From seed to fruit in 1.5 years

[pombazaar]

Noooooo! Never toss your trees, I'll always take em lol

Or use them for rootstock.

[greenfig]

Haha. Good to know ! Do you have a big truck?

[pombazaar]

Nope lol but full sized trees ship easy and very cheap. My friend sent me an air layered Salavatski a few years back and it grew like a champ until I killed it

I’m serious though. If you ever decide you want to discard anything, my orchard has room for it

[alanmercieca]

In some countries people grow very acidic varieties intentionally and use the juice in place of vinegar, that is what 'Pomegranate Molasses' is made from, a very misleading name in a way, because it's far from sweet.

[greenfig]

I can mail seeds in January, the mother tree is the size of a house! And the seeds grow nicely
Let me know if interested

[alanmercieca]

Maybe someday, I already have 3 dark purple skinned pomegranate bushes, one is a modern kind of pomegranate, the other two are seedlings of a wild variety, on top of that I should be getting another dark purple skinned variety next year. Plus I am not ready to get in to the acidic pomegranate growing. Some day I'd like to try it though. I will see if anyone I know is interested. I think that I know someone who might be interested in seeds.

Do you want to try germinating some seeds of the following variety, they certainly don't sound acidic to me, this is the first year that I will get fruit from my two plants of it, I will update you on it, I could send you seeds, or I could have the person who sent me seeds send you seeds, the only problem is that the seeds are delicate, I think that I destroyed a lot of the seeds trying to clean them, I did knowingly crush some of them when I was trying to be gentle viewtopic.php?p=545#p545

[pombazaar]

I can mail seeds in January, the mother tree is the size of a house! And the seeds grow nicely
Let me know if interested

Well now you have me even more intrigued. I’m assuming the mother tree also produces black hulled pomegranates and I’m guessing the mother tree is not acidic unlike the seedling you grew? Any idea what variety the mother tree is? An unknown black pomegranate? I’d love to know any info you have on the mother tree.

[greenfig]

I can mail seeds in January, the mother tree is the size of a house! And the seeds grow nicely
Let me know if interested

Well now you have me even more intrigued. I’m assuming the mother tree also produces black hulled pomegranates and I’m guessing the mother tree is not acidic unlike the seedling you grew? Any idea what variety the mother tree is? An unknown black pomegranate? I’d love to know any info you have on the mother tree.

I can confirm that the seedling was 100% like the mother tree, same color and same taste. I don’t know it’s name though, sorry. It’s growing in a private park but with an easy access.

[greenfig]

Maybe someday, I already have 3 dark purple skinned pomegranate bushes, one is a modern kind of pomegranate, the other two are seedlings of a wild variety, on top of that I should be getting another dark purple skinned variety next year. Plus I am not ready to get in to the acidic pomegranate growing. Some day I'd like to try it though. I will see if anyone I know is interested. I think that I know someone who might be interested in seeds.

Do you want to try germinating some seeds of the following variety, they certainly don't sound acidic to me, this is the first year that I will get fruit from my two plants of it, I will update you on it, I could send you seeds, or I could have the person who sent me seeds send you seeds, the only problem is that the seeds are delicate, I think that I destroyed a lot of the seeds trying to clean them, I did knowingly crush some of them when I was trying to be gentle viewtopic.php?p=545#p545

Alan, thank you . I think I am ok for now, have enough poms that I need to think which ones to leave and which trees to let go. I discovered that different varieties like different locations around my house so I need to try what I have to choose the best for me. For example, Sin Pepe is growing in two places and in one it never flowered while in the other it does flower every year. I will replace the non flowering tree with a different variety to find out if it will be happier.
Basically, like with figs, there is no absolute best (Black Madeira is a terrible at my place), I just need to find which ones do well for me.