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jcaldeira

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Grafting: Accelarating Time to Harvest
« on: November 16, 2013, 03:03:59 PM »
Would grapefruit fruit faster if I top-worked it onto, say, a 5-year old rootstock instead of grafting onto a 9-month old seedling rootstock?  In my environment, the time to first fruiting of citrus grafted on rough lemon seedling rootstock is roughly 1 year for calamondins, 1-2 years for meyer lemon, 2-3 years for limes and mandarin, 3 years for oranges, and longer for grapefruit. Would using more mature rootstock push grafted grapefruit scions to fruit earlier?

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Re: Grafting: Accelarating Time to Harvest
« Reply #1 on: November 16, 2013, 04:15:39 PM »
I think top working a grove of citrus would produce sooner than a grove of newly grafted seedling trees.
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Re: Grafting: Accelarating Time to Harvest
« Reply #2 on: November 17, 2013, 07:51:12 AM »
I think top working a grove of citrus would produce sooner than a grove of newly grafted seedling trees.

Absolutely agree.  I don't think there would be any doubt at all.
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