Oh, thanks so much- that is simple. Just have to have a good match on the diameters of grafter and graftee.

What do you supposed could be used to keep the water out for sure? Any suggestions, anybody?

And they just stick together??? WOW!!!! That looks easy enough even I might be able to pull it off..LOL... All of the grafting lit. I have read was soooooooo detailed .. I never gave it a try...Thanks so much for taking the time to put this up!!!
Chena

Thanks for the photos. I definitely think I'll try it next spring. Maybe I'll try it with some of my iochromas too. I have a citrus that has 3 or 4 different varieties grafted to it and it's kind of neat. I think it could be really impressive with several different colored brugs. Florist tape works well to hold a graft together. Flex tape also works very well. It's the stuff athletic trainers use for taping ankles, thumbs, etc.
Karyn

Chena, I think the only grafting I have ever tried was the one time on the brug...My thinking was that since they root so easy that a graft should take easily. I had actually forgotten about it after I did it and then saw that the rubber band had fallen off, and there it was all stuck together!

Brenda, I think either the vinyl tape or the tapes that Karyn suggested should work fine. When I wrapped this I started at the bottom and layered up pulling it pretty tight. Kind of like shingles on a roof overlapping. I think we should all try it however we feel comfortable and report back here next year!!!

Oh Karyn, please post a pic of the citrus...I think I've seen that one at Lowe's before. I can't remember what they were calling it now..

Fruit Cocktail was what they called it. I ended up getting a variegated pink lemon instead because I love anything with var. leaves. Should've gotten them both...

Mine was also named Fruit Cocktail. Everything looks pretty much the same until the fruit matures. I couldn't tell what was what at first. Some of the foliage is different but not terribly noticeably so. Wildflower I have two different variegated dwarf lemons. I can send you cuttings in the spring if you'd like. They are super easy to root.
Karyn

Karyn that sounds great, I'd love to try them! If you want some of my pink var. LMK. Not a dwarf though...It's gotten really big really fast!

Wildflower I'm assuming that your citrus are in containers? How big do you let your citrus grow? I try to keep mine at about 5' or shorter. I usually prune them back in the spring and root the cuttings. I was growing some Flying Dragons to use as rootstock for grafting but ended up liking the FD's too much to sacrifice them. lol I have those in the yard and they are doing well. You could make a great hedge out of them that nobody would try to cross. The thorns could kill you!
Karyn

Karyn, I only have the one and it's in a large pot. It's probably a 5 gallon or larger (and it's rootbound yet again!)...When I got it about a year and a half ago, it was in a 1 gallon and only about a foot tall. I have repotted it twice already. I'm sure it's close to 5' now. Had 11 lemons last year but I won't have nearly that many this year. Repotted this past spring and had loads of bud drop. I don't know why, but I was under the assumption that they all grew fairly slow. So you have some hardy lemons up there?

I get a lot of bud drop on some varieties and I pinch most of the fruit on others. My Meyer lemon gets too much fruit for the branches to support and I end up with a smaller plant at the end of the season because the branches snapped under the weight of the fruit. My variegated pink lemon also produces lots of fruit. I started off with about 50 lemons last year but only allowed about half to remain on the tree. My other variegated lemon hasn't set fruit but it did flower this year. My Buddha's Hand has yet to hold any fruit. I get loads of blooms but the fruit never gets bigger then 2" before it drops. The tree is still fairly young, about 4 yrs, so that might be the reason. The only fully hardy citrus that I know of is the Flying Dragon and that's not really edible though some people use the juice or make marmalade. It's terribly sour/bitter and the skin is more fuzzy then smooth like a regular citrus but I think it's beautiful. It has these weird convoluted branches that are covered with killer thorns. I don't think that citrus are particularly slow growing but being in zone 7 doesn't help. My Satsuma is probably my slowest growing citrus but I don't have that many varieties to make a good comparison. Except for the BH I don't really care if they hold fruit or not, I just love the smell of the flowers and I can buy citrus at the store. I'd like my BH to get mature fruit because you can't buy it anywhere around here and it's so cool looking. Remind me in the spring and I'll send you cuttings of the ones you want to try. If you check the citrus forum you might be able to find some Flying Dragon seeds. They are easy to grow as long as the seed is fresh.
Karyn

This subject has come up again.. Wildflower you gave such a clear and precise presentation I felt this worthy of the BUMP!

Chena - I must have missed this one the first time around.

Thanks for the bump. Now that looks REALLY kewel and easy - I think I could do that.

If braiding a trunk doesn't work - just graft the multi colored together! Wow - imaging a rose smelling pink on a Charles grimaldi root system. . .whoooaaaaa. . . .

What's the name of this one?
Charles-Frosty-Equadorian-Jamaican Pink White Yellow (grin)

WOWEEE: Some of you are so ambitious. I'm jealous!!!! ;0) Here I am just hoping for nubies or a few roots and leaves and you're all thinking of Braiding and Grafting. Yikes... can't keep up, but Bruggers, You just GO, GO, GO!!! LOL Gloria