It depends upon your weather. I have written an article that will help you to figure out the best time for your climate: www.fruitmentor.com/grafting-citrus-trees-best-time
I just saw grafting of tree on 5 min craft. I thought o was just going to do it but then decided to watch a video. I didn't know any of this and that it could be a risk to my tree. I was very interested in a tree with both lemons and oranges. We can't cut down that lemon tree like you did. It supplies us with lemons and is very precious to us.
Your video is so well done that I’m compelled to subscribe. You are very thorough. Thanks for taking the time to make this video and sharing this information.
Such a Fantastic Job of instructions with Video! I'm in San Antonio, Texas and have a variety of Lemon Trees growing including my favorite "Valley Lemons". I have two older Lemons trees in the ground (approximately 6 years old) that haven't given me any fruit. I'm going to try your method. I have a lemon tree (Variety unknow as it grow wild) that grows Lemons almost the size of a grapefruit. Everyone freaks out on them and they smell an taste delicious! I'm going to try and graft this species this spring.
Hi, I’ve been watching your videos to learn how to graft and this technique has worked and successfully took. I did three grafts onto one rootstock. Two took and I’m not sure if I can let the two grafts grow? Should I cut one off and only let the other grow? Thank you
I got a mail order lemon tree that had a broken piece. The piece was just a green shoot but decided to use hormone growth anyways. It stayed green for a month or two with nothing to show, then boom growth! Anyways thank you for the grafting lesson, quite impressive.
What do you mean by micro budding? I have published one video on shoot-tip grafting which would seem to fit the definition of micro budding: ua-cam.com/video/Q1dEG3aQa7E/v-deo.html I'm guessing that you meant something else, though. Did you mean just regular budding to a small rootstock and not necessarily under a microscope? I'm about to work on a video and that is what I was thinking of making. Thank you for the suggestion!
We have a lemon tree in our garden. Maybe you know that in winter twigs small branches and leaves are cut from tree. But the whole branches were cut down so only trunk remained. I'm not sure maybe almost all branches were cut off. The tree was supposed to grow it's branches leaves and lemon back but it didn't. Can you please tell why. Those lemons were really precious since there are not good lemons here
Hello sir are you fine i am Algérie and I'm still subscribed to your video please sir in what month we practice the method T budding for citrus fruits thanks
Great video, excellent grafting. I just read below where this person asked what is the best time to graph, i can tell you this, from my experience the best time to graft and be 98 % successful is right after the plant is coming out of dormancy, once you the plant starts producing new buds, go graft crazy. To do a successful graft play attention to what you are doing and protect that graft. April is a great time to do it, i just grafted two apple trees successfully. Thanks for sharing.
Thank you! That works well for most types of fruit trees. Citrus is a little different and temperature is important. I explain in detail in this article: www.fruitmentor.com/grafting-citrus-trees-best-time
Wow i just learned to germinate my lemon seeds last week my tree.just sprouted now.i know how to graft now i gotta figure what to graft with ..............gardening is sooo healing
I have successfully grafted an apple tree on my garden thanks to your videos. May I ask you a question? I've been thinking to try grafting several lemon trees which I train in bonsai-like style. Which type of grafting is the least noticeable and better heals over the time? I'm going to use buds from the same tree of course. Greetings from Russia!
Thank you! I am glad that you have found the videos helpful! I think a whip graft would be the least noticeable for your situation, but it may be a bit more challenging. But if you are doing bonsai, I bet you are up for it! With enough time any sort of scion graft will heal nicely and become harder to notice, but the graft union is usually still visible to some degree depending upon the difference between scion and rootstock. For example after a few years my bark grafts and cleft grafts can be hard to notice. But if you are growing in a pot I guess it may take more time and a whip graft may be the best.
Hello, thank you for the great videos. I have a question regarding grafting two different citrus trees. I have been attempting to graft my Meir lemon and blood orange trees together to get both fruits from one tree. I have had no success. Is this possible and if so what method would you suggest?
Hello! One of the best chanels and website on this topic, keep up the good work and thanks for sharing all this knolage! But is posible to obtain fruits from a citrus tree without graftig? Thanks!
Thank you! It is possible to get a citrus tree to fruit from a seed, but it usually takes many years. You man enjoy this article: fruitmentor.com/breeding-growing-citrus-from-seed
Your video is very clear. How many days would you leave the grafts wrapped in the vinyl tape? I live in Florida and by mere chance got 3 lemon trees from seeds I had thrown into the compost bin. I do not want to throw them away hence trying to graft them. Right now they are less than a foot tall. When should I graft them?
Thank you. I normally leave them wrapped for three to four weeks. Here is an article that I wrote on timing: www.fruitmentor.com/grafting-citrus-trees-best-time
Good afternoon and thank you for the great video series you have provided. I am just starting out in grafting and have received cuttings from the CCPP today. I live in Phoenix and I'm grafting to an existing lemon tree. I'm using improved Meyer and Th eNZ Sweet lemon. Any suggestions of the type of graft I should use? Thanks in advance!
You're welcome! The type of graft will depend upon how big of a branch you want to graft to. If you are grafting a big branch, you could try the patch bud. Cleft grafting might be a good choice if the scion is about the same size as the branch.
@fruitmentor Thanks, very helpful informations!! 😉 Could you please make a video explaining how to choose the right bud or scion for the grafting? I think the biggest problem of a beginner when he's in front of the plant is how to choose them. 🤷🏻♂️😅 Thanks!
Will this work if i want to add a branch to one side of a 2 year old plum and not necessarily remove the rootstock's growth above it? This is to create a better-positioned primary lateral branch.
hi . doing good job. thankgul to u. can u clarify in detail about lemon grafting or budding? my 1st Question is that.. in grafting should we collect or use cutting from another plant or the same plant? i understand that grafting is done so that plant which is not giving fruit will start giving fruit after grafting or budding? 2nd if we paste same plant cutting during grafting however it is unable to grow lemon so after grafting it will start to grow fruit? need a detail clarification to remove a general confussion.
I enjoyed your video and then I T-Bud grafted New Zealand lemonade to both Seville sour orange and US897 and I have one on C35. when they fruit can I expect differences in taste from 1 tree or the others.
