hi everyone I have a tangy treat for you I'm gonna show off my friends multigraph
did citrus cocktail tree and it was originally purchased as a tangerine that
is now about five feet ten inches tall and let's just go up over this tree from
bottom to top we can see the original root stock here it's quite thick and
then it next down here this is the point at which the original tangerine Scion or
bud was grafted and here's the bud union it looks like a little shoulder here and
then we proceeded up becomes the regular part of the tree
that we have the most branches here it is tangerine we actually have a couple
of fruits that's maturing and basically it's ready to pick at this point ok so
then he starts his grafting projects I believe one of the first grafts that he
put on here was Meyer lemon and here on this section of the tree is that strain
and here's some developing fruit and since the Meyer lemon can be quite heavy
well here's some others here that I just started and we can see the the white
petals here's a small fruit set here he built a trellis to support some of the
weight of this tree another plant here is for this branching here to cover the
trellis and then he can pick more fruit off this horizontal offshoot then he
also has in the back here some Calamansi citrus variety and here's some of the
grafting tapes still on here you can basically see the v-shaped scar in here
and just trying to zoom in a little bit and here we can see it was done by a
wedge graft and quite successful actually getting fruit at this point
this is not the first season he's gotten fruit it's been on here for a while then
as we swing around let's see the next strain that you put on
was the Tahitian lime and this section here is that screen there's some fruit
setting going on here where did it go well here that we can see just some
small you know shot sized fruits at the moment and the bud union for this graph
is here we can see basically where these wedge shape scion was fitted into a
notch that went this way here's another one right above it right here is the V
shape and so this is what's giving rise to this section of the tree which is
Tahitian lime and the plan is to also do a trellis here to the right to support
the weight of those fruits some other fruits he also has in here or kumquat
here these egg shape fruit has a green one and here's a mature one and we get
down here you can see the graphs here also done by the wedge grafting method
and here in the front we have a variety of citrus that's used for more the
leaves in Asian cuisine or Asian cooking particularly the Thai type cooking
here's the characteristic double-lobed leaf of a kaffir lime and here we have
just you know you don't need a whole lot of this fruit because oh just this is a
variety because you're gonna use the leaves not the whole fruit so basically
that's this tree the cocktail citrus that he's produced for practical
purposes because you know he doesn't want to devote whole sections of his
yard just for one end of individual tree each and also for for fun
he's a grafter at heart he likes grafting so this has been a nice project
for him so hope you enjoyed seeing his his magnificent citrus cocktail tree
thanks for watching