When I first saw this sitting on the table I thought it was a type of cantaloupe . It was too big to be a..grapefruit!? It made one tall glass of juice. Usually it takes four grapefruits to make that much juice! And yes...there was a lot of seeds and fiber. It was not very sweet either, but then it really is not quite the season yet. They need a couple of cold spells just below freezing to be sweet..
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One grapefruit here usually makes a glass of juice too... but I'm wondering if this is a special variety, because you noted that it requires "cold spells just below freezing to be sweet." Is it a hybrid variety?
We only have (regular?) grapefruits and pink grapefruits... sweet in summer, but more on the 'blah' side during the rainy season.
All the varieties we grow here need the cold to make them sweeter. This one is not the kind i am familiar with, as it did not grow on our property. We grow Ruby Red, and they have more juice than fiber but are much smaller in size. We have a few pink ones also, but they are sweeter after a few frosts also.
Oh wow... I'm learning every day. I'm starting to think these things adapt - over time - to whatever climate they reside in.
It used to be that no one here could grow strawberries unless they lived in the Blue Mountain range where it's cool, and now my sister who lives in Yallahs (a corner of the island that is hot and dry for most of the year) finally got a strawberry plant to bear fruit. Needless to say, I am now on the lookout for strawberry plants to purchase.
Is it a pomelo? The size makes me think it might be.
Yep, I think you are right Mountain Heather! I think it came from an Asian person~and i bet they brought the seeds with them from Asia and planted it here!! (I had to look it up to make sure)
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