colorado, What I grew in '91 is the same that TOm Hauch got out of the SSE Yearbook and others were growing and listing it as well. I said above that I compared my 91 with Tom Hauch's current stock and they were identical. I'd said above that after Tom sent seeds to Steve Miller at the Landis Museum that it was Steve who got the background info. There are NO seeds that came forward directly from about 1865 in a direct line as far as I know. And Tom can't even remember the name of the SSE person he got the seeds from and clearly others got it from that person as well. I didn't say that as clearly as I should have. RB was listed by an SSE member in an SSE Yearbook. How that SSE member got the seeds is not known. Apparently Steve contacted that SSE lister and found that the variety was knnown to have been grown by the Amish in Chester Co PA. One might assume that the original SSE lister got it from the Amish. You know, I think a lot of these questions would be answered if those of you who still have questions, were to read the article at Victory Seeds on the history of brandywines by Craig LeHoullier. He did the family ones and I provided the info for the ones that were bred or resulted from cross pollinations. Fruit size alone can never ID a variety b'c as I think most of ou know, weather can alter fruit sizes, and so can amendments used. So without doing controlled studies I would not use fruit size as THE determining factor in IDing any variety, Carolyn

One thing I've learned since my first post, my pomegranates will grow leaves back fairly quickly, and also seem to have a second bloom after they've dropped fruit. So I've stopped worrying about it. I just planted one (Wonderful) in the ground, and even though the leaves didn't look great at first, I notice it's putting out new shoots from the ground(crown?) and they look very good. And it's blooming again.

It's been fine for years. This was a very rainy spring and in past years I've fed it used coffee grounds, this year I haven't been drinking coffee.

They seem fine, maybe do need more water since that raised planter probably dries out fast. The older leaves are just dying off, the leaves that have grown since you planted them are fine. You do seem to have some planted double, and in double rows. They should be planted single for better growth, collards and kale will get large. Probably should have only four plants in that planter, you have more than eight.