Thank you. I am glad that you enjoyed the video. I think it is possible that there could be slight differences between the fruits from your three trees. They will probably be very similar, though. Please let me know how they turn out when they fruit. I would expect that the fruit from the three would all be good if you have the right climate.
Thank you nice video ! now I understand why the bud of my tree (avocado tree) does not start! it's still green with a little bud. I have not yet broken the trunk above the grafted bud ... because I told myself that it is he who would raise the sap and spread it in the tree ... and we must preserve it until the bud start! But your video showed me that I was wrong Thank you !
The citrus T-bud graft should heal in 3 or 4 weeks if the temperature is warm enough. I haven’t tried t-budding mangoes, so I’m not sure. But chip budding should work well.
You're welcome! I am glad that you found the video helpful. For this particular variety (lemonade lemon) I grafted to a rootstock (carrizo) normally used for oranges. Most lemons would be grafted onto other rootstocks, though.
Hi Dan. I've watched all of your videos and am curious as to what method (chip or T budding, patch or cleft grafting) you'd recommend for a first-time citrus grafter? I'm in New Zealand and watched your earlier videos, especially chip bud grafting and went to great lengths trying to obtain Parafilm - in the end paying big money for 'Buddy Tape' instead. I'm getting ready to graft a few trees this season coming up. Now I see these T bud videos using vinyl tape which I could have got cheaply and easily. Which method do you suggest I use? Chip or T budding? I'm intending to top graft to 'reduced to clear' last seasons seconds trees that are already grafted very low down. Thanks, and thanks very much for these videos.
I think T-budding is an easy method for a beginner. If the rootstock diameter is too small for a T-bud or if the bark is not slipping, then try chip budding. I have not tried buddy tape yet, but I understand that it is a good product. It is used in some citrus production nurseries in California. I believe that it saves labor costs somehow, so the high price is justified for them. For people making just a few trees the less expensive products may make more sense if they can be found. I saw buddy tape used for T-budding in a citrus production nursery. I think it must be stronger than parafilm and I expect that you could successfully use it for T-budding. With T-budding, be sure to wrap the bud tightly. I am glad to hear that you have enjoyed the videos!
Thanks for the reply, I really appreciate it. The Buddy Tape I got was, unfortunately for me the pre-perforated type, 25mm wide and 70mm long pieces. Apparently that's what the commercial guys here use but I think that for a beginner 70mm might be a bit short. I'll probably waste a bunch of them practising to work out exactly how much to stretch. So far there seems a fine line between just enough to get it 'sticky' and tight and breaking it. It cost me NZ$30 for a 570 piece (40m) roll, retail price including tax. Cheers.
You're welcome.It sounds like Buddy Tape may be more difficult to use than I imagined. I do not think you would have any issues using it on chip buds. To be safe, you could use vinyl tape on T-buds, assuming that you can find it easily. I have had T-buds fail when I did not have vinyl tape on hand and tried it with parafilm. The bark flaps lifted up and broke through the parafilm. I expect that this could be avoided with Buddy Tape.
I think that the Buddy Tape will be great once I'm skilled at using it - I'll just have to waste a few sections learning how far I need to stretch it for different grafting situations. Is the advantage of vinyl tape for T budding it's toughness? I notice that it doesn't seem to stretch very much so wondered how water-tight it would be. Thanks again for sharing your knowledge.
Yes. It helps that the vinyl tape is tough.That way it can be wrapped tightly without breaking. It does not stretch as much as some of the other wrapping materials, but it does stretch enough to help wrap the bud tightly. It is important to wrap T-buds tightly to ensure contact of cambium on the back of the bud shield with cambium of the rootstock.
My question is I have a lemon tree and have had it 3 or four years well last year it bloomed like crazy but we didn't get the first lemon .Now my question is when it blooms again would it be a good idea to cut off limbs that have no blooms ?
No, just leave it alone it should do it's thing. Just for the heck of it next time it blooms get a very soft small brush and pollinate it yourself. Look videos on UA-cam on how to pollinate a plant.
very good video, I am living in upstate new york and I have a grapefruit growing in a pot about 2 years old and I want to graft a lemon tree to it, so is it going to work and/or what's the best time to do it? very enjoy watching your videos, thanks
Hi mate thanks for your videos just subscribed. IAM in a trickle area in North Queensland Australia, probably comparable to Florida in the US. My question is do I just grow the first tree from a seed then graft that tree? IAM trying to grow pawpaw lemon lime water melon to name a few
Thanks for the subscription! For citrus you can order seeds and scions from Auscitrus. I understand that Queensland has the nasty stem pitting tristeza disease that I mentioned in the following video, so it is important to use the certified cuttings from Auscitrus for grafting citrus: ua-cam.com/video/ec1Rxxmg3YI/v-deo.html I don't know about growing pawpaw, but I would suggest looking for trees at local nurseries.
You're welcome! I moved the tree to a shady area for a few weeks to avoid the direct sunlight that might dry out the bud. Sometimes I find it helpful to cover the grafts with aluminum foil while healing.
I think it's very useful for students how to care the environment especially how to keep some kinds of plants, student do not buy plant and they bring them to their school , but The students must know how to make new generation of a plant, thee process of being a plant, thanks for the video
Thank you for such an informative video and everything you do for the public! I have many pomelo seedlings that are already 3 years old. I also have 4 lemon trees that I got by air layering. My pomelo seedling stems are not as thick as you have in this video...can I still break off and graft all over the lemon trees? And also, is it best I just don't grow the pomelo seedlings but just cut the seedlings after a foot or so and graft some other citrus variety to those? Will sumatra mandarins take on the pomelo seedlings?
