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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
