2024 cold hardy pomegranates updates and information

[Lazarus]

I just saw this post but Nikitski Ranni is the same as Crimson Sky.

I am in Fairfax County (7a) and have both Salavatski and Nikitski Ranni in the ground and they have generally grown happily for me but I don’t have fruit this year.

I previously had a Nikitski Ranni at a different house and it fruited for me there and was tasty but the seeds are more noticeably crunchy than the popular commercial varieties.

Here is a post I made showing one of its fruit back in 2018:

Mid-Atlantic pomegranate realities

One quick update… I have one in-ground Nikitski Ranni (aka Crimson Sky, AKA R19) Pomegranate here is northern VA, zone 7a. This is its third year in the ground and it produced one ripe pomegranate that I just picked a couple days ago. There was a very little bit of rot at the very bottom of the fruit but none of the rot had penetrated inside the fruit itself. The quality of the juice was high, deep red with nice sweetness and quite a bit of acidity. The seeds were fairly large and hard but n…