Fruiting Cold Hardy Afganski Pomegranate in Zone 7a NJ
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- Опубліковано 21 жов 2024
- This is a fully zone 7a hardy pomegranate!
Finally some fruit on these later blooms. First female flowers with potential to become fruit showed up in July, though I did get some male blooms mid June. If at least one sticks around for a sample in the fall I will be happy :)
Hopefully next spring we can see some earlier blooms.
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Amazing; please do more update. In NJ as well
Congrats on your pom fruit set. Very smart to plant right by that wall.
looking good I have a young 3 year old true flowered like crazy this year but all of the flowers are falling off I have zero fruit set
what worked for me was the phosphorus fertilizer, it's supposed to help form female flowers
@@raregrowsNJ I will try that it's such a shame it looks so nice and healthy I was pretty sad when they all dropped hahaha
Hi, Amazing video. Hope you get some fruits. Are you still up for the trade from our previous comments? My thomasville has put on quite some growth since June
thanks! i replied back with contact instructions on the comment! let me know if you can see the comment sometimes youtube doesnt show a notification
Ah. I see it now. Weird that I checked a couple of times and did t receive any notification. I will set up a user tonight and contact you in the forum. 😊
Fabulous, hoping one my pomegranate trees might flower for me this year.
how did the fruits taste? I'm trying to decide between Afganski and Medovyi Vahsha or Rannii. The latter two seem to just have sweet juice and some ppl complain they're a little boring/not complex while Afganski has sweet-tart juice.
I liked the fruit, picked the rest off in late November. Sweet-tart is a good description of the fruit, plus the seeds are hard. They were completely edible even when the outside of the fruit was not fully red, no bitter or off flavors.
@@raregrowsNJ Thanks for the reply! are the seeds too hard to eat? It's interesting the nursery I was looking at said Afganski has soft seeds but it makes sense since most of the super cold hardy pomegranates have hard seeds. I'm in a similar climate as you (zone 7). Apparently the other two I mentioned have soft seeds and are hardy to about 5 degrees F. I'm still undecided about which one I'm going to get. Love your content though! Thanks for sharing all this knowledge with us
They are pretty hard, but won't break your teeth. I just crush the arils enough to extract the juice and then swallow them whole or spit them out. I've seen both hard and soft seed listed for Afganski through different nurseries. The seeds are defintely hard but it's possible there may be a different Afganski out there all together. Mine has seen 1F so far without die back.@@rrrrrrrrrrrrrrr631
Also, my tree definitely gets full sun but I must admit we had 100 degree days with no rain most of the summer and I was traveling during much of that so the tree didn't get much water during our 100 degree drought. it's on the north size of my lawn and gets unobstructed southern exposure. Yes, it doesn't just get sun but it bakes all summer in fully exposed Texas sun. I'm not sure how much the 100 degree days with no water affected the fruit, since generally pomegranates are suppose to be pretty drought tolerant. The drought certainly didn't kill the fruit but may have stunted growth, I don't know. But, yes I hope we can get some more comments from folks are are actively growing Afganskies. I've come close to giving up on it since it is blocking sun from my younger Parfianka and blocking a little from my Salavatski both of which are suppose to be more flavorful than the Afganski. I've only kept the Afganski becuase it was the first Pomogranted that I planted. I'm hoping the 3 can grow together and produce some decent fruit but if one has to go it will probably be the Afganski.
I live in central Texas Zone 8b, this is the second year my Afganski, that I got from Just Fruits and Exotics, produced. I'm having trouble determining when the fruit is rip also. Last year the tree only produced a few that allowed me to try and see if they were rip, the flowering started early in the year but the fruit never looked close to rip until late October when I tried them but the seeds were all green. This year it has produced a bunch of fruit, probably 30 or so, but all late again included some that just flowered in August. It's early November right now and some fruit are large and look close to rip, less than 5, while others are small and I have no idea if those will ripen before the cold kills them and I don't even know if the cold will kill the Afganski fruit or if they will continue ripening through the cold. Based on the UA-cam videos, about other Pomegranates, I'm planning to try the fruit as soon as they start to get a boxy shape, or look like they are cracking too much, and see how that turns, out I'll let you know. Please keep us posted on how yours turns out especially if your able to harvest during in late Fall, like December. Not many folks posting about their experience growing Afgainskis and I've found the folks at JFE don't know much since they just bought the business and are still learning themselves. Even though we're in entirely different zones I hope we can continue to exchange notes.
Hello! I will be posting a video about some soon. I had some rain and some of the bigger ones split. The arils were still on the tart side, but there is detectable sweetness. They are from fruits that set from July blooms. The split ones I tasted were very red and juicy. Check back in a day or two I will post the video. I am only picking if they continue to split, but will leave the rest unless there is a freeze below 28f. 28f is usually referenced as the freezing point for some fruits (it might be lower I am just going by memory)
lemme buy a cutting or 2
checkout my etsy store in the spring. i have rooted cuttings