Fruit Salad Grafted Citrus Tree?

So I have an orange tree in my backyard and I want to graft some different variety Citrus onto it.

Anyone here have experience with this?

Are all Citrus compatible with each other?

Thinking of grafting a Lemon, Lime and Mandarin branch onto it?

What size is best for grafting?

My orange tree is around 2 feet tall and 1 inch stem girth.

Thanks.

Luther Burbank did extensive work on grafting over a century ago. If you want to know more on this subject you should read in Volume 3, pages 144-195 (Grafting and budding) from
Burbank, Luther, 1849-1926 / Luther Burbank: his methods and discoveries and their practical application
(1914)
There are a lot of pictures and details on the many methods of grafting along with some of the vast knowledge he acquired through his experiments. Here you can read it online free!

http://digicoll.library.wisc.edu/cgi-bin/HistSciTech/HistSciTech-idx?type=div&did=HistSciTech.Burbank03.i0010&isize=M

Check out the local agricultural extension in your state, They allways have tons of that kind of info.

FL one -- http://citrusagents.ifas.ufl.edu/citrus_publications/
Ca one -- http://ucanr.edu/sites/citrus/kac/

If you happen to live closes to one of these places, try going down their and talking to them, Mine give out free scion material all the time of experimental varitys, and local knowlege can be a godsend. Also check out local farms durring the dormant/pruneing season they will usually be happy to help with scion material as its trash to them.

Regular fruit tree scion material is cheap like 2-4$ a piece, well worth a shot at prices like that

One thing to be aware of is grafting material can sometimes be diseased, Buy/get from a repeatable person, Inspecting the tree's durring the season is a even better option.

i got a gift for someone a keylime/meyer. 2 half inch branches grafted onto 1" stock. pretty cool. really exploded after transplanting.

iHearAll said:

i got a gift for someone a keylime/meyer. 2 half inch branches grafted onto 1" stock. pretty cool. really exploded after transplanting.

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That sounds amazing.

Since I grow trees indoors, I'm always fielding questions about my vertical system being compatible with trees like these. To which I invariably answer, 'of course! Why not?'

I live in Australia so not sure what types of agricultural extensions we have here. But cheers for the links, ill take a look.

So far in the yard I have peaches, nectarines, plums, oranges, mulberrys and blueberrys. But still have half of the backyard and a couple to go into the front yard aswell.

All of my trees are "dwarves" planted in the ground.

my grandpa raised all kind of citrus trees, grew kiwi fruit, and raised bees, sold the kiwi honey, i still miss that.
he taught me how to help him graft when i was a kid. you can put practically any citrus branch onto any other citrus tree. his were considerably larger than 1 inch in diameter, but i think thats probably big enough as long as your stock is at least 3 times the diameter of your scion. the pic above is a whip graft, where you want the new branch to grow where an old one was, you can cut a small t shaped slot in the main trunk and place your scion there if you want a branch where there wasn't one before. thats a cleft graft. be careful not to damage the bark, it makes things go much better if you can manage to have the cambium layer of both plants touching at some point.

ttystikk said:

That sounds amazing.

Since I grow trees indoors, I'm always fielding questions about my vertical system being compatible with trees like these. To which I invariably answer, 'of course! Why not?'

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of course! but why not would be the cost of lighting versus the cost of a greenhouse!

iHearAll said:

of course! but why not would be the cost of lighting versus the cost of a greenhouse!

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Except that A. My systems fit in greenhouses like nobody's business, and B. If we're lighting our indoor living spaces already, why not do something useful?

C. Lighting via modern LED is already very affordable.

This is coming, right along with walls of strawberries

ttystikk said:

Except that A. My systems fit in greenhouses like nobody's business, and B. If we're lighting our indoor living spaces already, why not do something useful?

C. Lighting via modern LED is already very affordable.

This is coming, right along with walls of strawberries

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ah yea....... then do it!
what kind of power were you planning on throwing at them? i'd imagine it matters per species.

I have a tree we call Sangria because she is two lemons, two oranges, and limes.

Grafting is a great way to add variation to a small growing area.

Cheers,
Mo

iHearAll said:

ah yea....... then do it!
what kind of power were you planning on throwing at them? i'd imagine it matters per species.

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I am doing it.

Most plants do very well with light levels we use for cannabis.