You've discovered one of the growers or wholesale sellers of rootstock for the commercial trade. Some wholesalers won't even sell to the retail market. Why don't you check out some on-line retail nurseries to purchase a few of the plants? Flying Dragon is a fairly popular ornamental plant. You should easily be able to find some nice little plants. That's what I would do, I think.

What's the deal with non-citrus people anyway? ;) ah, the fabled flying dragon... I have seen FD for sale here in N. Cal as just a plant unto itself, though admittedly only at one particular and strange garden center. Big sucker too--like 3 feet in height, multistemmed. I thought about getting one and then rooting cuttings of it...or maybe growing some fruit and collecting seeds so I'd have graftworthy plants when I'm like 100 years old...Have you asked about special ordering one at a nursery? Choice A is probably what a lot of people do. I'm just gonna add to existing trees , and then if I later get my hands onto some real rootstock I will just take a bud and re-graft. This won't help this year, but I've seen some website that sells FD seeds but you need to order like a whole liter or something ridiculous...I really want like, 30! (Maybe someone wants to trade?? )It makes laugh when I hear of people in other states who just find the fruit laying on the ground and use that...how unfair :)...You can use other rootstock as well. I've got sour oranges growing--a few types--and that is supposed to be good rootstock as well. Last point--I can't speak for other growers and I should just ask them, but I know that at least for some of its trees Four Winds Growers does NOT use FD for all of it's "true dwarf" citrus. I have no idea what what it is--some type of orange? it's got an orange look to it, anybody know?--but many of my trees are from them and the suckers are NOT trifoliate-looking. The only tree I have seen producing a trifoliate-type sucker and grown by Four Winds was a Key lime... Moral of the really long-winded story is you can still get a real nice tree on another rootstock. HTH.

Where are you located in Texas. i have a few Trifoliata seed. Also have a few small Trifoliata seedlings.

Ben, Well, look at it this way. It would be about $100 for 100 rootstocks, for CA residents about $80 for 100 buds (and experience tells me you'll get a lot more than 100,) about $50 for 100 pots and trays, and $20 for potting mix, for a total of about $2.50 each. It seems to be you should be able to sell them for $8-$10 apeice, which means that you only need to sell 25-35 to pay for them all. Then the ones you keep are basically free. Worst case, if I'd bought one each of these trees (not possible for all the varieties I'm doing) from some place like Brite Leaf I'd have paid $400+, so any way I look at it I'm coming out ahead. Depending on where you are in CA you can leave them outside year round. I've got to bring them inside in about 1-2 months, so that limits me. (It got down to 45F last week, but now we're back to 80F day/55F night, probably into November.) The hardest part, though, is that I didn't really comprehend how many trees 100 really was. It takes seeing them all set on the bench to realize what I've set myself up for. It's going to be a long weekend. ;) Mark E. Hamilton Albuquerque, NM