In this video, I show you what the fruit from the citrus rootstock of a native lime tree tastes like.
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Where I live in North Carolina, US, winters can get as cold as -12C. I grow citrus in ground, but I need to protect them a few nights a year in winter. I decided I wanted a novelty citrus tree in my front yard I didn’t have to protect, so I planted a trifoliate orange.
Trifoliate orange is wonderful rootstock, but the fruit is awful. Like a lemon you dipped in gasoline. The thorns are so horrid after 4 years that I chopped it down and grafted an Ichang lemon to it. Both grafts took, which is funny to see a graft half the width of a pencil growing out of a trunk the thickness of my heel. I say cut it down to 15cm and chip bud graft a finger lime bud into it. You’ll be picking finger limes in 2 years on those strong roots.
This happened with my plums up here in Canada. But the wild plums from the root stock were delicious, and much more prolific than the cultivated graft
Maybe you could use that root mass to graft better species to
Mark would or could you use the root stock to re graph a new finger lime or something like that on seeing how the root stock is established and growing very good
Graft something on the stupp , it's a strong rootstock, don't let it go to waste.
Plus it's a fun experiment…
So good to see a new video from you, Mark! I had a bad feeling that the fruit was not going to be anything you hoped it would be. The root was definitely not producing a finger lime of any kind from what I've seen elsewhere. It's sad that it took so long for you to wait to see that it was a failure, but I like the idea of grafting something else onto the root if it's that strong! It might just turn into a silk purse from a sow's ear after all!
I love doing experiments in my garden. I cross bred a cucumber and a watermelon. What I got was a HUGE cucumber. They grew great!
A really nice son!
A Meyer lemon is like an orange and a lemon with very little skin and a huge amount of juice!
Here in Florida we use "sour stock" as a trunk and root base, with the desired fruit grafted to it…looks like an orange, tastes like a sour lemon but resists temperature extremes, and disease
Why don't you graft some good citrus back on the tree?
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I’m going to ask a really stupid question. But I find myself in similar circumstances as you once did where I have to start growing my own fruits & vegetables. I’ve have some experience as I’ve grown vegetables most of my life, but I wasn’t dependent on them to eat. So only grew favorite things. I know how to can, so I’m good there. But I’m not sure of how to start a larger garden. How do I figure out how much of each kind of plant I need, are seeds or seedlings better ? Other than canning are there other ways to preserve harvest. Don’t say root cellar, I live in east Texas now red clay, way to moist. Plus I just moved to this acid soil from alkaline and limestone. Plus further north. Don’t know if I feel lost because it’s now become or must or because I just moved away from everything I knew or both. Any suggestions will be appreciated.
How about grafting on to it?
8:49 i often eat avocados with salt, vinegar, sunflower oil and something called "maggi" mixed together and it tastes so nice!
It was definitely worth waiting no matter what the fruit tastes like.
just graft it
cool…
but those birds want their 5 min of fame too!
Try making a jam out of it first, or maybe a liquor or vinegar , it may surprise you.
I love this video!
You could just graft on something good to that old tree. It’s got a lot of root now. It would grow Super fast. I’d give it a go
Thanks for the video, Mark! Always wondered about root stock and grafted trees.
I bought a pink fingerlime from Bunnings start of last year. I was very surprised it actually started producing fruit soon after being planted in a pot. Definitely one of my favourite citrus fruits.
Hi Mark. Love your videos. You're a local legend. We are only about 15 minutes from you and about to rebuild our veg garden after doing some work around the yard. Is it worth adding wicking beds? Thanks and Cheers
Karen
I have a trifoliate orange (the dwarf "flying dragon" variety) so I can collect seed and grow rootstock to practice grafting. It's a useful skill for a keen gardener.
There's a youtube channel called "Fruit Mentor" which has fantastic tutorial videos on how to graft Citrus.
Trifoliate orange can also be air layered fairly easily, so you can propagate it that way to practice grafting too.
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