'Alk Pust Ghermez Saveh' (it is also called 'Iran 2', PI 483098, DPUN 76, DPUN 076, DPUN0076)
'Alk Pust Ghermez Saveh' is said to have originally been from the 'Saveh valley of Iran'.
This cultivar was test grown in Iran at the 'Cochran, L.C. Safiabad Research Center', that 'Research Center' collected a cutting of 'Alk Pust Ghermez Saveh' for their experiments on 'February 28th 1976', that cutting was collected from somewhere in the 'Iran', most likely from a farmers field 'since it was a cultivated variety at the time'.
That 'Research Center' donated cuttings of 'Alk Pust Ghermez Saveh' which were imported to the USA 'by the USDA' on January 1982. Every cultivar that the 'Research Center' helped to import to the USA was labeled as an Iranian pomegranate.
This cultivar can reach about 12 feet in height/about 6.56 feet feet in width, is very resistant to drought.
The fruit's skin is pink, pale red, and golden yellow, with a bright patch of peachy orange where the sun hits the skin.
The color of its fruit's soft arils are bright light red with some transparency. The flesh has a rich texture. The juice of its fruit is very sweet accompanied by a nice mild tart flavor, that awakens the senses. Its fruit ripens early to mid-season in September, and in October, although it does ripen much earlier in warmer climates.
This cultivar blooms in 'June and July', and then blooms again in 'September and October', even earlier in warmer climates. This cultivar is self-fertile (Self-fruitful) although if there is a pomegranate of a different cultivar nearby it can increase fruit set by up to 20%.
Very cold hardy, can sometimes regrow from its trunk, after die back to the ground, and still bear fruit. 'Alk Pust Ghermez Saveh' is one of the pomegranate cultivars which you can try growing when your climate is too cold for the average pomegranate cultivar. Hardy down to at least -15 degrees Celsius (5 degrees Fahrenheit). Most likely it's more cold hardy than that.
