My Edible Fruit Trees: Pummelo Trees

Pummelo - Carters Red (Grafted) ^3/10

Comments: -

The Flick's Yellow pummelo which we have has very nice fruit so we decided to try the red pummelo variety as well. Has flowered well, but low fruit set and fruit drops off while still small. Suspect inadequate water. We finally got a few fruit in 2019 but found it took a very long time to ripen. The ffruit was quite bitter and not tasty, probably because not suited to Sydney climate. Not recommended. 

In 2023 have reworked the plant to multigraft - Cara Cara orange, washington navel and Lisbon lemon. Grafts growing very well and flowering already in 2024.

Planted: 2011

Height 2 metres

Qty: 1

Sun/Shade: Full Sun

Water Given in: Autumn

Pollination: No

Dwarf Pummelo Nam Roi (Grafted)

Planted: 2018

Growing: In a Pot

Qty: 1

Pummelo - Carters Red

Dwarf Pummelo Nam Roi (Grafted)

Height 1 metres

Growing: In a Pot

Sun/Shade: Medium Sun

Pollination: Self Pollination

Organic Status:Organic

Pummelo - Flicks Yellow ^10/10

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Flowers smell gorgeous.

Fruiting Months November and December

Planted: 2009

Height 2 metres

Growing: In the Ground

Qty: 1

First Fruited: 0.75 Years from purchase in pot

Sun/Shade: Full Sun

Water Given in: Spring

Pollination: Self Pollination

Fertiliser or Organics Used: compost and chook manure, fish emulsion

Pummelo - Flicks Yellow (Grafted) ^6/10

Comments: - Maybe I could have one of these interesting fruits on the same rootstock as the Lemonade and Valencia (to have oranges all year, combined with my Washington Navel).

Pummelo - Nam Roi (Grafted) ^9/10

Planted: 2017

Growing: In a Pot

Sun/Shade: Full Sun

Water Given in: Spring

Pollination: Self Pollination

When I Fertilise: Yearly

Pummelo - Flicks Yellow (Grafted) ^8/10

Fruiting Months April, May, June, July

Planted: 2017

Growing: In a Pot

Sun/Shade: Medium Sun

Water Given in: Spring

Pollination: Self Pollination

When I Fertilise: Yearly

Pummelo (Seedling) ^9/10

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Planted Nov 2018 as smnall seedling. see how it goes and if it tolerates some frost.

Height 0.3 metres

Growing: In the Ground

Sun/Shade: Full Sun

Water Given in: Spring

Pollination: Self Pollination

Pummelo - Flicks Yellow (Grafted) ^10/10

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Brought in 2017, Planted Nov 2018, Flowereing already, knocked flowers off to get it better established.

Height 0.7 metres

Growing: In the Ground

Sun/Shade: Full Sun

Water Given in: Spring

Pollination: Self Pollination

Dwarf Pummelo Nam Roi (Grafted) ^7/10

Comments: - Variety unknown, lost cultural notes.  Small fruit but very juicy, and a lot sweeter than a grapefruit.  Not what I would call a dwarf, but I suppose it would probably have been a lot bigger from seed.  Good fruit but gets attacked by fruit fly.

Planted: 2004

Height 5 metres

Growing: In the Ground

Qty: 1

First Fruited: 3 Years from purchase in pot

Sun/Shade: Full Sun

Water Given in: Autumn

Pruned By: 15% in Summer

Pollination: Self Pollination

When I Fertilise: Winter and Spring

Pest Control: Oranic oil for leaf miner, lime spray for white citrus louse.

Pummelo ^5/10

Height 3 metres

Growing: In the Ground

Qty: 1

Sun/Shade: Full Sun

Pummelo - Flicks Yellow (Grafted) ^10/10

Comments: -

Large sweet fruit

Planted: 2012

Height 7 Feet

Growing: In a Pot

First Fruited: 2 Years from purchase in pot

Water Given in: Spring

Comments

how do they taste in comparison to other pummelos? I know Flicks Yellow is a hybrid pummelo

They taste really good - slightly sweeter but still with a Pomello taste & segmenting and need to peel - Handle Melbournes cold well.

Great! Thanks

Pummelo

Pummelo - Flicks Yellow (Grafted) ^9/10

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Tasty juicy fruit with delicate flavour. Best prepared by removing skin and seeds off individual segments. Very popular with adults and children alike. Very productive tree. Recommended.

