[Arid_gardener] Re: pomegranate tree

[Dick]

Pomegranites are easily and readily sprouted from cuttungs that always run 
true. Don't waste your time with seeds but I have never heard of them 
sprouting anyway. In the Desert Museum in Tuscon is a Golden variety of 
Pomegranate from which I collected a cutting 20 years ago. It grew but 
somewhere along the way I lost track of it. That Golden variety is, to the 
best of my knowledge, a novelty. I have a vigorous Wonderful in a 20 gallon 
pot but the species does well in this climate. In fact, I believe it is a 
desert or low water use plant and evergreen but, if in the ground, benefits 
from deep watering at the drip line no oftener than every two weeks after it 
is established but almost never in the cool months when the highs are rarely 
over 75F. You can train this plant, that wants to be a bush, to a small 
single trunk tree if you really work at it,  or a multi-stem bush. My 
wonderful is multi-stem, eight feet tall.

Dick Gross, Master Gardener Volunteer/Sec/Ed Arizona Rare Fruit Growers, 
Inc.
U of A Maricopa County Cooperative Extension


----- Original Message ----- 
To: <arid_gardener at Ag.arizona.edu>; <abrami at cox.net>
Sent: Tuesday, April 29, 2008 11:33 PM
Subject: [Arid_gardener] Re: pomegranate tree


> Pomegranates should be deep watered every two weeks in the summer and 
> don't
> really need any water during he dormant winter period.  They can take more
> water but deep watering every twice a week seems like a lot.  A
> nitrogen-based fertilizer like ammonium sulfate (21-0-0) the first few 
> years
> is helpful but not really necessary after that.  The deep red type is
> usually 'Wonderful" and will produce fruit the same as the parent.  But
> there is a lot of cross pollination and if your plant was grown from seed,
> there is no way to tell if the grains will be pale pink or red.  We also
> found that the fruit is a deeper red if left on the bush as long as
> possible.
>
> Olin Miller, Master Gardener Volunteer
> U of A Cooperative Extension, Maricopa County AZ
> ============================================
>
>
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: <abrami at cox.net>
> To: <arid_gardener at Ag.arizona.edu>
> Sent: Sunday, April 27, 2008 9:41 AM
> Subject: [Arid_gardener] Question from Home-Hort WWW page
>
>
>> Rosemary Abrami
>> 85375-4903
>> abrami at cox.net
>>
>> We have a pomegranate tree in our small, sheltered yard.  It is strong 
>> and
>> healthy, presently covered in lush foliage and many blooms, as well as
>> several already-forming fruits.
>> Watering is on a communal bubbler system controlled by the condo i.e. we
>> can't affect it, and waters deeply twice a week at present, increasing to
>> three times a week in the very hot months.
>> I fertilized with  16-8-4P when the first buds started showing.
>> Last year we had an large crop BUT the fruits were dry and only pale pink
>> inside, apart from one small fruit that was deep red and juicy.  What a
>> disappointment!
>> What can we do this year to make sure that we get a delicious and
>> nutritious crop?  All suggestions gratefully accepted
>
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