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  • From: "philip sauber" <mrtejas@lycos.com>
  • To: "North American Fruit Explorers" <nafex@lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [NAFEX] key limes, seedling citrus in general
  • Date: Fri, 09 May 2003 18:13:12 -0500

I think you got that reversed. The trees grafted high on trifoliate couldn't
be protected by banking soil past the graft and they froze out. The ones
grafted low survived because the graft was covered by soil and didn't freeze.

Seriously, there is no consensus that grafting high makes the tree more cold
hardy. I graft as low as possible to make soil banking easier.
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On Fri, 09 May 2003 12:05:46
Lon J. Rombough wrote:
>I recall the story of Orange, TX. It was supposed to have been an orange
>growing area for years. In those days, oranges were grafted high, like 5
>feet or so, on Poncirus trifoliata, so that cattle could be allowed to graze
>in the orchards without bothering the trees. However, newer orchards were
>planted in fenced areas with no cattle, so they were grafted close to the
>ground. Those trees froze out when the ones grafted high on the trifoliata
>survived. Apparently grafting the trees high on trifoliata gave them more
>resistance to cold.
>
>
>From: "philip sauber" <mrtejas@lycos.com>
>Organization: Lycos Mail (http://www.mail.lycos.com:80)
>Reply-To: mrtejas@lycos.com, North American Fruit Explorers
><nafex@lists.ibiblio.org>
>Date: Fri, 09 May 2003 13:57:26 -0500
>To: "North American Fruit Explorers" <nafex@lists.ibiblio.org>
>Subject: Re: [NAFEX] key limes, seedling citrus in general
>
>
>I live 500 miles north of the commercial citrus area near Houston, TX but in
>a good area for satsumas. Enthusiasts like me "push" our zone(8b/9a)and
>ground oranges and grapefruit in the ground with winter protection. A
>neighbor had a mature key lime tree seedling in the ground 8 or 10 feet
>tall. I have a grafted 3 footer in a pot. My pot tree outproduced by
>several fold the much larger seedling without the wicked thorniness. A
>thornless selection is available for key lime and I have one in a pot.
>
>Seedlings may do well in the ground for citrus though. I have had them bear
>fruit from 1-3 years old although 5 years is thought more likely. One
>limequat fruited the first year in a pot at about 3 feet tall.
>Phil
>--
>
>


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