If possible I would recommend grafting to a rootstock that has been bred for resistance to disease and poor soil conditions. Of your two choices I would favor the pummelo seedlings. There are so many combinations and I am not sure if anyone has ever tested mandarin on pummelo, but it might work. You would have to try it. Lemon tends to make a poor rootstock for other citrus such as oranges. I would not even grow a lemon tree from cuttings. Air layering is out of favor for propagating citrus these days as explained in this video: ua-cam.com/video/JAAe8TnP3fQ/v-deo.html
@@Fruitmentor thank you. I think I'll just graft tahitian pumello buds to these seedlings. I know the organization you mentioned has them, but if I need say 5-6, is that enough to place a minimum order? On your site I think you mentioned the Tahitian variety is by far the sweetest and best variety of the bunch. If you have and need to prune anytime too, please remember me :). I'm trying to propogate passion fruit and can trade with you passion fruit plants :D
First of all, nice and educating video. But, I have a question: The CCPP will send me some branches in Romania (Europe)? I have some lemontrees but of course, in the winter they are sleeping in the basement. Here is no danger to spred lemontree diseases.
Hi bro really awesome... But I have some doubts. After attach the part how many days after you remove the cover. And next how many days we put the plant in shadow
Great info. My lemon tree leaves have a high percentage of curling and yellowing. I have noticed white flies. Have tried insecticide, spinosate (sp) and alternating neem oil on a weekly basis. No real improvement. Any videos on insect control and fertiliation?
Thank you! I did a couple of videos that included Q&A on insects and fertilization: ua-cam.com/video/9YkvD0u3aJQ/v-deo.html ua-cam.com/video/d4JwPijoAIg/v-deo.html
Hi, i have a healthy and fully grown grapefruit tree and an orange three that is hardly growing. Will it work if i t-bud the orange to a small branch on the grapefruit tree? Thanks
I would recommend against that. If the problem with the orange tree happens to be citrus disease, you might end up infecting your grapefruit tree and harming its growth. Proper fertilization is very important for citrus, so without photos my first thought is to make sure that you are fertilizing the orange tree well.
Hi Fruit Mentor. I grow a lemon Bought from a market last year. I collect the seeds and sow them. and now the lemon tree is about 3ft tall. how many years to produce flowers and fruits ????
If you would like to grow lemons, this is not the best way. It typically takes many years and is variable. If the tree is not allowed to grow large, it may never flower. If it does eventually flower you may get bad tasting hybrid fruit depending upon the lemon variety. My mother's neighbor in Florida grew a tree to fruiting from a lemon seed and it produced bad tasting fruit.
Watched this video and successfully grafted blood orange on an old lemon 3 years ago. Thank you! Would this method be the best one if I'm grafting on smaller rootstock? Less than a 1/4" diameter seedling. Or do you recommend something else? Thanks so much for sharing your knowledge.
The question on pesticide is a complex one. I made a video with an entomologist where we talked about some of the issues with pests on citrus: ua-cam.com/video/9YkvD0u3aJQ/v-deo.html Lately I have been fertilizing my trees with fish emulsion and they are doing well with it.
Hello watched some of your videos and before I get to grafting and such would like to know how old was the root stock you grafted to and how long do you think this tree will take to bear fruit? Also in one of your other videos you grafted onto a rootstock cutting I’m thinking of possibly ordering some Budwood and possible root stock but would like to know how long it took them to grow and how long to expect for them to start producing. Anyways thanks for the informative videos as this has helped me a lot.
In this video I grafted to a rootstock that I had growing in a container for several years. The graft will grow faster if the graft is on a younger and more vigorous rootstock. This tree does not have fruit yet, but most of the trees that I grafted at the same time do have fruit now. I would have done better to use a younger rootstock. I think the grafting and rooting a rootstock is the most difficult technique. I would recommend grafting to a young rootstock seedling instead. It is possible to get fruit the next year, but it is more likely if grafting to an established tree.
@@Fruitmentor I am growing a few trifoliata rootstock and would like to know at what size should I envision grafting. And how long on average will it take for my rootstock to get to that size ? Thanks
Can I use a lemon tree I grew from seeds of a lemon fruit I bought at the grocery store as a rootstock ? Is it true that lemon trees from seeds can give fruits identical to the original plant the lemon came from ?
You could use your grocery store seedling tree as a rootstock, but the results might be disappointing. The rootstock affects fruit characteristics and the grocery store seedling will be an unknown. Fruit quality also depends upon the variety grafted to the rootstock. Many commercial rootstocks have been selected for disease resistance and other reasons. Your grocery store seedling would likely be inferior and could be more disease prone or have poor roots in comparison to a typical rootstock. It is true that some citrus varieties grown from seed can give fruits identical to the original plant. This is called nucellar embryony. The following publication indicates that Eureka and Lisbon lemons give low numbers of nuclear embryos: websites.lib.ucr.edu/agnic/webber/Vol2/Chapter2_4.htm#nucellarembryos So for a Eureka or Lisbon lemon seedling, the fruit is likely to be a disappointing hybrid, but there is a small chance that a seedling would be a clone. This varies for different citrus varieties. I believe that seeds of the lemonade lemon, the variety that I grafted in this video, are likely to produce clones of the mother plant. Grafted plants still have many advantages, however. A seed-grown citrus tree will often take many years to produce fruit. I would like to have lemonade fruit as soon as possible and a grafted tree will produce fruit much sooner. A seed-grown plant may also be dangerously thorny compared to a grafted plant.
My future son-in-law just purchased a house. There is a root stock tree about 6-8 feet tall with multiple branches. Growing from this root stock is an obviously grafted section which appears to be a satsuma tree, with green fruit on it at present. The small satsuma section (2-3 feet tall) is dwarfed by the rest of the root stock. Would it be possible to graft more satsumas or some lemons to this same root stock? Whether that is done or not, should the root stock tree be cut away from the small fruit tree portion? When and how drastically? We are in south Louisiana, where satsumas are a fall staple.
You could graft to that branch, but I would recommend pruning it off. I have tried grafts like that and my observation is that it tends to result in more rootstock suckers. So I think it is better to prune it of. One of these escaped me until it was quite large because the leaves were similar to the grafted variety and I pruned it all off drastically. If you want to add other varieties to your tree, you can add them to the satsuma portion.
