Yup, the fed ex man paid me a visit today. No fig cuttings this year, I only ordered pomegranate. Bass keeps talking about Kazke and Salavatsky so now I'll see how well they do here. Now I just gotta figure out how to root these cuttings.

This is good news to hear LJ.

I was most likey one of the last people to get my request in (pretty much 12th hour) but it's good to know that we're getting closer.

I recently heard a little info from someone who knows a little about some pomegranate research that took place in part of Russia (now Turkmenistan). He served in that area in 1983-84.

He said in short; Salavatski is a "moderately" cold hardy variety and Kazake is "very cold hardy" -based one what he knows.

Apparently there was an agricultural research station in this area of the Soviet Union for some years during the cold war period. The primary focus was on developing cold hardy pomegranates based on crossing wild varieties with cultivated ones. Anyone else ever heard of this research that, alledgedly, took place there??