Crazy About Citrus | Ep03 New Budwood + Update on Grafted Citrus

"Crazy About Citrus" is a series chronicling our connection with citrus.

In this episode: Receiving additional citrus budwood varieties and a 12-month update on how our grafted citrus are doing.

As an avid citrus collector, we will reach a point where it is necessary to attempt to acquire the skill of grafting plants. The reason for this is that more varieties of citrus exists in bud wood form than can be purchased as trees. In order to add rare citrus varieties to our collection we must now try our hand at grafting. On March 7th, we recieved bud wood from the Citrus Clonal Protection Program. Because of the Huanglongbing disease that is terminal to citrus trees, it is necessary to acquire bud wood from certified sources as a measure to contain the spread of the disease.

The bud wood received are:
'King Tangor' aka 'Cam Sanh' tangelo
'Melogold' grapefruit
'Australian Red Pulp Finger Lime' novelty citrus
'Mato Buntan' Pummelo
'Valentine' Pummelo

https://ccpp.ucr.edu/

Zone 10b / San Gabriel Valley / Los Angeles / Southern California / USA