grafting lemons on orange trees and vica versa

[Karen4]

I'd also bet that the longer the area of the cut slice on each bit, the more chance it might "take". I think I saw somewhere that you need to have a kind of "flap" and then slide the parasite bit inside, taping the whole lot to keep them together. Someone with fruit-bearing trees (unlike mine - so far!) might want to give it a go. Mind you, I'd also be inclined to give it a wee kiss and a hug to encourage it!

[Karen4]

Ha! Ha! It just seems like a logical thing to do! Works with human body parts so I thought it might work with plants as they're usually not quite so physiologically complex! Still waiting for ANY kind of fruit on my wee trees - think I might have to buy some more ready-made ones!

[Karen4]

Try cutting a slice down the host and the "parasite" and taping them together. I would try it but my wee trees are yet to produce anything more than flowers!

[goodtimes]

Yeah Frankie I suppose so as well. You know what I really mean is: if the grafted lemon branch feeds from the orangetree¨s roots would it change it´s cycle. More interesting would you be able to "produce" an orangebranch grafted on a lemon trunk that would flower over and over again just like the lemon. Or would it simply feed like a parasite and not have a genetic code altered?? Well only one way to find out, now I really want to try my hand at it. I am going to search google and try to speak to some old farmers.

[goodtimes]

Judi thanks for the picture. Well I wouldn´t want a field full but simply try it.

[judi bk]

Hope you can see this - it is one of the many lemange or Oramon trees on the road down to Arboleas from La Perla area


[attachment=0:2pg96xhh]orangeandlemon.jpg[/attachment:2pg96xhh]


If you have a small garden I can understand wanting one to save space.  I can also understand someone doing it just to see if they can but why have a field full of them instead of having lemon and orange trees

[goodtimes]

Thanks Frankie, we are getting further and further, if they flower at the same time would the lemon flower again after being picked?? Really acting like a lemon.

[goodtimes]

I´ve seen them once myself on Albox market, I want to know how to do it. Listen, let´s scout about a bit and keep each other informed.

I know that a lemon tree will start to blossom again immediately after you pick the lemon, all year around. So, will an orange or a mandarin branch grafted on a lemon stem do the same?? Will it blossom all year around?

[Karen4]

I just KNEW I hadn't been seeing things! I told my daughters I was sure I had seen a couple of trees with both oranges and lemons growing on them - they though I must have been over-indulging in the old vino collapso!

[goodtimes]

I know it can be done but also that it is a different procedure than that of almond trees. I know the time to do it is March. Has anyone done it and how did you do it.I want to breathe new life into some non bearing citrustrees.