Hey all i finally got my first Grape fruit on a tree from seed Im hyped.
Tasted pretty good here in oregon and i hate grapefruit so I am now converted to liking my own fruit lol Tammy

Great! How many years did it take?

That is great and exciting, congrats....I'm waiting for my lemon tree from seed to produce fruit. I'm also interested in how many years it took to fruit.
Paula

Congrats, how about some photos?

It took 5 yrs and fruit got picked by my new dog Blue heeler GRRRRR. not even ready but we did get to eat one . May of been too tart one of the reasons i do not like grapefruit but its fun to grow for others too. My mom said Maybe ruby red since it was red inside .. i tried it and thought it was the best one ever OK a little proud here but the others got picked half this size and im tellen ya i could of sold my blue healer then and wont now she is OK just need a new area for my trees .

... or a chain for your dog ..

Congrats !
5 years are not that long.

Last winter I bought a Star Ruby just for planting the seeds and then it was one fat seed in it and cut though the middle ...
I planted it nevertheless and I really DID grow ...
So maybe you hear from me in 5 years ..

That would be awesome , i have 4 English pear trees about 2-3 ft tall from seed . the fruit actually came from an old English castle a friend sent . too ripe to eat i planted the 4 seeds from 2 fruit and Presto they grew . the others Mark threw in the disposal he said on accident doing the dishes .... funny hes never done the dishes that is why i was sure they where safe in the coffee mug. grrrr

I am from Austria.
We are in book of records for having the biggest pear and apple wood of the world.
Means pears and apples grow litterally everywhere.

No wonder, we cultivated them and the wild apples and pears still grow in the woods.

The farmer here always grew their own trees by seeds :
They let it grow till they got fruits and then decided :
Good enough to let it produce or use as rootstock.

Doing this for thousands of years they got locally adapted, very well tasting fruits and very profolic trees.
Besides the trees were on OWN roots or of their own offspring.
Such grafts unite perfectly and are qzuite same as own roots.
We have thousands of trees that are over 400 years old and produce enourmously.

Modern grafts produce well just 20 years well and die soon ...

thats pretty cool. I have a small grapefruit seedling that I hope will fruit in that amount of time. Do you have a full pic of the tree. It appears to be pretty good size. I guess you must have a greenhouse for winter.

Mike

Good job. I have quite a few citrus I've started from seed, no fruit yet on any of them.

One of my dogs is around a year old and I've caught him biting fruit off of a Suriname cherry tree and a peach tree I have. What bothers me is he doesn't EAT the fruit- its just a game to him, as soon as it is on the ground, then he looses interest.

I guess he is just still playfully and that will end soon ...

Hopefully !

You are very welcome !

I will provide you all infos to come here and stay, help you find hotels and so on ...
If you go to my city I also will show you around.

For a first glance :

Wikipedia about my country :
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Austria

About my city :
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vienna

Vienna´s official website, english section for touristic informations :
http://www.wien.gv.at/english/

I also send you my email by PM, if you like personal contact.

Sorry we had a huge disaster here My freezer died just after buying 400 pounds of Meat for my cats. Mainly chicken ... SO i desided to go crabbing LOL.

Id love to go to see every thing there but i am so scared of snakes since panama............................ and i could not hear them well now since im deaf in one ear but id love to come .