Thanks so much for this video. I followed your method three years ago to save the genes of a 40 year old lime tree on my back yard, from stock originally from South America, that was dying. It had the tastiest limes I've ever eaten and I was desperate to retain it somehow. Three of the cuttings survived, and one tree is now in the ground, very healthy and produced about 40 limes this year. And they're just as good as the original. Thank you again!
Thank you John for adding this comment also :) It’s always nice to hear other peoples success :) I just took cuttings from my Lemon Rosso tree (it gives red lemons omg) with this method now 👍🏻
I'm about to do the same with my peach tree , I've returned from Australia to new Zealand at my homestead after 15 years and the tree is just hanging in there , ready to go, it has produced the most best sweetest peaches I've ever known to exist I literally use to dream about them and pretty much gave up eating peaches all together while living in aus
I can’t wait to try this I have a Mandarin tree, I brought I back from deathbed door now producing well every year leaving for a new home soon so going to start my cuttings that’s for the tips
“I’m about to get carried away and do hundreds of these” is so relatable, I can’t even express how close you are to my heart. Thanks for the video. My little dwarf orange saplings my my grandmother is growing teeeeeny weeeny leaves and branches. I am so excited! Another tip, by the way; if left in a windowsil, use a white plastic bag. It prevents the sapling from overheating, for instance in a windowsil, though you can’t see them as well, but patience is a virtue ;)
Thank you. Video was well done and is inspirational. The three I did 6 weeks ago have taken root. I can now pass down a very fruitful miniature lemon tree I had gotten 42 years ago from my mom to my kids.
Tried this method with 5 kafir lime cuttings (used raw honey instead of rooting hormone) and had them in plastic bags in a greenhouse in Denmark. 4-5 months later and all 5 have now taken root and are looking good! It took a while but they're on to a winner now. Thank you so much for the video!
Cuttings have a better chance of rooting if the cut is made below a leaf node, as there are certain kinds of cells at the node location that are prone to root/produce roots. GREAT JOB you did in explaining the process!! I have a cutting that appears to have rooted as well!! LOVE it!!
You had me at "so you want to grow cuttings from a citrus tree,... good on ya!", As a native Yank I can say to my fellow Americans that is the most Aussie of Aussie statements ever. The narrator turns something as universal as gardening and makes it uniquely Australian. . And done so subtly.
Your such a good guy , was a pleasure watching your video . Thanks for the direction and for puting a smile on my face knowing there's top quality men out there still x
Thanks so much for the post...Tomorrow morning I'm off to create lemons and lime.. This season here in Australia we have been paying up to $1.50 per lemon. Evidently climate change has confused our citrus as well as all the citrus growers around the country. We have been importing citrus from the USA. That's the last time I pay for lemons and limes. Thanks again.
I live in Georgia. It is very humid. Rooting is crazy good here! A limb can fall from certain trees and it will root where it falls. Being originally from Alaska, I found this very intriguing!
Lucky! Thats so interesting how the humidity helps. I'm in California and the air is so dry lol I'm thinking of getting a humidifier for my indoor plants .
Well then I guess you need to start sending me your orange trees that you grow! I did 11 and they've all failed. The next six I'm doing have a 50/50 mix of perlite and potting mix, but they don't seem to be doing too well either. It's almost like you have to have almost zero water or something I don't get it
It's really nice to know some techniques and methods in the field of gardening. Growing citrus from cuttings are very satisfying. This will give us the good start when planning to grow this kind of crops. Thank you!
I gathered lots of stem cuttings and soft step clippings of local citrus fruit trees to transplant after rooting them. This is an invaluable video......I like....
Love it! From Beginning to the End! I have watched many growing from cuttings video and this one was one of the good ones! It even covered when is a good time to get the plastic bag off and moving it to another pot! Thx Amir!
After watching this video about 3 times, I attempted my first batch of meyer lemon / orange cuttings from indoor trees. Instead of sealing each bag individually, I put them all in a clear storage container. If I remember, I'll check back in here and let you know how it goes. As I was getting to each step, I could hear him saying everything. Well done!
