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opedemeiadojoao
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Joined: 23 Oct 2012
Posts: 27
Location: Portugal
Posted: Sun 28 Oct, 2012 12:00 pm
There is this popular mith among portuguese farmers, that in order to obtain a red fleshed orange, you shoul graft in a Punica granatum rootstock...

Pigment issue aside, anyone heard of compatibility?
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jm
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Joined: 04 Dec 2006
Posts: 58
Location: Bordeaux, south west France, zone 8b
Posted: Sun 28 Oct, 2012 4:00 pm
A rutaceae on a punicaceae, impossible.
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Millet
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Joined: 13 Nov 2005
Posts: 6657
Location: Colorado
Posted: Sun 28 Oct, 2012 4:14 pm
This same topic came up on this forum in the past. To see the comments made at that time use the search function. - Millet 77
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Laaz
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Joined: 12 Nov 2005
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Location: Dorchester County, South Carolina
Posted: Sun 28 Oct, 2012 6:57 pm
No, they are not compatible.

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opedemeiadojoao
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Joined: 23 Oct 2012
Posts: 27
Location: Portugal
Posted: Mon 29 Oct, 2012 5:16 pm
Just checking,

Thanks
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Sanguinello
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Posted: Tue 30 Oct, 2012 10:35 am
LOL !!!

That was a GOOD ONE !!!

Laughing
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opedemeiadojoao
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Joined: 23 Oct 2012
Posts: 27
Location: Portugal
Posted: Tue 30 Oct, 2012 10:24 pm
But it is so deeply rooted, as a mith, that just this morning, while we were harvesting olives, Mena, a helper, bragging about her grandmother's skill as a grafter, stated it ipsis verbis. Her own grandmother had done it...
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