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I think that any citrus can be grown from cuttings (if you're lucky). It is just that this propagation method is not used for producing trees for commercial cultivation since grafting to a suitable rootstock is preferred. Rootstocks are mostly grown from seed.

I would agree with Nik, with the exception of the Meyer Lemon. Many, if not most, Meyer lemons today are commercially grown from cuttings, as the tree roots so very easily. For the home hobbyist, another citrus variety that roots easily is the lemon.

the last picture is a picture of a meyer on the left and the kumquat on the right. Both were purchased yesterday and both came in the 4 inch size pots seen in the middle. Both have been bare rooted and potted into 8 inch containers with 511. I had a meyer that was much bigger and was doing rather well with developing lemons but lost it during the winter months due to my daughter pulling and playing with it constantly. The roots were damaged and the plant slowly died. My daughter was little over a year old then.

The kumquat I grow (an oval Nagami I believe) seems to have much smaller leaves than this although pics can be misleading. It certainly has much smaller leaves than my meyer.

It doesnt matter to me too much what variety it is but id still like to know. I've eaten nagami and meiwa from the grocery store and neither of them are really great tasting but i still buy them once in a while. I just want this kumquat for ornamental value.

Correct me if I am wrong, but all, or most, of trees sold by Record Buck are from cuttings.

RB also has grafted trees.

I will post pics of my nagami and meiwa tomorrow so you can compare leaves.

Nagami

Meiwa

Thanks for the pictures. Im gonna say its more likely to be a nagami based on your pictures. Also thats a geat idea with the screen on top of the soil. Everyday I find myself dealing with squirels digging in my containers. Just last week one had uprooted a seedling keylime i started last year. Half its roots were torn off. Its now recovering in the shade like my meyer and kumquat.

charleswu2 - I have a squirrel problem as well but what I found worked well for pots was similar to what hibiscus has but with slightly smaller mesh size using "Frost King gutter guard", which comes on 20 ft rolls and is 6" wide (allowing me to cut a few small pieces to cover the soil surface in my larger pots). I can then pin the pieces down with landscape staples. It is sold at Home Depot here - https://www.homedepot.com/p/Frost-King-E-O-6-in-x-20-ft-Plastic-Gutter-Guard-VX620/202518614 (also at some hardware stores) and looks like this -

I have an 18" wide but low height urn-type container that has Asiatic lilies and crocosmia bulbs in it and of course in spring, that means the soil surface is bare until the bulb foliage pops up. So in winter, I have been placing cut strips of this on the surface after I remove the spent foliage. I had even tried mulch on it (and other containers) and the squirrel still dug. In fact, it apparently got so mad when I covered its favorite pot to dig in at another location, that I suddenly noticed some chew marks on one corner of a strip and it eventually gave up. That plastic, although flexible, is pretty tough.

Yes, I use the gutter mesh, as well. And several other physical barriers. Not looking forward to protecting the fruits, it is a pita.

hibiscus - this is what I'm trying for protection of my first little crop of Eureka lemons -

I have a big pile of leftover organza bags that I used for Christmas stocking stuffers (the bags are 4" x 5") and figured I could "bag" the fruit to sortof mask them from looking like something a critter would want to eat or peck at. Was originally going to get regular fruit protection bags but figured why spend more $$$ if I can use these for this purpose? The mesh (which is silk) allows water and sun to get through. I guess you could say they "look better" on the tree than the typical white fabric or mesh bags. lol

Interesting idea to protect citrus... I didn't know animals liked sour fruit. Kumquats I can sort of understand because they're small and colourful when ripe and the skin is sweet.... Lemons on the other hand...

Funny, I have tons of squirrels in my yard. Never have they bothered the fruit of my many trees. Guavas on the other hand....they take them all!

I've been looking after a Ponderosa lemon plant for a relative. It lives on a 3rd floor balcony and had one fruit that must have been the smallest Ponderosa ever as it was the size of a Eureka but was yellow and about 1-2 days from being picked. One morning I went to look at it and it was gone! No sign of it on the floor nor in the garden below so I can only assume a squirrel jumped from a neighboring tree to grab it. Live and learn ;-(

Last year i got me an owari satsuma. I took good care of that thing and by the time i brought that thing in for the winter, it had 25 golfball sized fruit. With in a month of bringing it inside, it droped all but 2. Then spring comes around and i bring it back outside to finish ripening the 2 fruit. 1 week outside and one of my two fruit goes missing. From 25 fruit i only got 1. The squirrel felt sorry for me and decided not to take both.

Dave - it's usually water they are after. That is why when desperate, they will make off with tomatoes (which are in the nightshade family), will take a couple bites of one, and will drop it on the ground for you to fume over - just to get the water! If you search on youtube, you will see some videos of squirrels eating pieces of lemon. lol

One of my sisters has a peach tree that every year looks to be loaded with peaches, but what the deer don't devour on the lower branches, the squirrels run off with on the upper ones (same with her pear and her sour cherry, except the bluejays will also feast on the cherry)!

I guess my squirrels are well fed. They don't steal anything from me. I have tomatos, peaches/apricots citrus and many more veggies. Once in awhile they like to dig holes in my pots... I found a nut half buried in my Ponderosa pot last fall. Thankfully they didn't do too much root damage.