Hello Adam, My Meyer lemon did bloom over a couple of weeks. I pollinated it with an artist's paint brush. It now has 25 tiny lemons on it. Now that we are getting mild days here in Ontario, Canada I am going to follow your advice to the letter and try a few cuttings. I'll let you know how it goes. Years ago I was walking through the garden of the most beautiful mission of San Luis Obispo in California. I heard a thump behind me and saw that a Meyer lemon the size of a big orange has dropped from a tree. Later we ate it and it was almost as sweet as an orange. Happy gardening, Rob
Hello Rob from Ontario Canada. I have heard it suggested in older textbooks that the Meyer Lemon may have originated as a naturally occurring hybrid between a lemon and orange. Certainly here in the colder, South Island of New Zealand, the Meyer lemon was the ONLY one sold in garden centres for decades, and was ALWAYS grafted onto "trifoliata" aka "trifolate orange" rootstock. With global warming, the Winter climate has changed markedly just in my lifetime and Nurseries (in this area) sometimes sell other than Meyer lemon trees now, however they were always considered the most cold tolerant of all the citrus. MEYER Lemon is considered to be one of the best citrus fruits for growing from cuttings as they do well on their own roots in many warmer/milder areas. Trfoliata is a deciduous member of a shrub family neighbouring the true citrus, native to inland central China, and is one of the few occasions where an evergreen top can be transplanted successfully on a deciduous bottom (another rare example is evergreen edible loquat onto quince rootstock). I know in Australia that a full blooded trifoliata gets crossed with a standard sweet orange (result sometimes called "citrange") , and the seeds from the resultant fruit are often used as rootstock for oranges and other citrus. Pure trifoliata has an equal sized three part leaf that is quite distinctive, different to all other oranges, lemons, limes etc. The Trifoliata-sweet orange cross has a 3 part leaf with a longer central part and 2 short side parts. Not sure if there's any pictures making this clear on the internet, but if growing citrus trees, it can be interesting seeing what "comes up" as often shoots come up from the rootstock. Normal gardening practice is to remove those shoots as they suck energy from the intended top part of the fruiting plant, but there may be occasions when "experimental" gardeners leave them to develop. Occasionally the top part of a citrus tree will die in an accident etc and it's interesting to see what re-sprouts from the base. Again, in Western Australia "sour orange" (aka "Seville Orange"?) is often used as a rootstock for lemons, limes and possibly old fashioned varieties of sour grapefruits. But I actually really enjoyed eating the few sour oranges I got given once and then spent 14 years growing some real curiosities from those seeds (cross-pollinated from a garden full of all sorts of citrus varieties). Alas all my plants were left behind and lost when I moved from Australia a decade ago. As a full blooded "trifoliata" is deciduous and comes from a cold Winter climate. It suggests that if ever you could source one, then cuttings of most deciduous things can be taken successfully of healthy hardwood during mid Winter, eg Apples, plums etc.
My daughter (Who doesn't garden but loves lemons) used your method to propagate Myer lemon cuttings. All 4 cuttings rooted and are thriving. Thanks for a great video.
What a great video ! Well done. A little humour (ha ha, quite funny actually), and very practical clear step by step instructionsI wish all UA-cam videos were to this standard. THANKYOU !!
Thank you for the info. I have a friend who has a very good orange tree and offered me cuttings....very tasty oranges. I have grown roses from cuttings, basically the same method...I am ready to try my hand at orange trees. Thanks again. Will post back and let you know if I have success.
Hi. It has been nearly 5 months and my orange cuttings have thrown some leaves. I took 20 cuttings originally and 4 have survived at least so far. One has one new leaf growing (after dropping the two I left on it) it was first to show signs of growth other than just being a green twig in a pot. Just over the last week, about a month after that first one threw a leaf two others have thrown little branches with two to three leaves on them. Boy you really need to be patient! And the soft drink bottles worked well as little green houses. all the new growth came from low down. But they are showing some swelling at the top now.
Wow, awesome video Adam. I just cut tons off my orange tree and thought, what a waste to throw these limbs away. Going to get going on this! Thanks for sharing.
Just took 2 clippings off of a Meyer Lemon Tree that I bought. Not sure how old the tree is but the main stalk is about the size of a large pencil. I'm going to keep the tree potted so it needed these branches pruned anyway. If these clippings spout it will just be a bonus. Great instructional video. Can't wait to see if this works out for me. Rick
I watched this yesterday and you inspired me to go out today and buy a little plastic greenhouse and I did cuttings on my lemon and orange trees! I followed your instructions with the 45 degree cuts and rooting powder. I hope they grow!
I followed your method and tried one lemon cutting about 2 months ago. It looked a bit dubious as the two small leaves I snipped and left turned a bit yellow. Last evening I uncovered it and found some healthy roots. Thanks for the advice.
Thanks for the quick and direct info. I will give it a try, especially with the bag. Have had bad luck previously, although several were with branch tips that came off accidentally, and so weren’t ideal cuttings.
Tried a lemon tree from my neighbor using your method. Had 30 clippings, and success with 6. We live in the desert, so had to be careful with overheating and drying out. The starts stayed green for 4 months, the 6 I knew were good when they put out leaves finally. The others eventually lost their green. Fascinating experiment and worth the effort. :)
Last October 2014 I took 30 cuttings from a ponderosa lemon tree, it seem for a few months over the Australia summer not much happened. I watered them once a week over summer and in February 2015, they budded and one has even flowered. 25 out of 30., a pretty good success rate. I even was successful with 3 camelia cutting done at the same time, just for curiosity sake. cheers JF
Wow, what an excellent video clip this is. Thanks for sharing your technique with the world. Our neighbor has a Meyer lemon tree that gets absolutely covered in fruit every year like you wouldn't believe. I now feel confident that I can clone from this tree - can't wait to get started.
This was a great, informative video, cheers! I've started growing lemons from seed. The mandarins I score from the neighbours garden have no seeds, so I will have to use the cutting method. I've been scrumping fruit for months, but would like to have my own, so videos like this are a great way to start up, chur!
I just took cuttings from a key lime the other day. I put some honey in the water that they sat in for the first few days. Another gardener I know uses honey instead of rooting products. He has great success.
Thanks heaps for this tutorial! I've always wanted to clone the Lemon tree from the house I grew up in. I took the cuttings mid-day and they survived a trip from Hastings to Waikato and overnight in water before planting them with the rooting hormone and plastic bags. All except 1 have taken!
TY sooooo much for the idea ... we have one of the best navelorange trees here in the neighbourhood (we live in n - california), as soon as the first orange pops in the trees people start lining up to get some ;) so i figured hey why not trying to root them for the neighbours and friends :D ... I will keep you posted on how it worked out for me :)
I did 10 cuttings based on this video about seven weeks ago, and so far, all of them are doing very well. We have lots of new growth :) When can I take them out of the bags? For anyone who is thinking of trying it, this method really works. Thanks for posting this video. I cant wait to start more, Mate!
