i know we all deal with fruit drop, but what would cause a 5 year old grapefruit to drop well over 125 marble size fruit. last year it made about 100 fruit, this year looked like at least 200 before this massive drop. it only dropped maybe 20 last year, its otherwise healthy, fruit were great.

no it wasnt the weather, yes its fertilized, and the only thing that im unsure about is that i left mature 15 fruit on it to see how long they last, in yalls experience, would that take that much nutrients from the developing fruit?




and a sidenote, does anybody keep records on their trees,that has a spreadsheet or something i can copy. i dont know what records i should even be keeping other than mature fruit...

That's normal, you will also have some larger fruit drop in Jun / Jul. All four of mine just did the same. I will still have way more fruit than I can use...

Fruit drop is very normal at this time of year. A grapefruit tree will keep between 1 -3 percent of the small fruitlets through to maturity. Millet (275 BO-)

i know ive read they drop a lot, just this is the first time fruit this large and so many drop at once on any of my trees... so my holding fruit on the tree shouldnt bother it too much? maybe just fruit size later on?

Holding fruit on a tree does result in little to no new fruit production, but only on the branches that last years fruit were left attached. - Millet (275 BO-)

My tree is much older, about 16 years old, and I have three to four periods of fruit drop like Millet said. I am still picking and eating last years crop while my tree is culling the lttle ones from this years blooms. The ones I am picking now are very sweet (for a grapefruit) and do not have any bitterness to them. They are a pink seedless variety.

Darkman my grapefruit seemed to do the same thing. They lost a good bit of tartness. Guess that's something ruby reds do. Hopefully i don't lose to many more fruit, id like to make more than last year.

thanks ivica, it definitely might come in handy!

I actually like the shape of my tree right now, theres a few low branches flirting with the ground but other than that its fine. I may try to shape my latest 2 trees better. Cant wait till im producing more.