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SteveP

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I had a huge crop of Wonderful pomegranates this year.  I got 28 gallon bags of arils off of one tree and 4 gallons of juice.  Each bag is was about 7 pounds.  I also did some pruning and have some bundles of cuttings that I am giving away to forum members.  The cost is $5 to cover shipping expenses and they are in bundles of 4 cuttings.  The cutting are wrapped in plastic wrap and are being stored in the refrigerator.  PM if you are interested and I will verify that I have some left and then you can send me a Paypal gift or we can do a trade for some fig cuttings.  I am new to figs and only have a few varieties rooted.  Hopefully the pictures work...

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New fig farmer in fig country.  Chowchilla, CA Zone 9B
Rooted: Mission and Texas Everbearing
Rooting this winter: Black Jack, Brown Turkey, Ruby #4, Malta Black, Pel De Beu, O'rouke, Black Ischia, Lloral, Bari Italy, Nero 600, Hardy Chicago, Alma, Black Bethelham, Desert King, Italian Honey, Unk Woodbridge Light, Unk Woodbridge Dark, Unk Chios and Lyndhurst White.
Looking for:  Peter's Honey that will survive the rooting process...
 
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You are a fortunate individual.  What a harvest!
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Chicago, Zone 6a (That's what they say, but it still feels like 5)
Growing:  Hardy Chicago, Black Mission, Brunswick, Kadota, Ischia Green, Desert King, Osborne Prolific (slow but steady), Malta Black, Violette de Bordeaux, Texas Everbearing, Beall, White Adriatic, Nolo Pink Eyed Lady.
Rooting: Ronde de Bordeaux, Celeste, Nero 600 m, Violetta Bayernfeing, Marseilles Black VS, Celeste.
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Nice harvest! Grow any other varieties besides wonderful?
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God Bless. So one tree yielded four gallons of juice plus all this fruit? How long do you keep the juice for?
I just made some Pom molasses and preserve from market purchased fruit. These should last for many months.

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Awesome harvest !
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VdB, RdB, Alma, Celeste, unk Celeste, Osborne Prolific, Peters Honey, Conadria, B.Trky, Strawberry Verte, Brunswick, Olymp ,LSU Purple/Gold, C.Hrdy, Brooklyn White, Unk Green Ischia.

Wish List : Cold Hardy/Prolific bearers - Letizia , Florea, Smith, G. Paradiso, Lattarula, any Sals varieties, Negronne, Navid's Unk. Dark Greek, Bass' Fav.
SteveP

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I bag and freeze the juice and arils.  I just finished the 15th bag of arils I got from this tree in 2015. They seem to keep fine in the freezer.  I add them to my smoothies every day.  Last year I processed all the pomegranates by hand and it took 10+ hours and I got 15 gallon bags.  This year I bought a "pomegranate tool" and it made a huge difference in time but I got a lot of juice.  It did only take around 6 hours to finish the process this year.

I only have wonderfuls at this time.  I am planting some Utah Sweets this winter along with 17 more wonderfuls that I air layered this summer.  I am hedge rowing them on the front of our property as a privacy fence.

https://www.amazon.com/Pomegranate-Deseeder-Seed-Removal-Tool/dp/B00A3YY39C/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1479391756&sr=8-1&keywords=pomegranate+tool
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New fig farmer in fig country.  Chowchilla, CA Zone 9B
Rooted: Mission and Texas Everbearing
Rooting this winter: Black Jack, Brown Turkey, Ruby #4, Malta Black, Pel De Beu, O'rouke, Black Ischia, Lloral, Bari Italy, Nero 600, Hardy Chicago, Alma, Black Bethelham, Desert King, Italian Honey, Unk Woodbridge Light, Unk Woodbridge Dark, Unk Chios and Lyndhurst White.
Looking for:  Peter's Honey that will survive the rooting process...
 
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I have "Sweet" which is great in that it is soft seeded, but missing the tartness/acid balance. I have Wonderful, Sharp Velvet, Sweet, Desertyni and Parfianka (grown from cutting no fruit yet). 

