Hi,

I was checking my notes and found an abstract on 1989 Lisbon Lemon trial at Santa Paula;

Quote:

1989 Lisbon lemon trial at Santa Paula. Cooperator: Limoneira. Trial of 14 rootstocks, mostly standards and some considered promising in Florida when the trial was designed. There are 3 replications with 5 trees of each rootstock per replication. Yield data collected from 1995 to 2000, but there were no statistically significant differences among rootstocks. Tree size measured in 2004. The largest trees were on lemon type rootstocks (Volk, India lemon, Yuma Ponderosa, and Schaub rough lemon), while trees on Benton citrange, Rangpur x Troyer, and C35 were much smaller. Hedging and pruning probably reduced differences between rootstocks. 1989 Eureka lemon trial at Santa Paula. Cooperator: Limoneira. Trial of 13 rootstocks, mostly standards and some considered promising in Florida when the trial was designed. There are 3 replications with 3 trees of each rootstock per replication. Adjacent to the Lisbon rootstock trial above. Yield data were collected from 1995 to 2000 and statistically significant differences were detected. The highest yields were from trees on Macrophylla followed by Benton and C32. Trees on Sun Chu Sha had low yields. Trees were measured in 2004, but hedging and pruning tend to equalize tree sizes except for the smaller trees on Rangpur x Troyer, Sun Chu Sha, and Benton citrange.

I searched the web but can't find the whole report.Have you seen the full report on web, can you direct me to an URL?

All reports I found was published after 2003.

Also, do you have any information on Lisbon lemon and C35 rootstock compatibility?

I know Euroka is not very compatible with C35 but there is not much information on Lisbon.

Best,

Meyer,

What is the journal name, issue, page, etc. for that article? I'll see if I can find it.

Thanks for your interest bradkairdolf,

I don't have any information, I found it as a word document, probably I copy-pasted the text

But these studies on lemons are done by Arizona Citrus Research Council, other studies can be found here.
This may be a starting point for your investigation

California and Arizona produce 95 percent of the U.S. lemon supply. Here is only one of many sites on lemons/rootstock trials. You might even already know of these sites. A lot of lemon web sites can be found by simply searching the words Arizona - Lemon - rootstock. Take care. - Millet

http://cals.arizona.edu/pubs/crops/az1303/az1303-14.pdf

Thanks Millet,

Yes, I have this report already and few more.We are trying to decide the best rootstock option for Lisbon and Euroka for here so I read a lot these days

Lemons do well on their own roots. From my experience the lemons on their own roots out produce the grafted lemons I have. I am going to experiment with Meyer lemon as a rootstock this year for my various lemon varieties I have.

How did that go? I think it was used as rootstock, here in Portugal.

I know a exuberant one, overgrowing the grafted scion (its just a stick with a couple of leaves and two lemon)

For what I've read, its a Meyer... but it really smells of tangerine. Is that normal?

I have a variegated Lisbon I grafted to a Meyer seedling & it is doing very well.

Meyer was used as an ideal rootstock first before became interesting as a fruit producer.

In Italy lemons have been propageted by cuts for centuries ...

opedemeiadojoao, a Meyer lemon smells like a lemon, not at all like a mandarin.