Very root bound !
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I read somewhere that aronia typically takes 3 years to produce fruit from seed. In your opinion Hillbillyhort, what volume pot would you recommend for up to 3 years, without it getting root bound?
In not sure itd do any better on your climate, but yeah, I favor black currants anyday and though they dont seem to have garnered the acclaim for antioxidant and other beneficial properties as Aronia and especially elderberry, they would seem to have all of that stuff in spades. And theyre so much tastier (IMO) that you’re actually apt to consume a meaningful amount of them.
I’ll likely end up growing blackcurrant also, but I do think that there is a cool-factor to having an aronia, since it’s so rare and exotic compared to blackcurrant. I also really like the way aronia looks.
Reminds me of my kids- they always want whatever toy the other one has. The amount lf effort theyll expend to get that item is incredible, almost as incredible as how quickly they lose interest once the acquire it!
what would i grow if it stayed 50 degrees in winter? Probably some of the stuff I AM growing here- Annonaceous stuff, amazing low-chill Morus (nigra, macroura) loquats, Citrus/Fortunella, Eugenia, Naranjilla. Aronia wouldnt even occur to me. A cool plant though, I concur.
It could also be because of my Polish background, we grew up buying aronia products, like jams, juices, teas, etc. So it’s nice to grow something that we’re somewhat familiar with.
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I really dont know ?
2 + gal. ?
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Aronia juices much better than BC from my experience, makes a nice schnapps/liquor also.If I had to pick between the two tho I would probably take BC, they are great in preserves and smoothies
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The seed I planted did have a few fruit in 3 years.
Was it a fully developed, normal size fruit, or was it still not ready to eat?
Yes is was fully developed and eatable although most people would not like eating a Aronia berry.
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Is it just my imagination, or does this not look like aronia?
kinda oblong compared to the ones ive seen, mine are very round… Different variety maybe?
common names are deceiving. those are not Aronia but rather some kind of edible Viburnum. Note the large flat seed, That would make the berries in question drupes. Aronia is a pome so its seeds are like miniature apple seeds. Ive never heard edible Viburnums referred to as chokeberries, usually theyre called wild raisins or some such.
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Nannyberry.
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probably Viburnum cassinoides Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center - The University of Texas at Austin
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Yeah, I was thinking the same, but also, his appears to be a very large tree instead of a small shrub. Thankfully for him it wasn’t poisonous 
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My Nero seedling from last year. The rest drowned in their pots in a string of late hailstorms.
When I collected seeds there were no other varieties growing within a 200m radius, but mine have enough seed to be noticeable in a jam. Only a few of them are emplty, but most seem viable.
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There’s a bush at the local park that I’m pretty sure is Aronia and had some dried out berries still hanging on the bush.
I didn’t see any fruit this year, but it had foot tall grass growing in its welded wire cage and some vines slinked up around most of the branches (until a day or two ago…). There were a bunch of dried out berries from last year still on it, so I picked them and crumbled them to get the seeds out. …Do they look right for Aronia?
I tried the “do they float?” viability test that I’m not sure how accurate it actually is, but they seem to have passed.
There’s a labeled red chokeberry not far away that’s fruiting, but I’ve no idea if they cross or not? I’m not sure if hanging on the bush all Winter counts for stratification, but I’d like to sprout them for Spring.
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