I understand that store bought orange juice is Haetz because the oranges were grown to be squeezed for juice.
My question is about store bought oranges that we then squeeze at home for homemade fresh orange juice. Do we still make an Haetz or do we make a Shehakol since these oranges were probably grown to eat as fruit?
Bracha is still Haetz.
While you are correct in your statement there is another reason why the bracha is such. You are eating the entire fruit by squeezing it.