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Second one in this bunch.

Got a cutting earlier this year and started it. It’s a hybrid of two different varieties.

Now it’s started and ready to be planted. Hopefully some fruits next year.

PS: first pic is a stock photo

Citrus grafting on trifoliate rootstock

Grafting done on 5/18 as I was trying to create a 3 variety citrus from root up.

The rootstock is a what most nurseries graft citrus on. So if you don’t maintain your citrus properly these take over and ruin it.

- The clementine is a very sweet one from my in-laws and variety unknown

- Meiwa is a very sweet kumquat, preferred over the regular Nagami variety

- Owari Satsuma is a very sweet and productive dwarf mandarin

Planning to establish these and can be grown in a large pot or in ground as a showpiece plant. Stock images of fruits for reference.

We had grafted a Queen avocado scion grafted onto our large Fuerte tree in early 2024.

This is the first mature Queen we harvested yesterday. It’s very large as you can see on a 2 gallon pot. Similar in size to a large coconut with its husk. Almost 4-5x a larger regular avocado.

We had 3 of these altogether but wasted 2 as immature ones (since we were not sure that this was a Queen and how large it gets). Now eagerly waiting to taste and see.

Grafts from 2024 is producing apples. This was done early 2024 doing well.

You can see the leaf patterns of both distinctly side by side in the pic. The leaves to the left are those of the pear (started from seeds and yet to fruit).

Top working a large established grapefruit tree, adding 10-12 premium citrus varieties.

Top working a large yellow grapefruit tree and adding 10-12 premium varieties.

Grafting onto an existing large yellow grapefruit tree to have different premium varieties that we like.

Attached are a few pics of the process and tree.

Here’s what I have managed on this tree so far. You can google the names for the varieties and fruit images.

Early mandarins:
- Satsuma
- Kishu

Mid season mandarins
- Sumo (Dekopon)
- Gold Nugget

Late season mandarin
- Pixie
- wanted Page

Speciality Oranges
- Tarocco blood orange
- Valencia
- wanted Cara Cara

Speciality Pomelos
- Bien Hoa
- Da Xanh
- ⁠Shatian
- Valentine

Fruit coverage - Oct to Aug

I want to wait for the tree to heal and accept these scions before I rock it any further. It will take 3-4 months before we can be sure.

Want to add Page mandarin, Cara Cara orange, Ruby Red, etc later.

Our yellow grapefruit is a large tree which produces a lot and is biennially. However, we are not a big fan of it and donate most of it.

Starting to top work it and graft on with premium varieties we like. Here’s some pics and details of a multi year project.

Ask away and happy to explain.

Ordered bare root and planted late March 2026

Munstead Wood ordered at the same time is lagging behind

Eustacia Vye, received and planted bare root from David Austin in March this year.

Doing well, however the Munstead Wood planted at the same time is still lagging.

Please come and pitch in on Saturday, 5/23.

Anyone growing good mangoes and interested in sharing scions?

I have a few going/grafted and would like to add more.

I’m interested in any Indian varieties.