Abstract

Pixie mandarin is a very vigorous, upright tree. The rootstock standards for this small industry are Swingle citrumelo and C-35 citrange, which encourage tree vigor. A 2014 planting of Pixie has been evaluating the size reducing effects of the relatively new rootstocks Bitters citrange, Carpenter citrange and Furr citrange (all three of which are also X. Citroncirus spp.). After two years, Pixie on Swingle citrumelo is the largest tree. Of the new rootstocks, Furr is the largest and Bitters the smallest. The trial was replicated at two sites with two different pH soils. At one site with the highest soil pH, Bitters showed iron chlorosis.

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