Wonderful is good but there is a lot of variety out there, including different/better tasting ones. If you want cuttings of any of my varieties let me know. Also, these guys sell a ton of pom varieties:

http://greenseapomegranates.com/

Rolling River has a decent spread as well:

https://rollingrivernursery.com/component/virtuemart/fruit-trees/pomegranates-punica-granatum
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DonCentralTexas

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Wow, what a beautiful monster...so that is how they are supposed to look.  How old is yours?  
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SteveP

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I am guessing close to 15 years old.  It is not in the google earth image from 1998.  The previous owners planted a row of trees (oranges, grapefruit, peach, loquat and the pomegranate) that were very neglected when we bought the place a few years ago.  I have nursed them back to health using plenty of horse manure compost (produced by my wife's hobby), compost tea and plenty of almond shell mulch to conserve moisture. Our production was only about 15 gallons of unprocessed pomegranates when we first bought the place.
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New fig farmer in fig country.  Chowchilla, CA Zone 9B
Rooted: Mission and Texas Everbearing
Rooting this winter: Black Jack, Brown Turkey, Ruby #4, Malta Black, Pel De Beu, O'rouke, Black Ischia, Lloral, Bari Italy, Nero 600, Hardy Chicago, Alma, Black Bethelham, Desert King, Italian Honey, Unk Woodbridge Light, Unk Woodbridge Dark, Unk Chios and Lyndhurst White.
Looking for:  Peter's Honey that will survive the rooting process...
 
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They look wonderful!
Can this variety produce fruit in containers?
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SteveP

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They have a shallow root system and tend to grow as a bush.  I have not tried it but they will probably do well in a container of the right size.
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New fig farmer in fig country.  Chowchilla, CA Zone 9B
Rooted: Mission and Texas Everbearing
Rooting this winter: Black Jack, Brown Turkey, Ruby #4, Malta Black, Pel De Beu, O'rouke, Black Ischia, Lloral, Bari Italy, Nero 600, Hardy Chicago, Alma, Black Bethelham, Desert King, Italian Honey, Unk Woodbridge Light, Unk Woodbridge Dark, Unk Chios and Lyndhurst White.
Looking for:  Peter's Honey that will survive the rooting process...
 
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Amazing.   I harvested 5 and thought I was doing well.  

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defoster5: what variety are you growing in zone 6?  Are they in ground or containers?
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I had a variety called Austin fruit in pot and before I transplanted it in ground, It bore only one fruit and was very small. It was probably over three year old.
Despite its size the fruit tasted great, but the tree was rootbound and I don't know if these threes could have a long life in pots or whether their root system would be able to support fruiting in a five gallon pot. I'm thinking that I would need a much larger container in order to see a decent amount of fruit as I just saw in this video.




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SteveP

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I shipped out the first batch of cuttings this morning for all of those that have paid or made other arrangements.  Emails went out with the tracking info.  I still have more bundles available.  Thanks!
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New fig farmer in fig country.  Chowchilla, CA Zone 9B
Rooted: Mission and Texas Everbearing
Rooting this winter: Black Jack, Brown Turkey, Ruby #4, Malta Black, Pel De Beu, O'rouke, Black Ischia, Lloral, Bari Italy, Nero 600, Hardy Chicago, Alma, Black Bethelham, Desert King, Italian Honey, Unk Woodbridge Light, Unk Woodbridge Dark, Unk Chios and Lyndhurst White.
Looking for:  Peter's Honey that will survive the rooting process...
 
SteveP

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All payments that have been received have been shipped.  I still have a few bundles left.  I am willing to trade for fig cuttings.  PM if interested.  Thanks
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New fig farmer in fig country.  Chowchilla, CA Zone 9B
Rooted: Mission and Texas Everbearing
Rooting this winter: Black Jack, Brown Turkey, Ruby #4, Malta Black, Pel De Beu, O'rouke, Black Ischia, Lloral, Bari Italy, Nero 600, Hardy Chicago, Alma, Black Bethelham, Desert King, Italian Honey, Unk Woodbridge Light, Unk Woodbridge Dark, Unk Chios and Lyndhurst White.
Looking for:  Peter's Honey that will survive the rooting process...
 
