Thanks johnmerr, i was thinking about spraying some hort oil before the heat arrives to kill the eggs, should I ? or am I stressing too much ;)

The pictures aren't clear, but if you focus on the second picture and the leaves with the brown, it looks like it might be leaf miners. I'd suggest taking closeup, or look for the trails through the leaves. That said, I don't know about the lifecycle in CA for miners, but elsewhere, those would be from last year and have no impact to growth except looking bad. If you see tunnels on new leaves, then you should spray accordingly. But I didn't see any.

Looks like it might have some leafminer. I'd spray it with spinosad just to give it a preventative treatment. Leafminer in zone 10 can be active year round, but tend to be less conspicuous in the winter.

Congratulations on the pomelo. That's not a citrus fruit a lot of people are growing, and yet it can be more delicious than grapefruit. Or at least have a subtly different flavor and less bitterness.

Thanks for the inputs!! i think it was grown from seed so might be a few years before i can find out what kind it is....

It's not a kind. Pomelo doesn't come true from seed. It could still be good but it's a "crap shoot"

Pip 313 is correct, in that pummelos do not come true from seed. When your tree does fruit the chanches most likely will be that the tree's fruit will be inferior to the original mother tree, and a slim chance that the fruit could be superior.

that sucks! should i just get rid of it now and save myself the painful truth later on? and money to pay someone to dig it up...

Wait, if you are thinking about getting rid of that beauty offer it up here. If someone close does not get it I will gladly pay the shipping to the east coast.

Before you dig that tree up it looks to me like it could be grafted. Unless you spoke with the previous homeowners and they actually said that it was a seedling tree? I circled the area we need photos of to determine if it is a grafted tree or not. Take photos at a couple different angles in the area I circled on your original photo. This to me looks to be the graft line.

Evan

Some people do use the term seedling when talking about small grafted plants. Totally improper use of the word but it happens.

If it is in fact a 5-year-old seedling (the owners planted the seed), then it may take another 5 years to bear, and when it does, who knows what it will truly be? But this could explain why it is not blooming.

As others have said, if it was a commercial tree that was grafted onto a rootstock, then perhaps it just did not get the right care and that is why it is not blooming and bearing. Then adjust and you should get fruit.

I suppose there's also a chance it could be a rootstock that has taken over.

You'd be wise to determine which scenario it is before doing anything drastic.

But on the other hand, if you love citrus and have a particular variety that you just have to have, but have limited space, then remove it and put in something that you truly love.

Here are a few close up, what do you guys think???

Sorry, not grafted

Yup, I'm with Pip on that one. Bummer because it's a nice tree, I don't know that I would have the patience to wait and find out if the fruit was good or not.

Evan

I would not be worried....it seems healthy :)

It is my understanding that pomelo tends to grow truer to seed than many other citrus. It's usually when a citrus fruit has been hybridized (recently in its lineage) that you can run into problems trying to grow from seed. Unfortunately many pomelo varieties in America are actually hybrids, rather than the original citrus species. If it was a hybrid, I would say there's about a 1 in 4 chance it will be close to as good as it's parents, maybe a 50 percent chance it be good. Something else to be aware of is that pomelo trees that are not grafted can get to be quite large, 50 feet tall, it's the biggest growing citrus variety. (Grapefruit can get to be 45 feet tall under optimal conditions)

Your tree will produce fruit, it's just a matter of when. That's the primary reason fruit trees are grafted, to force the tree to start producing fruit earlier in its lifespan rather than having all its energy go to growth for the first ten years.

Thanks Parker, I decided to keep this guy:). Can I control the size by trimming?

Looking at that picture again, it looks like the tree may have originally been grafted, more likely than not. It's a little hard to make out since the tree has grown so much since that time.

You can see the faintest outline of a graft line that has long since been grown over, and that curved shape of the trunk, with the green growth coming out of either end, is also very suggestive.

Loooking and loooooking. I don't see any evidence of a graft, sorry.

Meo, if you trim it, you are trimming the node count... and therefore it may never - or rather - will never fruit. The node count has to reach a number (we don't really know what that is) where the tree will begin producing.