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Johnlykk2
Joined: 06 Nov 2010
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Location: Denmark
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| Posted: Sat 06 Nov, 2010 2:04 pm |
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I don`t know if this is unusual, but I had a few pictures from a fellow Dane that had a seedling in flower and bearing a fruit just one year after sowing the seed.
http://uploading.com/files/8eeccem7/Pomelo%2Bseedlings.jpg/
Sincerely
John Lykkegaard
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Lemandarangequatelo
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Joined: 01 Mar 2010
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Location: UK
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| Posted: Sat 06 Nov, 2010 7:55 pm |
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Welcome to the forums. I had this happen on one of my pomelo seedlings but the fruitlet fell off. Citrange had one that fully ripened which was very impressive. He also said it is not that uncommon for this to happen, but it is more rare for the fruit to fully develop. |
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Johnlykk2
Joined: 06 Nov 2010
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Location: Denmark
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| Posted: Sun 07 Nov, 2010 3:05 pm |
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Sorry-forgot the link
All one year old seedlings.
John Lykkegaard
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David.
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Joined: 09 Nov 2009
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Location: San Benito , Texas
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| Posted: Sun 07 Nov, 2010 5:30 pm |
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Wow that is crazy.
Sure it wasn't a cutting?
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tidusid
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Joined: 25 Oct 2010
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Location: League City, 9A, South of Houston, TX
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| Posted: Sun 07 Nov, 2010 9:42 pm |
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Plants are ever-evolving, just like any other form of life.
Citrus would probably change very rapidly in very different and exotic ways if we didn't propagate them the way we do through grafting. |
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Johnlykk2
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Location: Denmark
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citrange
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Joined: 24 Nov 2005
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Location: UK - 15 miles west of London
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| Posted: Sun 14 Nov, 2010 4:33 pm |
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Unfortunately, it doesn't mean you will get any more early fruits from this plant. It will now carry on as a juvenile tree and take many years before it flowers again.
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Malcolm_Manners
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Joined: 13 Nov 2005
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Location: Lakeland Florida
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| Posted: Sun 14 Nov, 2010 11:14 pm |
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Grapefruit often does this too -- one set of flowers while very young, then nothing for several years of juvenility. Since grapefruit is a hybrid of pummelo, it makes sense that pummelo would do it as well.
I always risk seeming too pedantic, but my usual reminder here -- "pomelo" is the old-fashioned name for grapefruit, hardly used anymore. "Pummelo" (with a "u" and 2 m's) and "shaddock" are the accepted common names for Citrus grandis / C. maxima, which I believe is the fruit being discussed here. Of course a rose by any other name would smell as sweet, but if one is researching something about a fruit by common names, it may be helpful to get it pedantically right! |
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Simi
Joined: 24 Nov 2010
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Location: Zone 9, Somerset, U.K
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| Posted: Fri 10 Dec, 2010 8:50 pm |
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| citrange wrote: | Unfortunately, it doesn't mean you will get any more early fruits from this plant. It will now carry on as a juvenile tree and take many years before it flowers again.
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Does that mean the plant would do better in the long run and be stronger if it was not allowed to flower and fruit early i.e. any flower buds were removed until the tree was mature? |
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musaboru
Joined: 17 Mar 2009
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Location: So Cal z9
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| Posted: Fri 10 Dec, 2010 9:45 pm |
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Say the first fruit happens to be mediocre, will this indicate that fruits several years later are going to be just as bad? Or is there possibility that the fruit might improve? |
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Sanguinello
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Actually Pummelo is Citrus maxima, the biggest fruit of citrus.
Pomelo is an isreali breed of Pummello and Grapefruit and the scientific name is Citrus grandis.
It looks similary, but is smaller and much more juicy that Pummelo. |
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Laaz
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Location: Dorchester County, South Carolina
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| Posted: Thu 27 Dec, 2012 12:13 pm |
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With a U is Citrus maxima. With a O and one M is grapefruit.
Pummelo = Citrus maxima
Pomelo = Grapefruit
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Radoslav
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| Posted: Thu 27 Dec, 2012 3:00 pm |
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| Sanguinello wrote: | Actually Pummelo is Citrus maxima, the biggest fruit of citrus.
Pomelo is an isreali breed of Pummello and Grapefruit and the scientific name is Citrus grandis.
It looks similary, but is smaller and much more juicy that Pummelo. |
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Laaz
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| Posted: Thu 27 Dec, 2012 4:06 pm |
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Millet
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Location: Colorado
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| Posted: Thu 27 Dec, 2012 4:08 pm |
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As Dr. Manners wrote, pummelo is Citrus grandis. The Citrus Industry Volume-1 (pg.417) also lists pummelo as Citrus grandis. - Millet |
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