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Selkirk · Posted: Mon 31 Oct, 2011 1:08 am

Here's a few pictures of a little fall harvest.

Giombo,Honan Red and Suruga persimmons. Garnet Sash pomegranate's.
Tiger Tooth jujube's.

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Garnet Sash Pomegranate

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Garnet Sash Cluster

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Lemandarangequatelo · Citruholic Joined: 01 Mar 2010 Posts: 476 Location: UK

Impressive!

mrtexas · Posted: Mon 31 Oct, 2011 3:48 pm

Selkirk wrote:

Here's a few pictures of a little fall harvest.

Giombo,Honan Red and Suruga persimmons. Garnet Sash pomegranate's.
Tiger Tooth jujube's.

I sure would like to get some honan red budwood this January. My honan red fruit looked like plum tomatoes. I had a branch of it in the past and rate that fruit as good as saijo. You got saijo? Did you get your honan red from Sam Powers?

I can trade eversweet pomogranite cuttings. I planted two pomogranite trees this spring from leftover plants from a master gardener sale I sold at. One was garnet sash and the other eversweet. I'd have planted pomogranites years ago if I had known they would produce like that here in SE Texas!

Selkirk · Posted: Mon 31 Oct, 2011 6:42 pm

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I sure would like to get some honan red budwood this January. My honan red fruit looked like plum tomatoes. I had a branch of it in the past and rate that fruit as good as saijo. You got saijo? Did you get your honan red from Sam Powers?

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The honan red does really get a deep red color when they are completely ripe. I have to pick them all a little early just to keep them away from the pest. Leave them a little too long, and some big old coon will come along and eat the whole tree in one night.

Ive tasted saigo and it was very good. Right now I do not have any growing.

Budwood came from another friend but Sam sure helped me out on some other stuff. I'll get you some budwood this winter.

Darkman · Posted: Mon 31 Oct, 2011 8:19 pm

Have either of you worked with Angel Red?

Mr. Texas,

Your climate being similiar to mine what would you think would be the best one for me to plant. I currently have one Wondeful (two years old) and three Angel Red (one year old) but have not had any fruit yet.

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Selkirk · Posted: Mon 31 Oct, 2011 9:02 pm

Darkman-I'm not a big pomegranate grower, just my garnet sash now. I did have a red silk, made nice fruit with heavy production. But IKE took it out.

lkailburn · Joined: 14 Jul 2011 Posts: 23 Location: Zone 4b Colorado

My mouth just watered! they all look great

-Luke

Darkman · Posted: Tue 01 Nov, 2011 9:26 pm

Selkirk wrote:

Darkman-I'm not a big pomegranate grower, just my garnet sash now. I did have a red silk, made nice fruit with heavy production. But IKE took it out.

Not exactly sure where you are but I believe that your climate is a good bit dryer (less rainfall) and way less humid which most people say is a great climate for Poms. Millet made the observation that they probably like more water than most think, if it is done evenly throughout the season.

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Selkirk · Posted: Tue 01 Nov, 2011 10:19 pm

Darkman- Its anything but dry around here. You have two season-hot hot sticky summer and a wet winter. I'm about 10-15 miles inland from the Gulf of Mexico. Zip 77457

Allot of the pomegranate's grown in the greater Houston area are covered with black spots. For some reason my garnet sash has pretty clear skin.

GT · Posted: Wed 02 Nov, 2011 1:22 am

Selkirk,

mine were covered by stink bugs this season! Laughing

Other than that the plant was fine and fruits were great! Were those black spots some sort of mold?

Darkman · Posted: Wed 02 Nov, 2011 11:19 pm

Selkirk wrote:

Darkman- Its anything but dry around here. You have two season-hot hot sticky summer and a wet winter. I'm about 10-15 miles inland from the Gulf of Mexico. Zip 77457

Allot of the pomegranate's grown in the greater Houston area are covered with black spots. For some reason my garnet sash has pretty clear skin.

I'm probably 7 miles inland from the Gulf and two from Pensacola Bay. It is a lot more humid here than in Houston. Lived there from fall of 79 through June of 83. Damn near died when I moved back here. The humidity was unreal. I hope I have good luck with mine next year.

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SeaHorse_Fanatic · Posted: Thu 03 Nov, 2011 6:06 am

Paint me green with envy. Beautiful fruit you grew there my friend.

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