I have spent the entire spring/ summer removing water sprouts and watering hoping to get fruit on my calamandin, but i only got more and more water sprouts 😂 Thank you for your tutorial! I stopped overwatering and only 2 weeks later there came new leaves on all branches 🙏🏻 Going for fruit next season!
@@savannahcitrus7765 yea! They blossoms are coming along and some are on the water sprouts I think bc the limb is bigger. They didn't blossom at all in 2023 after a big freeze so I guess they're making up for it now!
@@vnxettitw4879 hey! I'm just checking in to see if you got any fruit from those Water sprouts ! And did they develop "bark" like normal limbs? I pruned a couple about halfway back, and they developed normal looking "bark".
Thinking back to my home grown orange tree, I'm pretty sure I trimmed everything BUT the Water Sprout thinking I'd shape a cool tree. Nothing ever came of it.
Very interesting, thank you. 2 comments: I had understood that you can get water sprouts as a result of bad pruning. Also, I have been told that if you cut a water sprout formed from bad pruning, the tree will tend to keep producing more water sprouts in that same location?
In mY experience, with our trees, every time I prune a limb, if I don't cut back all the way to the trunk joint (about 1/2" from the tree trunk) the tree will re-grow a limb. If I snap-off thAt limb-bud, no more limbs will grow from the cut. 🌳
Good information. If i airlayer this water shoot branch , and cut it out , and plant ,then will this (airlayered water shoot ) branch yield fruiting earlier.
That's a highly debated issue! I've actually selected a few Water sprouts that I only "pruned-back", didn't remove entirely, just to see if they will produce a flower/fruit next year. I personally do nOt expect the waterspout to mature properly, but I could be wrong! Check back with me in April 2024!!🌳
@@richardschaffling9882 in mY experience, the Water sprout Cuttings dO "root" quickly, but I have not ever planted a rooted Water sprout. It wouldn't have any "rootstock" advantage (growth rate, disease resistance) but in a Container environment it might get a long alright.🌳
Hey Stephen! My experience has been that Watersprouts are lighter-green in colour than productive growth. The exterior texture is very smooth, maybe because it is growing so fast.
@@stephencook7337 I have left a few on a couple of my trees, going to manage them like "normal" branches, for 2 years. See what they do. I'll keep you posted!🌳
Yeah true. I'm sure this guy knows about that, but there's some misconception on water sprouts. I'm not an expert myself but I'm reading conflicting theories. They do seem to agree that the connection to the tree is weaker and will often break off, having wasted all that energy. So there's that. But apparently they can and will start producing fruit, and become "established" themselves. And a big thing, like you said, they're often used as a grafted scion! Which of course turns into an whole new orchard tree. Maybe the tree in our back yard was a grafted water sprout.
@@meuandthelot Air-layer water sprout and then graft any citrus on top of it. Given that water sprout have big growth speed, you will be able to grow good citrus way faster than on average trifoliata, etc Water sprouts are good option to get free rootstock in very short term, which you can use for grafting on it smth else you like, which has way more benefits that other citrus trees.
Actually you didn't mention the part , where you can turn water sprouts into normal, average branches by simply bending them into growing sides, instead of vertical direction, Bending them horizontally, will convert them into normal branches and in time.
@@DucPham-ok5ko yep, there's video on youtube where guy explains it how it works and after cutting those shoots for year+, they were just regrowing back, so he decided to stop cutting em and let them grow and in the end, they were full of fruits.
I have spent the entire spring/ summer removing water sprouts and watering hoping to get fruit on my calamandin, but i only got more and more water sprouts 😂
Thank you for your tutorial!
I stopped overwatering and only 2 weeks later there came new leaves on all branches 🙏🏻
Going for fruit next season!
Excellent news!!🌳
Thanks for highlighting this issue. It's eye-opening and so useful to know. 👍
Glad it was helpful!
I'm so happy you discussed this! My Meyer had a ton and I didn't know what to do, cut or not... but now they are budding flowers!!!❤
Oh!!! Stay in touch!! I want to know if they bear fruit!! I'm still debating, I've seen them go both ways!
@@savannahcitrus7765 yea! They blossoms are coming along and some are on the water sprouts I think bc the limb is bigger. They didn't blossom at all in 2023 after a big freeze so I guess they're making up for it now!
@@vnxettitw4879 hey! I'm just checking in to see if you got any fruit from those Water sprouts ! And did they develop "bark" like normal limbs? I pruned a couple about halfway back, and they developed normal looking "bark".
@@savannahcitrus7765 hi! Mmmm I'm not sure but I think i did! Smaller tho... I'll take a pic tomorrow.
The bark is still green, the fruit is a bit smaller but maybe it's bc they fruited later.
I want to learn everything I can from you just so I can grow a few fruits. Thanks
Amanda! Such kind words! Thanks very much, I'll keep making new videos for you, to follow my progress here at the Orange Grove!🍊
Thinking back to my home grown orange tree, I'm pretty sure I trimmed everything BUT the Water Sprout thinking I'd shape a cool tree. Nothing ever came of it.
