Grapefruit Tree Time Lapse - Seed To Fruit In 2 Years!

My amazing experience growing a grapefruit tree from seed and receiving its first fruit after only 2 years!

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[lynellemiller]

My 86 year old dad is so proud of his seed started grapefruit tree. I’ll show him this video next time I see him. Thanks

[ReptiPLUG]

I have a 20 year old grapefruit tree super huge tree gives about 140 bigger than softball sized sweet juice yellow with pink grapefruits. Was planted when I was 2. Planning on planting all the seeds I get this next harvest. hopefully I get 500 grapefruit trees by the time im 27 im 22 rn

[tomvan]

Come on, man... That was so bitter you couldn't tell what it was. I have grapefruit trees here in AZ. :) Congrats on the grow!

[lemnzinger]

Why did you plant it with the pineapple?

[mrs.wallin]

I like that you planted them together, they’re probably best friends by now. If you separate them, will they be sad? Or ready to see the world

[kashmerelove]

Good going. Suggestion put the grapefruit plant in its own pot it will grow wild. It needs more space. Pick the fruit when its yellow.

[owouwu]

Am i the only one who was screaming "duds water it!" When seeing the lemon tree?

[nuroldemirbag]

I all so had plant 2 years a go 5/6 grapefruit seeds. And yes 1 of it bloomt the same year and next year the other one bloomt to. They are to small to have fruit. I hoop maybe this summer.

[baptizeus]

Hope you kept & planted those super seeds.

[decentparks]

Nice this is super cool. I feel like the citrus like having nutrient poor dry and constrained conditions to fruit or something

[clipking]

That seed has ridiculously good genetics. It should be wel taken care of and grafted

[MrPerennial]

Dude take it out of the pineapple pot and give it its own pot. Show it some respeck

[lauta_]

hello friend, thanks for sharing your experience 😁. I am a citrus collector and I live in Argentina, I have my YouTube channel where I share the many species that are not even known. I had a flowering from a 1-year-old seed and I think I know what the phenomenon we are experiencing is: "Citrus fruits reproduce by seed in two ways, one by seeds that give baby plants (sexual reproduction, the union of an ovule and a pollen) and the other is "Asexual" called APOMIXIS, which consists of "Mother Cells (which make up the seed) begin to divide and generate an embryo (called nucellar). that is, this Embryo is not a "baby", it should not go through juvenile stages, but rather it is made from adult cells of the mother plant, so it is born as an adult. that phenomenon exists and should explain what we saw. I hope this helps you to elucidate this phenomenon a little 👌😁

[lynntyler]

Its a sour orange, if grown from seed you get the root stock it was grafted to, which is ususlly a sour orange 3:49

[klausmuller]

Ich grew both a lemon tree and a grapefruit tree from a seed. Both trees don't feel like blooming. The lemon tree is 24 years old!

[angelawestland]

This was interesting. Why did you not give the grapefruit plant its own pot to grow in? They would have been competing for nutrients and water.

[bigthickcheese]

im starting grapefruit from see too, and it seems that the seed gets pushed to the surface of the soil by the roots. Is that normal?

[kingafendikingafendi]

Maybe you try sprinkles with some fruit fertilizer by I'm asd

[weName]

Wow I planted my grapefruit tree 2 years ago and the funny thing is that I had a seed germinate in the fruit also like you did. The only difference is that I still have no fruit or even flowers. It is super healthy and about 5 feet tall already. I was wondering if I should prune it or something else to encourage it to produce fruit. Any tips or advise would Bea appreciated

[trides]

This size citrus tree need 1 lb of fruit fertilizer I cut grapefruit and find seed was growing I have 1 grapefruit plant growing in pot it is very small and healthy I was wondering will it be fruit later or not usually citrus don’t produce good fruit if grow from seed .