My wife asked me to pick up some clothes that had been altered by a seamtress who lives on my road (very close to the home with a large seedling grapefruit and several nice seedling oranges that I have previously posted) -and mentioned that they have a grapefruit tree that they don't eat the fruit of. I am thrilled to discover yet another citrus jewel practically in my backyard
The lady told me that she and her husband don't eat the fruit due to medicine they are taking-but the grapefruit have an excellent flavor and very few seed-she told me that I am welcome to take all the fruit that I want!!!
Here is a shot of the tree and it's fruit-

Here is a shot of the fruit on the tree and a view of the "backside" shaded portion of the tree.Nearby oak trees give it a considerable amount of shade during much of the day-

Nice find David-- There must not be many leaf miners in the area--I did not see a single leaf with miners!

Hello Skeeter, You are right-it is rather clean of leaf miners-I recently purchased a number of new trees from a nursery and most of them show at least some leaf miner trails-hopefully I will not be guilty of introducing them to Havana Now that I know of two local varieties of Grapefruit and one Sweet Orange I wish I had a slew of 3gallon size Flying Dragon to let you do a bit of inverted t budding on-just think we can become the Citrus barrons of northwest Florida in about 15 years

Note the dark colored fruit on the shaded portion-that is old fruit that is rather dried out (very light weight) that have sprouted seed inside! I guess that they just don't want to fall off I suspect if left unpicked that they will become grapefruit mummies

Hi David,
Hopefully, some of my FD seedlings will be big enough for grafting next fall. If so, I will be glad to try putting a couple buds on one for you in exchange for some budwood. If they are successful, maybe I could deliver it when I go over to my brothers for the fall hunt test.