Hello sir my citrus tree got a root shock due to replantation but the issue is the plant is not growing any more it's 2monthts since I replanted it....... Plz help
Nice video! I have a tree, came with the house i bought 15 years ago. I've left it in place cause of the shade and citrus flowers, but the fruit is alien looking, spongy, no juice. I wonder if it is diseased and how to treat it if yes. Or is grafting a solution? I live in North East Los Angeles.
ive been growing a lemon tree from a store bought lemon since 2015. i have yet to see flowerd or fruit, i hsve tons of thorns, ive beeen deciding to graft from a 222 year old meyer lemon tree. Should i wait a few more years to see if it blooms? any information or advice is greatly appreciated
Where do you live? Where do you intend to grow the tree? Outside or in a container? The 222 year old Meyer lemon tree seems doubtful because Meyer brought it back from China in 1908: web.archive.org/web/20210122223501/citrusvariety.ucr.edu/citrus/improvedmeyer.html The variety that Meyer brought back had citrus diseases that were later removed. A tree from a store-bought lemon could also have diseases: ua-cam.com/video/ec1Rxxmg3YI/v-deo.html
@@Fruitmentor im growing it from a seed. Just was curious if it would produce fruit eventually. It grows outside in summer and brought inside for winter.
Growing it in a pot would make it difficult to get it to fruit. The tree has to grow quite a bit to make it possible. It can take many years for a seedling citrus tree to bear fruit even if planted in the ground. Even if your tree eventually fruited the fruit might be terrible. If you live somewhere where it is too cold to grow citrus outside, you could probably graft your tree without worrying too much about spreading diseases.
What if you just want to graft a branch of a different variety onto an established tree? Would the same principles apply toward a single branch rather than a whole young rootstock?
I would recommend other grafting techniques over T-budding for grafting a new variety to an established tree. T-buds are sometimes swallowed by the growth of the original branch before they grow. Patch budding is a nice technique that avoids this problem: ua-cam.com/video/_w051zyackM/v-deo.html
Which method is better this or the bud patch graft? Also will it work on other fruits? I ordered a pear ( Quince A), peach (St Julian A) and a cherry (Colt)
It depends upon what you are grafting. For a young seedling both should be OK. For a branch of a tree the patch budding technique may be better. If a T-bud takes too long to grow it can be swallowed by the target branch; this should not happen with the patch bud. Another thing to keep in mind is whether the bark is slipping or not. If the bark is not slipping, chip budding may be better than patch budding or T budding. For other fruits like pear, peach, or cherry I would normally perform a scion graft. If you prefer budding, the chip bud may work better because the bark is not slipping.
I want to add a variety to a small existing tree. If I graft a bud directly on to the trunk, I can’t really cut off the tree above that point like you did in the video. Will this still work?
Sometimes the bud can bloom right away and you get a flower instead of a new branch. In this case break off the flower. It is more typical to see blooms the next year at the normal flowering time in the spring.
Another professionally done and informative video, Dan! Thanks for sharing! Liked and subscribed! Is T-budding applicable to other fruit trees as well, Dan?
thank you it was good video ,one question i live in Houston TX, what is the best time to graft citrus trees
It depends upon your weather. I have written an article that will help you to figure out the best time for your climate:
www.fruitmentor.com/grafting-citrus-trees-best-time
fruitmentor what you have binded that which tape is that
This web pages shows the tools and supplies (such as grafting tape) that I used:
fruitmentor.com/GraftingTools
I'm from Houston TX too and the weather here is crazy 😑
Plzzz tell
I'm a commercial citrus grower. This is an excellent video on the most typical graft that we use.
Great great video!!!! Quick, targeted and with high definition and clean takes. Thank you! Enjoy your fruits!
Thank you! I am glad that you enjoyed the video!
Well done! Super detailed content that cleared up so many questions! You're very passionate about this.
I appreciate that!
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I just saw grafting of tree on 5 min craft. I thought o was just going to do it but then decided to watch a video. I didn't know any of this and that it could be a risk to my tree. I was very interested in a tree with both lemons and oranges. We can't cut down that lemon tree like you did. It supplies us with lemons and is very precious to us.
Wow didn't know this was going to be so complicated but fascinating. Awesome job
Thank you!
The hormone part surprised me, unspoken of in other videos probably to keep trade secrets
Your video is so well done that I’m compelled to subscribe. You are very thorough. Thanks for taking the time to make this video and sharing this information.
Thank you! I appreciate the feedback!
Such a Fantastic Job of instructions with Video! I'm in San Antonio, Texas and have a variety of Lemon Trees growing including my favorite "Valley Lemons". I have two older Lemons trees in the ground (approximately 6 years old) that haven't given me any fruit. I'm going to try your method. I have a lemon tree (Variety unknow as it grow wild) that grows Lemons almost the size of a grapefruit. Everyone freaks out on them and they smell an taste delicious! I'm going to try and graft this species this spring.
Wow! Watching your grafting like a doctor doing operation on a plant like lemon! Wonderful!
Thank you! I am glad that you enjoyed it!
Best video on grafting Lemonade trees ever, love your work!!
Love your videos, I watch them every year 😂
Thank you
Glad you like them!
Hi, I’ve been watching your videos to learn how to graft and this technique has worked and successfully took. I did three grafts onto one rootstock. Two took and I’m not sure if I can let the two grafts grow? Should I cut one off and only let the other grow? Thank you
I got a mail order lemon tree that had a broken piece. The piece was just a green shoot but decided to use hormone growth anyways. It stayed green for a month or two with nothing to show, then boom growth! Anyways thank you for the grafting lesson, quite impressive.
Great video on the bud graft! I've used this method and it worked. I grafted a lemon to a lime.
Thank you! I am glad that you enjoyed the video.
Hi sir i had watched all you videos about citrus grafting which is very much informative please make one video on micro budding requesting you sir
What do you mean by micro budding? I have published one video on shoot-tip grafting which would seem to fit the definition of micro budding:
ua-cam.com/video/Q1dEG3aQa7E/v-deo.html
I'm guessing that you meant something else, though.
Did you mean just regular budding to a small rootstock and not necessarily under a microscope?
I'm about to work on a video and that is what I was thinking of making.
Thank you for the suggestion!
Awesome and informative. Your video was the suggested one from my Google search. Answered exactly what I needed to know. Dropped a like.
Thank you!
