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[Steve <sdw12986@aol.com>]

I'm about a thousand miles too far north for citrus, but I'm sure it 
will behave the same as other fruits in this respect.

If you graft buds from you future young seedlings onto a mature tree, 
those grafts might start producing a few fruits in a couple of years. If 
you were to wait for your young seedlings to mature and fruit, well I 
don't know how long citrus would take but it would certainly be a lot 
longer. Tag your seedlings and the grafts so that you can pull up any 
seedlings that prove to be losers.

Steve

Linda Sherman wrote:
> Hi to all,
>
> I'd like to cross pollinate two varieties of citrus trees. Once these  
> trees bear fruit, I'll plant the seeds from this fruit in order to see  
> the results of the cross pollination, but is there any way to see  
> results faster than waiting many years to see fruit from the  
> seedlings? Could I graft a bud from the seedling onto mature rootstock  
> and get results faster?
>
> In other words, is it the age of the scion or the rootstock that  
> determines when the tree will produce fruit?
>
> THANK YOU!
>
> Josiah Sherman, age 16
> Central Texas, Zone 8
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