How Does Citrus Greening Spread so Rapidly?
I recently visited the University of California, Davis in response to a reader’s question about the rapid spread of huanglongbing disease (also know as citrus greening, HLB, or yellow dragon…
Grafting Fruit Trees Step-by-Step
This step-by-step guide to grafting fruit trees shows how to graft a tree using a very useful technique called the Z-graft. Z-grafting is a scion grafting technique that is very…
Citrus Propagation and Disease in California – Your Questions Answered by Dr. Georgios Vidalakis
In the following video, I visited the historic 1907 Citrus Experiment Station in Riverside, California to get answers to reader and viewer questions on citrus propagation and disease. The questions…
Growing Citrus from Cuttings – How to Root Citrus Rootstocks
In this article on growing citrus from cuttings, I show how to root citrus rootstocks in stonewool. These rootstocks can then be used to graft citrus trees of many different…
Grafting Citrus Trees by Chip Budding in a California Nursery
This article shows a highly efficient bud grafting technique used for grafting citrus trees in citrus nurseries. I saw chip budding of citrus performed at TreeSource Citrus Nursery in California’s…
Shoot Tip Grafting in Citrus to Remove Diseases
California scientists use various techniques, including shoot tip grafting to avoid all graft-transmissible diseases when introducing a citrus variety to the state. Because citrus trees are vulnerable to many graft-transmissible…