Millet heres a pic of your BC1 comming along great.



Joe here are a couple of pics of the budded citrus you sent me budwood for.

Variegated Bergamot orange



Variegated Navel orange

Laaz:
How did you get so many rootstocks on hand?
Really nice good looking plants you have.


Benny

PS
I wanted to do that also but I don't have trifoliate or flying dragon.

Hi Benny. If you can locate the trifoliata fruit you will have plenty of rootstock. It is very easy to get here. I use Flying Dragon, standard Trifoliata and Swingle. Each fruit is loaded with seed, so you will have plenty of rootstock...

All of these are on Swingle as it produces a large tree quickly.

If you are allowed to get seed sent into CA try contacting Stan or Ned for seed.

Here is a bunch of Flying Dragon for next years rootstock



Here is standard trifoliata. All of these plants came from the seed of one fruit.

Kimbrough Satsuma



Owari Satsuma



Yuzu

Laaz, my BC-2 keeps asking when his cousin BC-1 will be here. I'll give him the good news. - Millet

Laaz:
I am jealous.
BTW what kind of soil do you use for propagating them?
Mr. Childers gave me a bunch of seeds last year but I only have about 3 good ones slowly growing. Most of them are not growing healthfully.

Benny I use the cheap wakmart soil & add the fertilizer I need. I believe its call "Perfect Mix" on the bag. 2 Cubic FT is $7

Huh!
I even have them on CHC.
I wonder what am I doing wrong?
Laaz, You said sometime ago it is not advisable to use CHC in your area. Why?
Our weather here is almost the same as yours.
Will you tell me why again?

Healthy looking plants Lazz!

My Flying Dragon has plenty of fruit. There should be plenty of seed this fall.

I either sow my seed directly into a 3 gallon nursery pot, or put the seed in a zip lock bag and put them in the frig, after dusting them with captan. I set the nursery pot either in the greenhouse or outside under overhead irrigation. I fertilize the seedlings with osmocote (9 month formula). They will keep in the frig until spring, but go downhill pretty fast in storage, so they should be planted ASAP. Any media that drains well seems to do fine.

Ned

good looking plants Laaz! Love the Variegated.. those are very pretty..
oh.. in case you missed it.. the Cal you sent.. I had almost gave up on it.. I set the stick out with the other citrus but in a semi shady spot.. I figured at the end of summer it would be added to the dirt pile behind the garage or would come back in with the others.. well.. I was checking for bugs problems new growth etc on all my trees today and..... the cal has about 3 or 4 buds on it!! looks like it is going to make it!!! after so many months of looking at nothing but a stick I had almost given up on it..
It has given me hope that even when it looks like ALL is lost.. if you just give a little TLC to that spark of life there can be hope some times..
Thanks again.. It will be one of my most cherished plants..

Gina *BabyBlue*

Benny I can't use CHC here because in the summer they dry out too quickly. Millet sent me a tree in the CHC mix last spring. I tried leaving it in the mix, but it was impossible to keep hydrated... Our heat & humidity down here is severe to say the least.

Gina that is great news. I hope it makes a full recovery. Once it gets going I would put it back in full sun & forget about bleaching the roots

Benny you should start a plant of each type of rootstock you want. Plant them out in the back of your yard and let them go. That way you can grow your own rootstock whenever you want to...

A few more...

Cayce Orange



Sanbokan Sweet Lemon



Thornless Lisbon Lemon



Variegated Buddha's Hand



Variegated Calomondin



Variegated Etrog



Variegated Chinotto Sour Orange



Variegated Ponderosa Lemon



Finger Lime Seedling



Variegated Lisbon Lemon (Sungold)



Another Variegated Naval I T-budded twice to Flying Dragon, as you can see both took



Variegated Sweet Orange that I cleft grafted, now on it's second flush



Variegated Owari Satsuma. I have three of these, so I let this one keep the fruit

Almost forgot... My new HYBRID Rottweiler citrus tree

Thanks for the info Laaz. Here it is just the opposite. When I took out my plants on pure CHC it was very wet at the bottom.
Maybe I am just doing something wrong. Maybe watering too much. I don't know. And I noticed that the leaves are pale green so it maybe lacking of nutrients. I will keep on experimenting though.
But my other plants are thriving real nice though on CHC like my Joe's Clemenule and Satsumas but not planted in pure CHC. I mixed it with perlite and some potting soil and sand and steer manure. But the majority of the bulk is CHC.
Oh, BTW, your hybrid on the last picture is my favorite photo of yours.
Tender yet looks ready to defend you.
Benny

And thanks for the info regarding planting of your trifoliate. I did not think of that.