We have a lemon tree in our garden. Maybe you know that in winter twigs small branches and leaves are cut from tree. But the whole branches were cut down so only trunk remained. I'm not sure maybe almost all branches were cut off. The tree was supposed to grow it's branches leaves and lemon back but it didn't. Can you please tell why. Those lemons were really precious since there are not good lemons here
Hello sir are you fine i am Algérie and I'm still subscribed to your video please sir in what month we practice the method T budding for citrus fruits thanks
Thanks for the info. Just grafted a lime tree to a lemon tree.
You're welcome!
Good morning Sir how can't I get that chemical for grafting
thank u sir
i had tried the same drafting technique with hibiscus plant and it is successful
thanks a lot for showing the different type of drafting
You're welcome! I am glad that you enjoyed it!
Great video, excellent grafting. I just read below where this person asked what is the best time to graph, i can tell you this, from my experience the best time to graft and be 98 % successful is right after the plant is coming out of dormancy, once you the plant starts producing new buds, go graft crazy. To do a successful graft play attention to what you are doing and protect that graft. April is a great time to do it, i just grafted two apple trees successfully. Thanks for sharing.
Thank you! That works well for most types of fruit trees. Citrus is a little different and temperature is important. I explain in detail in this article:
www.fruitmentor.com/grafting-citrus-trees-best-time
Wow…great information that I didn’t know. Thanks so much for making this video.
Thank you!
Wow i just learned to germinate my lemon seeds last week my tree.just sprouted now.i know how to graft now i gotta figure what to graft with ..............gardening is sooo healing
I have succeeded in my Grafting thank you
I have successfully grafted an apple tree on my garden thanks to your videos. May I ask you a question? I've been thinking to try grafting several lemon trees which I train in bonsai-like style. Which type of grafting is the least noticeable and better heals over the time? I'm going to use buds from the same tree of course. Greetings from Russia!
Thank you! I am glad that you have found the videos helpful! I think a whip graft would be the least noticeable for your situation, but it may be a bit more challenging. But if you are doing bonsai, I bet you are up for it! With enough time any sort of scion graft will heal nicely and become harder to notice, but the graft union is usually still visible to some degree depending upon the difference between scion and rootstock. For example after a few years my bark grafts and cleft grafts can be hard to notice. But if you are growing in a pot I guess it may take more time and a whip graft may be the best.
fruitmentor Thank you kindly. Can't wait to try it.
Thank you so much to share your idea can you tell what month is good for grafting special in San Francisco California Thank you
Hello, thank you for the great videos. I have a question regarding grafting two different citrus trees. I have been attempting to graft my Meir lemon and blood orange trees together to get both fruits from one tree. I have had no success. Is this possible and if so what method would you suggest?
Hello!
One of the best chanels and website on this topic, keep up the good work and thanks for sharing all this knolage!
But is posible to obtain fruits from a citrus tree without graftig?
Thanks!
Thank you! It is possible to get a citrus tree to fruit from a seed, but it usually takes many years. You man enjoy this article:
fruitmentor.com/breeding-growing-citrus-from-seed
A very good instructor. Be blessed.
Thank you!
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You're welcome!
Your video is very clear. How many days would you leave the grafts wrapped in the vinyl tape? I live in Florida and by mere chance got 3 lemon trees from seeds I had thrown into the compost bin. I do not want to throw them away hence trying to graft them. Right now they are less than a foot tall. When should I graft them?
Thank you. I normally leave them wrapped for three to four weeks. Here is an article that I wrote on timing:
www.fruitmentor.com/grafting-citrus-trees-best-time
very very nice. I enjoyed every minute of your video! I'll go to your site now to see what I can find.
Thank you!
Good afternoon and thank you for the great video series you have provided. I am just starting out in grafting and have received cuttings from the CCPP today. I live in Phoenix and I'm grafting to an existing lemon tree. I'm using improved Meyer and Th eNZ Sweet lemon. Any suggestions of the type of graft I should use? Thanks in advance!
You're welcome! The type of graft will depend upon how big of a branch you want to graft to. If you are grafting a big branch, you could try the patch bud. Cleft grafting might be a good choice if the scion is about the same size as the branch.
@fruitmentor Thanks, very helpful informations!! 😉 Could you please make a video explaining how to choose the right bud or scion for the grafting? I think the biggest problem of a beginner when he's in front of the plant is how to choose them. 🤷🏻♂️😅 Thanks!
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Thank you!
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very helpful vedio.your techniques on budding and grafting is amazing. the rootstock that you used in this vedio was it grown from seeds or cuttings ?
Thank you! It was grown from a seed.
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Will this work if i want to add a branch to one side of a 2 year old plum and not necessarily remove the rootstock's growth above it? This is to create a better-positioned primary lateral branch.
hi . doing good job. thankgul to u.
can u clarify in detail about lemon grafting or budding?
my 1st Question is that.. in grafting should we collect or use cutting from another plant or the same plant?
i understand that grafting is done so that plant which is not giving fruit will start giving fruit after grafting or budding?
2nd if we paste same plant cutting during grafting however it is unable to grow lemon so after grafting it will start to grow fruit? need a detail clarification to remove a general confussion.
I enjoyed your video and then I T-Bud grafted New Zealand lemonade to both Seville sour orange and US897 and I have one on C35. when they fruit can I expect differences in taste from 1 tree or the others.
Thank you. I am glad that you enjoyed the video. I think it is possible that there could be slight differences between the fruits from your three trees. They will probably be very similar, though. Please let me know how they turn out when they fruit. I would expect that the fruit from the three would all be good if you have the right climate.
Thank you nice video !
now I understand why the bud of my tree (avocado tree) does not start! it's still green with a little bud.
I have not yet broken the trunk above the grafted bud ... because I told myself that it is he who would raise the sap and spread it in the tree ... and we must preserve it until the bud start!
But your video showed me that I was wrong
Thank you !
You're welcome! I am glad that you found it useful. Good luck with your avocado graft!!
@@Fruitmentor Thank you ^^
Sick transitions! Highly informative video.
Wow this is the best grafting video.
Thank you! I’m glad that you enjoyed it.
Good morning, could you answer me please, how can we choose the good eye to graft that make good results, thank you.
thank you lot's wich month you do grafting please?
Thanks 😊 🙏 😊
Hi. Always enjoy your videos. Thanks very much. How long will the graft take to heal? Also can you use t-budding for mango trees?