Fruiting Months July

Planted: 2006

Height 1.5 metres

Growing: In the Ground

Qty: 1

Fruit Harvest: 25 Fruit Per Year

Sun/Shade: Full Sun

Pruned By: 10% in

Pollination: No

Fertiliser or Organics Used: citrus

When I Fertilise: Yearly

Comments

I have had my plant in for 18 months but it looks like the top of the brach is "wispy" almost like it has had too much water, any comments please. I can send pic of plant, thank yopu

Sorry hate the autocorrect

I am not an expert but I am happy to take a look at your photo if you send it to my email address given at the top left. For some reason my tree this year does not look so healthy either and has only produced one fruit. Butu that could be due to the very dry spring we had end of 2015.

Pummelo - Nam Roi (Grafted) ^4/10

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Flowers profusely but not much fruit set. Suspect competition from nearby trees for moisture. I have therefore movwill ed it to a new location after a good pruning. However, the tree has died back and was removed.

Fruiting Months July and August

Planted: 2008

Height 1.5 metres

Growing: In the Ground

Qty: 1

Fruit Harvest: 1 Fruit Per Year

First Fruited: 2 Years from purchase in pot

Sun/Shade: Full Sun

Pollination: No

Pest Control:

Spray with Lebaycid to control fruit fly. Not a serious problem but some spoilage can occur.

Pummelo - Carters Red

Qty: 1

Pollination: No

Pummelo - Flicks Yellow

Qty: 1

Pollination: No

Dwarf Pummelo Nam Roi ^5/10

Dwarf Pummelo Nam Roi

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24 Sept 2013: Just bought this from Daleys and will be growing in a pot.

Oct 2014: There are about 5 fruits on this tree, and seems to be doing well. It dropped some of its fruit and has only 2 now, It is still a young plant. Did have to treat scale problem, nice new growth on tree (Nov). Fertilised with chook manure, blood and bone and dash of potash next time flowers start to form.

Planted: 2013

Growing: In a Pot

First Fruited: 1 Years from purchase in pot

Pollination: No

Organic Status:Organic

Pummelo - Citrus grandis

Dwarf Pummelo Nam Roi (Grafted)

Comments: - I ate a lot of pomelo when I lived in China growing up, and I loved them!  They were eaten a lot during the Chinese new year festival.

Pummelo - Flicks Yellow

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Bought from Mountain View Nursery Yandina Market
First fruit set Nov 2012

Planted: 2010

Pollination: Self Pollination

Pummelo - Carters Red

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Planted on fenceline below water pipe
Thought it had died, but new growth appeared 2012.  Looking like it is still growing above the graft and healthy Dec 2012

Planted: 2008

Pollination: Self Pollination

Comments

Our Carters red survived -5.5C last year so they can cope with frost to some extent. First flowers this year.

Dwarf Pummelo Nam Roi

Height 2 metres

Qty: 1

Sun/Shade: Full Sun

Pollination: Self Pollination

Organic Status:Organic

pummelo (Seedling) ^5/10

Comments: - This is one of the citrus fruits with the finest taste

Planted: 2006

Height 1 metres

Growing: In a Pot

Sun/Shade: Low Sun

Water Given in: Spring

Pollination: No

When I Fertilise: Never

Organic Status:Certified

Question: Every three to four months, my 2 pomelo trees get new leaves. But after a few weeks, leaves become clearer green, some weeks later, they start to get white to yellow spots that are enlarging until the leaf becomes mostly white. At that moment, it starts to dry out, getting wholes in the leaf, until it is completely dried out and falls off. 

Is this an illness, or do I give too much water, or is the soil PH not correct ? I do not know and do not know what to do to save the 5 year old plants. 

These two trees were planted 5 years ago, and they reach about 1 metre, but I presume this should be more. 

Many thanks in advance for your advice.

Dwarf Pummelo Nam Roi

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Why Not?? Anything is worth growing.

Pollination: Self Pollination

Pummelo - Flicks Yellow

Pollination: Self Pollination

Pummelo - Nam Roi (Grafted) ^7/10

Fruiting Months October, November, December

Growing: In a Pot

Sun/Shade: Full Shade

Water Given in: Spring

Pollination: Self Pollination

When I Fertilise: When Fruiting, Winter, Spring

Organic Status:Partially Organic

Pummelo - Nam Roi ^4/10

Comments: - Not frost resistant & trying to grow in ACT. First year in pot has lots of flowers and some went to small fruit but late in season & didn't grow past 4cm. 

Planted: 2008

Height 0.6 metres

Growing: In a Pot

Qty: 1

First Fruited: 3 Months from Purchase in Pot

Sun/Shade: Medium Sun

Pollination: No

When I Fertilise: Spring

Pest Control: None to date.

Organic Status:Partially Organic