I'm a noob to rooting cuttings and would like to try it. I've researched about it but have come across several methods and some contradicting ones as well. I would like to know what methods you use and what seems to have best results. I have a Meyers lemon, satsuma orange, and a key lime that I can use. Which ones seem to have the highest success?

Meyer lemon and Key lime root easily. Satsuma is very difficult.

what are the looks on rooting pomelo cuttings? how much does it approximately takes?
should i rather root the meyer cutting instead, and after that bud-graft the pomelo?
thanks in advance,

igor

actually it referred to pummelo, shaddock (not pomelo, grapefruit) or to be more accurate - citrus maxima (citrus grandis) not citrus paradisi...

although i don't believe there is any difference between these two, when it comes to rooting cuttings...

anyone with experience? does shaddock root easily?

thanks!

Citrus maxima can be propagaed by seed, air layering, and also propagate by rooting semi-ripe cuttings in summer. Semi-ripe cuttings are cuttings taken from semi-mature wood. - Millet (555-)

Never tried pumelo.

The AEROPONIC cloner is very efficient at rooting almost anything.

http://www.amazon.com/Site-Aeroponic-Plant-Cloner-Propogate/dp/B0055OIN4G

thanks millet and laaz, i'll give it a try! the old-fashioned way

hi ive tried loads of cuttings as my t buding is not very good,lemons and limes quite easy about four to six weeks,but sweet orange,pomelo and manderine can be up to six months and thats under mist spray..artie

It is useful to include some fertilizer in propagation media for cuttings. Use about 15 grams of a slow release fertilizer per sq.ft. of propagation medium. An alternative is to use a combination of pre-plant nutrients and then a liquid feeding from the time roots have started to forum. Excessive use of N may decrease rooting and total root growth. Newly forming roots on cuttings are easily damaged by salinity. Use a dilute liquid feed at first ---say 50ppm---and build up the concentration as the seedlings grow.

Roots form most readily on cuttings having high carbohydrate and low nitrogen levels. Stock plants can be most easily encouraged to provide this type of cutting when they are grown in containers with a carefully controlled low level of nitrogen application. Make sure that all other nutrients are well supplied. Then reserves in the cuttings will aid early growth. Select cuttings from the basal parts of shoots that have stopped growing rapidly. The rooting of cuttings declines as the N supply to the stock plant increases.

8 inch cuttings should be the very minimum to use. As the cutting length increases ( 16", 23",) the rooting success increases. - Millet (433-) 363-

Darkman, because longer healthy cuttings contain more carbohydrates. A cutting gets its energy to produce new roots from the carbohydrates that are stored within the cutting itself. -Millet (432-) 362-