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Lucy68 said: Seed grown citrus trees can take up to 20 years to first fruit - you can tell when that's going to happen because they lose their thorns.

Then they produce for 25 years, far short of life expectancy (up to 100 years). Trifoliate has been the rootstock of choice for a long time but sour orange is gaining in popularity. Trifoliate is too aggressive a grower - it doesn't want to be relegated to rootstock status.

You might be successful rooting some cuttings. The only reason for grafting trees is to add some characteristic missing in the original: size limits, ability to live in certain soils or temperatures outside its normal range....

I have one large air layering that is a good-sized bonsai in its own right, and several smaller normal cuttings that have rooted recently. Any reason I can't just graft known bud wood onto the air layering?
I can get a variety of citrus just to use as root stock, like trifoliate, but would hate to do so when I already have a group of cuttings I took from my unknown plant to use as root stock.