The citrus T-bud graft should heal in 3 or 4 weeks if the temperature is warm enough. I haven’t tried t-budding mangoes, so I’m not sure. But chip budding should work well.
Hi, thank you for your video. Juat wondering if the bud you use for grafting is from the branches of already fruiting tree? Thanks
Yes, that is the idea.
thank you for sharing your knowledge. I want to ask.. how many days can the binding be released?
You're welcome! Around 21-28 days.
thank u for this very helpful video.
I would like to know the type of tree u use to graft lemon buds on it ; a specific type?
You're welcome! I am glad that you found the video helpful. For this particular variety (lemonade lemon) I grafted to a rootstock (carrizo) normally used for oranges. Most lemons would be grafted onto other rootstocks, though.
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Hi..brother, im from Indonesia. I'd like to know how to grafting T budding on Candlenut tree?
Thks..
Hi Dan. I've watched all of your videos and am curious as to what method (chip or T budding, patch or cleft grafting) you'd recommend for a first-time citrus grafter? I'm in New Zealand and watched your earlier videos, especially chip bud grafting and went to great lengths trying to obtain Parafilm - in the end paying big money for 'Buddy Tape' instead. I'm getting ready to graft a few trees this season coming up.
Now I see these T bud videos using vinyl tape which I could have got cheaply and easily. Which method do you suggest I use? Chip or T budding? I'm intending to top graft to 'reduced to clear' last seasons seconds trees that are already grafted very low down.
Thanks, and thanks very much for these videos.
I think T-budding is an easy method for a beginner. If the rootstock diameter is too small for a T-bud or if the bark is not slipping, then try chip budding.
I have not tried buddy tape yet, but I understand that it is a good product. It is used in some citrus production nurseries in California. I believe that it saves labor costs somehow, so the high price is justified for them. For people making just a few trees the less expensive products may make more sense if they can be found. I saw buddy tape used for T-budding in a citrus production nursery. I think it must be stronger than parafilm and I expect that you could successfully use it for T-budding. With T-budding, be sure to wrap the bud tightly.
I am glad to hear that you have enjoyed the videos!
Thanks for the reply, I really appreciate it. The Buddy Tape I got was, unfortunately for me the pre-perforated type, 25mm wide and 70mm long pieces. Apparently that's what the commercial guys here use but I think that for a beginner 70mm might be a bit short. I'll probably waste a bunch of them practising to work out exactly how much to stretch. So far there seems a fine line between just enough to get it 'sticky' and tight and breaking it.
It cost me NZ$30 for a 570 piece (40m) roll, retail price including tax.
Cheers.
You're welcome.It sounds like Buddy Tape may be more difficult to use than I imagined. I do not think you would have any issues using it on chip buds. To be safe, you could use vinyl tape on T-buds, assuming that you can find it easily. I have had T-buds fail when I did not have vinyl tape on hand and tried it with parafilm. The bark flaps lifted up and broke through the parafilm. I expect that this could be avoided with Buddy Tape.
I think that the Buddy Tape will be great once I'm skilled at using it - I'll just have to waste a few sections learning how far I need to stretch it for different grafting situations. Is the advantage of vinyl tape for T budding it's toughness? I notice that it doesn't seem to stretch very much so wondered how water-tight it would be.
Thanks again for sharing your knowledge.
Yes. It helps that the vinyl tape is tough.That way it can be wrapped tightly without breaking. It does not stretch as much as some of the other wrapping materials, but it does stretch enough to help wrap the bud tightly. It is important to wrap T-buds tightly to ensure contact of cambium on the back of the bud shield with cambium of the rootstock.
Thank you very much this is a very good video..very easy to understand..
Nice presentation... appreciate you.Love from India..
Thank you!!!
My question is I have a lemon tree and have had it 3 or four years well last year it bloomed like crazy but we didn't get the first lemon .Now my question is when it blooms again would it be a good idea to cut off limbs that have no blooms ?
No, just leave it alone it should do it's thing. Just for the heck of it next time it blooms get a very soft small brush and pollinate it yourself. Look videos on UA-cam on how to pollinate a plant.
very good video, I am living in upstate new york and I have
a grapefruit growing in a pot about 2 years old and I want to graft a lemon
tree to it, so is it going to work and/or what's the best time to do it? very
enjoy watching your videos, thanks
Thank you! I expect that the graft would work. Here is an article that I wrote on timing:
www.fruitmentor.com/grafting-citrus-trees-best-time
Can you graft multiple branches from different types of citrus onto the same stock trunk?
Hi mate thanks for your videos just subscribed. IAM in a trickle area in North Queensland Australia, probably comparable to Florida in the US. My question is do I just grow the first tree from a seed then graft that tree? IAM trying to grow pawpaw lemon lime water melon to name a few
Thanks for the subscription! For citrus you can order seeds and scions from Auscitrus. I understand that Queensland has the nasty stem pitting tristeza disease that I mentioned in the following video, so it is important to use the certified cuttings from Auscitrus for grafting citrus:
ua-cam.com/video/ec1Rxxmg3YI/v-deo.html
I don't know about growing pawpaw, but I would suggest looking for trees at local nurseries.
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Nice video
Good work
Thank you! I am glad that you enjoyed it!
Yes sir because I'm a student of bsc agricultural.. 👍👍Good work i try it
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Thanks sir
Thank you very much,god bless you and all your familly,lovely ,thank's again.
You're welcome!
Thank you your video how is the skin your grafting no dry also grow
You're welcome! I moved the tree to a shady area for a few weeks to avoid the direct sunlight that might dry out the bud. Sometimes I find it helpful to cover the grafts with aluminum foil while healing.
I think it's very useful for students how to care the environment especially how to keep some kinds of plants, student do not buy plant and they bring them to their school , but The students must know how to make new generation of a plant, thee process of being a plant, thanks for the video
Thank you!
Thank you for such an informative video and everything you do for the public! I have many pomelo seedlings that are already 3 years old. I also have 4 lemon trees that I got by air layering. My pomelo seedling stems are not as thick as you have in this video...can I still break off and graft all over the lemon trees? And also, is it best I just don't grow the pomelo seedlings but just cut the seedlings after a foot or so and graft some other citrus variety to those? Will sumatra mandarins take on the pomelo seedlings?
