flowers

Joe:
I talked to my neighbor and he gave me permission to cut some branches. His orange tastes so sweet sweeter than my Washington. But he does not know the name of his orange. It has an oblate shape, the rind is thick.
Can anyone tell me? Guesses?
I definitely want it in my yard.

Benny, thanks for sharing us your grafting pic. This is proof that us mere mortals can easily achieve "plant" operations. We all started from zero knowledge in grafting not too long ago. And not only do we love it, but somehow get a "rush" (aka, addicting) observing progress of our "operations". So we've been doing it over and over.

You have been busy with your knife, Benny! Keep us informed.

Benny, it could be one of those tangors but not minneola. Thick rinds, oblate shape and sweet even in maritime climate, would make my guess along the lines of Tangor. Will you be kind to mail me some budwoods of that too? Please, please, please??? Along with your thornless key lime.

Sure, anytime. But how do you mail a scion? I did it once to Mr. Buddiman and he told me he received it full of fungus and rotten. It was one of my Satsumas that he said out of 30 years he'd never seen one like it.

Benny, I may be asking too much, but here's the simplified instructions that is very safe for mailing citrus budwood.

snip budwood from tree, take out leaves but leaving some petiole, just like what we get from UCR, then wash budwoods off with tap water, wipe with paper towel, and place inside a quart size ziploc bag, one labeled bag for each variety, remove some air from the ziploc before closing it. then use priority mail for shipping. Will contact you on shipping address and our usual exchanges

Best to prepare them on Sunday or Monday and ship on Monday so that they will not sit in the post office doing nothing but waiting for fungal innoculation.

after you put the budwoods inside the ziploc bag and you can't make it to the post office tody, simply stash the bags inside the fridge, and mail the next day when you have the time.

remember not to put any wet paper towel inside the ziploc bag, because we are dealing with citrus here, and citrus can survive "drought" for about a week inside a ziploc bag and if it is not too hot.

OK Joe. It will probably be Monday because Sunday is my wife's day here in our house. She was the commander on Sunday so whatever she says goes.
You ask me how about the other 6 days?
Well, it's just like on board ship you have the same commander 7 days a week. whatever she says goes too. I guess.

Joe:
Now I know why those satsuma scion buds went fungusy.
I wrapped them in a wet paper towel and then I put them inside a sealed wet ziplock bag .

Thanks Benny. That's why your wife loves you. Same here, if she decides to throw away a tree even if I like the tree, it will be done, and what's worse, she will have you cut it down, LOL!!!

Please send it when you have the time. It is true that citruses easily get fungus when sent with a wet paper towel. But citruse budwoods are quite tough and will survive mailing by just sealing them inside a dry ziploc bag.

OK Joe. It's now 12 noon. In about an hour I'd go to the post office and mail your budwoods.
By the way, this morning, I couldn't wait till daybreak so I could try your bark grafting method.
I and the whole family went to my sister's house and I got this priced pear (chinese origin very crunchy and very sweet) budwood and a white peach (my brther-in-law said the it belongs to a Chinese that is really very sweet and crunchy also)and the green plum (same thing). They survived the onslough of terrafin scale last year but smaller now because they had to cut the tree drastically.
Anyway I grafted 3 grafts on my Asean pear but I had to cut the branch where I grafted a Shineseki pear just a few days ago.
Your method is so easy to follow I am really grateful I have a friend like you.
Thank you.
Benny

Thanks Benny, I'll be eagerly waiting for it at the office.

Aha, you might regret cutting off your shinseiki pear. Truly the taste of shinseiki is not at par with Hosui, but as a citruholic, there is a perfect match for the shinseiki. The secret told to me by Korean firend is that to split the shinseki pear fruits, remove core and quarter them, then soak in Meyer lemon Juice with light sugar and water, forgot the exact ratio, but I use 1 cup meyer lemon juice to 1 quart water and sugar to taste. When I offered it, even the picky kids like crunchiness, mild sweetness and the lemon tart flavor. I do this all the time now. My grafting demo, the destination branch was Shinseiki by coincidence. It is my biggest Asian pear tree, so it will be grafted more.

Thanks again.

OK Joe. I have it mailed.
I even blow air to the scions to make sure they are dry before I ziplocked them.
No the shenisheki pear had just growed out of proportion (long limbs) and grew like crazy when they took off.
I was just cutting the undesirable branches and graft them but if the one that I just graft take, then I will have any regrets.
One of this days I am going to let you taste them. You can't buy them anywhere. And everyone who taste them can recall after many years where did they ate from.

OK Joe. I have it mailed.
I even blow air to the scions to make sure they are dry before I ziplocked them.
No the shenisheki pear had just growed out of proportion (long limbs) and grew like crazy when they took off.
I was just cutting the undesirable branches and graft them but if the one that I just graft take, then I will have any regrets.
One of this days I am going to let you taste them. You can't buy them anywhere. And everyone who taste them can recall after many years where did they ate them.

Benny, what type of graft did you do on the pic above?
Patty