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Rebecca starts with ... When I locate a Pomelo tree, can I grow it in a pot? I'm past lots of prunning, composting & looking for more maintenence-free type gardening. No frosts, full sun. Can anyone offer any suggestions as to how I would go about rpoducing an excellent tree? How long to fruit? Any health issues? Many thanks | About the Author 72 Gold Coast Australia 1st June 2011 4:04pm #UserID: 5373 Posts: 45 View All 72's Edible Fruit Trees |
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About the Author 72 Gold Coast Australia 2nd June 2011 7:34am #UserID: 5373 Posts: 45 View All 72's Edible Fruit Trees |
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About the Author Theposterformerlyknownas Brisbane 2nd June 2011 11:51am #UserID: 3270 Posts: 1552 View All Theposterformerlyknownas's Edible Fruit Trees |
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About the Author 72 Gold Coast Australia 2nd June 2011 4:09pm #UserID: 5373 Posts: 45 View All 72's Edible Fruit Trees |
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Mike says... Pomelos are the biggest citrus trees and maybe the hardest to have confined to a pot.They can be like mango trees.It might have to be in the ground and in a sunny spot to fruit.Newer grafted red fleshed ones like carters red (I got one from bunnings) have slightly smaller fruit and probably smaller trees.While they have bigger and tastier fruit than grapefruit they are less cold tolerant. | About the Author Cairns 1st July 2011 9:38pm #UserID: 5418 Posts: 1438 View All 's Edible Fruit Trees |
About the Author Kert2 Sydney 1st July 2011 10:15pm #UserID: 5494 Posts: 1 View All Kert2's Edible Fruit Trees |
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Bangkok says... My red pomelo in a big pot (well 60 cm diameter and 55 high) keeps them pumping out. And they get better all the time. I prune it once a year or so and also graft onto it. But my first 4 fruits had very big seeds and many of them. Now the last 2 had tiny seeds that i would even eat, how can that? I bought it grafted and it was a metre tall or so, within a year it was blooming and set fruit, in full sun. I keep it at about 1.5 metre and it gets water from the sprinkler/dripper. I put a bowl under it because it does drink a lot and it likes fertilizer but i'm too lazy for that. I give it slowrelease osmocote and if i have energy urea. The fruit is sweet and delicious. Most pomelos in Thailand have a tangy flavour but mine is sweet, not supersweet but just allright. | About the Author Bangkok thailand 26th August 2015 8:48pm #UserID: 11594 Posts: 370 View All Bangkok's Edible Fruit Trees |