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My Iranian varieties flowered for the first time this year. Just a few 
flowers, most of which dropped off. Lester Davis pointed out that there are 
male and female blooms. The males are more V-shaped, the females have bulbous 
bases. Most of the dropped flowers were, obviously, male. A couple of females 
started to develop but started to rot because of humid and rainy weather. Oh 
well, there's always next year.

Lee Reich, PhD
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On Oct 17, 2012, at 12:37 PM, John Barbowski wrote:

> In spite of 2-300 blossoms on each of my 4 foot plus Siberian pomegranates,
> (Kasake,Agat) and a very warm summer, I had only 5 blossoms set fruit, one
> of which, (1.5" diam) dropped off 2 weeks ago and only had about 6 immature
> white seeds. The remaining 4 fruits are developing nicely and starting to
> turn red. The largest is slightly larger than a tennis ball. Is there a
> trick to getting more fruit?. Two years ago I had seven Poms develop,
> anywhere between 2-4" in diam.
> 
> I have never noticed pollinators buzzing the flowers. Would manual
> pollination help and  if so, should it be intra or inter species or does it
> matter?
> 
> The leaves of the plants are now yellowing and starting to drop. Fall is
> fast upon us.
> 
> The following are links to both the fruit and one of the plants showing the
> commencement of flowering. There are various pics in the album; they depict
> the development of the plants from cuttings (thank you Richard Ashton) to
> their present size.
> 
> http://s217.photobucket.com/albums/cc149/JBarbowski/Pomegranates/?action=view&current=DSC_0001-1.jpg
> 
> http://s217.photobucket.com/albums/cc149/JBarbowski/Pomegranates/?action=view&current=DSC_5.jpg
> 
> jmb
> 
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