Hello citrus growers
We are new to this forum but our trees are old! We are looking for some advice about grafting onto citrus rootstock and thought you guys might be able to help.
The story: we have a small family farm in Greece in the north part of the Peloponnese full of gone-native lemon trees that we want to resurrect. They were planted 25-30 years ago and were lemon scionwood grafted on to 'wild orange' (which we think is sour orange) rootstock. Lots of the trees lost leaves from fire and frost 5-10 years ago and since growing back, have produced wild oranges. We would like to experiment which getting some trees producing fruit that we might want to eat.
We don't know much about grafting apart from knowing that we will be doing cleft grafting!
Does anyone know about this kind of thing, especially in Greece? Or will cleft grafting citrus somewhere else be applicable in Greece?
Any advice re time of year, kind of scionwood bearing in mind the climate and possibility of other fruit on the sour orange rootstock would be gratefully received. Also any top tips from someone who's done this before!
Thanks for your help
Lemongrafters
