Grafted Cold Hardy Citrus Tree Update #2 in Zone 7b
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- Опубликовано: 15 сен 2024
- It's about time to update you guys on this tree before entering the Winter time. The grafts have all grown well and this will be the first year testing whether or not 'Dunstan' citrumelo can survive here high-grafted onto trifoliate orange.
It's looking really good! I hope you have a mild winter and the grafts survive 🤞. I wish hardy varieties like Dunstan citrumelo were available here in the UK. I have planted a clementine in the ground and am providing some protection with a frost jacket and incandescent lights on the colder nights, I'm hoping it will be enough to help it through the winter 🤞
Thank you! Best case scenario we have a terrible winter and they still survive! I'll be happy either way seeing some huge citrus fruit in our northern garden.
Sounds like a good plan, crossing my fingers it works for you too! You could even try 5 gallon buckets or larger water barrels, I put them in our greenhouse and they really worked wonders for keeping the temperature warmer and more steady.
Love to see how this is doing later in the year!
Thank you! We'll definitely post an update on this one, the winter was mild so it should grow a lot more this year.
Nice grafts! Do you have taitri? I have been using it as a rootstock. Multigrafted with fast flowering trifoliate, morton, prague chimera, thomasville citrangequat, bishop citrandarin, and ichang papeda. The prague, FFT are two year grafts so they are hardy on the taitri. It grows much faster than trifoliate and is pretty much proven hardy in my 7a NJ garden.
That's an awesome set of grafted citrus you have on your hands! Prague Chimera is definitely one we'll plant in our future garden.
I have a group of Tai Tri seedlings, one of which is a tetraploid, and I had some scions at one point but the grafts were unsuccessful on the small rootstock I had. I've heard of it making a good rootstock too so I'll have to experiment with that in the future! First step is I want to re-attempt some grafts of mature Tai Tri this coming spring so we have a seed source.
tetraploid taitri sounds awesome, hope it grows well for you that is really something to grow!@@themulberries
Where did you get your grafting wood?
If you call up Stan McKenzie he has grafting wood available for both Dunstan and Sacaton citrumelo!
Let me know how this goes and the coldest drops the dunstan takes I’m zone 8a and I might want to try mine outdoors.
So far I can update that this took 14°F with no problem as well as many lows below 20°F.
It was a milder winter this year but Dunstan should be able to survive in an 8a environment! At most maybe wind protection if it's still young.
@@themulberriesmhmm the thing is we’re rated zone 8a we’re zone 7b before this and I’ve seen -10 temp dip once in 15 years and then there’s. It’s usually 30-40 in the day during the winter.
And 10-20F at night sometimes I’ve seen 8 degrees during colder winters
@@wasfalsehood9295 It can definitely still happen! From what I have heard, a mature tree could still survive brief dips in the negatives but it will take damage at that point. We'll be growing some citrumelo varieties in 7b/8a too.
@@themulberries oh awesome I have a few hybrids myself. A us/942, us119 coming in the mail, and I have dunstan, 852, thomasville, and a few others oh and my swingle just sprouted! I’ll probably plant them near a south facing rock. Or something,
@@wasfalsehood9295 sounds like a great collection of hardy trees! US 119 might need the most care out of all of them but that is just what I've heard. Good luck!!