Layering Poncirus Trifoliata

Hi All,

i want to plant a living hedge to keep livestock out of my plot, and Poncirus Trifoliata looks just like the plant for the job.

I found a bush with fruits that i will harvest for seeds, but i want the hedge to close asap.

A local nursery that has seedlings, around 2-3 feet tall, but they are basically a narrow single stem so
i would need a lot of them if i want the hedge to close quickly.

Now my question is whether it is possible to burrow the head of each plant into the ground to get width more quickly?

Would the head root or rot?

I know of one place where they grow in the wild near me. They didn't seem to establish a linear thicket, but HAVE spread like mad. Not sure if they sucker or how much maintenance you want to do, but I'd probably go with locusts personally.

Adam LeCroy wrote:I'd probably go with locusts personally.

Those are invasive around here...i see them almost every time when i go to a forrest and alongside roads.
I even see them on the salty shoreline growing next to olives and figs, it seems like there is no environemnt those don't thrive.

The immediate Area around my plot is one of the few places i have not encountered Pseudoacia Robinia and
i would hate to be the one to bring them in. So it's a big No No for me. Beatiful tree tough, i just belive it doesn't belong here.

As for maintenance of the Trifoliata:
The outside of the hegde i regulary mowed and also pastured by cows.

The inside of the hedge will be my food forrest, and rather intensively managed as it is a small plot (1/4 acre),
so i don't see it going wild here either. Also i want to use the trifolata-hedge as rootstock for some more palatable citurs.

R. Han wrote:

Adam LeCroy wrote:I'd probably go with locusts personally.

Those are invasive around here...i see them almost every time when i go to a forrest and alongside roads.
I even see them on the salty shoreline growing next to olives and figs, it seems like there is no environemnt those don't thrive.

The immediate Area around my plot is one of the few places i have not encountered Pseudoacia Robinia and
i would hate to be the one to bring them in. So it's a big No No for me. Beatiful tree tough, i just belive it doesn't belong here.

As for maintenance of the Trifoliata:
The outside of the hegde i regulary mowed and also pastured by cows.

The inside of the hedge will be my food forrest, and rather intensively managed as it is a small plot (1/4 acre),
so i don't see it going wild here either. Also i want to use the trifolata-hedge as rootstock for some more palatable citurs.

You May also be able to graft zanthoxylums, but I haven't researched it yet.