SWINGLE CITRUMELO
TRIFOLIATE HYBRID(Cold Hardy Grapefruit) Zone 7-8
We grow and sell
these in Full Gal, 3-Gal, and 5-Gal at various times of the year
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Cold hardy Grapefruit easily to 15 degrees F some people say down in
single digits,
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but not scientifically documented to such.
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Grapefruit hybrid with large rounded fruit.
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· Flesh is white and sweet to the taste
with sugar.
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Developed by Walter Tennyson Swingle from Duncan grapefruit and
trifoliate orange.
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Scientific name: Poncirus trifoliata x Citrus paradis
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Rootstock used extensively for other citrus.
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Will grow to 5-6 feet at maturity and yield 40-50 fruit, bears at age
1-2 years.
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Self-fertile.
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Fruit tastes like a cross between a lemon and a grapefruit with smooth
yellow skin.
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Very resistant to citrus virus, root rot, blight, cold, and citrus
nematode.
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· Evergreen leaves are large.
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· Fruit ripens in Nov-Jan and is
approximately 4".
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· Zone 7-8 very atypically cold hardy.
We sell all Citrus, orange trees, lemon trees, lime trees, and grapefruit trees. Since January of 2018 we only sell Citrus in 5 gallon pots, but we designate 5 gal and 7 gal sizes so that the 7gal size designates older larger trees with calipers of the trunk over 3/8 inch or larger and the smaller trees as only 1/4 inch caliper and smaller. The 7 gal trees are not much taller, but are bushier and as mentioned a larger in caliper in trunk size.
