Golden Special Grapefruit – Kwan Citrus (Grafted)

New Zealand’s favourite grapefruit – sweet, juicy and almost seedless.

Grow your own breakfast grapefruit with Golden Special, a well-loved Kiwi selection. It has been NZ’s most widely grown grapefruit since the 1970s. The large golden fruit have thin skins and very few seeds. The flesh is juicy, with a sweet-tangy flavour that’s great fresh, juiced or made into marmalade.

This tree is grafted onto disease-resistant rootstock for strong, healthy growth and earlier cropping. It’s supplied at a well-established height of approximately 80–90 cm, ready to plant out and start producing.

Features

• Heavy-bearing, with large, juicy fruit that have few seeds
• Thin golden skin, easy to segment and juice
• Self-fertile, so one tree is enough for fruit
• Fruit ripens from mid-winter to late spring, giving you fresh citrus in the cooler months
• Fragrant white blossom through summer
• Evergreen, glossy foliage looks attractive all year
• Grafted for vigour and disease resistance

Size: Supplied at approx. 80–90 cm tall. Grows to around 3 m high × 2–3 m wide at maturity and can be pruned to keep it smaller.

Growing tips: Plant in full sun in free-draining soil, sheltered from strong wind and frost. Water regularly, especially while fruit is developing. Feed with a citrus fertiliser in spring and late summer. It’s also suited to a large container.