Grafting is the practice of attaching a flowering or fruiting stem to a flowering or fruiting plant, called root-stock. Grafting is typical with avocado trees and citrus. For crops that are citrus, grafting could be done on seedlings provided that they’re at least 25 or 30-inches tall. Wait till early spring or late fall to to try a graft. Use a knife, available at house and garden facilities and nurseries. These knives are extremely sharp and especially developed for reducing stems evenly and cleanly.
Select a stem in the cultivar, the tree which is providing the scion from a stem as well as the rootstock. Lemon branches could be grafted onto any trees of the Citrus genus, but cultivar and the rootstock should equally be healthy, disease-free trees. The branches you you choose should be the same width, roughly 0.25 to 0.5 inches across. Pick a scion that’s several buds about it, in case the tree is budding in the time when the graft is taking location.
Slice off the end of a stem off the root-stock. The 1- to 2.5-inch-long slice should be created diagonally through the stem, leaving a sloping slice at the conclusion of the new, shortened stem.
Create a slice in the scion that matches duration and the angle of the cut you created in the root-stock. This cut should eliminate the conclusion of a stem that’s the same width as the width of the stem which you cut in the root-stock, in order that when they have been placed together, both of these branches will match like pieces of a puzzle.
Slice downward to the center of each cut you created on scion and the root stock. This can be called reducing a “tongue” in the wood. So that when positioned together the tongue of the scion will squeeze into the tongue of the root stock, the tongues on each and every piece should match.
By fitting the tongues attach the scion to the root stock. The cut on the scion should match with the cut on the root-stock.
Wrap the two branches in rubber while it heals to secure the graft. Budding rubber is developed to disintegrate over time and can not require to be eliminated in the tree.