If possible I would recommend grafting to a rootstock that has been bred for resistance to disease and poor soil conditions. Of your two choices I would favor the pummelo seedlings. There are so many combinations and I am not sure if anyone has ever tested mandarin on pummelo, but it might work. You would have to try it. Lemon tends to make a poor rootstock for other citrus such as oranges. I would not even grow a lemon tree from cuttings. Air layering is out of favor for propagating citrus these days as explained in this video:
ua-cam.com/video/JAAe8TnP3fQ/v-deo.html
@@Fruitmentor thank you. I think I'll just graft tahitian pumello buds to these seedlings. I know the organization you mentioned has them, but if I need say 5-6, is that enough to place a minimum order? On your site I think you mentioned the Tahitian variety is by far the sweetest and best variety of the bunch. If you have and need to prune anytime too, please remember me :). I'm trying to propogate passion fruit and can trade with you passion fruit plants :D
cool video would like to graph rough skin lemon with lime bud
Very nice video .. which month is best for lemon grafting
Here is an article that I wrote on timing:
www.fruitmentor.com/grafting-citrus-trees-best-time
The best explanation, mister.
Thank you!
First of all, nice and educating video. But, I have a question: The CCPP will send me some branches in Romania (Europe)? I have some lemontrees but of course, in the winter they are sleeping in the basement. Here is no danger to spred lemontree diseases.
You can check with them. They would have no problem shipping scions, but some countries restrict the import.
Which months are suitable for this type of grafting in citrus 🍊🍋. Please tell about the months
Here's an article that I wrote that explains timing and temperature:
fruitmentor.com/grafting-citrus-trees-best-time
brother. can you climb from the same tree or need a roll of ever-productive timber? tanks for video
Good video Dan. Liked and posted on a FB group. Thanks for the time spent making it.
Thank you, Joe! Facebook is a great place to share it.
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Hi bro really awesome... But I have some doubts. After attach the part how many days after you remove the cover. And next how many days we put the plant in shadow
Thank you! I did three weeks for both. Here is the article version with a little more detail:
www.fruitmentor.com/grafting-lemon-trees
I like your grafting system sir
Well put together video and extremely cleaver technique.
Thank you!
Great info. My lemon tree leaves have a high percentage of curling and yellowing. I have noticed white flies. Have tried insecticide, spinosate (sp) and alternating neem oil on a weekly basis. No real improvement.
Any videos on insect control and fertiliation?
Thank you! I did a couple of videos that included Q&A on insects and fertilization:
ua-cam.com/video/9YkvD0u3aJQ/v-deo.html
ua-cam.com/video/d4JwPijoAIg/v-deo.html
Hi, i have a healthy and fully grown grapefruit tree and an orange three that is hardly growing. Will it work if i t-bud the orange to a small branch on the grapefruit tree? Thanks
I would recommend against that. If the problem with the orange tree happens to be citrus disease, you might end up infecting your grapefruit tree and harming its growth. Proper fertilization is very important for citrus, so without photos my first thought is to make sure that you are fertilizing the orange tree well.
Great work, love citrus
Thank you!
Hi Fruit Mentor. I grow a lemon Bought from a market last year. I collect the seeds and sow them. and now the lemon tree is about 3ft tall. how many years to produce flowers and fruits ????
If you would like to grow lemons, this is not the best way. It typically takes many years and is variable. If the tree is not allowed to grow large, it may never flower. If it does eventually flower you may get bad tasting hybrid fruit depending upon the lemon variety. My mother's neighbor in Florida grew a tree to fruiting from a lemon seed and it produced bad tasting fruit.
Watched this video and successfully grafted blood orange on an old lemon 3 years ago. Thank you! Would this method be the best one if I'm grafting on smaller rootstock? Less than a 1/4" diameter seedling. Or do you recommend something else? Thanks so much for sharing your knowledge.
You're welcome! Both the chip bud and Z-graft are good options for the small rootstock.
@@Fruitmentor I'm going to do 90% chip bud and 10% z graft and see what happens. Thanks again for the replies! Keep up the great work.
Well done.must try with my tree.
Keep it up
Thank you!
what is the best organic pesticide for lemon trees? and what fertilizer do you use?
The question on pesticide is a complex one. I made a video with an entomologist where we talked about some of the issues with pests on citrus:
ua-cam.com/video/9YkvD0u3aJQ/v-deo.html
Lately I have been fertilizing my trees with fish emulsion and they are doing well with it.
Thank you for detailed and step by step video
You're welcome!
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Hello watched some of your videos and before I get to grafting and such would like to know how old was the root stock you grafted to and how long do you think this tree will take to bear fruit? Also in one of your other videos you grafted onto a rootstock cutting I’m thinking of possibly ordering some Budwood and possible root stock but would like to know how long it took them to grow and how long to expect for them to start producing. Anyways thanks for the informative videos as this has helped me a lot.
In this video I grafted to a rootstock that I had growing in a container for several years. The graft will grow faster if the graft is on a younger and more vigorous rootstock. This tree does not have fruit yet, but most of the trees that I grafted at the same time do have fruit now. I would have done better to use a younger rootstock. I think the grafting and rooting a rootstock is the most difficult technique. I would recommend grafting to a young rootstock seedling instead. It is possible to get fruit the next year, but it is more likely if grafting to an established tree.
The tree has fruit now. You can see it in this video:
ua-cam.com/video/S37VSB8oZxU/v-deo.html
@@Fruitmentor I am growing a few trifoliata rootstock and would like to know at what size should I envision grafting. And how long on average will it take for my rootstock to get to that size ?
Thanks
How long does the graft take to bear fruit? I want to try this someday :)
About 3 years
Hey I have a lemon tree I grew from seed its about 3 yes old it hasn't given me any fruit can I still graph it.
Can I use a lemon tree I grew from seeds of a lemon fruit I bought at the grocery store as a rootstock ?
Is it true that lemon trees from seeds can give fruits identical to the original plant the lemon came from ?
