I don't know what you're looking at G, but I zoomed the top of the plant in with Photoshop & it is trifoliate.

You have at least five mono-foliate sprouts growing from the ground.
No need for photoshop.

eyeckr; I believe you see it correctly. You say “low grafted” is that bad?

Millet; I am the one who planted it low 3+ years ago. I didn’t then and still don’t know much about plants but am trying to learn. Is it too low to be a good tree?

Laaz; this pic may help show it better.

OK, yes that is the true citrus. Everything else needs to be removed.

Everything in red is rootstock. Blue is the desired scion.


It's not necessarily bad to have a low grafted citrus its just not a good idea to plant a citrus tree much deeper than where the roots meet the trunk.

OK, got it. I will remove all growth coming from the rootstock then cut the rootstock trunk to 6" above the soil just in case the scion fails I will have room to graft.

I thought I would check in in case anyone was wondering how it went. I never got any buds from UCR, just promises. I felt like giving up and just left the pots alone concentrating on other projects. In April both plants "sticks" created growth. For the first couple of weeks I didn't do anything, then started paying attention to them and breaking off the growth that was not citrus. Thank you all for teaching me which was which. Since they have grown quite full. The lemon has a lot of fruit that we have started using this past week. The orange does not have fruit but I expect next year it will. They are both looking like bushes instead of trees. I am not sure if that is the type or I need to prune them to grow up instead of out. I have left them alone for now just happy to have fruit.