Fairly scarce locally, they cost $1.98 each at Wal Mart.  Haven't had one in years but just couldn't buy one at that price!  Well that was last Friday.  Today I bought two just to try this method of de-seeding found on you tube.  The first one wasn't completely ripe.  Will open the other one tomorrow but this really works!

Charlie, is that you in the video? my wife's best friend is in love with the video...she's saying she loves Pomegranates , she watched it 4 times in a raw... whatever, haha 

I picked the first two of the year yesterday.  They were "Vietnam" variety though not from Vietnam.  They are an evergreen pom that has yellow arils and much sweeter than the grocery store variety Wonderful.  

the best way is to cut into the skin around the top - about an inch and a half out from the stem.  you would cut a circle around the top pull it off while holding the top. wriggle back and forth till the top comes off.  it will be clean and look like a little brain inside. then follow down the white thin membranes, cutting the skin from top to bottom and just pull apart wedges of the fruit. way better then this video. hope that helps

I just planted a salavatski pom yesterday, I got 5 or so cuttings last winter and only one rooted. Hopefully itll survive here. I hope yours works out for you charlie

I am growing few varieties...

How does "Wonderful" measure up guys, anybody know?

Another one is called "Parfianka" haven't seen fruit yet, they both are 3 footers and very twiggy.

Also, I am growing a variety called "Goliath" ,  from seeds. They are 6-8 inches tall now.
I think it was Harvey in past said it was a made up name... but this variety is huge in size and very deep blood red color with perfect balance of tart/sweet...I grew 6 out of seeds that came from the  fruit I ate, it was delicious.

I have some videos at http://www.purelypoms.com

I have somewhere between 60-70 varieties.  Hard to pick favorites.  Bass likes my Azadi a lot and maybe Vina.  Sin Pepe is another good sweet variety.  I like Sirineveyi and Desertny and ....heck, Vkusnyi, Parfianka, Gissarskii Rosovyi, Ariana, and several more.  I like a variety of different kinds so it just depends on what mood I'm in.  Wonderful can be very good if fully ripe but seeds a bit hard (not the seeds the guy in the vid in the OP, he should be saying arils or kernels).

No Aaron it's not me in the video lol.  I used to have hair like that kid about 30 years ago though. :)

The sticker on these fruits only says "Ripeway 3127".  I don't know if that's the variety or place that grows them.  Not very good as I remember them being.  

Harvey I will have to check out your video's, thanks.

I am growing several cultivars and thought this would be the year I get to taste several more, every thing in-ground was either winter killed to the ground or dead, some made decent regrowth but no fruit. Most I have still in pots and going into ground next spring regardless going to let Mother Nature cull them for me. Almost all the fruits I had on the potted plants split. Moisture related I am sure.

Most of my pots are rooted into the ground. I know Figs don't come back from the in ground roots when I move pots, but how about Pomegranates?  Trying to figure out if worth marking  where each pot set to keep the cultivar straight.

It's worth marking, but it might not be helpful.

I have two areas in the field in Texas where I took rooted cuttings out of baggies and planted them directly in the ground.  I called these my propagation area and planted the cuttings in two rows 18" apart.  One was for figs and the other for pomegranates.  The year after I dug out the pomegranates, I had a handful of stems growing out of the ground in this area.  I'm not sure which variety they are or even if they are the same variety.  I checked three which were growing close to each other.  They were growing off the same root.

Good luck.

Charlie, 3127 is just a generic produce code for pomegranates and Ripeway is probably the packing company.  Maybe 90% of pomegranates grown in California are Wonderful but I seriously doubt any are really ripe at this time, even down towards Bakersfield where they are much earlier than me.  My Grenada variety were ripe 2-3 weeks ago but are a bit plain-tasting and have fairly hard seeds.  Early Foothill is variety that is grown commercially and ripens before Wonderful but after Grenada and I haven't checked mine yet.  Pomegranates are pretty difficult to tell when they are ripe and, in my experience, most of the fruits sold in markets are picked too early.

I've shipped some mixed boxes of fruits before but am trying to just go to U-pick this year because shipping pomegranates is too time-consuming and costly and comes at a time of year when I'm already swamped with chestnuts.  Last year I had some U-pick sales and it seemed to work very well.  I was thinking of doing U-pick sales the weekend before and the weekend after the Wofskill tasting but might go ahead and do one on the afternoon after the Wolfskill tasting which is scheduled for 10am Nov. 8th.  Too early to tell yet as other crops seem to be over a week earlier than normal and I might have one or two days in late October.  One guy from Chicago came here two weekends in a row last year, flying home with 100 pounds of pomegranates for baggage.  He's the man! LOL

Richard,
here's is what Ripeway 3127 mean... http://fruitlabel.de/label/displayimage.php?pid=44689

Harvey, we started to get some Pomegranates in our local ethnic Super King Market  for $1.29/Lbr, still expensive.

Aaron, $1.29/pound is not expensive at the retail level, IMO.  I would expect to see them start out at $2.49.

I started out a couple years ago with a Russian (Salvatski) from EdibleLandscaping.  Unfortunately it didn't survive last winter.  So I replaced it with a Favorite (Lyubimy) which seems to be more hardy here - at least that is what persianmd2orchard has observed in his yard.

Harvey,
At the mid season we are used to pay as little as $.60-.80/Lbs...that's a good price. each fruit weighs about a pound some more and I personally buy 6-8 at a time, that's each week. Kids love it, we love it.

At Vons or Ralph's prices are different ballgame. they are $2.50, but who buys them? Not mentioning the Wholefood market...they sell the same thing labeled "Organic" and charge $4.00 each. EACH!  Thieves!!

Aaron, at $.60-$.80/pound, the farmer is definitely losing money.  Who's the thief? :)

Harvey,
even $1.29 is a great price... but "whole foods" market is selling the same stuff for $4 each fruit. that's who i was refer as thieves. they lie to people saying it's organic...and charge so much more for the same stuff we buy at Super King market, even the same sticker on it.

The farmer is probably letting it go for $.40/Lbs or less at best.

On top of what the farmer gets there are packing and brokerage costs.  I previously farmed Bartlett pears.  While not for all grades/sizes, some sizes ending up selling for less than the packing and brokerage costs and I think those $.40-$.60 pomegranates would fit into that category.

Harvey,
...what'd I tell ya! This is yesterday at Super King Market.

I'm starting to like this number (69) for, yet, one more reason, :)

         

Same as I got.  Both mine were not ripe, barely pink inside and very tart, no sweetness. 

Sometimes there is more sweetness than is apparent because of high acidity levels.  Acidity will drop during refrigeration.  Sometimes pomegranates seem sweeter later in the season simply because they have been in storage for a while.  Other times it's because they were actually allowed to get ripe before being harvested.

Charlie, 
how much were they in your area?

Charlie,
mine were $1.29 few weeks ago then dropped to $.69, overabundance I guess... that's why sometimes they destroy entire crop not to fludd the market (this is just my observation). But if you ask me, food should always be more affordable so more and more people would be healthier.

I'm wondering how long it will be before my wee pomegranate "trees" produce fruit…