cutting root suckers from dwarf meyer

18 years ago

Hello i was wondering what is considered a root sucker and what isnt i cant find any graft lines on my lemon tree i have a branch coming out from the bottom of the tree and it has like 4 little lemons on it would this be a sucker.... thanks

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pecanman
18 years ago
It is possible that you have a plant started from a rooted cutting. lemons are very easy o root.
gmb7
Original Author
18 years ago
any one have any pictures of graft lines so i can compare with my tree it is supposed to be a dwarf meyer im not even sure if its a meyer they leaves are varigated it was sold as a dwarf meyer
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Thank you Steve, I didn't know basal shoots came up so far away from the parent plant. I'll have to watch my terminology. The new cane inside the cage is also a basal shoot then, it is from below the ground (I'll check next time I go out to make sure about that)? Don't some people refer to an own-root rose as creating suckers? My Harison is then a basal shoot we dug up which survived from the parent plant? I've got one from another rose in a pot for a gal we dug out of a thicket of a rose that had put out so many (we have been calling them suckers) basal shoots that had taken over a large area of the garden, then one survived with only one nice green, thicker-than-a-pencil cane and has put out one new shoot from that. I thought that was a basal shoot and anything that came up from an own root right by the plant was a basal, just didn't expect one so soon from the parent plant and out so far. I thought anything new that shot out from above the graft was a basal shoot (when people throw that term around here). So I stand corrected. My neighbor sprayed after I posted, it came through the fence and ruined all my wild violets on the west side of my house last time (very close to the fence). I keep them because they are all that will grow there, huge, refreshing green with a path down the center, sure a good thing I didn't try an expensive wildflower like a jack in the pulpit, etc. I was planting my last two roses I bought further away from the fence (my lot is only about 40' wide) and smelled something, sure enough, sprayed again. I hope the drift doesn't damage this baby or my pussywillow that is closer to his fence. I think it damaged my new forsythia where I thought a dog did it. Basal shoot it is then. I'm worried now that I had gushed about this being one tough rose and hate to lose this one to drifting spray, not because it is the prettiest of all I could root, but because I sneaked the cuttings which I didn't like doing, but did it anyway to try to save the rose. If it amounts to anything and I live long enough, I hope to share it if people want it, pretty common looking after all the pink roses I've seen. The scent is heavenly. I did research a little on spray drift and read that just because you can detect an odor doesn't necessarily mean you have inhaled too much (I did not like breathing it) or that an excessive amount of damaging spray has drifted. But I'll have to wait to know for certain. There was no wind, but it doesn't matter, it drifts on the slighest air current.
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birdsnblooms
18 years ago
Gmb, is there one trunk or several? If several, there's a good chance it's seedlings as Peacanman said.
Sorry, I'm still trying to figure out how to post pics, otherwise I'd go outside and snap a pic.
W/grafted trees you'll see a sideways line, and bump. This is where the graft, if there was one, took place..If you've got lemons I wouldn't prune off that branch. Toni
Millet
18 years ago
Toni, Peacanman did not say it was a seedling. What he said is that it was "possible that you have a plant started from a rooted cutting." If there is no graft line, which BTW is very easy to see, than it probably is a cutting. If your Meyer's trunk is straight up and down with no sideways bend at all (as Toni said) then it could easily be a cutting. IF it is a cutting then it would be a Meyer Lemon branch rather than a rootstock sucker. - Millet
StanInCalif
18 years ago
Meyer Lemon is usually propagated on its own roots; however, it is still best to remove this, as a multi- trunked tree is not desirable.
birdsnblooms
18 years ago
Pardon me, a 'rooted cutting.' Toni
gmb7
Original Author
18 years ago
thanks and i think i found a graft line it is near the dirt and this branch is right at the graft i think ill let it be for now...i dont know how to send pics either and i do have two trunks one is curved and one straight up and they both look grafted... this trees leaves are varigated and really strong scented too i think it is a meyer the flowers are white it also has thorns doesnt look at all like the other dwarf meyer i have it is a cool lookin tree anyways
bencelest
18 years ago
For myself I think multitrunk citrus tree is a novelty. I have not seen one YET. So if I have one like yours, I would keep it.
It could also be that when it was planted both are planted against one another. I was thinking to do this also.
Jon_B
18 years ago
gmb, does the sucker look anything like this (see link).

I have something similar on my dwarf meyer (strange unflowering thorny branch coming from lower trunk), and am debating on whether to cut it off.

Here is a link that might be useful:
citrange2
18 years ago
Jon B 's picture shows a shoot of Poncirus trifoliata, a common (and for many situations, the best) rootstock for citrus.
Googling 'poncirus' will give lots of references.
The shoot should be removed, or it will eventually be stronger than the Meyers.
gmb7
Original Author
18 years ago
jon b my branch doesnt look like that it flowered and grew 4 lemons on it ... it is right at the graft line not really below it ... if i can figure out how to send a pic i will
Millet
18 years ago
Then it is a lemon branch. Keep it if you wish, or cut it if you desire a clean trunk. It's up to you. - Millet
hazele
17 years ago
please go to the following for pictures of graft line on a dwarf meyer lemon tree.

http://picasaweb.google.com/hazelelizondo/TreeGraftLine

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