Growing Pomegranates

[Fractal]

As I recently read just how hardy the Pomegranate bush/small tree actually is, I thought I would try some from seed earlier this year.

I carefully sucked the red watery aril around each seed away from the seed before sowing.

I was successful!









They may well not bare fruit but the flowers are lovely and the bush has a good golden yellow autumn colour before dropping its leaves. They can take down to -12°c

[sweetpea]

One of the houses I lived in when in Singapore had a concreted back yard with the only thing growing there was a pomegranate Got lots of fruit from it while there.

[steve]

I have one in the garden which is supposed to be a dwarf form? V. Nana but is around 6 foot high, had it for around 10 years and so far never flowered

[Fractal]

Sept 27, 2020 7:02:08 GMT steve said:

I have one in the garden which is supposed to be a dwarf form? V. Nana but is around 6 foot high, had it for around 10 years and so far never flowered

Give it rose fertiliser. Hopefully the high potash will sort that.

[steve]

Cheers Fractal I’ll try That, you can see it in the picture behind the tree Dahlia which also might benefit from Rose fertiliser as I have never had that flower either but they have to be really big plants to flower, they had 2 massive ones outside the biodomes at Eden last time I went.