Citrumelo 4475 bare-root rootstocks, ready to graft (lot)

Spanish-grown citrumelo 4475 rootstock, ready to graft, bare-root.

Dispatched in spring, from early March.

Getting started with this rootstock

Citrumelo 4475 (grapefruit × Poncirus) likes free-draining soils and copes well with drought thanks to its deep roots; it dislikes chalk and heavy clay. It is particularly suited to oranges and grapefruit.

• On arrival: bare roots must never dry out. Pot them up or heel them in on the same day, water, and keep them out of full sun and wind for the first few weeks.
• 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.