This is good. If your soil dries up, your little new roots will die. These roots are very new and tender and will not survive drying out, nor will the stalk that depends upon these new roots. The plastic bag ensures that there is no or little evaporative loss, and the soil (and roots) stay hydrated.
This video is awesome dude! Good simple advise. I think that's we're all looking for on UA-cam, simplicity. I was able to follow your instructions with great success without needing a PHD lol... Great video buddy keep it up.
Thanks for this video. Tomorrow I shall go buy some small pots and going to try an orange tree, mandarin tree, and plum tree. With my luck, it will fail, but I am sure going to give it a go. Will post results on here later, good or bad.
Cool, I have also had good luck with plums, done about 8 so far, and 6 have come up, they grow quicker than the citrus trees, but I think will take longer to start fruiting.
amazing video,. I followed these instructions at the end of October except I put mason jars over the cuttings,. I brought 8 citrus cuttings back from turkey to cold cold England and stuck them in the window over the winter,. 2 made it and I'm now seeing new leaves forming,. which is crazy,. thanks for getting advice!,. ah yes mine took 3 months to show new growth lol
Ah man,. they've been in a cold environment,. its crazy,. on a window ledge in a room that doesnt freeze, but isnt warm and with little light (English winter sun). I gave them both a tug and 1 doesnt have roots unfortunately,. but 1 has roots and new leaves. I'm hoping that as spring advances it will really take off.
I'd love to try this with my mandrin orange tree. We've just come into winter and I think it would be best to wait for spring. What do you think, I don't have a green house or sun room.
Yeah the two main orange trees grown are Valencia and navel and this is the only way to get them because navel and midknight Valencia oranges are seedless
I am jealous of your skills and success. I am a noob. I live in Orange County, CA and have an amazing Orange Tree that has been on my property for over 30 years. I am scared it will die in the near future and have tried your method on 4 sets of 6 pots and failed. They seem to be drying up, even though the soil is wet and dying off. Am I missing something? Any advice is appreciated. Thanks!
I have been trying for several years to propagate citrus by cuttings without success. I want to try your method now. When is the ideal season to do this? I live in Belgium - here citrusses can only be kept in a container and in the winter they have to overwinter frost free. I hope it will work - thank you very much!
Great video. Just followed all instructions with an artic frost..wondered if ok to keep them on the covered porch as opposed to inside. It is spring here and warm now. Thanks
have you grown the trees over time. I have been told will have root problems if not budded. I am wondering. I know there is lemon root stock. so that might hold up? but wondering on sweet wood like hamlins, navels. I know there is also an old rootstock from mandrin called cleo not sure on spelling. . will be nice if can do this and it holds up. Thanks for video. it is great.
By far the best cloning progating video I have seen on UA-cam. I never had success with cloning, tried cloning a crapload and nothing took hold, used powdered solution, maybe the liquids is better! And definitely gonna try the bagging. Did you use soft rooting hormone? Want to clone my Naartjie Hanno from South Africa Pretoria
+Rob Backyard Gardenerr lol I did... i have 6 everbearing mulberry I was lucky enough to find near a budhist temple, also 6 peach cuttings, im about to find more trees for cut/jack!!! yaaaaa
my neighbor has a Buddha's Hand citroen tree, I took several cuttings which were given rooting hormone and are sitting in a cup of seaweed nutrient solution overnight before going into the soil and bags tomorrow. we shall see... Thanks.
very nice video, i think my citrus cuttings have like a 1 or 2 percent, lol... i think i'll give your method a go round... i like how you leave the bottom unwrapped from the ziploc bag for easier watering, great idea... wish me luck
How cool is that ! Love your method and your attitude. I bought a beat-up Meyer lemon tree at a nursery here in Ontario, Canada last July. It was humble, but once I re-potted it it began to grow and shot out sweet-smelling blossoms. It is inside now and has 4 lemons about the size of hen's eggs. I'm going to try your method to propagate plants for my friends. I do this now with oleander plants. Does it bug you when you gift these plants and jackasses forget to water them? It sure does me. Cheers, Rob
Good luck mate I try to keep them long enough that they are strong enough that neglect wont kill em haha, but go for the shotgun effect, doesn't matter if a few miss, put enough out there and you can't lose :)
adamaadamaaadam Thanks Brother, Since writing to you my little tree has punched out close to 100 flower buds. After a gruesome, winter here where it reached -25C several times these flowers will literally be a breath of fresh air. Cheers, Rob
THESE trees and many other trees actually do not need our help and theyneed just a starting push toget rid of the starting trouble..and they are on their ways...way ahead...growing and growing yielding and yielding and never you have to pour water once it is big enough....this is divinity. in true words. and man has spoiled such a bful world.
