Ah, thanks! That makes sense, as vigourous species can affect small scions in the reverse by 'speeding them up' in some instances. So if I chose a grafted large plant - usually the 'Glauca' or 'Aurea' of most species - then I should be ok. That's great.

Ah, Thanks. That's good to know. Before I got my 'Van Pelt's Blue' I saw one of Andy's grafts in a private garden that was around 4 years old that looked great and made me want one. Perhaps it's downhill from here. I'll cross my fingers and hope for the best.

Vladimir - GW has a general "Garden Exchange" forum for trades here - http://forums.gardenweb.com/forums/exgard I know back in the Spike days, many of the busy forums actually had an "exchange" subforum attached to their main forum and there is a link to a list of those here - http://forums.gardenweb.com/forums/exchind Maybe the Houzz people can do similar for this forum (create a "Citrus Exchange" sub-forum) given the amount of grafters here.

Age of cutting stock and/or scion stock would not necessarily be the factor, it will be the size of the plants being used. With them all growing at different rates it is hard to go from age. One of the biggest factors (you are in Hawaii) is what stage the plants are in for growth. Both the Rootstock and Scion stock should be in active growth for good adhesion. W/O going into "how' to graft. Softer growth which would be towards the tip or including the tip can be used as well. The size (diameter of) does not matter too much as long as the scion used has atleast 2-3 nodes on it. I have grafted onto 1yr. old stock as well as used 1yr. old stock as scion material. Using the top growth w the leaves intact works well, just need to make sure good humidity and snip the leaves in half. You will have fun experimenting. Always going to have loses, but if you have a good size rootstock, you can reuse it again by slicing off 1/4" and place another scion on top for another go. Rick