I purchased a Chandler Pomelo locally but I am not sure of the fruit quality. Is it a keeper? Wife loves Pomelos, I hate grapefruit and Pomelos but for Valentines Day she wins.
It’s 5’ tall and full of buds. Treat it like other citrus by pulling the fruit for a couple of years?
Thanks Karl

I have a Chandler Pomelo. The fruit is pink in color, and is one of my wife and I favorite fruit. I like the taste, along with the "crunchiness" of the a Chandler Pomelo's pulp. I would rate it as very much of a keeper. - Millet (1,435-)

Pomelo are not very hardy. I have the Hirado Butan which is supposed to be the hardiest of the sweet pomelos. It gets wacked every year but comes back strong. Has not fruited yet after being in the ground three years now I believe.

Thanks for the quick reply. It is planted with my wife’s supervision. It needs to go a little left or right were her commands but she’s happy now that it is plumb. Gees, I thought that I would have to get the old carpenter’s level out for a while. She’s quite a gardener so anything to please her on this Valentines Day. It’s a gift that keeps on giving.
Thanks again for your advice.
Karl

Today I made few photo Pomelo trees.Owner grow these Pomelos in the Pensacola, without any protection. They are seedlings,15 year old.I don't know what kind of Pomelo is it.My Calamondin and kumquat trees foliage have damage after freeze, but with those trees are all right.

I have a chandler pomello since 2004. It keeps giving me some fruits but not sweet enough to eat. I've done a lot of experiments just when was the right time to harvest the fruit. One such experiment was to wait till the fruit dropped from the tree. Still I could not get it to sweeten enough to eat.
I found out later that Salinas is a place where the summer does not give enough high temperature to make pomello fruit to sweeten its fruit.
So what I was doing for the last 3 years was grafting tangerines to it.
When I went to a fruit testing meeting at Gene Lester's farm not too far from Salinas last weekend, (thanks Joe for the invitation) we tasted pomello fruits which were not sweet either. This gives me more evidence that this area is not conducive to grow pomellos.

Are we talking about a grapefruit (pomelo) or a pummelo (Citrus Maxima - Shaddock). Chandler is a pummelo. - Millet