Pomelo Grove in the making...
Monyet
4 years ago
This grove has been stalling because of them carrying fruit, got to push these a bit next season. If they don’t do nothing I probably have to regraft them to all Shiranui.
This guy can’t stop, flower, eat, flower, eat, flower stop in December.
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nulesm
4 years agoMonyet
4 years agolast modified: 4 years agoRelated Discussions
pomelo sometimes dry & seedy
Comments (6)What seems most likely is that the tree flowered twice last year. Do you remember that? The drier fruit would be from the earlier flowering, so they are older and now over-mature. The good fruit is just now mature. That doesn't explain why one group would be seedier than the other; perhaps better bee activity when the first bloom occurred. Not to be too linguistically picky, but in case you want to look up information on the fruit, be aware that "pomelo" correctly refers to grapefruit, C. x paradisi. It is the old-fashioned name which has nearly disappeared. "Pummelo," on the other hand, or "shaddock" refers to C. grandis, which I think is the fruit you're talking about....See Morepomelo-sometimes dry & seedy
Comments (2)I've heard pommellos tastes seems to be very dependent on its environment, some years producing good fruits sometimes bad. Also if your fruits are from different blooming periods this will explain the seedness and may have been pollinated. Drier ones are probably over ripe fruits. Many citrus are treated afterwards with gases so it could develop a nice color. We are so use to how the oranges and other citrus looks in a grocery market when you grow them at home they don't really develop that same color when ripe and when it does, it is usually over ripe. Citrus in certain environments shows only a slight change in color. First thing you would notice about citrus in Southeast Asia/Tropical areas is that the peels remain still very very green although its ripe....See MoreWhy grapefruits and not pomelos?
Comments (18)Pomelo contains about 25% less nootkatone than grapefruit. Nootkatone is the primary chemical constituent that gives grapefruit their distinctive aroma. Grapefruit also has a higher neohesperidin content, which is the main reason for the bitter taste. The one grapefruit variety that does not have bitterness is Oroblanco, which is (not surprisingly) a grapefruit-pomelo cross. Grapefruit originally spread wild in the forests of Jamaica, having resulted from a cross between pomelo and orange. At that time, the size of these grapefruits were small and grew in clusters on the branches like a bunch of grapes, hence the original name. The orange is believed to have originally resulted from ancient repeated crossing between mandarin and pomelo, probably in China, but some people believe it could also have descended from the Wild Orange (Citrus indica) that can still be found growing in the wild in Northeastern India. Genetic testing shows that orange is about 75% mandarin and 25% pomelo, but the mitochondrial DNA is most closely related to pomelo, meaning that going back on the female side, orange originally descended from a pomelo ancestor. The reason why it was the Orange rather than other citrus that became so popular in Europe is probably because they had a better cold tolerance than pumelo, but had a substantially longer shelf life than mandarins. Most Europeans would never have familiarity with mandarins because a fresh mandarin fruit never reached them. The Orange was thus faster to disseminate culturally over great distances. Tangerines, which are closer to mandarins, were grown in North Africa however. Pumelos also require a warmer climate for their fruit to ripen than grapefruit or orange; even in Southern California pumelos do not ripen as well as they do in Southeast Asia. The history of citrus is intimately tied to geography and climate. Oroblanco grown in Southern California is reputed to taste just as good as the best pomelo varieties that are grown in Southeast Asia. The fruit size is smaller and that's probably a large part of the reason they ripen more easily. Despite the bitterness, grapefruits do have a noticeably greater amount of flavor and aroma than Oroblanco or pomelo, though it's not a huge difference. Grapefruits were first commercially grown in Florida. In 1894 and 1895 there were very cold winters that killed off many of the trees and devastated the citrus industry. They then switched to the more cold hardy grapefruit varieties Walters and Duncan. If grapefruit did not exist, the pumelo growing would probably be confined to the Southernmost part of Florida, a much more limited area, and a long time ago it would not have been prime farmland because of all the swamps, intense heat and humidity....See MoreGuys FW has valentine pomelo and bouquet de fleurs IN STOCK!!!
Comments (47)Brian and Dev, thanks for the welcome. I've been lurking a while and have learned so much from all the experts here. Discovered I was doing everything wrong so maybe I'll finally get some fruit now after years of lots of blooms but no fruit ;-) And yes the Costcos here started selling citrus about five years ago for about half of what the garden centers were charging. Unfortunately they haven't really added different varieties although 2 years ago they brought in olive trees. Don't like olives so I passed but they were beautiful looking. Haven't seen them again....See Morenulesm
4 years ago
Amy (montreal, canada)
4 years agoMonyet
4 years agoMonyet
4 years agolast modified: 4 years agoAmy, pomelo’s are Thong Dee and Valentines. Here again I wish I could send a few to you, I am really not in pomelo‘s, did trades some time ago. I am a sucker to grafting anything.
Maybe you need a rain barrel like this one. Btw, you are doing great, slow down a bit, will you.
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Amy (montreal, canada)