I am not sure anyone is going to believe this but I am going tell about it anyway. The picture is a Satsuma budded on Troyer. Bud date was 03-20-06. The hard to believe part is that I took the budwood on 02-14-05!

I cut the budwood when I was gathering wood for spring budding last year. In September, 2005, I realized it was still in the frig and still looked viable so, as an experiment, I used it to bud a few trees. When several took without a problem, I decided to hold the wood until spring and try again. This is the result. It was slow to start growing, but looks fine at this point.

I have heard of apple budwood that took after two years, but have never heard or read how long it might be possible to keep citrus. I doubt you could keep Satsuma seed this long!

Ned

beautiful graft job Ned!!

Gina *BabyBlue*

Hi Ned. I still have quite a bit of budwood I got from Bonnie back in Feb. It's still green and looks great. I believe that if it is kept in the right condition it will last quite a long time. Great job on budding year old budwood by the way !

Perfecto!!

Wow, that is hard to believe --after over a year!
But then, this is the guy who gave great budding/grafting demos at last years citrus expo (my eyeballs were 2 ft away watching).
Guess you all have to be at next Virginia Beach Citrus expo & maybe Ned will do more demonstrations (?) You sure made it look easy Ned. Thanks again!