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Originally Posted by Aaron4USA
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Originally Posted by HarveyC
Aaron, I don't really believe there is a pomegranate variety named 'Goliath'.  It appears the infamous TyTy Nursery (DBA Aaron Farms among dozens of other names) has given this name to some pomegranate.  I'd guess it might be 'Ambrosia', but it's hard to say for sure with hundreds to pick from.

Here is a whacky video featuring the Goliath pomegranate:



I have dozens of pomegranate varieties and am familiar with many more and founded the pomegranate Yahoo discussion group and have never heard of Goliath before.  I do not believe it is mass-produced.  I find it interesting that it is even being marketed under this name.

When you see it in the market in the fall, please see if you can get more details off of the box and share them with me.
Yeah Harvey, @39 second of the clip , it looks just like what I buy from our fresh produce market. They are Delicious. I am growing 6 of them  from seed. we'll see what becomes of them. I'll see what I can do for your request regarding more info, workers in that marked are all dumbasses, kids who know s*it about produce, they just clean shelves and place fresh produce there, even the managers are dumb. I'll take picture of the cartons , maybe it will help you to hunt down to see who produces them.
TYTY is so freakin GAY bytheway. Gives me goosbumps every time i watch their ad. LOL, call me weird.
Harvey I went back to the "Super King" market and found more Pomegranates , they were not as large as before but still they were impressive size... i found one that still had label on it...here's a picture.
that Manager with his broken english said he remembered in past the name Galiath but it was same fruit as this one, they never saw that label again.
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Aaron, I don't see an image in your post.  If you don't have your photo hosted somewhere, it's probably easiest to attach it to your reply (click "More Reply Options"). Thanks
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Aaron, I don't see an image in your post.  If you don't have your photo hosted somewhere, it's probably easiest to attach it to your reply (click "More Reply Options"). Thanks
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Thanks, Aaron.  That is the Wonderful variety, grown by Pom Wonderful which grows 18,000 acres of pomegranates and does a first class marketing job.  They are part of Paramount Farms, about 72,000 acres.  Paramount Farms, in turn, is part of the huge conglomerate Roll Global which previously owned Franklin Mint and FTD Floral, etc.  They farm almonds, pistachios, cistrus, etc. and own Fiji water.  Hope they don't get involved in figs; they will convince most people that whatever they want to sell is the best fig on earth.
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Pom Wonderful is the only pom i had since i've been in US. back in korea, i wasn't into pom, tho it was popular.
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Harvey, are there any poms suited to the Pacific Northwest? We have warm summers but very cool, windy winter/early spring weather.
I do have an unheated greenhouse and would like to try poms in the ground or in pots.
Appreciate any advice.
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Robert, a friend in a cooker part of the SF Bay Area says that Gold does well for her.  Up in Medoncino County I've heard that How Sweet It Is does okay but here it was pretty bland.  Another variety that might be tried is Kandahar Early.  Davis has some of these, I may have even sent them Kandahar Early last year (I'm out of pom cuttings for this year).
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OK, Harvey, thanks. I'll look into this for next year.
My initial research doesn't look promising.
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so, maybe those freaks in TyTyTy sold  Wonderful and renamed them as Goliath and even some other people relabeled bigger ones as Goliath and marketed the fruit.... who knows, money will make people do things .
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I thought you had to be a organisation to order from UC Davis?
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