Fukushu bud on Flying Dragon
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3 years ago
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Jan
3 years agoSteve nice work!!! my one and only Successful graft is not nearly As neat as yours pictured above! Waiting for my Seville sour orange to grow fruits for more grafting adventures :)
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2yr old Flying Dragon Rootstock or ?
Comments (5)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....See MoreFlying Dragon/Trifoliate trees
Comments (8)Gina your not far down the road from me. As you know we do get hurricanes & tropical storms quite often. Personally I would not plant any cutting grown trees in the ground in this area. Look at the Bradford Pear trees around here. They have a very shallow root system & every time we have a tropical storm come through you see hundreds uprooted....See MoreMeiwa kumquat on flying dragon
Comments (28)So i might get a taste of the Fukushu this year before bring in if they mature similarly. Traditionally here, its really not frost until early December. So if they are anything alike I may get a meiwa, although I've never eaten a kumquat and i hate to buy anything that I never actually ate, but I don't eat roses either, they are nice upright trees and meiwa on PT looks like a nice smaller candidate to go out in the ground with protection as a trial. Think its too late in season to settle in and does the broomstick rule apply? The specimen they are selling on your link is a 3/4 gallon so its definitely smaller....See More4 more grafts of Fukushu to flying dragon
Comments (15)My My youngest trees were 7 months old. These sour oranges and Flying dragons are 2.5 years old. This one was grafted at 7 month This NZL is on the same age rootstock as the Sour orange seedlings I am grafting this month and it has already produced 7 lemons. The rootstock was 7 months old The flying dragons I grafted at 2,5 years old only. Steve...See Moreponcirusguy6b452xx
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HOWARD Martin
3 years agothe lighter colored clay soil in flowerpot where it was growing and the darker clay soil has more sand and more nutrients less dense than the first but still have a high amount of clay
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3 years agolast modified: 3 years ago1-20-21 Fukushu on Flying dragon
Just short of 4 months old from when the bud was 1/4 inch long
This one took an extra month to bud out so Just under 3 months oldSteve
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