SoCalGardenNut, I don't know how many different pomelo varieties you have tasted, but most have no taste or are barely sweet. I have tried most of the varieties that you can buy here in the Asian markets and from friends yards and from my UCR varieties.
The Emerald Red (buoi da xanh) is good (average to good) taste for the store-bought pomelos, at least it has some taste, most of the ones you will see during December-January celebrating the Chinese New Years (White Honey, Red Honey, is for looks, but no taste. I just order a few myself to see if they taste any better than the ones I tried earlier. Still tastes the same, good, but not very sweet at all, oranges or mandarins are sweeter. It will be interesting to see how the fresh Da Xanh fruit will taste from a member's tree.
My Cocktail grapefruits are excellent tasting with sweet, very juicy, but a little tartness. The Valentine pomelos on my trees are just starting to turn yellow, should be ready in late January to compare it. Also, my Roy seedling pomelos are all turning a little yellow now so by end of January I should have photos to show. The Thong Dee and Banpeiyu is behind, still large green fruits but no yellow so probably will be in February before it is ripe. Next year I should have about 14 pomelo varieties fruiting to do some taste comparison. I think some people like the pomelos which are drier, not as juicy as a grapefruit. I like both dry flesh and juicy flesh as long as they taste good with some tartness like the Cocktail grapefruit hybrid.
If you like sweet citrus fruits, then pomelo may not be what you want to add. Instead, I suggest you gets Satsuma (like the tree above), or other good tasting mandarins like the Gold Nugget, and Yosemite Gold (both seedless) which have high fruit production and are seedless. Don't buy a Kishu since it is just a miniature version of a seedless Satsuma.