SteveP

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I had some time off work today and thought I would share some pomegranate rooting pictures.  It has been about a month since I started rooting three separate batches of pom cuttings just to see how they would do and if there would be any issues.  I sealed the top of all the cuttings with melted wax.  I had one group of three that were treated with CloneX Rooting gel.  The other two groups had no treatment.  Most of the cuttings have good callusing started.  One of the cuttings treated with the Clonex has a small root started.  All cuttings were started in sphagnum moss (cheap Mossier Lee brand from Home Depot) damp but not wet in zip lock bags in a plastic tub that is kept at a constant 75 degrees from a bottom heater mat and a temp regulator.  This is not a scientific study but it should demonstrate that poms are fairly easy to get initials and roots started.  The smaller cutting in the last photos skipped the rooting and went straight for the branch stage.  It seems that the larger caliper cuttings are focused on creating roots.  The other interesting fact is there is no mold growth on any of my pom or fig cuttings (20+ bags in the tub were checked today).  I am now a convert to the sphagnum moss in a bag rooting method for hard wood cuttings.  I also did not clean any of the cuttings with any chemical or cleaning agent.

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New fig farmer in fig country.  Chowchilla, CA Zone 9B
Rooted: Mission and Texas Everbearing
Rooting this winter: Black Jack, Brown Turkey, Ruby #4, Malta Black, Pel De Beu, O'rouke, Black Ischia, Lloral, Bari Italy, Nero 600, Hardy Chicago, Alma, Black Bethelham, Desert King, Italian Honey, Unk Woodbridge Light, Unk Woodbridge Dark, Unk Chios and Lyndhurst White.
Looking for:  Peter's Honey that will survive the rooting process...
 
greenman62

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I am in New Orleans.
al;so zone 9b, but we had a mild winter.
i have 2 small trees. (wonderful seedlings)
one has never produced
the other is in a container, but it quickly found its way into the ground
and now probably has a lot more roots in the ground, then in the pot.
it fruited well 2 years, but nothing at all this last year.
neither gave me even 1 flower.
i think this past winter was too mild.

ohjustaguy 
i could trade you some un-named fig cuttings, Black Mission cuttings, or, a guava seedling
for some Sharp Velvet, Desertyni or Parfianka ?
i might try and lookup chill hours for them, unless you know them offhand ?
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New Orleans La.
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growing subtropical food-forest
figs = Black Mission, Celeste, 2 un-named, and 4 cuttings started

guava, papaya, mango, fig, mulberry, jujube.......,
white, black, and mamey sapote....,
Cherimoya, lychee, longan, several psidium/guava relatives, Jaboticaba, citrus, Jamun, natal plum,
and about 100 more...
SteveP

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Poms only require about 200 chill hours.  We get a great crop of poms from our tree every year with our mild winters and hot dry summers.  It might be a humidity issue being in New Orleans or you have lazy bees.  Poms don't need a cross pollinator but they do need bees or they need some pollination help by hand.  We have neighbors that have almonds and they bring in bee hives to pollinate in the spring.  We never have a shortage of bees.  Did you start from seed or from a cutting? 
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New fig farmer in fig country.  Chowchilla, CA Zone 9B
Rooted: Mission and Texas Everbearing
Rooting this winter: Black Jack, Brown Turkey, Ruby #4, Malta Black, Pel De Beu, O'rouke, Black Ischia, Lloral, Bari Italy, Nero 600, Hardy Chicago, Alma, Black Bethelham, Desert King, Italian Honey, Unk Woodbridge Light, Unk Woodbridge Dark, Unk Chios and Lyndhurst White.
Looking for:  Peter's Honey that will survive the rooting process...
 
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