The cold hardiness is most likely for a European winter, which the cold stays for way less time than where you live, also I think that the wind chill where you live is also much worst. Pomegranates take at least 3 or 4 years in ground to gain their full hardiness as well. Also in Europe a lot of peo...

One thing that I have learned about pomegranate bushes planted in the ground, if the roots are developed enough, even if the bush perishes the variety could come back literately from the roots themselves. That happened to one of my pomegranate bushes, several other pomegranate bushes are propagating...

Update 4/6/2024: Other trees and plants are starting to break bud all around the house. So far nothing on this Belbek though. I inspected it today and can't tell how far down the loss goes. Hoping for the best but preparing for major loss. Well if everything else had winter protection, then there s...

Has any other severe cold weather hit this bush this winter?

I got those in 2023, for a project taking place in NYC, I don't have them myself here. And the plants are very young still, too young to tell anything yet.

I find that pomegranate cuttings are usually easy to root. If you have at least 3 cuttings, then worst case scenario would be that 1 would root successfully out of 3.

3F actual temperature was the coldest I have actually seen here, and twice, I doubt that the wind chill was as high as it got for you, and only one pomegranate was in the ground then a 'Salavatski', I don't recall it getting any winter damage either of those years, I don't think that I protected it ...

This will be a great test to see how well this variety deals with a strong wind chill, because Belbek has remained undamaged at '-4 degrees Fahrenheit' before, yet as you know wind chill in it's self can cause damage to plants in general. How come you are so unsure of the temperature with wind chill...

Well this year is going down in the books as the most disappointing season for me. Not a single tree produced fruit. I was expecting to see a decent sized harvest from Belbek, Kazake, and Parfianka but nothing. I think this failure may have been due to only partial sun exposure. In years past full ...

Here in North Carolina it seems like each year there are new varieties of pomegranates than the year before, available from the stores during the California pomegranate season, and I think that is where they come from during the California pomegranate season. Although we can find pomegranates in som...