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Sven_limoen
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Posted: Thu 26 Apr, 2012 4:34 pm

Wait...I'm right so grapefruit is not a 'pompelmoes' or it IS a 'pompelmoes'? Laughing

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Posted: Thu 26 Apr, 2012 4:36 pm

It is a pompelmoes! Wink

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Posted: Thu 26 Apr, 2012 4:38 pm

Okido Smile. I'll hop some of them in the cart...and make my mom eat them so I can collect the seeds :p

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Posted: Thu 26 Apr, 2012 4:59 pm

Pomelo is larger than a grapefruit, also drier & not as acidic. Pomelo does not come true from seed, grapefruit does. Pomelo is one of the parents of grapefruit.

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Posted: Thu 26 Apr, 2012 5:23 pm

Namegiving of pummelo/grapefruit in different languages is very confusing.

In Flemish (Dutch) pompelmoes = grapefruit (citrus x paradisi) and pummelo = pomelo (citrus maxima).

The odd thing is, in French (France) this is just the opposite (pummelo = pamplemousse and grapefruit = pomelo). And to make the confusion complete, I think in the french speaking part of Belgium it is opposite from France (pummelo = pomelo and grapefruit is pamplemousse) Rolling Eyes

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Sven_limoen
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Posted: Thu 26 Apr, 2012 6:01 pm

MarcV wrote:
Namegiving of pummelo/grapefruit in different languages is very confusing.

In Flemish (Dutch) pompelmoes = grapefruit (citrus x paradisi) and pummelo = pomelo (citrus maxima).

The odd thing is, in French (France) this is just the opposite (pummelo = pamplemousse and grapefruit = pomelo). And to make the confusion complete, I think in the french speaking part of Belgium it is opposite from France (pummelo = pomelo and grapefruit is pamplemousse) Rolling Eyes


That's annoying...until now I thought pamplemousse actually was pompeloes since that would be obvious.

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Posted: Fri 27 Apr, 2012 4:14 am

Sven_limoen wrote:
MarcV wrote:
Namegiving of pummelo/grapefruit in different languages is very confusing.

In Flemish (Dutch) pompelmoes = grapefruit (citrus x paradisi) and pummelo = pomelo (citrus maxima).

The odd thing is, in French (France) this is just the opposite (pummelo = pamplemousse and grapefruit = pomelo). And to make the confusion complete, I think in the french speaking part of Belgium it is opposite from France (pummelo = pomelo and grapefruit is pamplemousse) Rolling Eyes


That's annoying...until now I thought pamplemousse actually was pompeloes since that would be obvious.


It is... in Belgium. But it isn't in France. I learned that from the french forum...

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Posted: Fri 27 Apr, 2012 12:30 pm

Just got back from the supermarket. Opened a lime which off course was seedless. Next took a grapefruit and it contained things that look like weird seeds but they don't look like the seeds you normally pull out of oranges.
Are this actually grapefruit seeds?


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Posted: Fri 27 Apr, 2012 12:34 pm

Yes, they look like aborted seeds.

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Posted: Fri 27 Apr, 2012 1:06 pm

Does that mean they are useless?

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igor.fogarasi
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Posted: Sat 28 Apr, 2012 5:48 am

Yes, those seeds won't germinate as they didn't mature.
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Posted: Sat 28 Apr, 2012 3:17 pm

I've had worse looking seeds than some of the ones shown in Sven_limoen pictures that have germinated. Planting seeds is so easy to do, and at no expense, I would go ahead and plant them, and see what happens. After planting wait for at least up to a month to insure if any germination is possible. The original Saint Dominic Sour Orange seeds that I received from Sister Mary Catherine were drastic looking, but thankfully one of them germinated. - Millet (267 BO-)
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Posted: Sat 28 Apr, 2012 10:25 pm

Millet wrote:
I've had worse looking seeds than some of the ones shown in Sven_limoen pictures that have germinated. Planting seeds is so easy to do, and at no expense, I would go ahead and plant them, and see what happens. After planting wait for at least up to a month to insure if any germination is possible. The original Saint Dominic Sour Orange seeds that I received from Sister Mary Catherine were drastic looking, but thankfully one of them germinated. - Millet (267 BO-)


Millet, how large is that tree now?
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Posted: Sun 29 Apr, 2012 3:58 pm

The original tree started to have problems so I cut the tree back, and rooted the cuttings. Three of the cuttings rooted, so now I have three Saint Dominic trees. Two about 1.5 feet tall, and one about a foot tall. (265 BO-)
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Posted: Sun 29 Apr, 2012 4:23 pm

Laaz wrote:
Pomelo is larger than a grapefruit, also drier & not as acidic. Pomelo does not come true from seed, grapefruit does. Pomelo is one of the parents of grapefruit.


If not , what is the plant you got after germination ? wild pomelo ?
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