Great rundown Adam. You've convinced me. Gonna attempt it with Kaffir Lime first...and it ain't citrus but i've been having a 4-year epic journey trying to just root ONE phaleria clerodendron (aussie native)...A guy in Singapore has been guiding me all this time (he can do it!), and his methods are similar to yours, but i think a clear bag (rather than white), LIQUID hormone and the elastic band (rather than some tape) might be the trick... WIll keep you posted with both. I'm in Byron Bay, Aust so will be reporting from a subtropical climate...
love your work bro. keep up the good work. kia kaha i haven't had any success with peach cuttings as of yet but will try putting it in a sealed bag for the humidity. will keep you updated. kia ora
This is an absolutely wonderful method...... I cloned several tangerine cuttings 5 days ago and one of the cuttings has already produced a fruit!! Thanks for the informative video
Hello.. just curious what season u took ur cuttings. I also would like to clone a tangerine tree from my grandmothers house before it is sold due to her passing. I grew up eating those tangerines eversince i can remeber. Probably 50+ years old tree.
I took rooting powder and found the best clippings and just pamper them... I planted them in spots that doesn't get direct sunlight in the afternoon!! Its really easy to do... Good luck
Cuttings from a fruit bearing tree will fruit 6 months to a year depending on the variety you decided to grow. If for some reason the cutting started to flower, I would pluck them off so it can grow better and stronger.
Hi matey, great video! I've been given a dwarf lime tree and have had to already repot the young tree to a bigger size pot. I'm wondering if I should remove the flowers and little round fruits that's started to assist it in growing faster? It is about 1 meter and a bit tall but not bushy - it just looks like a tall stick.. Thanks and info will be much appreciated.
I have tried doing your method with citrus fruit. I guess I need to wait for 3 weeks or more. I will let you know if it survives. I think of gonna go for 60 buckets. Goodluck to me. Cheers. :)
Hi. Thanks for the vid. Your soil looks extremely coarse for good drainage. What is considered good drainage for citrus? For example, I just planted 2 Meyer Lemon trees. One has Espoma cactus/palm/citrus "potting mix", which pools water on top of the pot for 30-45 secs before fully sinking in. The other has a custom mix from a nursery which does not pool at all (contains more perlite and sand). What is better for these citrus or fruit trees? Surely Espoma should know what they're doing, but the nursery seems to think otherwise! thanks!
Hey, I have no idea :) Just an amateur who found a trick that works and ran with it. In saying that, I have used Seed mix, Potting mix and Home-made Compost, all worked for me :)
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Thanks so much for this video. I followed your method three years ago to save the genes of a 40 year old lime tree on my back yard, from stock originally from South America, that was dying. It had the tastiest limes I've ever eaten and I was desperate to retain it somehow. Three of the cuttings survived, and one tree is now in the ground, very healthy and produced about 40 limes this year. And they're just as good as the original. Thank you again!
That's boss!
Thank you John for adding this comment also :) It’s always nice to hear other peoples success :) I just took cuttings from my Lemon Rosso tree (it gives red lemons omg) with this method now 👍🏻
I'm about to do the same with my peach tree , I've returned from Australia to new Zealand at my homestead after 15 years and the tree is just hanging in there , ready to go, it has produced the most best sweetest peaches I've ever known to exist I literally use to dream about them and pretty much gave up eating peaches all together while living in aus
That's amazing! Thank you for sharing!
I can’t wait to try this I have a Mandarin tree, I brought I back from deathbed door now producing well every year leaving for a new home soon so going to start my cuttings that’s for the tips
“I’m about to get carried away and do hundreds of these” is so relatable, I can’t even express how close you are to my heart. Thanks for the video. My little dwarf orange saplings my my grandmother is growing teeeeeny weeeny leaves and branches. I am so excited!
Another tip, by the way; if left in a windowsil, use a white plastic bag. It prevents the sapling from overheating, for instance in a windowsil, though you can’t see them as well, but patience is a virtue ;)
Thank you. Video was well done and is inspirational. The three I did 6 weeks ago have taken root. I can now pass down a very fruitful miniature lemon tree I had gotten 42 years ago from my mom to my kids.
+Peter Wagenblass That is awesome! I am going to try it with a very old Valencia orange
Awesome blessing
Do you keep watering under the bag ?
Tried this method with 5 kafir lime cuttings (used raw honey instead of rooting hormone) and had them in plastic bags in a greenhouse in Denmark. 4-5 months later and all 5 have now taken root and are looking good! It took a while but they're on to a winner now. Thank you so much for the video!
Congratulations
Nice 👍
Cuttings have a better chance of rooting if the cut is made below a leaf node, as there are certain kinds of cells at the node location that are prone to root/produce roots. GREAT JOB you did in explaining the process!! I have a cutting that appears to have rooted as well!! LOVE it!!
Thanks to you now I have 20 trees of lemons I planted 7 years ago full of lemons 👍 from Australia 😊
Awesome, thanks for sharing, stoked to hear there are so many lemon trees in the world helped by this vid :)
You had me at "so you want to grow cuttings from a citrus tree,... good on ya!", As a native Yank I can say to my fellow Americans that is the most Aussie of Aussie statements ever. The narrator turns something as universal as gardening and makes it uniquely Australian. . And done so subtly.
I think it might be a New Zealand accent or a kiwi in Australia 👍
That's definitely a New Zealand accent 😉
Yea Definitely! :D @@jane_eb
Thank you so much . I planted about 15 cuts and now they all produced lemons . Lots of love from Sydney Australia
Your such a good guy , was a pleasure watching your video . Thanks for the direction and for puting a smile on my face knowing there's top quality men out there still x
Really enjoyed your practical tips for using stuff around the house! & your reasons are funny too. I'll try this soon thanks.
Thanks so much for the post...Tomorrow morning I'm off to create lemons and lime..
