I saw pomelos at Whole Foods tonight. $4 each, and they didn't look ripe unless they are maybe a slightly different type than the tree is the neighborhood.
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Originally Posted by nota
citrus does not breed true
to get a known type you have to graft a branch on root stock
if you grow a seed who knows what you get
we planted orange seeds and got huge limes
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And you can graft multiple types of citrus onto one trunk and have a single tree grow multiple types of fruit. My uncle had a tree that had 19 varieties of citrus, and his old boss had a tree with 31 types on a single trunk.
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