The Tropical Fruit Forum

Has anyone ever heard of this? I recently stumbled across this a little bit ago. I did not know that there was a variegated variety of the flying dragon! Definitely on my plants most wanted list.

I wish to get a fruiting flying dragon for my own personal use of rootstock. Keep it in a container. Has anyone tried rooting cuttings from a fruiting FD? Or know where one could purchase a smaller, older FD?

If anyone has any out there, cuttings or a tree, let me know I’ll pay!! I have no restrictions on me. Or any other types of lemons for that matter.

Thanks!

So I’ve had my citrus for about a year now, no issues, other than when I burned my variegated pink lemon with too much foliage pro to water... anyways that was a while ago. I’ve learned so many great things from you guys on this forum! Thank you all! Anyways, After long last, I finally have my meyer producing. It has already flowered and has small lemons forming. It had a flush of new growth! Now again I am new to the actual production of citrus, so it’s cool to have a functioning tree and all, but the lemon seems to be dropping quite a few leaves. Maybe 3 a day since the lemons set. I have a 600w LED panel at 14 hours a day (1200umol/m/s^2) plus some other supplemental lights until my citrus can be outdoors again in the summer. I also supply bottom heat, temps are anywhere from 70F to 80F (21C to 28C) at all times.

I have a water meter set at the bottom of the root base when I planted it a month ago in the 5-1-1 mix I made, it hasn’t shown any negative symptoms until the fruit actually set. None of the fruit has fallen, only quite a few of the old leaves, along with a few portions of new growth has shriveled. I know Meyers are very picky, however I haven’t changed anything for it recently.. I water when the meter is on 2/8 (1 being bone dry and 8 being soaked) with 5ml of foliage pro to a gal (macro 9-3-6 + trace), and add a slow release of 19-6-12. I carefully measure now a days since I burned one plant that’s still in recovery as stated before.

My calamondin is doing just peachy, setting fruit and new flowers everywhere. Fruit of all stages. No issues there. My others are pushing out new growth like crazy, no issues.

Long story short, Basically, just wondering if some leaf drop on these Meyers is normal during production. Geez I treat these plants like my children!   
Sorry for the long post! Thanks!
 

Recently, I have finally found a vendor for citrus up in the north woods of Wisconsin! To my luck, it was a buy one get one. So you know how that went... my question is, are all of record buck farms citrus rooted? I can see how the Meyer and calamondin are, but can’t imagine grapefruit and kumquats being sold as rooted plants. There’s no graft junction to be seen. Can’t seem to find any info on them!

I’m building my own cheapo mist cloner. 5 gal bucket, some holes cut in the lid, foam to hold the cuttings, 90gph pump with a 360 sprayer toward the top to hit the cuttings. I don’t know what kind of rooting hormone I will use but probably some gel..

Has anyone used these to do citrus cuttings? I have a buddy who claims to do this a lot and have great success. He keeps light low and it on 24/7, water temps around 60F. I wanted to try my luck! He says he barely ever used hormone and his calamondin rooted 100% of the time after 2 weeks.

Hello!

This is my first (after multiple smaller scale practices) grafting. I did it as of Nov 22nd. My last image shows the technique I used. Also I used a Xei Shan scion, on a dwarf trifoliate (FD) 1 year old rootstock. How long before the parafilm needs to come off? Will the leaves shoot out like this before the graft is successful?

Thanks for any input! I’m amazed with this community’s help and I’ve learned so much because of it!

 

I have received many cuttings and seeds from an amazing member here. I am wondering if any of you have experience in the difficulty of rooting these cuttings and fruiting and such. I have meiwa kumquat, finger limes, and ponderosa lemon cuttings along with a ton of meiwa fruit. I was told many times that kumquats suck on their own roots, so is rooting them ideal? I am really looking forward to the meiwa as I just tried its fruit, I didn’t know it would taste so good! And the finger lime of course.

Otherwise I have two month old rootstock that may size up. Thoughts and opinions?

I like growing my own dwarf trees from seed and rootstock, it's all a part of the experience. I am stumped on what people use for dwarfing rootstock of mango? Reason: I am limited to containers and wish to get produce. Any help is appreciated on what people might use!

In wisconsin, so no regulations on me! I am looking to actually root some cuttings. I currently have limes going but was told they're not all that easy. I want to have some success, and was told Meyers are the way to go. I was told they barely need rooting hormones to be grown! Does anyone have any scions they would be willing to part with? I will pay for them and shipping.

I love growing citrus from seeds, I'm wondering if anyone has any fast fruiting varieties? I'd be into anything really!

Hello!

I am a northern container gardener. I live in zone 5A but have a suitable environment set up in my apartment. I have things from potted citrus to dwarf coffee. I am in search of other dwarf varieties that I can grow in containers up here. Let me know if anyone has anything! Prefer things that will eventually fruit given container conditions, or things I can use as a rootstock to graft and force fruit. I have several plants I can trade, or PayPal works great too.

Thank you!

Frank