This season here in Australia we have been paying up to $1.50 per lemon. Evidently climate change has confused our citrus as well as all the citrus growers around the country. We have been importing citrus from the USA. That's the last time I pay for lemons and limes. Thanks again.
I live in Georgia. It is very humid. Rooting is crazy good here! A limb can fall from certain trees and it will root where it falls. Being originally from Alaska, I found this very intriguing!
Lucky! Thats so interesting how the humidity helps. I'm in California and the air is so dry lol I'm thinking of getting a humidifier for my indoor plants .
My mango tree branches also start rooting
Isnt georgia teneorate
Temperate *
Well then I guess you need to start sending me your orange trees that you grow! I did 11 and they've all failed. The next six I'm doing have a 50/50 mix of perlite and potting mix, but they don't seem to be doing too well either. It's almost like you have to have almost zero water or something I don't get it
It's really nice to know some techniques and methods in the field of gardening. Growing citrus from cuttings are very satisfying. This will give us the good start when planning to grow this kind of crops. Thank you!
I gathered lots of stem cuttings and soft step clippings of local citrus fruit trees to transplant after rooting them. This is an invaluable video......I like....
I loved this video and I loved listening to your voice. Thank you!
Awesome thankyou so much for a wonderful tutorial. Love it.
I'm going to try propetating lemon trees 👏👌🙏
Love it! From Beginning to the End! I have watched many growing from cuttings video and this one was one of the good ones! It even covered when is a good time to get the plastic bag off and moving it to another pot! Thx Amir!
After watching this video about 3 times, I attempted my first batch of meyer lemon / orange cuttings from indoor trees. Instead of sealing each bag individually, I put them all in a clear storage container. If I remember, I'll check back in here and let you know how it goes. As I was getting to each step, I could hear him saying everything. Well done!
Update please
Thanks mate.90% success rate so far.Finally someone who knows what they are talking about. It even worked with olive trees.
Choice, Always happy to hear when its worked for someone. Might have to take some cuttings off our olive tree :)
Hello Adam,
My Meyer lemon did bloom over a couple of weeks. I pollinated it with an artist's paint brush. It now has 25 tiny lemons on it. Now that we are getting mild days here in Ontario, Canada I am going to follow your advice to the letter and try a few cuttings. I'll let you know how it goes.
Years ago I was walking through the garden of the most beautiful mission of San Luis Obispo in California. I heard a thump behind me and saw that a Meyer lemon the size of a big orange has dropped from a tree. Later we ate it and it was almost as sweet as an orange.
Happy gardening,
Rob
Hello Rob from Ontario Canada. I have heard it suggested in older textbooks that the Meyer Lemon may have originated as a naturally occurring hybrid between a lemon and orange. Certainly here in the colder, South Island of New Zealand, the Meyer lemon was the ONLY one sold in garden centres for decades, and was ALWAYS grafted onto "trifoliata" aka "trifolate orange" rootstock. With global warming, the Winter climate has changed markedly just in my lifetime and Nurseries (in this area) sometimes sell other than Meyer lemon trees now, however they were always considered the most cold tolerant of all the citrus. MEYER Lemon is considered to be one of the best citrus fruits for growing from cuttings as they do well on their own roots in many warmer/milder areas. Trfoliata is a deciduous member of a shrub family neighbouring the true citrus, native to inland central China, and is one of the few occasions where an evergreen top can be transplanted successfully on a deciduous bottom (another rare example is evergreen edible loquat onto quince rootstock). I know in Australia that a full blooded trifoliata gets crossed with a standard sweet orange (result sometimes called "citrange") , and the seeds from the resultant fruit are often used as rootstock for oranges and other citrus. Pure trifoliata has an equal sized three part leaf that is quite distinctive, different to all other oranges, lemons, limes etc. The Trifoliata-sweet orange cross has a 3 part leaf with a longer central part and 2 short side parts. Not sure if there's any pictures making this clear on the internet, but if growing citrus trees, it can be interesting seeing what "comes up" as often shoots come up from the rootstock. Normal gardening practice is to remove those shoots as they suck energy from the intended top part of the fruiting plant, but there may be occasions when "experimental" gardeners leave them to develop. Occasionally the top part of a citrus tree will die in an accident etc and it's interesting to see what re-sprouts from the base. Again, in Western Australia "sour orange" (aka "Seville Orange"?) is often used as a rootstock for lemons, limes and possibly old fashioned varieties of sour grapefruits. But I actually really enjoyed eating the few sour oranges I got given once and then spent 14 years growing some real curiosities from those seeds (cross-pollinated from a garden full of all sorts of citrus varieties). Alas all my plants were left behind and lost when I moved from Australia a decade ago. As a full blooded "trifoliata" is deciduous and comes from a cold Winter climate. It suggests that if ever you could source one, then cuttings of most deciduous things can be taken successfully of healthy hardwood during mid Winter, eg Apples, plums etc.
@@KiwiCatherineJemma Tysm for that info
My daughter (Who doesn't garden but loves lemons) used your method to propagate Myer lemon cuttings. All 4 cuttings rooted and are thriving. Thanks for a great video.
Awesome thanks for letting me know :D
What a great video ! Well done. A little humour (ha ha, quite funny actually), and very practical clear step by step instructionsI wish all UA-cam videos were to this standard. THANKYOU !!
+Peter Brewer Thanks :)
Thank you for the info. I have a friend who has a very good orange tree and offered me cuttings....very tasty oranges. I have grown roses from cuttings, basically the same method...I am ready to try my hand at orange trees. Thanks again. Will post back and let you know if I have success.
