Bloomsweet grapefruit (Kinkoji)
A cold-hardy sweet-tart grapefruit-type, much hardier than true grapefruit and far less bitter. The honest grapefruit answer for a cold-hardy planting, where real grapefruit needs heat the Mid-Atlantic does not have.
Across the consideration criteria
How it grows
- Cold hardiness
- 18°F
- Ripening
- Mid-season
- Vigor
- Moderate-Vigorous
- Disease tolerance
- Moderate
- Drainage need
- Well
- Soil pH
- 6–7.5
- Graft requirement
- Graft Required
- US availability
- Available
Considerations
Canopy killed at about 18°F.
Needs moderate heat to colour and sweeten.
Mid-season fruit (Dec-Feb).
moderate-vigorous
Prefers a pH band of 6–7.5.
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Climate-adapted alternatives
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similar cold hardiness · ripens in a similar season
Sarawak (Tahitian) pummelo
similar cold hardiness · ripens in a similar season
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similar cold hardiness · similar heat requirement
Melogold
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Cocktail grapefruit
similar cold hardiness · similar heat requirement
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