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Originally Posted by momoese
That was a geat post Joe! I think I'll try my hand at grafting one of these days. Is there a preferred rootstock to graft onto? I have a Page Tangerine that was grafted to whatever kind of roostock they used. Maybe I'd better served to buy a larger citrus tree from a nursery center and use that?
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The best rootstocks for a home grower in containers would be Flying Dragon rootstocks. Otherwise if you want inground, you can go to Walmart and buy the Citripots (4"x4"x16" square pots) that are under $11. They make excellent vigorous trees if you plant them right away. I suggest you use the Valencia orange or Washington Navel Citripots, they make good trees to graft to. Avoid the lemons and grapefruits as stocks unless you really wanted to for other reasons. The grafts of mandarins and sweet oranges unto them will take a long time to produce high quality fruits. If you use mandarin or kumquat type citrus trees as stock, expect very slow growth and low take of graft (difficult to get a take) if inground, and again, if you want dwarf trees, they would be okay. If you use clementine type as stocks, they will produce numerous branches and hard to balance. But these are general advices, you can actually use whatever suits your specific goals very well.
You can use the ones in the 5-gallon pots but these are more expensive.
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