There goes my babies!

Yesterday, Harvey picked up two big citrange rootstocks of his that were "loaned" out to me temporarily. I massacred both of them. From the dense thorny thickets down to very tame multi-grafted branches. On one rootstock has Tango, Seedless Kishu, and Corsica #1. The other one has Nordmann Seedless Nagami Kumquat, Sidi Aissa Satsuma and Clementine Nules. He also got a grafted Sir Prize Avocado, from the tiny scionwood that I got from Gene Lester, and it was doing great.

I also did multi-graft on Flying Dragon Rootstocks for Kern Hunewill, an avocado Guru. He got Tango, Clemenules on one. On another he got Corsica #1 and China Satsuma S-9.

So if you happen to drop by and loan me out your rootstock, who knows what it might turn into?

That makes me wish I lived in California.
I am excited that a few weeks ago I found a 5 foot yuzu in a local nursery on sale for $20.
I bought it in hopes of honing my grafting skills and turning it into a multi graft tree. (In Colorado- container plant of coarse). I think you posted a question in the past asking for people's experience with yuzu as rootstock.
What are your thoughts now? Any particular compatibilities/incompatiilities I should know of?
I think I have read they were traditionally used in Japan as rootstock for mandarins.

Kyle

Here's my tests with Yuzu:

Sudachis, Satsumas, Tango Mandarin, Sidi Aissa, Lemons (Meyer, Eureka, Lisbon, Limonero Messina, Navels, Valencias), Fortunellas (Nordmann Seedless, Calamondins, Kumquats) all did very well on Yuzu. Giant Key Lime, Bearss Lime, Sinton, Key Lime died out or did not sprout.

Haven't tried grapefruits yet.

Thanks, Joe, for your great grafting/budding work. They are now in my greenhouse where they stay nice and warm 24/7 and have shown some additional growth since they came "home"!

Good luck with your new tall baby I picked up for you.

I would love to live next to him. Learn some grafting and pick a few fruits when he wasn't watching.
Joe- are any of your grafts on yuzu mature enough to comment on fruit quality?
Kyle

In all honesty, I would go crazy living in the People's Republic of Davis. I'd probably prefer to live out in Winters and commute the short distance to work.

This farm was for sale not long ago and I don't know if it ever got sold:
http://www.chestnutleaf.com/contact.html. It was not a bad deal, IMO.

Harvey, the link seems not to work. It says, "Page cannot be found". = Millet

Strange, it doesn't work for me either. But if I got to www.chestnutleaf.com and click on the "contact" link, that's the URL that shows in the address line. ??? I did just start using Firefox3, don't think that would have anything to do with it though.

As a side-note, a very handy site I stumbled across a couple of years ago is http://www.archive.org/index.php. It has a large inventory of cached pages. At one time they had a link to the listing of their farm for sale but I don't see that it was cached by the Wayback Machine. I think it was about $1.0-1.2 million for 40 acres and a fairly decent home, pool, etc.

young eyes!