Mystery Lemon

[Carey]

Neighbor has yellow grapefruits that do very well (in Downtown Keaau... we have a young ruby red... time will tell for them

Is your lemon yellow or orange inside???
The notations I get on the Jambiri state that the fruit is yellow inside:
http://www.ayushveda.com/herbs/citrus-limon.htm
http://www.incredibleayurveda.com/herbs.aspx?id=60
http://www.orionnursery.co.za/pages/fruit.htm

Ours is rough skinned & orange (inside & out...), so ours probably is not a Jambiri... probably our FWS friend is right & it is a rouge...

OHHH... There is a Meyer LIME at a friends house in Puueo.... the best limes EVER (Unfortunately Plant-It Hawaii does not carry them.... got some cuttings to root once.. then didn't baby them enough...

Forgot to add:
BTW this really is weird... lived in Island Lake for years... just up the Fox from Sleepy Hollow & had a Malamute that was born in SH!

[missydog1]

Just did some reading up on grapefruit and learned

Grapefruit has the highest heat requirement of any citrus, lemon and limes the lowest. Grapefruit does best in Arizona, Southern Texas, Florida (knew that)

Didn't know that the heat requirement is not to set the fruit or to get size on the fruit, but to build the sugar content. That because limes and lemons are sour, they don't need the heat.

Makes sense though.

Also learned that grapefruit trees take a long time to really bear well, like 20 years. Something about the number of nodes on the tree.

Also read that New Zealand couldn't grow grapefruit due to lack of heat, but developed a variety that would work.

Quote:
Grapefruits require intense, prolonged heat to ripen fully. (Heat causes pigmented grapefruits and pummelos to develop their distinctive red colors.) Grapefruit-pummelo hybrids like Oro Blanco are better suited to more moderate areas, sweetening in the San Francisco Bay Area and other coastal climates.

As usual, planting the right variety seems to be key.

[Devany]

Carey, my lemon is yellow inside. It looks exactly like a lemon, except it is round and has very thick bumpy skin.

I think Kathy is right about grapefruits, ours never did very well in the bay area. This one here might need some TLC, but more likely I will cut it down and use it for the wood burning oven when I get it built. These fruit are small and pink.

That is really wild Carey, that you lived so close! Sleepy Hollow is such a small town that many people do not know about it. We still have our lake house there and are renting it.

Carey said:
Forgot to add:
BTW this really is weird... lived in Island Lake for years... just up the Fox from Sleepy Hollow & had a Malamute that was born in SH!


Aloha au i Hawai`i,
devany

Devany Vickery-Davidson
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[Carey]

Before giving up on the grapefruit, give it some TLC...

Was told when we moved into this house to use 10-10-10 fertilizer (not easy to find!) on each citrus on the 'A' months... seems most of the neighbors also do this... proof in the fruit!