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Mark_T
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Joined: 30 Jun 2009
Posts: 757
Location: Gilbert,AZ

Posted: Sun 30 Aug, 2009 7:16 pm

What rootstock offers the most compact size outside of Fly Dragon?
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fofoca
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Joined: 24 Jun 2009
Posts: 97
Location: SF Bay Area, California

Posted: Mon 31 Aug, 2009 10:46 pm

I'm no expert, but I'll contribute my two cents.

Four Winds sells a lot of trees that are labelled "dwarf". The ones I have asked about are budded onto ordinary P. trifoliata. I have one of their Robertson navel oranges, which I espaliered against my chimney. It is about 18 feet tall, but only ~3 feet deep and about 6-8 feet wide. "Dwarfish" I would say.

An article describing a test of various rootstocks (comparing the size of the root systems) noted in passing that using yuzu as a rootstock produced the smallest scion growth of the stocks tested.

Sorry, that's the extent of my knowledge!
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