Tasting late pomegranates: Gissarskii Rozovyi, Desertnyi, Wonderful, and Sirenevyi

These all are late season varieties. Wonderful originated in the USA, the tree others were developed in the USSR/Turkmenistan. I grow all of these with the exception of Wonderful. The Wonderful fruits came from Manuel Jimenez.

Gissarskii Rozovyi makes very large pale pink fruits that are prone to cracking. The arils are large pink with very soft seeds, sweet-sour intense flavor. Very good variety for back-yard gardeners. It is possible that these variety does not require hot weather for successful ripening, as this was the best tasting variety in the "cold" summer we had in Davis, CA few years back.

Desertnyi produces medium-large fruits. Very intense complex flavor. Sweet-sour, large dark arils with soft seeds (a bit harder than Gissarskii Rozovyi). Probably the best tasting late pomegranate.

Wonderful is Californian commercial variety. Large fruits with complex flavor, mostly sweet with some tannins. The arils are medium in size, dark, with hard seeds. Good standard variety, but I eat it when I ran out of the other poms I grow.

Sirenevyi produces very large pink fruits in late season. The arils are large, very sweet with a little bit of tart flavor, and very soft seeds. Another favorite of mine.

The propagation wood is usually available during our winter sale at reallygoodplants.com

My subjective notes from tasting of 27 citrus varieties

Harvey Correia brought 27 different citrus varieties from Lindcove and we sampled them at Ken's place in Davis, CA on Dec 18, 2014

Mandarins
Okitsu wase	good, sweet, membranes are hard
Dobashi Beni	very nice, membrane is softer
Harvey's Miyagawa	very good, smaller fruits
Miho wase	very sweet, soft membranes
China S9	has acid, maybe harvested too early, membrane is hard
Kuno wase	good tasting, not too sweet, membranes are medium hard
Xie-Shan	on the dry side, membranes are hard, but crunchy.  Maybe harvested too late after prime-time
Clementine Fina	nice flavor, but membranes are hard, too hard
Corsica No. 2	Very nice, very soft membranes, my favorite
Kinnow LS	Tart, maybe too early harvested, membranes are soft
Fremont	Very hard membranes, the taste is just OK
USDA 88-2	Very nice, balanced.  Membranes are medium hard
USDA 15-150	Very nice, soft membranes
Page	Balanced flavor, very nice, soft membranes, has a bit of grapefruit in it, another favorite of mine
Tango	Maybe not ripe yet, a bit acidic
Daisy SL	Very nice, membranes are almost not there.  Should get this one too, will try to grow from seed for now
Yosemite Gold	Maybe not ready yet. Membranes are hard
Oranges
Lima	Plane sweet, no acid at all.  Not for me
Cara-cara	Sweet, dark pink
California Rojo	Has a bit more acid than Cara-cara.  Pigmentation is different
Harvey's South Orange	Complex, nice, with some acid
Harvey's North Orange	More acid, more aromatic, maybe less ripe than the South one
Kumquat
Nordmann	Not too sweet, but always seedless
Tangelo
Pearl	Just OK
Pummelo
Mato Buntan	Sweet, but a bit overripe
Sarawak Tahitian	nice, sweet
Valentine	The sweetest, with some pink color