The BC-1 and 2 were ar least 15 feet in height. The 3 my friend has that I gave to him are probably at 15 feet in height at the present. the person that won the grand champion at Galveston, Dec 6th planted a grapefruit seed and the tree is 8 inches at the base. His cluster of grapefruit was awesome.

I have often wondered how a grapefruit would do if you planted the seed and budded the seedling with mature wood. The seedling grapefruit seem to handle cold weather very well, but some of us here can't wait 20 years for a tree to bear fruit. lol Grafting one of the hardy clones to it's own seedling may be a way to shorten the wait, and get the same result.

LA 3-3 & LA 3-33, also known as LA Early & Early St. Ann Satsumas were derived from seedlings of unknown parentage in the late '60's @ LSU.

Who knows...you might just come up with a new cultivar....kinda like the 'Croxton' Grapefruit.

I had 16 tangelo seedlings last yr, but somehow I let them die in this years drought. They were vigorous growers, sprouting to about 12" in no time it seemed.

Today I started 7 more & somewhere around 30 seeds from a tangerine that I suspect is 'Dancy'.

I will keep better watch on them this yr.

I have often wondered how a grapefruit would do if
you planted the seed and budded the seedling with
mature wood.

Actually this has been done quite a bit for other
plants. It was prudent for some plants to bring in
a tree from elsewhere and take seed from an
established tree once it has adapted to its new
location and use the seed as the primary rootstock
for that plant. Budding mature wood onto those
seedlings was how many plants became streamlined
for those areas. This is how we ended up finally
getting Stewartia to grow in our location but it
was a struggle for a long time to get a tree or
two to adapt. Once we had a tree that could
deal with our climate we then took seed from
that tree, grew those seedlings on and then
grafted mature wood onto those seedlings
and then we had a finalized plant to offer
people that had a chance to be sustainable
for our area.

I've had seedling Grapefruit grown as seed
from rooted cutting parent trees yield fruit
in five years.

Jim