Millet, now please return the favor and answer my question: "What do you think?" in regards to the orange/pom graft. Seems like a big stretch, but I'm reluctant to dismiss anything that someone else is convinced of unless I've got a solid basis for doing so. I sometimes tell folks it's more important to know what you don't know than what you do know. Dirty Harry said it differently: "A man's got to know his limitations."

i too like the idea of a multiple variety pomegranate tree, and will want one.

I experimented grafting on three of my in-ground you trees this past spring to see if it was something that would work out okay before venturing off to trying something I wasn't too sure about. The grafts worked out well and grew very well. I'm not sure exactly how much instruction I'll need to give, but I will need to tell buyers to make sure to prune off suckers below the graft unions because they can be difficult to spot later on. I've noticed in my chestnut orchard that grafts made 4-6 years ago will still show small bits of the yellow Doc Farwell's grafting compound I've used for those bark grafts and now I've used it to help just mark some graft unions to make them easier to spot later on.

I'm not sure yet how the inventory will look later this month but I might not have anything available bare root this winter and probably would only have multi-grafted trees as growing grafted plants available next summer (then any leftovers as bareroot the following winter). I probably will just do multi-grafts of some favorites as the paperwork of keeping track of custom orders would probably be more than I care to handle.

Millet, how cold do you get? Many folks report some losses of some varieties when it gets much below 20F, especially soft-seeded ones, it seems. Some of the Russian ones (i.e., Salavatski) have endured temperatures below 0F and done well. I have not yet tried Salavatski but have heard it is a good-tasting variety with hard seeds.

Harvey, Colorado in my area can on occasion gets down to -20F (-28C), However, my Wonderful Pomegranate is planted directly in the ground inside my 32W X 72L X 12H greenhouse. The inside temperature never falls below 50F. Therefore, getting a crop to mature in time is not a problem. - Millet (765-)