Brian and Dev, thanks for the welcome. I've been lurking a while and have learned so much from all the experts here. Discovered I was doing everything wrong so maybe I'll finally get some fruit now after years of lots of blooms but no fruit ;-) And yes the Costcos here started selling citrus about five years ago for about half of what the garden centers were charging. Unfortunately they haven't really added different varieties although 2 years ago they brought in olive trees. Don't like olives so I passed but they were beautiful looking. Haven't seen them again.

Steve! It’s beautiful!!! ive been wanting a valnetine tree forever! Can you tell me if your leaves have winged petioles? I think I got a valentine pumelo tree but I might have gotten a eustis limequat instead. mine definitely do not have winged petioles. Have you had fruit from this tree Steve?

Wow Bob that is huge! My valentine tree has not grown much - it is pretty weak I think. Frankly I’m now thinking maybe they sent me the wrong kind when I ordered like two years ago from that nursery - one green world. I’m annoyed because I have another tree from them that was supposed to be a pearl tangelo, and it is obviously not. It has several oranges for the first time, but they are not tangelos, but the Vaniglia blood orange I’m not so fond of. The valentine tree has leaves that look an awful lot like wekiwa tangelo and now that I think about it, it tasted like it too. That’s very annoying! I guess those are two more I can re-home!

Here’s the Panzarella orange on Sour Orange chip bud that I did about three weeks ago . I think I can detect the bud swelling. I did a small gash in bark above the graft after a little over 2 weeks, which you can see. The Sour Orange really, really wants to grow. I've been rubbing off every new sprout as they appear. Chip bud is one of the the graft types that I have had success with. I tried T-budding, but I usually ended up making a real mess of the bark. Plus this is easier on smaller size rootstocks. On this chip bud graft, I like making that little flap at the bottom of the rootstock cut. It helps to hold the chip in place while wrapping and also gives another surface to fuse with the chip. I like to use Buddy Tape for wrapping. It's 1" wide and perforated so you can easily tear off small portions while in the middle of the process.