The minneola tastes nothing like a grapefruit. I love it, but if it is a grapefruit-like fruit, this is not it. Of your list, I have the cocktail and oroblanco. If you think the cocktail will be too sweet, you may like the oroblanco because it still does have some of the grapefruit flavor you like. The flowers of my grapefruit trees smell incredible - a nice plus.

Socal, your post reminded me that I have a wekiwa. I just harvested and tasted the one ripe fruit it had. I've had it for a while, but only tasted the first fruit that came with the tree when I got it several years ago. It has grown but has a nice shape....not massive. I will post a pic of the fruit on another thread so you guys can at least see a pic of mine. I liked it.

I love grapefruit, and they are surprisingly expensive! A couple of dollars a pound adds up when each fruit is over a pound. Are their growing conditions very different from oranges? Wonder why I don't see more growing in yards around here!

Grapefruit require a lot of heat to produce good tasting fruit. The heat unites required by grapefruit is close to the highest of all citrus varieties. The Bay Area is much to cool to grow good tasting grapefruit. Grapefruits are typically grown in the hot desert areas.

Thanks, Silica! Didn't mean to hijack the thread, but I do so want a grapefruit!

KC

Silica, I guess my MD summers are so incredibly hot and humid that they ripen up for me relatively well.

Tom sent me a valentine pomelo because he said it is the best. No fruit yet but it is growing well and entering its first winter in ground outside. I understand its not a grapefruit but it has the complex flavors worth looking into.

Steve

If I could only have one citrus tree in my yard it would be my Cocktail grapefruit. I would keep that one because it is unique, something that I can't buy. I can find good lemons in the stores and sometimes passably good mandarins and oranges. But the juice from a Cocktail (I only juice them, each fruit has dozens of seeds) is like nothing I can buy. It has grapefruit flavor yet it's not grapefruit, it's not too sweet and it has none of the bitterness you sometimes taste in a grapefruit. It is like no other citrus I've tasted, although I admit that most of my citrus experience is with oranges, lemons and mandarins.

If I could only have two trees I would add a Washington or Cara Cara orange. A tree ripened navel orange is light years better than anything you can buy in a store, it is like eating a different fruit.

Thanks Everyone for the inputs.

Right now I'm leaning towards an Oroblanco, but Ruth at Harris Citrus said she was going to do some investigation into whether any of her northern customers have ripened Duncans away from Florida and Texas. Ruth also recommended that I look into the Royal grapefruit, a florida white grapefruit that is less acid and more sweet.

I think I will probably order some Rojo Blanco budwood once my sour orange is large enough to graft to as well, just to have another variety to compare to.

I know a few folks have the Tahitian Pomelo, I can't wait to hear about some taste tests once people are able to harvest some!

Even Oroblanco is going to take a bit more heat than you get. I'd suggest covering it in a plastic sheeting frame beginning March to act like a greenhouse and help it start growing sooner in the year. Around mid-April some days are going to start getting too hot in there and it will need to be vented out in the middle of the day.

I'd say in the PNW it's not necessarily the lack of getting heat but the short duration of the Summers.