When I looked into trying to do my own grafting I found a source for liners that will sell flying dragon (or did at the time) but you have to buy in large quantities. I forget the minimum order but you might check them out: http://www.citrustreesource.com/pricing/ They sell the seedlings, the seeds, and complete liners. Let me know what you find out I'm still interested in trying to do some grafting - I had a tree that died above the graft that I'm trying to grow into a source of seeds but so far no blossoms.

Well the FLying Dragon, in addition to being slow growing, is Difficult to propigate. I had heard this from others, and have seen the results myself. I Purchased 2 small plants from a Bonsai vender, and lost one(even though both were being treated the same). I have a three year old Dragon and over the past 9 months, I have had no sucess in propigating it from cuttings. Only about 20% of the cuttings have set roots, and all of the ones that set root ended up dying, withing a month of being transfered to pots. Now before you suggest that I just have a Brown Thumb, During the same time period, I have been successfully propigating the standard Poncirus trifoliata. It is really begun to bug me. I know that the standard trifoliata has better cold hardiness, but I just love the Curved thorns, and wnat to make a Hedge out of the dragons. So if anyone has found a trick to get The Dragon to propigate lemme know. The 3 year old dragon I have has very curved thorns, which is why I am looking at cloning rather than gathering seeds.

Unfortunately, Flying Dragon seeds do not have a high level of germinating predominantly true clonally. Flying Dragon as a cultivar always has very zigzag stems and strongly curved thorns, it is an easy way (without a DNA test) of selecting predominantly true clonally Flying Dragon seedlings, while discarding those which are obviously, and definitely genetically different. The seedlings that grow taller with straighter stems and straight thorns are not Flying Dragon. Traditionally about 40 to 50 percent of Flying Dragon seeds do not produce true clonal Fling Dragon cultivars. To obtain true Flying Dragon trees one must plant the seeds, let them grow to approximately 12 to 16 inches then discard the seedlings that do not possess the correct genetic characteristics.

I screened out any chance of my seeds from smooth flat seville. My soil is very hard pan clay, It gets soggy. It is 7.8 PH. It gets really cold. With my cultivar going down to below 20F and outside temperature drops below 5F on the years of lanenia. My triple glass front GH against a heated house wall rarely needs heat. The trees are in a pit 4 feet deep and the insulated front wall rises another 2 feet. My glass rises 9 feet from the base and gives me 15 feet hight. The trees will be held to within 2 feet of the house wall being semi espalier growing. My seed grown Meiwa kumquats will be planted in front in the same pit and will be limited to no more than 7 feet. I have read that own rooted Meiwas can go down to 10F. I have 3 small standard PT that are to hard for me to graft to so they went into the ground .for a hedge to hide my neighbor's 2 junked cars she can't let go of' Steve