Hello friends, today I want to share with you my first experience grafting two types of lemons, I tell you that on my farm I have a sweet lemon plant that I planted 5 years ago which produces many fruits and I also have another lemon plant , but the type of lemon they call "Chinoto Lemon" I planted this plant 10 years ago, its fruits are large, they are so big that they look like oranges, unfortunately, little by little its branches dried out since it was attacked by termites, but I decided to save it, so a few days ago, I fumigated this plant to eliminate the termites and I also pruned it, more than anything, a pruning to eliminate the dry branches where the termites hide.
Well friends, while I was cutting the dry branches of the "chinoto" lemon plant, the idea came to mind of inserting some branches of the sweet lemon plant, with the idea that it would have new branches, to do this procedure, I used the grafting technique.
Yes friends, to save the "chinoto" lemon plant I decided to make several grafts using several tender or small branches of the sweet lemon plant, the idea is that the "chinoto" lemon plant serves as a rootstock and also to help it produce new branches, although it is most likely that when the branches of the grafts begin to bear fruit, perhaps these fruits will have a different flavor, but I would like the new fruits to be large like the ones this plant produced, well friends, for that I would have to wait for that moment.
Grafting a branch of a sweet lemon plant into a "Chinoto" lemon plant
As I told you at the beginning, this is my first experience in this type of grafting, on other occasions I have made some grafts but between avocado plants and I have been successful, so I hope to have success with these two lemon plants.
This is the sweet lemon plant:
This is the "Chinoto" lemon plant which I want to save:
Grafting process:
- The first thing I will do is cut a small branch of the sweet lemon plant, for this I will use a knife, I will try to extract the branch with the oval-shaped part of the bark, as you can see in the images:
- Now I am going to insert this small branch of the sweet lemon into the stem of the "chinoto" lemon plant. The procedure consists of making a cross-shaped incision in the bark of the stem:
- Now I am going to proceed to lift the bark of the stem to embed the foot of the small branch, ensuring that it is well covered by the bark:
- After placing the small branch of the graft, I am now going to proceed to cover it with a plastic paper tape, in this case I used some strips of plastic bags:
- To finish the graft implantation process, I will now cover the graft with a plastic bag, the graft will remain covered with the bag for a period of 10 days:
Well friends, so far it has been 4 days since the graft was performed, there are only a few days left, I confess that I am anxious for the 10 days to be completed to see the graft, I really hope that the graft adheres to the stem of the plant, because my greatest wish is to save this old "chinoto" lemon plant
