Bananas.org - Anyone else growing Meyer Lemons or Kumquats?

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Originally Posted by island cassie (Post 202623)

We have had Meyers Improved Lemons in pots for 8 years now (our soil is unsuitable for them) they do great and we get 80+ lemons per plant. Not like little pointy lemons - big round fruit that taste gorgeous. The parent plant was grafted onto unknown rootstock, but the cuttings seem to grow in the same form so I am not sure why the grafting was needed in the first place. Great for Margaritas!!!!

hey cassie

typically they are grafted to put the scion on either a dwarfing rootstock or one with more disease and or cold resistance. I have read on other citrus forums that meyers do OK on their own roots, as in cuttings, but do better on other rootstocks. I know a lot of people who have great looking trees grown from cuttings so I dont really have an opinion on what was is "better"

Mike