Not much on the forum about when is right harvesting Eversweet poms. If anyone grows this variety and has any sure ways to tell if it’s ripe please feel free to comment or share pictures. I have several coming in for the first time and believe it is an Eversweet tree.
The larger one kind of have some traits I would look for in a wonderful being close to ripe like duller skin and not round but they’re still pretty firm with no give when I squeeze.
As with all pomegranates – wait until the shell begins to stretch and cracking at the stretch appears imminent.
I have…
[ ] Texas pink x2
[ ] Eversweet
[ ] Desertnyi
[ ] Parfianka x2
[ ] Ambrosia
[ ] Sweet
[ ] Eve
But they’re all small except the Texas pink. I’ve never had fruit on them because the birds will literally eat the flowers and fruit as soon as they start to plump up. The few years I’ve seen it attempt to fruit, there would be a massive flock of birds on my fence line in Colorado just waiting for them every day. Texas pink is about 7+ years old from slow going trees.
Desertnyi and Eversweet survived Colorado but was really stunted overall. They’re doing much better now without the constant hail and terrible winds.
Ambrosia is my most vigorous overall.
I think my Eversweet, Desertnyi, and Sweet should set fruit upcoming year. They’re big enough now and i bought big organza bag type protectors for the plants 
Please keep us in the loop on your fruit 
i need to seriously repot my Texas pinks.
The red one on your Eversweet looks ripe to me but I’ve only ever seen a few of these 
Thanks @Richard i will look for the cracking.
@Melon You have some nice poms hope you get to try some now. Maybe the birds have more stuff to eat than in Co.
I wait until first freeze is expected then pick them all.
That looks great though! How does it taste?
I think it was picked a little too soon. But it was still good. Sweet and sour. I’ll definitely let the others hang longer. Small seed crunch but eating next to the Parfianka it didn’t stand a chance.
@Plants
12 1/2 lbs ripe pomegranates, harvested today in Vista CA. The cultivar is ‘soft seeded pink’.
Looking good Richard! Like to see the inside too if it’s possible.
@Plants
Here’s 4 photos.
In this top-down view, notice how the fruit is not round but instead is bulging where the sugars are causing the arils to swell.
Stretch marks appear between the bulges.
Eventually cracking ensues. When several are like this it is time to pick (assuming all the flowering occurred at the same time).
This one I ripped open to show the inside. The cross-section diameter is about 4".
Excellent thank you! Now I’m wondering from the darker arils on mine if picked later would become lighter in color. Or this this tree is just putting off funny first fruits and it is a Wonderful after all? I’ll update again when the poms get more edges like yours above.
Here’s the one I posted above when picked too soon.
The pictures I posted are from Soft-seeded Pink (Myagkosemyannyi Rosovyi). I have also grown Eversweet, which has pink non-staining juice. I’m not sure about yours.
Oh ok that makes sense. I was worried that was an ES in your recent picture’s.
Here’s a from Marta on Eversweet.
