Chandler pummelo
The leading commercial pummelo: huge, thick-rinded, with sweet pink firm flesh eaten in segments. Mild and non-bitter, a festival fruit across Asia.
Across the consideration criteria
How it grows
- Cold hardiness
- 28°F
- Ripening
- Early-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 28°F.
Needs high heat to colour and sweeten.
Early-season fruit (Nov-Feb).
moderate-vigorous
Prefers a pH band of 6–7.5.
These are intrinsic to the citrus. On a real property, Folia scores each against your site; here they're shown on their own.
Grows alike
similar to growReinking pummelo
ripens in the same window · wants the same heat to ripen
Oroblanco (Oro Blanco)
ripens in the same window · wants the same heat to ripen
Melogold
ripens in the same window · wants the same heat to ripen
Ruby Red grapefruit
ripens in the same window · wants the same heat to ripen
Rio Red grapefruit
ripens in the same window · wants the same heat to ripen
Sarawak (Tahitian) pummelo
wants the same heat to ripen · holds on the tree the same way
Climate-adapted alternatives
more resilient picksReinking pummelo
similar cold hardiness · similar heat requirement
Ruby Red grapefruit
similar cold hardiness · similar heat requirement
Rio Red grapefruit
similar cold hardiness · similar heat requirement
Oroblanco (Oro Blanco)
similar cold hardiness · ripens in a similar season
Melogold
similar cold hardiness · ripens in a similar season
Sarawak (Tahitian) pummelo
similar cold hardiness · similar heat requirement
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