Too small, I think.

Josh

Flying Dragon is a very difficult cultivar to root. - Silica.

Thanks, good to know not to expect too much. Well they have to come off anyway as the tree is tiny so I don't want them diverting too much energy from the seville.

I'll still try it I think, would the sterile starter be the best method? Rooting hormone?

I had the same idea ,guess not such a good one afterall :) , have a sucker growing , dont know the root stock , thought will give it a try . am awaiting my order for C-35 Citrange's then will give grafting a shot.

Nice keep us posted, I am going to try too!

You can air layer those suckers once they grow up a bit.

Oh cool, thanks, I actually just tried

my first fig air layer this spring and it went great! The cutting is huge now.

I guess the question is do I want to potentially set back the Seville by letting the sucker grow. Will have to think on that.

I'd say it's worth it if your willing to not graft the flying dragon. Setting back one tree in order to get unlimited rootstock seed seem fine to me. But everyone has different priorities.

Don't try to air layer until the growth is 8 inches or more and has hardened off. Even then I would leave it on the parent tree, rooted, until it was 12 or more inches long.

Great tips, thanks Pip! Even with the suckers the seville has new growth... so maybe I will let the suckers ride for a bit... I could always pinch one off to try rooting hormone in sterile starter and leave the other one to get to potential air layer size. I will try that. I like the look of flying dragon, it would be cool to have one.

Pointless to do now. Citrus is hard to root as softwood. If you want to pinch off and root at least wait until it hardens off.

Your suckers will not detract from the Seville; you will only have to give it a bit more food, at least until such time as you remove the suckers. The rootstock is normally much stronger and more aggressive than the scion; so in a relatively short time, if left on its own will take over the plant and smother the scion. I once discovered a 6 ft Meyer on a project where the normal tree was 3 feet. Turns out it was not a Meyer at all, but a Macrophylla (our rootstock of choice) which had taken over the Meyer. In this case, as with many rootstock takeovers, we were able to remove the "suckers" and rescue the Meyer, literally hidden within.

Thanks John and Pip, will do then. I can see that the pot has a good amount of CRF in it plus I have been adding the FP properly. It has already sent out a lot of new growth even with the suckers so it seems ok so far as you suggest John.

Ok these guys are getting crazy, is it time to pinch yet?

PINCH---No mercy, it is time

Thanks Steve, thought so, should I still peel back the bark a bit to expose the cambium for better contact with the rooting hormone?

Wait I just noticed they are still very bendy, is that ok or is that still considered "softwood"?

Let us know how it turns out and what you choose to do. I have been trying to find info on rooting flying dragon, and it seems that getting them to take is very hard.

They suggest rooting hormone and sticking cuttings in July. But is that assuming the plant started growing in spring? say April? if so, then yours might not be old enough yet. They also concluded that mature trees have almost zero take, but they never tell you what age they consider mature, one, two, three years? or do they have to bear fruit?

Don't go by my info, I know nothing, but I thought would share what I researched. I sure would like to know the results. I have a flying dragon coming in a week.

Normally I'd say green shoots can root in water easily but I've not tried it with citrus

It looks like a mutant plant!! I wish you success!

Thanks guys, wow Dev looks great! I am not sure, should I let mine get that big? Also I forgot about the air layer option... should I wait to air layer or try the rooting hormone approach?

Since I have 2 shoots I guess I could try both approaches. I'll wait a bit and see if there are any more opinions.

The waviness is why it's called flying dragon. Because it looks like a Chinese dragon flying around.

It will never lose the waviness.

Hi Pip

Dir the US897 rootstock seedlings I sent you arrive in usable or better condition

n herez the cutting . it's week old

Beautiful tree cover. I hope it works well for your plant

I bought a 10 light chandelier and turned it upside down and connected it to a ceiling fan. I had to silicon seal the globes so they did,t drop leaving them unusable for more important things.

I put a trifolate cutting into a pot of soil a few months ago and tried to root it. It's still green and has it leaves but no growth. I pulled it up today and no roots so I stuck back into the pot. I'm not too hopeful. I've got a bunch of FD seeds. I planted some of them but I think that are just going to be regular trifolates not FD. I've read that you can tell that they are going to be FD pretty early on. Van

opened the air layering today ,it rooted well. potted it up . now I have to confirm what exact rootstock variety it is.

Here are some I started in water.

Did you have that bottle of water in sunlight to root those cuttings

Congratulations on the air layering rooting Dev. I tried one last fall but it never took. Probably better to do in the spring.

Cory

Nice job,Dev.

Steve, I did have them in the sun. They are now potted in soil.