Good for you, Patti. Sun, food, and proper watering works every time

Beautiful blooms!

Looks lovely. I think it's happy :)

And I'll bet they smell so very strongly nice, right? That is why I love grapefruit trees!

Mike

Grapefruit flowers look so beautiful! How long have you had your tree until it first bloomed for you? What type of grapefruit?

It's an Oroblanco. I bought it last year. It already had fruit on it, because it's a larger plant. It was in a 15 gallon container. I didn't feed it much last year, but am feeding it regularly now. The fruit last year was kind of small. The flowers smell so nice. I went out to the patio today, and the patio smelled so nice from the grapefruit flowers.

very nice

What a huge tree you got! Very nice you don't have to wait at all for fruit. It must smell so good..this has pushed grapefruit up my citrus wish list!

I just found out that hummingbirds like citrus, altho the grapefruit I just bought is not yet flowering. They seem to be common in Tucson, do you get hummies in Cottonwood,as well?

Yup! You're all right. I started getting hummers when I started putting my flowered trees out! My neighbors don't get them.

Yes, we get hummingbirds in Cottonwood, although I haven't seen any around my grapefruit tree yet. I'll have to keep my eyes open. A large hummer got really close to me when I was trimming my Mr. Lincoln rose bush last year. He must have thought I was attacking his food source but I was only taking off old blossoms. I know that a pair of Cardinals live in the trees nearby. Last year I got some seeds just for them, but they didn't find them. I'll have to move my feeder.

my oroblanco is in full bloom with lots of little fruits on it and they are the best smelling blossoms of all my 14 citrus trees.

I only have 1 citrus tree, the Oroblanco, so I don't have anything to compare it to. I thought all citrus smelled good when they bloomed. I'm thinking of getting a Gold Nugget tangerine, but none of the nurseries around here carry citrus trees. It gets too cold in the winter. I want to plant the Gold Nugget in a sheltered place in my yard, but the Oroblanco is in a pot on the patio so I can bring it in for the winter.

Patti you can do the same thing with a mandarin tree keep in small and in a container. All mine are in containers even though they stay outside year round.

Wintering indoors is kind of a pain, so I was hoping to avoid it. I only have so much room inside to keep trees. I'll have to think about it. If you have your citrus in containers outside, do they get fruit?

Yes they all get fruit. I don't have to worry about the cold where I live but my Okistu Wase Satsuma is really cold tolerant more so than the Owari. Take a look at this older thread

[https://www.houzz.com/discussions/whats-the-most-cold-hardy-mandarin-cultivar-known-dsvw-vd~1844199[(https://www.houzz.com/discussions/whats-the-most-cold-hardy-mandarin-cultivar-known-dsvw-vd~1844199)

I also found this

Temperature is important for the health of citrus trees and the flavor of the fruit. The low temperatures satsuma mandarins can withstand make them the most cold-tolerant citrus grown by commercial growers. This comes in handy for your home garden because you can grow satsumas even if you experience low temperatures in the upper teens or low 20s. Established satsuma trees have lived through winter nights when temperatures dropped to 14 degrees Fahrenheit, according to the University of Florida IFAS Extension. These low temperatures would severely damage other citrus, but a satsuma can survive.

http://homeguides.sfgate.com/temperature-limits-satsuma-plant-64711.html