You could use your grocery store seedling tree as a rootstock, but the results might be disappointing. The rootstock affects fruit characteristics and the grocery store seedling will be an unknown. Fruit quality also depends upon the variety grafted to the rootstock. Many commercial rootstocks have been selected for disease resistance and other reasons. Your grocery store seedling would likely be inferior and could be more disease prone or have poor roots in comparison to a typical rootstock.
It is true that some citrus varieties grown from seed can give fruits identical to the original plant. This is called nucellar embryony. The following publication indicates that Eureka and Lisbon lemons give low numbers of nuclear embryos:
websites.lib.ucr.edu/agnic/webber/Vol2/Chapter2_4.htm#nucellarembryos
So for a Eureka or Lisbon lemon seedling, the fruit is likely to be a disappointing hybrid, but there is a small chance that a seedling would be a clone.
This varies for different citrus varieties. I believe that seeds of the lemonade lemon, the variety that I grafted in this video, are likely to produce clones of the mother plant. Grafted plants still have many advantages, however. A seed-grown citrus tree will often take many years to produce fruit. I would like to have lemonade fruit as soon as possible and a grafted tree will produce fruit much sooner. A seed-grown plant may also be dangerously thorny compared to a grafted plant.
Please sir in wich month WE making this opération if grafting of T
I want to start to graft oranges on citrus trees in Tanzania. Does anyone have any tips (what time , which material to use?)
My future son-in-law just purchased a house. There is a root stock tree about 6-8 feet tall with multiple branches. Growing from this root stock is an obviously grafted section which appears to be a satsuma tree, with green fruit on it at present. The small satsuma section (2-3 feet tall) is dwarfed by the rest of the root stock. Would it be possible to graft more satsumas or some lemons to this same root stock? Whether that is done or not, should the root stock tree be cut away from the small fruit tree portion? When and how drastically? We are in south Louisiana, where satsumas are a fall staple.
You could graft to that branch, but I would recommend pruning it off. I have tried grafts like that and my observation is that it tends to result in more rootstock suckers. So I think it is better to prune it of. One of these escaped me until it was quite large because the leaves were similar to the grafted variety and I pruned it all off drastically. If you want to add other varieties to your tree, you can add them to the satsuma portion.
@@Fruitmentor Thank you so much! Is there a particular time of year to cut it back or just any time?
@@my2centstoo You're welcome! I think it should be OK to do this any time. Watch out for new suckers coming from the same place.
@@Fruitmentor Many thanks! Will let my daughter's fiance know!
Can you graft a scion from a dwarf on a regular bigger citrus tree variety
Hello sir my citrus tree got a root shock due to replantation but the issue is the plant is not growing any more it's 2monthts since I replanted it....... Plz help
Nice video! I have a tree, came with the house i bought 15 years ago. I've left it in place cause of the shade and citrus flowers, but the fruit is alien looking, spongy, no juice. I wonder if it is diseased and how to treat it if yes. Or is grafting a solution? I live in North East Los Angeles.
Grafting may be a solution. It sounds like the rootstock may have taken over the tree.
ive been growing a lemon tree from a store bought lemon since 2015. i have yet to see flowerd or fruit, i hsve tons of thorns, ive beeen deciding to graft from a 222 year old meyer lemon tree. Should i wait a few more years to see if it blooms? any information or advice is greatly appreciated
Where do you live? Where do you intend to grow the tree? Outside or in a container? The 222 year old Meyer lemon tree seems doubtful because Meyer brought it back from China in 1908: web.archive.org/web/20210122223501/citrusvariety.ucr.edu/citrus/improvedmeyer.html
The variety that Meyer brought back had citrus diseases that were later removed. A tree from a store-bought lemon could also have diseases:
ua-cam.com/video/ec1Rxxmg3YI/v-deo.html
@@Fruitmentor im growing it from a seed. Just was curious if it would produce fruit eventually. It grows outside in summer and brought inside for winter.
Growing it in a pot would make it difficult to get it to fruit. The tree has to grow quite a bit to make it possible. It can take many years for a seedling citrus tree to bear fruit even if planted in the ground. Even if your tree eventually fruited the fruit might be terrible. If you live somewhere where it is too cold to grow citrus outside, you could probably graft your tree without worrying too much about spreading diseases.
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What if you just want to graft a branch of a different variety onto an established tree? Would the same principles apply toward a single branch rather than a whole young rootstock?
I would recommend other grafting techniques over T-budding for grafting a new variety to an established tree. T-buds are sometimes swallowed by the growth of the original branch before they grow. Patch budding is a nice technique that avoids this problem:
ua-cam.com/video/_w051zyackM/v-deo.html
Can we grow a coconut palm tree in non coastal area and can get fruit by tinny coconut tree....???
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its great my friend you did well I am froncthe Caribbean an now is the season to graft
Thank you! Good luck with your grafting!
Which method is better this or the bud patch graft? Also will it work on other fruits? I ordered a pear ( Quince A), peach (St Julian A) and a cherry (Colt)
It depends upon what you are grafting. For a young seedling both should be OK. For a branch of a tree the patch budding technique may be better. If a T-bud takes too long to grow it can be swallowed by the target branch; this should not happen with the patch bud. Another thing to keep in mind is whether the bark is slipping or not. If the bark is not slipping, chip budding may be better than patch budding or T budding.
For other fruits like pear, peach, or cherry I would normally perform a scion graft. If you prefer budding, the chip bud may work better because the bark is not slipping.
I want to add a variety to a small existing tree. If I graft a bud directly on to the trunk, I can’t really cut off the tree above that point like you did in the video. Will this still work?
You have to do something to get the new bud to grow. You may want to wait until the tree is bigger and replace a branch with a new variety later.
How much time it takes to bloom the grafted bud ?
Sometimes the bud can bloom right away and you get a flower instead of a new branch. In this case break off the flower. It is more typical to see blooms the next year at the normal flowering time in the spring.
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What months are best for grafting citrus???
Another professionally done and informative video, Dan!
Thanks for sharing! Liked and subscribed!
Is T-budding applicable to other fruit trees as well, Dan?
Thank you, Samuel! T-budding is applicable to many other fruit trees. It can also be used for grafting other plants such as roses.