How to Grow a Grapefruit Tree From Your Breakfast Grapefruit

Many people don't know it's possible to grow Fruit Trees from the seeds found in fruit from their breakfast, lunch or dinner plate. Below are steps for learning how to grow your own grapefruit tree from seeds found in your breakfast grapefruit.

Difficulty: Easy

Instructions

Things You'll Need:

• Your favorite type of grapefruit

1. 
   Various Grapefruits

   You want to first select the type of grapefruit you are interested in growing. There are many types of grapefruits, including Rio Ruby Red, White, and Pink. Select one from your local grapefruit farm or market, but make sure the grapefruit is healthy looking.

2. After you have cut your grapefruit up, and sliced it in preparation for your breakfast, look for the seeds throughout the fruit. Pick out the largest seeds that have some plump to them. The narrow smaller seeds are less likely to germinate.

3. Wash off the seeds under luke warm water, and pat them dry with a paper towel. Let sit on a dry paper towel for 24 hours in open air.

4. 

   After 24 hours have passed, place the seed in a small starter pot or paper cup filled with a mix of dirt, sand, and peat moss. Water thoroughly and place in a warm location where the temperature is between 70 - 85 degrees. Within 1 - 2 weeks, you should start to see your grapefruit plants sprout. Sometimes it can take up to a month before the seedlings will sprout, so keep the mixture moist. Once sprouted, let the soil mixture become slightly dry before applying more water. Also, keep the seedlings out of direct sunlight when temperatures are above 90 degrees.

5. 

   Generally, seeds grown grapefruit trees will take from 7 to 12 years before they produce fruit. Sometimes these seed grown trees will never produce fruit, so it is a good idea to plant more than just one seed. In several years, you should have a fruit producing tree you can eat your breakfast grapefruits from directly.

Resources

• Star Ruby Grapefruit Clay Pot
• Minneola Tangelo Premium Sized Tree
• The Backyard Orchardist: A Complete Guide to Growing Fruit Trees in the Home Garden

[donnelly38]

on 3/3/2009 wow! I will be trying this! 5*