Hi. It has been nearly 5 months and my orange cuttings have thrown some leaves. I took 20 cuttings originally and 4 have survived at least so far. One has one new leaf growing (after dropping the two I left on it) it was first to show signs of growth other than just being a green twig in a pot. Just over the last week, about a month after that first one threw a leaf two others have thrown little branches with two to three leaves on them. Boy you really need to be patient! And the soft drink bottles worked well as little green houses. all the new growth came from low down. But they are showing some swelling at the top now.
Wow, awesome video Adam. I just cut tons off my orange tree and thought, what a waste to throw these limbs away. Going to get going on this! Thanks for sharing.
Just took 2 clippings off of a Meyer Lemon Tree that I bought. Not sure how old the tree is but the main stalk is about the size of a large pencil. I'm going to keep the tree potted so it needed these branches pruned anyway. If these clippings spout it will just be a bonus. Great instructional video. Can't wait to see if this works out for me. Rick
I watched this yesterday and you inspired me to go out today and buy a little plastic greenhouse and I did cuttings on my lemon and orange trees! I followed your instructions with the 45 degree cuts and rooting powder. I hope they grow!
Should the leafy potted cuttings be placed in shade or full sun?
@@johnpadden5425 shade!!
but not fully shady. The sun must not hit them directly. Their are vulnerable till they grow roots.
By far one of the most/best informative video I've seen. Now it's time to see what results I can get from your tips and ideas. Thanx!
Unexpectedly funny and entertaining guy.
Came for the info.. stayed for the funny
I followed your method and tried one lemon cutting about 2 months ago. It looked a bit dubious as the two small leaves I snipped and left turned a bit yellow.
Last evening I uncovered it and found some healthy roots. Thanks for the advice.
Loved your video and the little bit of humour.... never had any luck before, will have a go. Thanks
Thanks so much for taking the time to make and post your video...easy to follow instructions...more fruit trees coming soon in my backyard!
Thanx for the video. My cuttings grew up in 2 weeks. I used the powder harmon. Very well explained.
Great video, thanks! The plastic bag is basically a little terrarium. I'm going to experiment with sprouting in jars with the lid on.
Good, easy to understand video. I've got lemons, Orange and Lime trees so will give this a go, thanks.
Thanks for the quick and direct info. I will give it a try, especially with the bag. Have had bad luck previously, although several were with branch tips that came off accidentally, and so weren’t ideal cuttings.
What a lovely video-I've just watched it a second time. Not only is it really useful, hearing those birds is really relaxing. Thank you!
That was about the BEST video I’ve seen so far. Sad you didn’t keep on doing videos. This channel probably would have been a success.
Story of my life mate :D
Tried a lemon tree from my neighbor using your method. Had 30 clippings, and success with 6. We live in the desert, so had to be careful with overheating and drying out. The starts stayed green for 4 months, the 6 I knew were good when they put out leaves finally. The others eventually lost their green. Fascinating experiment and worth the effort. :)
6 out of 30, I guess that's pretty good for the desert haha :)
Last October 2014 I took 30 cuttings from a ponderosa lemon tree, it seem for a few months over the Australia summer not much happened. I watered them once a week over summer and in February 2015, they budded and one has even flowered. 25 out of 30., a pretty good success rate. I even was successful with 3 camelia cutting done at the same time, just for curiosity sake. cheers JF
Fantastic love the laid back way of teaching, I think I got it all because of that?..just going to do 3 of my lemon tree...Great attitude...
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Wow, what an excellent video clip this is. Thanks for sharing your technique with the world. Our neighbor has a Meyer lemon tree that gets absolutely covered in fruit every year like you wouldn't believe. I now feel confident that I can clone from this tree - can't wait to get started.
I have been eyeing a neighbours tree, it gives them SO many beautiful lemons every year, lol.
This was a great, informative video, cheers! I've started growing lemons from seed. The mandarins I score from the neighbours garden have no seeds, so I will have to use the cutting method.
I've been scrumping fruit for months, but would like to have my own, so videos like this are a great way to start up, chur!
+Matthew Ashton Hey, seeds will always grow trees, but rarely ones that will fruit. Recommend buying a tree, or taking a cutting/clone :)
I just took cuttings from a key lime the other day. I put some honey in the water that they sat in for the first few days. Another gardener I know uses honey instead of rooting products. He has great success.
Aaaadaaaaammmm!!! You make me proud to be a Kiwi! Love it! Fantastic video, thanks for all the goodness!
Thanks heaps for this tutorial! I've always wanted to clone the Lemon tree from the house I grew up in. I took the cuttings mid-day and they survived a trip from Hastings to Waikato and overnight in water before planting them with the rooting hormone and plastic bags. All except 1 have taken!
Perfect…just what l was looking for. Cheers from Ottawa, Canada 🍁
TY sooooo much for the idea ... we have one of the best navelorange trees here in the neighbourhood (we live in n - california), as soon as the first orange pops in the trees people start lining up to get some ;) so i figured hey why not trying to root them for the neighbours and friends :D ... I will keep you posted on how it worked out for me :)
Update please-- how'd it go?
I did 10 cuttings based on this video about seven weeks ago, and so far, all of them are doing very well. We have lots of new growth :) When can I take them out of the bags? For anyone who is thinking of trying it, this method really works. Thanks for posting this video. I cant wait to start more, Mate!
