Great video, very informative and entertaining to anyone who with an interest in citrus or horticulture. Also very nice to see the process of constructing the flood/drain system.
Hi Dan, thanks for this and your experiments. I've just come back and double-checked your channel to ensure I was till subscribed as I'm looking forward to the follow-up video to this (I see there's still a place-holder in the corner at the end). Cheers.
Hi again Dan. Are you still intending to do the follow-up telling us which varieties root well from cuttings? I've made a system like this and could really use that information. Thanks.
Hi Shaun, I apologize that I have not published a follow up video yet. I meant to do it sooner, but now I will probably do some other topics first. It may have been overkill to use this system for figs since they are relatively easy to root, but the success rate I have seen with Figs is 100% -- much better than I have achieved with any other technique. I also saw 100% success rate for pomegranates. I also tried a few mulberry hardwood cuttings which failed. I would like to try mulberry softwood cuttings and some other things, but I have not had the chance yet. I would be interested to hear your results if you try some other things. Good luck!!
Just when we thought the Fruit Mentor had abandoned us, he is back with a DIY vid. For me this video opened with an ad of a guy yelling into the camera "Stop watching aquaponics videos!!" who claimed to have the secret to growing bigger peppers and squashes. Maybe I should have clicked his ad and asked him about rooting citrus rootstocks.
@@Fruitmentor pruning, i would guess, is something in the same vein as your grafting vids. and of more broad potential appeal. not for me, particularly; i think i understand well enough how to prune. but a lot of people with fruit trees in their yards don't understand how heavily, how frequently, why to prune, which buds to select and why. what happens if you don't prune. etc. maybe not the best time of year to approach that, though.
@@Fruitmentor This type of experiment/project-documentation where you show the whole process I think would be a great format for future videos. Also like @tohopes mentioned general tree care tips and tricks I'm sure would have a broad appeal.
I've been experimenting with 'fogponics' to root citrus in netpots and vermiculite and so far I'm 6 for 6 at rooting scion cuttings. Next I'm going to scale up a bit and try to root pre-grafted rootstock like Dan did in his other video. Happy growing!
Hello, thanks for the video. Ive tried several ways trying to clone citrus, the one that works the best is air rooting for me, but sometimes air rooting isn’t an option.
The problem with air layering is that the new plant will have any diseases from the tree from which it was taken. With this technique, I was trying to root cuttings known to be disease-free from a clean budwood program so that I could be certain that my new plant would be free of disease.
Such an awesome video, I wonder how this system performs compared to an aerocloner often used in the cannabis industry. Also, curious if adding a nutrient such as clonex would yield stronger cuttings.
I am trying to graft cuttings from my family naval orange tree. I sold the house. The tree is over 50+ years old and I want to graft it to a new tree I just got at a nursey. I've tried the T bud technique, and that didn't work. So I am trying to root the cuttings as well as all the other ways I've seen here. What product are you using for your hormon mixture for rooting. I'm in southern CA right now, but thinking of moving to Northern CA soon, where I hope to plant my tree. Thanks.
Please don’t do that for several reasons. First of all the weather is colder in Northern California which means that your fruit won’t be as sweet even if you were to succeed. It would make much more sense to either buy a Fukumoto navel orange tree or graft your own using certified disease free budwood from the CCPP. Fukumoto will give you better fruit in Northern California than whatever navel variety you have in your yard in Southern California. Furthermore moving citrus trees or propagative material from Southern California to Northern California is highly illegal for a very good reason. You might spread the deadly huanglongbing disease from Southern California to Northern California. This would be the first instance of HLB in Northern California and when the authorities detect it they would be able to trace it to your yard. Please see my video about the CDFA detection program here: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-gqyQZSKHyBQ.html They caught someone who moved a tree along with the Asian Citrus Psyllids that spread HLB from socal to NorCal. I would not want to be written up in the newspaper like this guy: www.latimes.com/local/la-xpm-2012-apr-14-la-me-citrus-disease-20120414-story.html I think he was investigated by the FBI for bioterrorism. I would not want to be him at the airport coming home from overseas. I bet they go through everything in his luggage quite thoroughly every time. Please, please, just buy a new navel tree from a reputable nursery. One more video that I encourage you to watch: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-JAAe8TnP3fQ.html
What variety of Orange is very sweet like the sweet flavor of a Valencia orange but has no acid and no tartness? I had 4 trees that I grew from seeds that I got from oranges that tasted like that but they all died last summer and I don't know what variety they were. Much Thanks
It sounds like you are describing the Lima Acidless Orange. Another one similar to that is the Vaniglia Sanguigno, but it has pink pigmentation. The Lima Acidless looks more like a Valencia.
