Morrison Seedless

Description

Morrison Seedless is a New Zealand heritage grapefruit with a story: it was the first grapefruit cultivar in the country, brought from Sir George Grey's Kawau Island home and given to John Morrison, a nurseryman of Warkworth, whose name it carries. The tree is a large, rounded grower needing the space grapefruit traditionally command. Fruit are large, white-fleshed and seedless, with yellow skin and pale juicy flesh that is sweet-sharp in classic grapefruit style, excellent for fresh eating (halved for breakfast) and for juicing. In New Zealand it harvests through the winter-spring citrus season, Mid on the relative grapefruit scale. Grapefruit keep well both on the tree and picked, and keeping quality is good. Some small New Zealand orchards grow Morrison Seedless as their only grapefruit, a testament to its reliability. Plant in the warmest sunny position available in fertile, free-draining soil, water steadily in dry spells, mulch, and feed generously in the growing season; grapefruit are among the more cold-sensitive citrus, so frost protection matters in marginal districts. Self-fertile.