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Dig up my orange tree?
Posted on 4/23/17 at 7:07 pm
Posted on 4/23/17 at 7:07 pm
The tree got a disease last year and I think the cold snap this winter finished it off. I cut off everything by a few inches above ground. I have new sprouts popping up from the roots so I was wondering if it's worth keeping? I recall reading that growth from below the graft won't produce fruit. True or false?
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Posted on 4/23/17 at 7:09 pm to TigerTatorTots
True
Posted on 4/23/17 at 7:17 pm to TigerTatorTots
Let them grafts prove the haters wrong. Experiment
Posted on 4/23/17 at 7:27 pm to Chad504boy
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Let them grafts prove the haters wrong. Experiment
Not like youll lose anything if you leave it alone for 8 months.
Posted on 4/23/17 at 7:36 pm to TigerTatorTots
The root stock is from a wild orange which is no good to eat. Even if it does produce fruit, it won't be any good.
Posted on 4/23/17 at 7:38 pm to TigerTatorTots
It is gone, dog it up 
Posted on 4/23/17 at 7:49 pm to TigerTatorTots
If the new growth has thorns, dig it up.
Posted on 4/23/17 at 8:26 pm to TigerGyp
Does that apply to apple trees as well?
Posted on 4/23/17 at 8:57 pm to TigerTatorTots
don't dig it up. give it a year or two. I don't have a green thumb but I had a very similar issue w/ a young satsuma tree. It's started to come back and last fall produced a few satsumas. It's still a warped pathetic thing to look at but it's growing and producing
Posted on 4/23/17 at 9:04 pm to TigerTatorTots
what you are looking at are new shoots from the rootstock
they will flower and produce fruit but you can't eat it
well you can, but you'll only try it once
dig it up OR graft on another named cultivar
(dig it up...orange trees are cheap)
they will flower and produce fruit but you can't eat it
well you can, but you'll only try it once
dig it up OR graft on another named cultivar
(dig it up...orange trees are cheap)
Posted on 4/23/17 at 9:45 pm to TigerTatorTots
looks like that is a sprout from below the graft, which means it is not edible orange. also, I can't tell for sure, but it looks like I see thorns on the new foliage, which confirms that it is from a wild orange tree.
I would pitch it and buy a new one.
I would pitch it and buy a new one.
Posted on 4/23/17 at 11:12 pm to Spankum
quote:Does this apply to Meyer Lemons as well? My 3 year old lemon tree has some serious thorns. Haven't tried the fruit yet as I've cut it off in hopes the tree would grow better
I can't tell for sure, but it looks like I see thorns on the new foliage, which confirms that it is from a wild orange tree.
Posted on 4/24/17 at 7:03 am to TigerTatorTots
Throw it out.
Or........
Get some budwood from another tree and graft on to that root stock.
Or........
Get some budwood from another tree and graft on to that root stock.
Posted on 4/24/17 at 12:02 pm to TigerTatorTots
Meyers have thorns. Doesn't apply to them.
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