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Joe:
My Oroblanco is the mother host of my Dancy. It is just an experiment thinking that OB and pommelo are both in the same family so that they maybe compatible with mandarins. Because your clemenule do a superb growth in my Chandler pommelo. So I am testing a mandarin graft to a pomello family.
I also added a couple of seedless kishu (mandarin) in two branches.
I have an oroblanco tree that really perks up with nice new stem and foliage but it is only perhaps 3 feet tall. And thinking that pommelos has an unsweetened fruit in my area due to low tempt in Summer, so probably does OB's. So I am just using them as mother host.
Too bad because EZ's OBs are really taking off and very vigorous.
So I might not be able to taste that superb taste that EZ sampled for us.
But all is not lost. I have a sister who lives in Stockton that I will graft a bunch of EZ's OBs there.
What are your thoughts in my way of thinking?

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Joe:
As to your question on how is the OB growth in my area?
Well I am not sure.
They surely are slow growers. I have 2 OB plants. One is very slow and appears to be dying. It used to be very vigorous and the fruits were all over for a 2 1/2foot plant but all of a sudden the branches started browning so I started to trim them until I only have about 3 branches left and I transferred it to a new pot. The leaves appeared to be half wilted for many months but 3 months ago it started perking up. So last week I grafted 3 clemenules on it.
My other OB I just noticed 3 months ago that it is the most green and healthiest of all my citruses during the winter. And EZ's OB are also very green and healthy. I think iEZ's oro's is 2nd fastest grower now barring the Chandler.

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Here's one of my OBs of yesteryear:

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Benny, the OB would be perfect in Stockton/Modesto Area. Fellow local CRFG'ers have fantastic samples, perhaps nearly as good as EZ's during one of the meetings.

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Thanks!

Here's another pic

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And my other plants including bananas, midknight orange and lychees in front

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This pic are not new grafts but about 6 months and they are now flowering. I grafted them last spring and now they are budding with flowers.
This is just a sample. I have many many grafts that I did on my many plants. Most notable is my santa rosa plum as the mother host. I grafted many European plums on the canopy and now they are in blooms. Will post later once I get their names.

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I did not graft today but I just want to show you the canopy of my Santa Rosa Plum that I grafted various European plums.
I will just list most of the names because to write it on the pictures will be so many. Each variety is grafted more than once.
Here they are:
Reincloud de Juliett European plum
Golden transparent gage E. plum
Mirabel de Metz
Parfume Septemre plum
Cienocle Mirabelle E. plum
Sanois Purple plum
green gage plum
old green gage plum
Jiro plum
Kirkes Blue E. plum

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And on my satsuma plum I grafted many plums, plouts and nectarine.
Notice the pink flower of the (white) nectarine?compared to adjacent flowers (white).

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Benny, check your email. I'll be sending you the unreleased Tachina plum. Need mailing address.

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Thanks Joe.
PM sent.

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You can graft a feshly bought bare-rooted tree. You will just have to take out more than 4/5 of the original stems and then graft over them. By removing more than 80% of the existing stems, this gives enough balance for roots to support your grafts.

This is my new 5-n-1 cherry tree. Next year, it will have more. This is how some trees get started in my yard. I got them on the cheap from big box stores, prune severly and graft over them. So I love to select bare rooted fruit trees with nice branches. See how they are sprouting already? Some will even bear fruits the year they are grafted and doesn't seem to slow them down.


By joereal at 2008-03-18

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This used to be a chance seedlings that grew from the fallen fruits of my multi-grafted plum tree. Now it is grafted over. No prunus seedling is safe in my yard. It will be off with their heads and be grafted over. I will dig this out next year and give as gifts to friends. The grafting operation on seedlings is the fastest. Less than a minute to do. In large trees, it takes me more than a day to graft, probably taking 23 hours and 58 minutes to decide where to graft and a couple of minutes to do the operation


By joereal at 2008-03-18

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Aluminum Foil is used to shade out in case the sunlight gets too intense in the afternoon. Only the south side of the graft is shielded. Notice that the union is not covered with aluminum, only the upper scionwood. The scionwood that I used on this one is non-dormant. You can use non-dormant wood any time too, provided you keep the scionwood alive during transport in a cooled container, and then when you graft them, you will have to shield them from overheating, and one of the quickest way to do that is to use aluminum foil. Shown here is a non-dormant scionwood that I grafted.


By joereal at 2008-03-18

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These lucky Flying Dragons, waiting in line to be grafted over. I'm just waiting for the growth flushes. The secret in grafting citrus successfully is to wait for the growth flushes. By then the barks would be slipping and the operation successful and actually faster to do. One way is to bring them indoors by the south facing window. But my room with that window is already crowded, so these lucky specimens are waiting it out for the warmer days to flush and then be grafted over with the best cultivars. Some lucky friends will receive these as gifts someday.


By joereal at 2008-03-18

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Thanks for a very informative lessons on grafting Joe. They are all there waiting for us to do it only if you think about it. The trouble is, it never enters my mind.
Now you are giving me ideas.

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Here's an apple pink something given to my wife by her coworker a member of CRFG. It was given when only about 6 inches tall. The main branch was already grafted 5 times to my Fuji apple due to an accident cut by unknown reason .
This is a good candidate as mother host for many other apples. Correct Joe? Newly transplanted on the ground.
I did not think of using this as mother host until you post the above pics.

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And yes a couple of days ago I grafted Granny apple and pippin apple to my Fuji and appear to be taking.
I still have pippin apple left from the CRFG meeting so I will graft them the the apple pink.
Also after drastically cut my Italian prune I pruned the Fuji apple .

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question: when you prune your trees, can you root what you have pruned and still get the same kind of apples? or pears?

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Mskitty:
Richard is the one who can answer you. My guess is yes because I used to do marcotting or air layering before and I get the same fruit when they fruit.