Can i graft lemon into an orange tree? I have a beautiful orange plant and i want it to produce lemons too. Do you think the graft would perform better?
Which rootstocks grew? I have only had rooting success with Volkameriana, which could be what you found as well. Beautiful system and so well captured on video!
Thank you! The ones that did the best for me were Volkameriana, Cuban Shaddock, and Yuma Ponderosa lemon. I had more detail on that in a prior video: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-bjtr44QCi78.html
A friend of mine has a unique mandarin tree in her property in Santa Monica, CA. The flavor & taste of the fruits is unbelievable! But nobody knows what type of mandarin it is. I tried to compare it with all kinds of mandarin I can get my hands on from grocery stores & other trees, just to figure out its type. I tried to take the fruits to the nurseries in the neighborhood. No success. The people at the nurseries would not even entertain such a thought or help. It is extremely juicy, very sweet, has a unique flavor, has lots of seeds. How can I find out what kind of mandarin it is? Any direction, help, pointers appreciated. Thanks.
It might work, but I suspect that the varieties that make the best rootstocks might also be the hardest to root. I've tried it without nutrients and air and it did not work. I'm growing all of my citrus rootstocks from seed now. I'd recommend that over rooting.
What would be a good source of seeds for starting citrus rootstock from seed? I have a bunch of lemon seeds but I read a comment of yours saying that tangerines and oranges sometimes had lower-quality fruit when grafted to lemon rootstock, so what would be the best seeds to start with? Also, can you confirm another viewer's comment in another video, that all California citrus rootstock used for nursery stock is treated with persistent synthetic neonicotinoids like Imidacloprid? I'm concerned about killing pollinators and ingesting the poison myself and would never consciously support Monsanto/Bayer. Great info on your channel, thanks!
Thank you! I'm glad that you enjoy the channel! Based on your description it sounds like the viewer comment on the other video may be misleading. Pesticides are applied at production nurseries before trees are shipped to retail nurseries. Based on the studies that I know about, I would not expect that there would be an issue with killing pollinators because the pesticide would be washed out and at a very low level before the tree ever bloomed. The following article has details and graphs that show the decline in pesticide over time: faculty.ucr.edu/~mattd/assets/files/Byrne%20et%20al.%202020%20-citrograph.pdf If you would still like to avoid the pesticides, you can do this by buying a tree mail order from a reputable nursery rather than from a retail nursery. Because mail order trees are shipped directly from insect-proof facilities, pesticides need not be applied.
Hey Dan, have you ever tried to root citrus cuttings with a commercial cloner? Do you have any advice on what to add to the water if you have? I just received a cloner and was going to try cloning cuttings with a clonex solution.
Hi Dan, love your channel . I want to grow around 2500 citrus in my backyard. For resale once bigger for profit to supplement my disability pension. I'm planing on buying 5000 flying dragon seeds then adding budwood grafting when flying dragon is old enough.what age would that be? ... Am I going in the right direction? Would love to know how you would do this? Fastest way etc. Thank you so much for your videos.
Thank you! I have some flying dragon seedlings that are about a year old and I'm going to try grafting them soon. They are a bit small for T-budding, so I'm going to try chip budding. I'm planning to do a video on it if I can. Many nurseries these days graft citrus young by chip budding. I've grafted to several other rootstocks that I planted last year. Flying dragon grows more slowly, so I'll see if they are big enough to graft. Good luck with your project! Where do you live?
@@Fruitmentor Hello , I am in South Australia. I have planted flying dragon , p. Trifoliata and Carrizo citrange. About 1500 seeds all up . I will look into chip budding. The plan so far is to use micro grafting. I have learnt alot since writing this comment . I appreciate your reply . Check my channel to see "so far" and hopefully they all sprout in next 2 weeks . Also go 80 blueberry tubestocks going . Look forward to your video! Also used Auscitrus (our version of disease free seeds and budwood supplies)
I stick my scions in the ground in semi-shade, cover mostly with mulch, during early spring rainy season while it's cool and humid out... and walk away
Not really easy if you consider the trouble of building the ebb and flow system. But definitely the easiest I’ve done so far considering I was able to avoid all of that manual watering.
Thank you! I guess the setup looks hard, but it was so nice not to have to spend so much time and effort watering over several months. Once I had it automated there was not too much to do. I could even go on vacation without asking someone to go water.
