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JoeReal
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Location: Davis, California

Posted: Mon 24 Sep, 2007 1:28 am

Here's the listing of other rootstocks that I can get access to. It would be overwhelming to try and compare each one. But based on your personal experiences, if you have used any of them, how did they perform?

So many rootstocks.... so many cultivars.... so little yard.... so little time.

But sharing can over come them all!


C. macrophylla
Schaub Rough Lem.
C. volckameriana
Yuma Ponderosa Le.
Benton Citrange
Rich 16-6 Trifoliate
X 639
Af Shad x Rub Trif
Rangpur x Troyer
US 119 hybrid
Sun Chu Sha Mand.
C-190 Citrumelo
Borneo Rangpur
Smooth Flat Seville
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snickles
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Joined: 15 Dec 2005
Posts: 170
Location: San Joaquin Valley, Ca

Posted: Tue 25 Sep, 2007 3:07 am

I'll share this link now. This Journal reprint is a
1.91 mg .pdf file from the Plant Physiology.org
web site. Of particular interest to me were some
of the names of the rootstocks that were mentioned
in the study.

http://www.plantphysiol.org/cgi/reprint/23/3/309.pdf

Jim
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Malcolm_Manners
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Joined: 13 Nov 2005
Posts: 676
Location: Lakeland Florida

Posted: Wed 26 Sep, 2007 12:26 am

Some notes on these from a Florida standpoint:
C. macrophylla -- perhaps the most vigorous of all. Amazingly fast growth. Very heavy production of big, dilute-flavored fruit. Good under lemons and limes; too dilute-tasting for most oranges or grapefruit. Very cold-tender. Susceptible to tristeza. Perhaps the most resistant of all to phytophthora. susceptible to citrus blight. It was used some in far south Florida for a number of years, but tristeza has pretty much stopped that.

C. volckameriana -- note that it's volkameriana. volck (with a c) is the spray oil. Like macro, this one is also very vigorous and heavy-producing. Became popular in Florida as a substitute for rough lemon, when rough lemon lost popularity due to its susceptibility to citrus blight. Unfortunately, volk turned out to be rather blight-susceptible too. Tolerant of all the common viruses, and similar to rough lemon for phytophthora (meaning, it's susceptible)


Rangpur x Troyer We grew this for many years and often tried it as a rootstock. We never liked it. The trees are somewhat dwarfed (its claim to fame), but are often unthrifty and poor-growing. Susceptible to tristeza, exocortis, and xyloporosis (surely a record). Pretty tree in its own right, with brilliant orange, small fruit that look like elongated Minneolas. Very pretty.


Sun Chu Sha Mand. -- excellent mandarin-type rootstock. resistant to nearly everything; reasonably cold-hardy; scion makes high-quality fruit. Like Cleo in that fruit of the scion may be smaller and a bit later-maturing than on other roostocks.

Smooth Flat Seville -- pretty much similar to common sour orange -- big, productive trees of very high-quality fruit on the scion. Cold hardy like sour. Sometimes planted with the concept that it's less tristeza-susceptible than sour, but I'm not sure I believe that. It can decline from tristeza.
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