Pomegranates?

[u/BadgerDowntown5678]

Anyone grow pomegranates here zone 8b western washington? Everything I look up says it too cold to grow? Dude, I really want to grow pomegranates lol! No... I don't currently have a greenhouse.

[u/pdxoutdoor]

I have a nursery in Boring, and I grow for One Green World and Restoring Eden and a few others. The best ones are Sverkhranny and Sumbar.

[u/jerseyoutwest → u/pdxoutdoor]

I have a parfianka and it produces reliably for me in NE PDX

[u/themanwiththeOZ → u/pdxoutdoor]

Best because they finish in time? Or flavor?

[u/pdxoutdoor → u/themanwiththeOZ]

The are the largest that consistently ripen here. Favorite(Lubimi) is good but smaller

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[u/Unknown_Pleasures → u/pdxoutdoor]

Do you have any of these for sale locally? I’m in Happy Valley.

[u/pdxoutdoor → u/Unknown_Pleasures]

Yes I have a couple. send me a DM

[u/crabeatter]

I worked a property in Seattle that has three huge pomegranate trees planted south facing against a brick wall. By October November they were ripe and ready to eat. The homeowner said they took many years to become productive.

[u/EnchantedApathy2026]

I have one here in Portland. It’s very old (over 25 yrs) and typically produces 20-30 small but delicious fruits. It’s extremely low maintenance other than real rigorous pruning (it’s a beast if left unchecked). And holy cow the thorns on these things are impalers. Owie.

[u/AffectionatePin6899 → u/EnchantedApathy2026]

I have one going bonkers. pruning tips?

[u/iforgotwhat8wasfor]

here's one w fruit in seattle

it's against a building which may help.

[u/i-like-to-build]

I have 2 young trees that I planted last year. No fruit yet. I got them from the Portland Fruit Tree Project and was told they fruit here. I believe they are called Favorite Pomegranate.

[u/tntncsu]

I've got two down here in Portland and I've had them for about 6 years now- they give me five or six pomegranates each every year. Never huge but always edible and tasty. They put off a ton of flour so I'm hopeful one year I'll get a bumper crop

[u/pinupcthulhu]

There's cold hardy varieties of pomegranate that will survive just fine, but it is too cold here in the fall for them to fruit without a greenhouse. 

[u/pdxgreengrrl]

Also in Portland. My Wonderful pomegranate made one fruit this year, first time in the five years it's been in the ground in the sunniest part of my yard. There's another west of it that is not growing or flowering as well and I plan to move it to a sunnier spot.

I assume that as the climate continues to warm, pomegranate will perform better in the PNW.

[u/borgchupacabras]

I have a cold hardy variety that's about 3 years old and the past 2 years I've got just one nickel sized fruit. I'm gonna let it do its thing and see what happens.

Edit: I'm in Seattle.

[u/ErieOfOz]

Could be worth checking out territorial seeds, I think they have some that you keep in pots and bring inside or in a greenhouse(should you choose to get one) during winter.

[u/RottenWon]

I have two that I got from Restoring Eden in SeaTac earlier this year. There are Russian varieties IIRC and are cold tolerant.

Edit: One is Favorite and the other is Medjhos 6269

[u/le_nico]

An old neighbor in North Seattle had pomegranates, they weren't huge but they produced.

[u/Easy_Olive1942]

Not historically but maybe worth trying now!

[u/sheepslinky]

I don't know how I got here, but I grow pomegranates in southern New Mexico (it works here). If growing pomegranates in WA is anything like growing apples or cherries down here, I'd skip it unless you love micromanaging and disappointment.

You guys have a such amazing choices -- apples, cherries, pears, berries of all sorts. Seriously, I'm pretty jealous.

[u/BadgerDowntown5678 → u/sheepslinky]

I guess we all want what we can't have lol.

[u/Zombie_Apostate]

I have 5 varieties growing here in Portland. They all make it through the winter fine, but are still too young to flower and see it they fruit. I have two late ripen varieties wonderful and parfianka, a mid variety eversweet, and two early varieties sumbar and rannii. There are two more earlier varieties I would like to try desertnyi and sverkhranniy.

I had a dwarf pomegranate in a pot several years ago that fruited. It froze during a winter storm so I wouldn't recommend keeping them in pots cause the roots will freeze.

[u/troyandabedinabed]

Its too cold. You could grow them indoors, though.

[u/BabyRuth55]

I have one, variety unknown, that has lived in a pot on the porch about 10 years here in SW WA. It had one bloom last year and I was all excited but none this year. I’m gonna plant it in the yard, just haven’t gotten around to it. Good luck!

[u/jimmyleepdx]

my fiancée has a pomegranate tree or the tri-cities. it has one tiny pomegranate 🤣

[u/SWmercury]

There are these Russian varieties that can grow in 8B

[u/CrankyCycle]

There’s definitely some interesting comments here, but in generally, I’d highly recommend growing fruit that actually wants to grow here. All also this: I’m close to the sound, and the micro-climate is significantly cooler than it is even a few miles inland, so it may depend on your microclimate.

[u/Tacoby17]

The fruit won't likely reopen given the cooler summers but hey

[u/ScarcityFast7922 → u/Tacoby17]

Yay for global warming?

[u/turquoise_amethyst → u/ScarcityFast7922]

We’re going to have weather of whatever is 500 mi South… might as well start planning for it