[NAFEX] Goumi 'Sweet Scarlet' (Eleagnus multiflora)

piper33 at verizon.net piper33 at verizon.net
Wed Jul 2 17:38:26 EDT 2008


I purchased Goumi 'Sweet Scarlet' (Eleagnus multiflora) about 7 years 
ago. I get lots of blooms for the bees. I also get lots of fruit, but 
they are small. I picked enough fruit in an hour last year to make one 
bottle of wine. It turned out to be an excellent wine (hints of guava) 
that my friends selected in a blind taste test over commercial white 
wine. The descriptions I have for the Sweet Scarlet variety says the 
fruit should be 1/2" diameter. Mine is half that size. I bought my plant 
from a respectable nursery, but I'm wondering if I just have a seedling 
rather than the large-fruited selection. Or maybe mine was grafted onto 
seedling rootstock and the top of the graft died. Does anyone grow Sweet 
Scarlet Goumi with truly large (>=1/2" diameter) fruit?
-Mark Lee, Seattle, zone 7
picking strawberries. honeyberries and rhubarb are done. raspberries 
just starting



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