I dont want to jinx myself here, but here goes-

I took some trimmings of my Thai lime, and tiny bushy calamondin after someone asked for a rooting of my Meiwa (fewer branches, less oops-room )

I kept 6 cuttings, dipped in hormone, 4 are under Reemay, 2 are under slightly perforated Zip-Locs. they are under flouro lights.

One of the thai wilted once but perked up after spritzing. Theyre not dead yet Im trying to jostle them as little as possible when spraying.

Any other ideas?

Rooting sometimes is dependent on cultivar. I would simply cut a branch of Lisbon or Meyer, cut the leaves and leave 1/4 sized leaves on them, stick them to the ground, and they grow. Calamondins cannot be done this way, even with rooting hormones, it is simply hard to root them.

Perhaps you may want to try a fantastic approach done for the roses. What they do is you a have a sandy planter, and a cobra mister place on a timer. Put your cuttings in the planter, in full sun and run the mister the full daytime. Turn off the mister at night. The full sun, the constant mist, encourages hormone productions that induces root formation without wilting the cuttings. I have seen this done successfully on some roses (from store-bought flowers) that are hard to root, so why not on citruses?

Thanks, the Reemay ones are dead, definately need the baggie.

Ive got a humidifier, but its darn hot around here these days. I was just wondering if it was too hard to do.... Dont want to buy any new items for an occasional thing.

My meyer seedlings died. boo!

garnetmoth if you want another Meyer just let me know, I'll start some more today.

Hmmm... I have not had a problem rooting Cals. Even in winter they root.

I need your Green Thumb over here Laaz!

My crude method of determining if a person has a green thumb is that I let them snip off lemon cuttings and stick it in the ground. If it grows, they have a green thumb, if it dies, they may need help. Apparently I don't have a green thumb for my calamondin cuttings.

But this is how I root calamondins 100% success rate, green thumb or not:
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I will take some cuttings today along with some Meyer lemons.

You are sweet, Laaz- I dont need any more plants, i just want them I have my lopsided Parks Meyer lemon that is actually leafing out quite well, i was just hoping to have some seedlings to trade from the fruits I ate this winter.

Our humidity is fairly high but the reemay-wrapped cuttings died, Im thinking of trying the humidifier on the back porch, thed get just a tiny bit of sunlight....

I set up a plastic pop bottle contraption like id seen here recently (a small 1-L fits perfectly on a recycled yogurt cup!)

I took the fruitlets off the calamondin cuttings (thinnings, shed gotten a bit sunburned and I thinned then repotted in CHC mix in a white planter) and dipped them in rooting hormone. Theyre trying to flower again!

Plastic soda bottle or zip-lock with a hole or 2 seems best, the Reemay ones didnt make it that long (or needed more attention than I can give).

The Thai lime looks the best and is the oldest. Yippee!

Kumquats and satsumas are the most difficult ones to root even under ideal conditons such as interval misting and heat trays.

Garnet, what is Reemay?

its polyester spun row cover. its like a thin airy white sheet. Its good for keeping the humidity in when covering pots of finicky seeds like Basil (I had Horrible luck starting basil from seed before I started using this stuff!)

You can also get a little bit of frost protection with it, and if you tack it on all sides over a bed of say cabbage seedlings, the looper moths cant get in. its also water permable so you dont have to pull it up to water.

Here is the Cal Laaz gave to me last Dec.


Not doin too bad for a dead plant!!!

And my garden helper inspecting the soil of my Early Satsuma.. He approved!!

Gina *BabyBlue*