alsheetaz

oops I should have kept reading before i posted.

Yes, he was very certain of one thing.... gardening! He has many grand kids and his gift to us when we were born was one tree. He'd plant a tree and every time you visit he'd make you shower you with produce from your tree. It was an amazing gift because it was cool to see the tree grow as I grew.

The gardening was in Camarillo at his house (Rose was my grandmother and he named the Rosa Mia after her) and no matter what the temperatures or whatever bugs were going on, his was the cleanest and the most perfect garden i'd ever seen (to this day). I dont think he used pesticides, but he had his natural lebanese things he'd do.. and the bugs just knew to stay away.

He held a great garden and the best place in the world to play 'hide n seek'!

island cassie

alsheetaz - when we were in Iran in the 70's the pomegranates were so delicious - better than those available in the west! I don't know what variety they were unfortunately.

chong

Thanks for your input. I spoke with him on the telephone several times, and he was very accommodating. I'm very happy to hear about the origin of Rosa Mia (My Rose) variety. I still have my plant that I bought directly from Mr. John. It and the Eversweet are very much thriving.

Kind regards,
Chong

Chironex

What a wonderful and heart-warming story. Thank you for remembering and sharing this with us.

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Richard

Eversweet is an outstanding variety if you live in a coastal-influenced area. My family and I just harvested our last one for the year at Christmas. I am also growing Golden Globe and very fond of it as well.

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harveyc

I just remembered this old thread and thought I'd add some photos. I visited the Chater homestead in December 2009, just viewing it from the street.

http://xa.yimg.com/kq/groups/2113638...ad20091228.jpg

Here are a couple of old ads from John Chater that were sent to me by Edgar Valdivia:







All of Chater's cultivars except for the last one he release, 'Chater' from 2000, are in the repository at Wolfskill. Purple Heart is my favorite of the ones I've tried so far (Dave Wilson markets it under the name of Sharp Velvet). I'm also growing Eversweet, Rosamia, Ambrosia, and maybe Chater (in a pot somewhere).

Another friend from NorCal (previously from SoCal) told me he spoke with John many years ago about his breeding efforts and he learned that some of the varieties had been developed by crossing varieties with some of the Japanese ornamental types. I don't know how reliable that information is, though.

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sunfish

Dwarf Pomegranate

orinoko

Its a long time since I saw a Pomegranate , let alone eat one.

We used to eat them by picking the fruit with a needle/pin I can't remember which now then ate them one by one.

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orinoko

LOLOL sunfish,

Thanks for the link, he was'nt going to leave any, was he?

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harveyc

No, why would I????

I've got more videos I've also shared at Purely Pomegranates

Tony, wish you had some room for a couple of full-sized plants that produce good fruit!

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sunfish

Got one. Wonderful.Are they easy to graft ?

harveyc

Yes, I've grafted quite a few with cleft grafts and then have worked out well except for a problem with one plant I can't figure out (might be a compatibility problem). Two out of three branches on that tree just died this year, a year after grafting. Four other trees are doing fine, though, and Edgar Valdivia has one tree in his front yard with about 12-15 grafts on it.

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sunfish

Then I'll try grafting and just keep the one tree.I was going to sell it

harveyc

If I can ever make it down there, I'll graft it for you! :P

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sunfish

Do that and I have lots of plants for you.

Shanejennings

Here is a list of what I am growing in Alabama. My trees were all planted spring 2015. I've been searching for as many varieties as I can find to determine which will grow in my climate's high humidity & diseases. If any of you have some varieties I don't have, I would love to get cuttings to try in my area?

Here's my current pomegranate inventory.

AC Sweet-5
Al Sirin Nar-1
Alk Pust Ghermez Saveh-5
Ambrosia-25
Angel Red-2
Arakta-4
Ariana-4
Austin-6
Azadi-2
Balegal-11
Bhagwa-5
Cana-12
Christina-2
Desertnyi-25
Don Sumner North-2
Eversweet-1
Fleashman-5
Florabama Gold-2 heirloom from Greenville Al. Ganesh-2
Gissarskii Rozovyi-10
Golden Globe-6
Hotuni Zigar-4
Kandahar-12
Kaj Acik Anor-19
Kara Bala Miursal-1
Kazake-1
Medovyi Vahsha-25
Mejhos 6269-1
Mollar-9
Mridula-5
Parfianka-21
Parfyanka-4
Ranii-1
Rosavaya-5
Red Anar Saveh-5
Sakerdze-1
Salavataki-1
Shirin Zigar-5
Sirenevyi-11
Sogdiana-1
Sumbar-32
Sumbarskii-6
Surh Anor-9
Sverkhrannity-9
Sweet-25
Syunt-25
Tajikistan Seedlings called Dark Red-32
Utah Sweet-1
Vietnam-1
Vina-1
Vkusnyi-10
White Anar Yadz-20
Wonderful-1