The Tropical Fruit Forum

I sent an email to Tintori company to learn if the original DVD has a subtitle.

Volkameriana is a great rootstock for a nursery. As I observed it is the quickest rootstock to appear at grafting stage and it is also very strong and even under weak nursery conditions it grows very well without much care.
Actually Volkameriana is the reason I got excited to start nursery again. It becomes very popular with growers here because lemon trees on it is are very healthy, vigorous and productive. So farmers are asking for it and the availability is limited.
It would be great for big container and garden ornamentals but I don't think the small trees we discuss here will benefit from Volkameriana.

But I will definitely try some ornamental tree budwoods on them to see how it will work. I have around 130.000 Volkameriana seeds at the fridge, enough to make any experiment

Thank you for your opinions.
My first kumquat was one of these small trees that are sold in flower shops, not nurseries. It was so expensive and I hesitated to buy one, then I noticed my cousin bought me one as present when I was thinking at a corner
The price at that time was 10x of current prices. But that tree lived happily at my balcony for 3 years and then I made almost a thousand kumquat tree using it as source.

I know what Radoslav mean when he says scam but I see these ornamental trees as quality cut flowers or ornamental flowers that are sold at corners as Millet mentioned. It is a nice touch in someone's life even for a period. Like buying a violet in a vase from the corner supermarket.

Millet, I will mention your name on company website as "great doyen advisor" and it will be your business from then And I will be pleased to send you a tree anytime before reaching the million

Anytime I talk to someone and when they learn I am doing citrus business the first thing they ask is those small orange fruits that can be eaten with the peel and they can grow in a container at their balcony. "Yes" I reply; "the kumquats."

So actually I will be pleased to talk about the technic more.

1. Can you identify the rootstock from the photo. Yes it is a trifoliata but which?
2. Do you think it is a cleft graft or do you have different ideas?

My first kumquat is almost 10 years old and it is still 1m tall, I suspect it is a flying dragon.
I found out C35 is a perfect rootstock for kumquat, it makes the tree semi-dwarf but it helps branching from the bud point. So the tree starts with 3-4 branches just from the bud union and the result is a compact very beautiful tree.

Hello,

I just watched the video of Citrina, an ornamental dwarf citrus tree company in Portugal, it is very very impressive.

Please watch the video here;
https://www.citrina-plants.com/en/citrina/

This is what I dream to do as business in a longer period, very satisfying.

The main process should be;

1. Using a dwarf rootstock such as flying dragon and making a very strong root structure. ( On 00:44 rootstock leaves are visible and easy to identify I guess, I couldn't identify though)
2. It seems that at some point where the rootstock is 25-30cm long, and small in diameter they cut it and cleft graft the scion (00:44)
3. The rest is a well planned nutrition I guess.

I am sorry for your tree Radoslav.

 It is one of the best varieties I've tasted.
One disadvantage is; it makes too much cracked fruit. (I don't know right term for it in English but fruit peel gets cracked and fruits drop.)

Robinson trees like hard pruning very much and it really increases yield.

Thank you Millet Robinsons are getting imported every year and it is one of the profitable varieties. W.Murcott is the leading variety at the moment as price per kg.
Satsumas are sold domestically in September and October.

I can't list 4 for each but my anytime favourites and must-have trees are;

Euroka lemon, Cara Cara Blood orange and Robinson mandarin.

Thank you very much Radoslav, I will check this.

Thank you very much Millet.
Actually the symptoms I see on internet don't look very similar to our situation. Also we haven't notice much problems on fruits. But in any case it is very easy to try applying the correct fungisit and check the result. We will see.

Have a nice day

Thank you Millet. I was wrong in terms and product names I think, sorry.

I will germinate seeds in 60 cell Rootmaker tray and transplant seedlings from Rootmaker to Proptek 12" deep pots as seen in the video below;
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aBzEUUtW_rQ

Because the Rootmakers will develop a strong root system, the chance of deformation of seedling roots while transplanting by workers, will be minimum.
Then in Proptek we can grow them to trees and bud them in those deep pots.

I just can't see in the video how they water the pots. I can't see in the video below neither;
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-XvCQDnFE3g

Hello,

What do you think of Proptek air pruning pots? I see on Youtube videos, many citrus nurseries use that kind of square shaped, long pots with air pruning.
They are easy to handle and store in nursery.
Maybe next step after Rootmaker tray can be these pots.

Especially these 8 cell tray, long versions seems very promising.

https://www.proptek.com/trays/shrub-trays/008pifnd-8-cell-tray/240

https://www.proptek.com/dbfiles/products/286/008PIFF1_dummy_00PIFFN-008PIFFD_Datasheet_180416.pdf

Btw, link to the book;

https://edis.ifas.ufl.edu/pdffiles/SS/SS47800.pdf

Thank you Millet. Salinity of the soil is low and after Dr.Whitcomb's warning many years ago, we know that our water is also good.
But the soil is calcareous.

Now for the rest of the tress alive, we will apply 5 lbs of Mn as MnSO₄ and 5 lbs of Zn as ZnO foliar spray and we will repeat this in the spring and I will share the results with you and keep this thread alive as a record.

Thank you all