'Medovyi Vahsha' (Name means ‘Honey Honey’) (it is also called 'DPUN 109', DPUN 0109, 'Medovyi Vashi'?)
This cultivar was test grown in Russia at the 'Kara-Kala Turkmenistan Experimental Station'. The original cutting was most likely from a farmers field 'since it was a cultivated variety at the time'.
That 'Experimental Station' donated cuttings of 'Medovyi Vahsha' which were imported to the USA 'by Thompson Southwestern Arboretum' on January 22nd 1999.
In the ground this cultivar can reach about 10 feet in height, and about 6.66 feet in width, it is very resistant to drought once it's well rooted in the ground.
This cultivar has 'Bright Red blossoms'.
It's fruit is sweet, and medium to large in size, the skin of it's fruit is pink/red, with some orange.
The arils of its fruit are medium in size, they are dark red burgundy in color. Good to eat fresh, low in acidity, its slightly bitter red juice has a rich complex, sweet mild flavor. This cultivar scores at the top of taste tests. One person has compared the aftertaste of 'Medovyi Vahsha' to straw. It's fruit is resistant to cracking/bursting.
The fruit of 'Medovyi Vahsha' has very soft tender seeds.
'Medovyi Vahsha' is 'very productive'. 'Medovyi Vahsha' is early-mid ripening? (ripening in about 'August', in 'September').
Its blossoms bloom 'July', 'August', and 'September', 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. 'Medovyi Vahsha' 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 -12.22 degrees Celsius (10 degrees Fahrenheit). Most likely it's more cold hardy than that.
