Poncirus in 2 L pot

Rootstock about 60 to 80 cm tall, potted, 5 to 8 mm in diameter at the collar.

Ideal for a fine whip-and-tongue graft.

Dispatched from March.

Getting started with this rootstock

Poncirus trifoliata is the hardiest rootstock we offer: it drops its leaves in winter and goes fully dormant, which helps the grafted variety through the cold. It prefers cool, rather acid soils, neither dry nor chalky. Note that it is incompatible with some lemons, citrons and tangors.

• On arrival: take the pot out of the box, water without waterlogging, and repot or plant without delay, protected from frost.
• When to graft: when the bark lifts easily, usually from spring to late summer. Young plants are first grown on in pots and grafted when the collar is roughly pencil-thick, by chip budding or whip-and-tongue; a thicker stem is cleft grafted.
• Label each plant with the rootstock name: our rootstock labels.

To compare rootstocks for your climate and soil: how to choose a rootstock and how to grow your own rootstocks. All our lots: citrus rootstocks.