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Originally Posted by speck-chaser
My dad used to bud alot of orange trees using Trifolia. He would collect the oranges from them,plant the seeds, grow them in the field,and when they reached a certain size, would bud them with whatever orange he wanted. He had several big orange trees with up to 6 or 8 different kinds of fruit on them, that he had budded different oranges too. Like said previously, the trifolia root stock is used mainly because it is tough for cold and diseases. Many growers are starting to use lemon root stock, mainly because of its fast growth,and can produce a tree for sale much quicker, but will not withstand the cold as well as the trifolia root stocked ones. Orange trees can be grown from seed,but will take probably about 6-8 years before it matures enough to produce fruit. Hence the budding process speeds up the process. My dad had 800 mature trees at one time.
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its very interesting learning all this stuff.
so the use of lemon trees is to produce lots of trees quickly but they aren't as resistant to cold.
it makes sense since growers are looking to mass produce crops of trees quickly and I imagine they are not as concerned with taking the time to produce hearty trees to last you a lifetime like a home owner would prefer to have.
this also explains why my grandfather got lemon trees when he planted the seeds from his Satsuma crops, I always wondered why Satsuma trees didn't grow Satsuma tree producing seeds lol. (as I said, its obvious I don't know a lot about growing stuff) my grandfather probably knew all about his stuff but he died when I was very young and back then I didn't care and never asked or cared about this stuff.
does anyone know if it matters the type of tree used in grafting as far as changing the fruit? what I am wondering is if something like a grapefruit tree or orange tree was used as the base to graft a Satsuma tree onto it instead of the lemon or that trifolia tree yall spoke of? would that, or could that, change the flavor or sweetness levels of the fruit? or is all that strictly controlled by the built in traits of the Satsuma branch grafted onto whatever is used as a base root stock?
also, does anyone know if you can just use any random tree sprout as a root stock to grow Satsuma from anything you have growing in the yard and use it to create a Satsuma tree from it? or does it need to be grafted onto a tree in the fruit bearing family? in other words, would it need to be a lemon tree or trifolia or could you use any fruit tree like a grapefruit tree, apple tree, pear tree, fig tree, peach tree?
probably a "well duh" statement but I would prefer a very sweet plentiful crop of fruit with very few seeds and while I like Satsuma, they aren't always very sweet and the trees I have been around are often produce medium sweet fruit at best so that's why im looking for a good orange tree in the hopes it will be producing sweeter fruit on a regular basis