This is good. If your soil dries up, your little new roots will die. These roots are very new and tender and will not survive drying out, nor will the stalk that depends upon these new roots. The plastic bag ensures that there is no or little evaporative loss, and the soil (and roots) stay hydrated.
This video is awesome dude! Good simple advise. I think that's we're all looking for on UA-cam, simplicity. I was able to follow your instructions with great success without needing a PHD lol... Great video buddy keep it up.
my brother Lead, just watched your vids on citrus also lol
This is wonderful thanks for the tips once i try this i will let you know how it turns out.. have a bless day!!!
such a good video and nice, heartfelt ending. thankyou for sharing your hobby with us. im going to try it myself :)
Thanks for this video. Tomorrow I shall go buy some small pots and going to try an orange tree, mandarin tree, and plum tree. With my luck, it will fail, but I am sure going to give it a go. Will post results on here later, good or bad.
Cool, I have also had good luck with plums, done about 8 so far, and 6 have come up, they grow quicker than the citrus trees, but I think will take longer to start fruiting.
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amazing video,. I followed these instructions at the end of October except I put mason jars over the cuttings,. I brought 8 citrus cuttings back from turkey to cold cold England and stuck them in the window over the winter,. 2 made it and I'm now seeing new leaves forming,. which is crazy,.
thanks for getting advice!,. ah yes mine took 3 months to show new growth lol
JJ Stubbs What sort of tempeture did you keep the cuttings at please?
Ah man,. they've been in a cold environment,. its crazy,.
on a window ledge in a room that doesnt freeze, but isnt warm and with little light (English winter sun).
I gave them both a tug and 1 doesnt have roots unfortunately,. but 1 has roots and new leaves. I'm hoping that as spring advances it will really take off.
Thanks mate, i'm in UK too, so will give it a go.
All you need to know to be successful! Thanks for sharing your technique.
Citrus is a remarkable species.
I'd love to try this with my mandrin orange tree. We've just come into winter and I think it would be best to wait for spring. What do you think, I don't have a green house or sun room.
I had better luck in the spring and autumn, but plenty of success in winter too, try both :D
Thanks for making this video! Will try tomorrow morning once I get all the bits and pieces together!
Thank you. Video was well done and is inspirational.
You sound like the perfect husband. Gonna try this after winter, thanks!
Love this . Thank you for your video Sir. God Bless All
I never knew you can grow citrus from cuttings. I'll try it. Thanks for the video
Yeah the two main orange trees grown are Valencia and navel and this is the only way to get them because navel and midknight Valencia oranges are seedless
@@miguelplascencia6093 The more common method would be to graft those varieties onto a hardy, vigorous rootstock, but this way is worth a try.
I am jealous of your skills and success. I am a noob. I live in Orange County, CA and have an amazing Orange Tree that has been on my property for over 30 years. I am scared it will die in the near future and have tried your method on 4 sets of 6 pots and failed. They seem to be drying up, even though the soil is wet and dying off. Am I missing something? Any advice is appreciated. Thanks!
The best channel name ever !
I have been trying for several years to propagate citrus by cuttings without success. I want to try your method now. When is the ideal season to do this? I live in Belgium - here citrusses can only be kept in a container and in the winter they have to overwinter frost free. I hope it will work - thank you very much!
Thanks for explaining so many of the 'why's' when you did things a certain way, instead of just saying, 'Next, you want to do XYZ' and not saying why.
thanks i just tried this method on two lime cuttings and both of them have taken root. I couldn't believe it worked
Great video. Just followed all instructions with an artic frost..wondered if ok to keep them on the covered porch as opposed to inside. It is spring here and warm now. Thanks
have you grown the trees over time. I have been told will have root problems if not budded. I am wondering. I know there is lemon root stock. so that might hold up? but wondering on sweet wood like hamlins, navels. I know there is also an old rootstock from mandrin called cleo not sure on spelling. . will be nice if can do this and it holds up. Thanks for video. it is great.
By far the best cloning progating video I have seen on UA-cam. I never had success with cloning, tried cloning a crapload and nothing took hold, used powdered solution, maybe the liquids is better! And definitely gonna try the bagging. Did you use soft rooting hormone? Want to clone my Naartjie
Hanno from South Africa Pretoria
Thank you! A friend has the most amazing lemon tree in California. I am going to try this so I can plant some in Texas.
Hello there, i'm in San Antonio TX zone 8B and grow many citrus. What part of TX are you in?
LOL - "I'm about to,get carried away and do hundreds of these..." Awesome!
+Rob Backyard Gardenerr lol I did... i have 6 everbearing mulberry I was lucky enough to find near a budhist temple, also 6 peach cuttings, im about to find more trees for cut/jack!!! yaaaaa
my neighbor has a Buddha's Hand citroen tree, I took several cuttings which were given rooting hormone and are sitting in a cup of seaweed nutrient solution overnight before going into the soil and bags tomorrow. we shall see... Thanks.
You won't be alone
Oh jeez rob I bet you will. Make a new series lol
Thank you for the great video! I currently grow hibiscus, ti leaf and pandans from cuttings and didn't know you could do citrus. Have a great day!
very nice video, i think my citrus cuttings have like a 1 or 2 percent, lol... i think i'll give your method a go round... i like how you leave the bottom unwrapped from the ziploc bag for easier watering, great idea... wish me luck
Great video; covers the topic and I like your style!
