2012 - Florida Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services

25 Rootstocks
Rootstock # %
1 Swingle 1,458,6
2 Kuharske 680,08 95 17.3
3 Sour Orange 317,628
4 Carrizo 312,148
7.9
5 X-639 299,971
7.6
6 Volkamer 177,551
4.5
7 Cleopatra 131,766
3.3
8 US-802 121,370
3.1
9 US-812 117,345
3.0
10 Kinkoji 104,167
2.6
11 US-897 73,220 2 1.9
12 US-942 38,489 1.0
13 Sun Chu Sha 32,508 0.8
14 Rough Lemon 20,045 0.5
15 Research Stock 15,250 0.4
16 Smooth Flat Sev 13,150 0.3
17 C-35 Citrange 12,528 0.3
Interesting Facts
37.0 5 rootstocks account for 78% of all nursery
propagations
8.1 10 rootstocks account for 94% of all nursery
propagations
Swingle has been the #1 used rootstock for 24 years
Swingle is used for 40% of all sweet oranges
Sour Orange is used for 60% of all grapefruit
Volkamer is used for 64% of all lemons
Cleopatra is used for 10% of all mandarins
Swingle is used for 85% of all pummelos
18 Nurserymen have seed source blocks
18 Flying Dragon 9,482 0.2
19 Pon trifoliata 3,454 0.1 The average nursery with seed source trees has 240
trees
20 Murcott 1,000 0.03
21 Ridge Pineapple 700 0.02
22 Orlando 500 0.01
3,941,049 100
Rough Lemon & Sour Orange were the two favorite
rootstocks in the 1953 thru 1974 timeframe
Percent by Citrus Type
Grapefruit Kumquat Lemon Lime Mandarin Pummelo Sweet
SWINGLE 14.9 4.5 5.2 43.5 36.3 84.6 40.3
KUHARSKE 3.6 0.0 2.2 3.5 4.7 4.4 20.5
CARRIZO 0.4 0.0 1.1 0.6 5.9 0.0 9.2
X-639 7.2 0.0 0 0.2 0.6 0.0 8.6
VOLKAMER 0.2 64.6 63.8 0 4.4 2.7 3.6
US-802 0.4 0.0 1.8 0 1.8 1.8 3.6
CLEOPATRA 0 0.0 0 0 10.4 0.0 3.2
US-812 1.2 0.0 0 0 4.6 0.0 3.1
SOUR ORANGE 60.0 0.5 5.7 5.9 7.0 0.8 2.2
KINKOJI 8.9 10.8 9.4 6.4 4.2 5.6 1.6
US-897 0.3 1.1 1.0 0.3 11.1 0.0 1.2
SUN CHU SHA 0 0.0 0 0 0.7 0.0 1.0
US-942 0 0.0 0 0 4.6 0.0 0.8
25 Annual Report 2012 (FY 2011-2012) Bureau of Citrus Budwood Registration