California Citrus Rootstocks - PDF

Publication Number: 21477E

Length: 18 pp.

Language: English

Author: L. FERGUSON, N SAKOVICH, M ROOSE

Inventory Type: PDF File

This guide organizes the best available information on rootstocks in a useable form to help you make the best rootstock selection. Step by step you will define your goal, evaluate your orchard site, and systematically select your rootstock.

California Citrus Rootstocks - PDF

To be useful, a rootstock must meet certain requirements. It must be compatible with the chosen scion, adaptable to soil and climatic environments, be capable of providing a substantial vertical and horizontal root distribution, and it must have a strong, persistent, and adequate annual growth pattern. Beyond these functions and requirements, propagators value a rootstock for its ability to enhance any aspect of citrus production that will translate into increased production or quality in a given situation including disease and pest resistance, cold tolerance, tree vigor, harvest date, internal and external fruit quality, yield, and postharvest quality. The degree to which a specific rootstock fulfills these functions and requirements, and enhances any factor that translates into profit, determine its value for a specific purpose. The better you understand how a rootstock achieves its effects in a given situation, the more likely it is that you will select the optimal rootstock.

Includes full color photographs.

This is an unaltered scan of the original 1990 print publication.

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California Citrus Rootstocks - PDF

California Citrus Rootstocks - PDF

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