Oroblanco (Oro Blanco)
A UCR pummelo-grapefruit triploid that is sweet and bitterness-free, and sweetens with less heat than true grapefruit, widening where a grapefruit-type can grow.
Across the consideration criteria
How it grows
- Cold hardiness
- 27°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 27°F.
Needs high heat to colour and sweeten.
Early-season fruit (Nov-Feb).
moderate-vigorous
Prefers a pH band of 6–7.5.
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Grows alike
similar to growMelogold
ripens in the same window · wants the same heat to ripen
Chandler pummelo
ripens in the same window · wants the same heat to ripen
Reinking pummelo
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
Hirado Buntan pummelo
wants the same heat to ripen · holds on the tree the same way
Climate-adapted alternatives
more resilient picksMelogold
similar cold hardiness · similar heat requirement
Ruby Red grapefruit
similar cold hardiness · ripens in a similar season
Rio Red grapefruit
similar cold hardiness · ripens in a similar season
Chandler pummelo
similar cold hardiness · ripens in a similar season
Reinking pummelo
similar cold hardiness · ripens in a similar season
Hirado Buntan pummelo
similar cold hardiness · similar heat requirement
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