Oh, dear! Well let's get you started with a New tree soon!🌳
Very interesting, thank you. 2 comments: I had understood that you can get water sprouts as a result of bad pruning. Also, I have been told that if you cut a water sprout formed from bad pruning, the tree will tend to keep producing more water sprouts in that same location?
In mY experience, with our trees, every time I prune a limb, if I don't cut back all the way to the trunk joint (about 1/2" from the tree trunk) the tree will re-grow a limb. If I snap-off thAt limb-bud, no more limbs will grow from the cut. 🌳
@@savannahcitrus7765 That makes sense. Thank you.
Thanks, did not know that.
Do you grow Yuzu at your groves? If not, get on it!! There are very few growers on the east coast
Great idea! We have had a few requests for it! Great hearing from you ❤️🌳
Good information. If i airlayer this water shoot branch , and cut it out , and plant ,then will this (airlayered water shoot ) branch yield fruiting earlier.
That's a highly debated issue! I've actually selected a few Water sprouts that I only "pruned-back", didn't remove entirely, just to see if they will produce a flower/fruit next year. I personally do nOt expect the waterspout to mature properly, but I could be wrong! Check back with me in April 2024!!🌳
@@savannahcitrus7765 thanks
I let some of watersprouts grow to a certain length then tip them in order to branch out. Those new branches do give me fruit. Sooo
Wow! Excellent! So the secondary branches produced fruit? I'll give it a try!🎉
How did the fruit taste?
@@brentlanglois8272 Couldn’t tell any difference, they happened to be lemons sooo
Can you use a water sprout for cuttings to start new plants
@@richardschaffling9882 in mY experience, the Water sprout Cuttings dO "root" quickly, but I have not ever planted a rooted Water sprout. It wouldn't have any "rootstock" advantage (growth rate, disease resistance) but in a Container environment it might get a long alright.🌳
Arent they normally a lighter green color than the tree?
Hey Stephen! My experience has been that Watersprouts are lighter-green in colour than productive growth. The exterior texture is very smooth, maybe because it is growing so fast.
Good video
Thank you!
Is a water sprout the same as a sucker? I'm guessing all the rain washed out the nitrogen and other nutrients.
I believe suckers are growth from the root of the tree.
For my purposes at our Orange Grove, I consider water sprouts and "suckers" to be the safe thing.
Suckers grow underneath the grafted line too and have 3 leaves set. Water sprouts sometimes are flat as well
Aren’t those just suckers? They technically can grow to produce fruit. You just don’t want too many of them to grow.
@@stephencook7337 I have left a few on a couple of my trees, going to manage them like "normal" branches, for 2 years. See what they do. I'll keep you posted!🌳
Will it produce fruit if you propagate it?
I don't think so. I've never had any flower, even the very few that I kept on the trees, just as an experiment. 🌳
Water sprouts branch is not produce fruits but if you graf it, it will be the best branch produce fruits
Yeah true. I'm sure this guy knows about that, but there's some misconception on water sprouts. I'm not an expert myself but I'm reading conflicting theories. They do seem to agree that the connection to the tree is weaker and will often break off, having wasted all that energy. So there's that. But apparently they can and will start producing fruit, and become "established" themselves. And a big thing, like you said, they're often used as a grafted scion! Which of course turns into an whole new orchard tree. Maybe the tree in our back yard was a grafted water sprout.
Use the sprout to graft onto another tree? Or graft a different branch onto the sprout?
@@meuandthelot Air-layer water sprout and then graft any citrus on top of it. Given that water sprout have big growth speed, you will be able to grow good citrus way faster than on average trifoliata, etc
Water sprouts are good option to get free rootstock in very short term, which you can use for grafting on it smth else you like, which has way more benefits that other citrus trees.
Looked like a branch to me. My whole citrus plant looks like a watersprout.
Yikes mine too!! It survived a freeze and only put out leaves this past season.
Um that’s what a water sprout is 🤷🏻♂️
can they be propagated?
I think so, but I do not know if it will bear fruit 🤷
I think so, but I don't know if it will produce fruit.
Actually you didn't mention the part , where you can turn water sprouts into normal, average branches by simply bending them into growing sides, instead of vertical direction, Bending them horizontally, will convert them into normal branches and in time.
That sounds interesting! I'll have to give it a try!
If I convert them into normal branches. will I get fruits from them ?
@@DucPham-ok5ko yep, there's video on youtube where guy explains it how it works and after cutting those shoots for year+, they were just regrowing back, so he decided to stop cutting em and let them grow and in the end, they were full of fruits.
3:25 yup and you made another one by saying water sprouts will NEVER produce fruits…. It will eventually fruit.
I've got a couple water sprouts I left growing on the tree, to see if they produces flowers next Spring. We'll see!🌳