Thanks, hopefully I will get a large amount of fruit on them this year then!

WE'RE ALL GONNA BE RICH!!!! 

Can you buy key lime fruit there?  It is common in grocery stores in the US. 

Also, I think the greening disease is spread by insects and would not be a risk from imported seed. 

Me too, and I'm jealous that all your structures are made out of stone.  We get cheap wood construction in the US.

Maybe cut strips of metal from a soda/beer can and write on it with a ballpoint pen?  I would think it would leave enough imprint to last forever.

Wow, I had no idea any citrus would survive in Ann Arbor.  I used to live there, nice place.  Winter didn't seem harsher than Pennsylvania but it sure lasted longer.

You might be able to grow them in a burlap bag or wrapped landscaping fabric to acheive a similar effect, not sure.   I think some people do a fabric bad inside of another pot.

The website has pretty good info: http://citrus.forumup.org/viewtopic.php?t=8229&highlight=rootmaker&mforum=citrus

I ordered the 100ft roll from a hydroponics website and repotted all of my trees in them.  100ft should make around 25-30 1ft-diameter pots which are about the size of a 5-gallon nursery pot, maybe larger.  I zip tie sturdy landscape fabric to the bottom after assemblind the pots because I move them around a lot, but it seems once the roots take hold you don't even need a bottom. 




They are fairly expensive, I think I paid around $350 for the roll.  I'm not sure how much normal pots cost because all of mine were from other purchased orchard trees that I saved, I've never actually paid for pots aside from these so who knows.  They are sturdy and reusable and once the trees outgrow the assembled pots it looks like you can just join two pieces together to make a larger one.

They sell individual pots of all sizes but I've never tried them. 

I have to say I'm really sold on these.  Millet sent me a sample last year and it clearly fixes the circling root problem.  Thanks again, Millet.

# This is a moro blood orange on unknown rootstock from Home Depot.

Here is the tree last summer as purchased:



And today:

I just received a tree from them and it was exactly as advertised.  Details here: http://tropicalfruitforum.com/index.php?topic=10129.msg133620#msg133620

I ordered direct from the lemontreecitrus.com site, not through Amazon.  Maybe the florida recall incidents were just a supplier issue after all.  My tree appears to have shipped from Lousiana, according to the tracking info.

I finally got a hold of Ruth at Harris Citrus on a number that an employee gave me.  She said they have Xie Shan grafted but they won't be ready for sale until July-August. 

Also, my Nippon Orangequat should be arriving from Lemoncitrustree.com some time today.  According to the shipment tracking it came from New Orleans, LA.  I'll post a picture when I get it.

They've definitely had plenty of water since they arrived.  I'm wondering if either they dried out too much during shipping, or if the <55F temps we've been having the past few days are preventing the roots from hydrating the rest of the plan.  I've seen this before but it never lasted more than a day or two and I'm going on five days now...

Ah.  It sounds interesting but I would want to see side-by-side proof before I do the additional work.  The more trees I have the lazier I need to be!  This sounds like an easy experiment to run on two trays of seedlings, though.