Great video, thanks for sharing 👍
How cool is that ! Love your method and your attitude. I bought a beat-up Meyer lemon tree at a nursery here in Ontario, Canada last July. It was humble, but once I re-potted it it began to grow and shot out sweet-smelling blossoms. It is inside now and has 4 lemons about the size of hen's eggs.
I'm going to try your method to propagate plants for my friends. I do this now with oleander plants. Does it bug you when you gift these plants and jackasses forget to water them? It sure does me.
Cheers,
Rob
Good luck mate
I try to keep them long enough that they are strong enough that neglect wont kill em haha, but go for the shotgun effect, doesn't matter if a few miss, put enough out there and you can't lose :)
adamaadamaaadam
Thanks Brother,
Since writing to you my little tree has punched out close to 100 flower buds. After a gruesome, winter here where it reached -25C several times these flowers will literally be a breath of fresh air.
Cheers,
Rob
Remember oleander is toxic all parts of the plant
THESE trees and many other trees actually do not need our help and theyneed just a starting push toget rid of the starting trouble..and they are on their ways...way ahead...growing and growing yielding and yielding and never you have to pour water once it is big enough....this is divinity. in true words. and man has spoiled such a bful world.
Great rundown Adam. You've convinced me. Gonna attempt it with Kaffir Lime first...and it ain't citrus but i've been having a 4-year epic journey trying to just root ONE phaleria clerodendron (aussie native)...A guy in Singapore has been guiding me all this time (he can do it!), and his methods are similar to yours, but i think a clear bag (rather than white), LIQUID hormone and the elastic band (rather than some tape) might be the trick... WIll keep you posted with both. I'm in Byron Bay, Aust so will be reporting from a subtropical climate...
Good luck mate, I'd love a slightly warmer climate to garden in!
Can I do this with bigger branches?
Thanks for this information. I live in a humid part of Austalia, would you still put the plastic bag over the pot?
Nice video, I want to try this! Could you please tell me the brand of organic liquid growth hormone you are using? Thanks!!
Thanks mate, quite helpful. Lots of videos about cuttings here, but not many dealing with citrus.
can't wait to try it when I go Bangladesh in April. thank you, excellent video.
Tino pai tenei whakaahua!! Hey what a great video... I have one question when can I take cutting from trees? I live in whangarei cheers bro
love your work bro. keep up the good work. kia kaha
i haven't had any success with peach cuttings as of yet but will try putting it in a sealed bag for the humidity. will keep you updated. kia ora
Thank you very much for great demonstration. Pl. let me know the name of root chemical where you dipped the stump. Thanking you again
Thank you for sharing this wonderful video!!!
Thanks for this! Will be giving it a try on the weekend.
This is an absolutely wonderful method......
I cloned several tangerine cuttings 5 days ago and one of the cuttings has already produced a fruit!! Thanks for the informative video
Hello.. just curious what season u took ur cuttings. I also would like to clone a tangerine tree from my grandmothers house before it is sold due to her passing. I grew up eating those tangerines eversince i can remeber. Probably 50+ years old tree.
I took rooting powder and found the best clippings and just pamper them...
I planted them in spots that doesn't get direct sunlight in the afternoon!!
Its really easy to do...
Good luck
Nice, thank you. Did u take the cuttings in spring?
Yes I did but depending on where you live you could do it right now; I'm from Florida so cold isn't a real problem for me
Sounds good.. im in Cali so we're just getting back to 70's after our two week winter..lol. well thanks for chatting sir.. Stay safe out there!
Excellent, thank you. On average, how many years after rooting might one expect it to bear fruit?
Cuttings from a fruit bearing tree will fruit 6 months to a year depending on the variety you decided to grow. If for some reason the cutting started to flower, I would pluck them off so it can grow better and stronger.
Hi matey, great video! I've been given a dwarf lime tree and have had to already repot the young tree to a bigger size pot. I'm wondering if I should remove the flowers and little round fruits that's started to assist it in growing faster? It is about 1 meter and a bit tall but not bushy - it just looks like a tall stick.. Thanks and info will be much appreciated.
Fabulous video, thanks for the excellent effort.
Incredible! Thank you. Just one question, what’s a pen?
Wow! That is really cool! I need to try that once I get hold of a big enough tree!
I can't stop looking at my baby's so excited my first time with my indoor garden but I need to slow down and be careful watering them.
I have tried doing your method with citrus fruit. I guess I need to wait for 3 weeks or more. I will let you know if it survives. I think of gonna go for 60 buckets. Goodluck to me. Cheers. :)
Did it work? :)
Hi. Thanks for the vid. Your soil looks extremely coarse for good drainage. What is considered good drainage for citrus? For example, I just planted 2 Meyer Lemon trees. One has Espoma cactus/palm/citrus "potting mix", which pools water on top of the pot for 30-45 secs before fully sinking in. The other has a custom mix from a nursery which does not pool at all (contains more perlite and sand). What is better for these citrus or fruit trees? Surely Espoma should know what they're doing, but the nursery seems to think otherwise! thanks!
Hey, I have no idea :) Just an amateur who found a trick that works and ran with it. In saying that, I have used Seed mix, Potting mix and Home-made Compost, all worked for me :)
He's so pleasant and this is so informative !
I have 3 successful lemon cuttings (out of 4) from last summer. ^_^ Thanks.
Choice :) Thanks for the feedback, thats exactly why I made the vid and glad to hear works for you :)