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bodavid · Citruholic Joined: 30 Apr 2007 Posts: 67 Location: kuwait

This is a picture of my 7 months Pomelo seelding which reached its node count and started blooming in a non blooming season !!

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jcaldeira · Posted: Tue 18 Dec, 2012 5:12 am

A seedling flowering in 7 months!?! Congratulations. That is amazing. Tell us how you did it.

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Junglekeeper · Posted: Tue 18 Dec, 2012 9:49 am

This could be a case of precocious flowering where a seedling produces a single flower early on in its life. It does not mean the tree has reached maturity. Grapefruit seedlings are known to do this.

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Laaz · Posted: Tue 18 Dec, 2012 9:55 am

Junglekeeper wrote:

This could be a case of precocious flowering where a seedling produces a single flower early on in its life. It does not mean the tree has reached maturity. Grapefruit seedlings are known to do this.

This is 100% correct.

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hydrobell · Posted: Tue 18 Dec, 2012 11:15 am

The leaves don't look like pomelo leaves at all. Do you know what it might have hybridized with?

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Laaz · Posted: Tue 18 Dec, 2012 11:55 am

Pomelo does not come true from seed, so it may be a hybrid. Either way that is common in seedling citrus.

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Millet · Posted: Tue 18 Dec, 2012 12:56 pm

Although, it is possible that the bloom can become a fruit, the actual chance of this occurring is almost none. After this bloom is finished it will likely be years before your tree will reach its mature node count and bloom again. - Millet

Sanguinello · Gest

I have almost every year such a blooming seedling.

Very cute, but it never made a fruit yet ...

bodavid · Citruholic Joined: 30 Apr 2007 Posts: 67 Location: kuwait

How disappointing Crying or Very sad

. I thought I had somthing special for a day.

it was a pomelo bought from the grocery store which hybrid is unknown to me.
however i might wait till it matures and bares fruits.

Sanguinello · Gest

Well, it IS rare and at all it is BEAUTIFUL !!!

So enjoy the first blossom.
Now you know how they will look and smell in future.
Carry on !
Such seedlings often became the best sorts !

Lemandarangequatelo · Citruholic Joined: 01 Mar 2010 Posts: 485 Location: UK

This happened to me too on one of my pomelo seedlings, it didn't produce a fruit though. Another member called Citrange managed to get a mature fruit from a seedling of his, search the forum for his thread, it was awesome to see.

bodavid · Citruholic Joined: 30 Apr 2007 Posts: 67 Location: kuwait

I found the link. then its possible to bear fruit as juvanile seedling?

link

Millet · Posted: Thu 27 Dec, 2012 12:01 pm

As was stated above by member, it is possible, but extremely rare. Citrange's fruit is the only one that I ever heard of that successfully set a fruit. The chance that your tree will set a fruit must be 1 chance in a 1,000. Actually, it would be better for your tree's continued growth not to set any fruit. - Millet

danero2004 · Posted: Sat 29 Dec, 2012 4:00 pm

I read somewhere that seedling that tend to grow slowly will bear fruit much sooner than those who grow much faster Very Happy

Millet · Posted: Sat 29 Dec, 2012 4:12 pm

slow, how could a slow growing tree reach its node count before a faster growing tree? The slower a tree grows the longer it would take to reach its required node count to become a mature tree. However, it is true that certain tree varieties mature faster then others, because some varieties have lower node requirements then others. - Millet