I saw these at a house this morning. The lady spoke very limited English, but I did manage to ask her(my Spanish is terrible, lol) if this was grapefruit and she said yes it was. I took a picture, but failed to put anything in that would give a scale of size, except you can see the hanging basket right behind it. She had all kinds of fruit trees in her yard. I will have to take a friend who speaks fluent Spanish back with me.
if you guys have been noticing the prices on citrus at the supermarket, geez. Yesterday I bought 1 medium orange for 1.37. I must have been out of my mind. Getting silly for a second, if that lady were to sell her grapefruit, she could probably clear $5 at Randall's prices!!!!
I've got to plant an orange tree...
Chuck freaked when he saw that!!!!
He said it wasn't real!!!
Well Chuck I am going to really freaked you out. I am holding right now in my hand a 5 lb pomelo
Pomelo is a grapefruit the largest of all citrus. They can grow to be as large as a foot in diameter and up to 25 pounds.
I live in Sebring Central Florida and in my property I have 15 citrus trees including two pomelo trees.It is really a spectacle to see all this uge fruits
It takes me 3 days to eat one of them
Gisele
Awesome! Bet is was delicious too!!
I wanna see a picture!!!!
OK Frank I will take some pictures and send them to you
Gisele
I bought a pomello at an oriental grocery store and was told that it was "true seed". Much to my disappointment, I only found one seed in it which I planted about 2 months ago and it never sprouted.
I love the flavor but the membranes are tough.
I'll trade keylime seeds for pumello seeds!
I wonder if these were pumello? These fruits were the size of basketballs! The citrus is just coming in here, local grapefruit from the grower is $5 for a 5 gallon bucket if you pick yourself, 4/1.00 if they pick. Oranges run about the same. Lemons and limes are 10-15 for 1.00 but if we have to buy apples, pears or any other fruit that doesn't grow in the valley, then it's high. Apples are 1.39 a pound but we can get pineapples, papayas, mangoes and avacados for dirt cheap.
Gosh, we have apples running out our ears this year. Wish we had all the other stuff. I can just taste some good quacamole.
I love guacamole, the avacados are cheap enough, but the tomatoes are $3 a pound!
I couldn't believe the price of tomatoes when I was at the market last Thursday. I think they were $2.89 here and those weren't the vine ripened ones. No tomato in my salad for a while. I don't use tomato in guacamole. Now I'm getting hungry for Tex-Mex dip. Dang, that requires both. LOL!
Now I'm hungry!! At least there are plenty of Mexican restaurants down here!
Shoot............I'm living in the wrong state. Have a great lunch!
Cala,
This area here is a joke when it comes to Mexican food (or I just haven't found the right place). I also love Thai and whouldn't you know it. Not a decent restaurant anywhere here that serves Thai.
Gisele or Cala,
Have you ever traded or done cuttings from your tree for SASE? Maybe in the Spring we can do this.
I would have loved to see you (Cala) in the picture or a hand or something to give perspective on the actual size of the fruit. I can kind of get an idea though. It does look HUGE!
Bugfreak, it's not my tree, I appraise real estate and it was at a house I went to appraise. I am going to check around down here for a tree. There are a couple of nurseries that have unusual fruit trees for sale.
We have some great Mexican restaurants.
Cala its a pumelo......we grew these out west..first time I saw one was at night and since Calif doesn't believe in street lights I thought someone had tossed soccer balls into the tree..next day we went over and.......Kinda picked one to see what they were.Mostly rind..the center will be very small and terribly sour to eat.More of a curiosity.......They are big mamma jammas.
I can assure you that the pomelo that I have here in central Florida are absolutly sweet and full of juice. Nothing like your "mamma jammas"
You probably had different quality of fruits.
Gisele
Could have been the variety or maybe the growing conditions. We have oranges here, they are beautiful big oranges but so sour even the green jays and mocking birds won't eat them and that's pretty bad cause they love citrus!
Kyle, I think I'll stick with the Rio Reds, those are the sweetest grapefruits I've ever eaten and they are starting to get ripe now!
Cala, now that is what I call a Texas Grapefruit !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Gosh, I wish someone would come up with citrus that would bloom in May and be ripe by Sept. and hardy the year round. Not the kind that grows in a pot either.
There is a variety of orange, it has tiny, sour fruit but it is hardy in TN and maybe even colder. The early settlers used the fruits to make orange marmalade, but I can't remember the name of it.
I had one last year that was really bitter, but I don't think it was cold hardy. Ended up giving it away, but not before I watched a lot of people take a bite out of the fruits, screw up their faces, and have to tolerate my laughing for a few minutes.
Kumquat or calamandon ?
Calamandon. The blooms smelled great, rind was thin and the fruit smelled wonderful until you took a bite. LOL! Thanks Scoot.
I think the only difference between the two is the shape.
When I was little I could not believe it when my uncle would pick a handfull and eat 'em all at once. *puckers-up *
That is incredible Cala, I live in citrus country here in Bodrum, but I havent seen any grpefruits the size of basketballs.
We have some sour oranges that is used only in jam, I think maybe they are called Valencia Oranges in English. We also have a yellow fruit, citrus of course, that is like an elongated grapefruit, the skin is very thick and dimply, also this one is used in making jam or compote. It is called Bergamot, It has a very very heavenly scent.
Last winter I went to town making a variety of marmalades from the different citrus available here. the best by far was a mixture of orange and bergamot.
My meyer lemon plant that I brought from the US is doing well and has three lemons on it. Oddly enough, there are no limes here. But I did bring a key lime seedling, which is doing well and growing, but no fruits on it, it did flower profusely last winter.
Everyone here has several orange and lemon trees in their yard, and whn you make a salad, you just go out and pick a lemon.
just to give you an idea of our fruit prices: tomatoes like 20 cents a kilo. so 10 a pound
citrus in the season is like 2-3 cents a kilo, figure out the pound price....give away price I know
but bananas, they are over 3 dollars a kilo, and too spensive for us to eat on a regular basis
most fresh fruit and vegetables are very cheap here. But other things very expensive. Meat is about 4-5 times the price in the States. as is chicken. Coffee is expensive, milk is about double what it is there. pulses are fairly inexpensive.
bread is about 27 cents a loaf, and it is fresh from the bakery.
Would limes grow from seeds true to form?
Pebble, the valencia oranges are very sweet, so maybe it's something similar. I know the bergamot fruit that you're talking about, it does smell good!
I love bread fresh from the bakery!
Cala, maybe what I am referring to as valencia oranges, are not really valencias like you have, aahhh I just remembered, they are Seville oranges (I knew it was a spanish city...) very bitter, the orange not the city - lol
yeah the bread is great Cala, hot fresh from the bakery just 2 blockss away from my house. but have gained a ton since moving here - am going to start a diet tomorrow.....
Oh yeah, the Seville oranges are sour!
Here in California, in the asian markets, Pomelos go for a premium price. The rind is thick but not terribly so. The flesh is mild and sweet. To my taste it is not that much better than a grapefruit. I seem to remember that grapefruit (and probably pomelos) need a great deal of heat to be really sweet.
I LOVE pomelos!!!!! Too bad I can't find any this year. I'll have to start looking in the asian markets. I didn't think about that! They always have better stuff than the regular grocery stores anyways.
Pebble, key limes grow from true seed but persian lime has a 30% chance acording to the experts IF you find any seeds- they are generally seedless.
Super Walmart has pomelos for 99 cents here. I saw them this weekend in the produce section.
