Pomelo tree (forum)

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

Time: 1st June 2011 4:04pm

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Brendan says...
Hi Rebecca,
The pomelo trees I've seen were fairly large trees, so you'd need a fairly large pot, something like a rubbish bin size would work.
If it's a grafted tree, it should bear after 3 to 4 years.

Time: 2nd June 2011 7:29am

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Rebecca says...
Hi Brendan
Nice to hear from you..the tree I saw was substantial but fell in love with the fruit. What would the spread & height be if I was to plant in a rubbish bin? It may still be beyond what I want for a surburban garden

Time: 2nd June 2011 7:34am

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BJ says...
Hi Rebecca,
Daley's sell a Dwarf Nam Roi. You could contct the nursery directly and ask when they might be available. That would be the best pomello for a pot in suburbia.

Time: 2nd June 2011 11:51am

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Rebecca says...
Hello BJ..thanks for that..I'll do it right away..

Time: 2nd June 2011 4:09pm

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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.

Time: 1st July 2011 9:38pm

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Kert says...
Rebecca, citrus are never maintenance free. You need to observe them for pest, disease and nutrition often.
If you want maintenance free gardening grow weeds.

Time: 1st July 2011 10:15pm

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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.

Time: 26th August 2015 8:48pm

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