[Arid_gardener] Pomegranates from seed

[Dick]

Thanks, Marcia. I have never tried sprouting pomegramate seed. I stand 
corrected, therefore. Rooting cuttings is too easy and cuttings run true.  I 
would like to find other varieties if any exist. A golden variety in the 
Tucson Desert Museum is the only one I am aware of. I propagated that one 
years ago but lost track of it. I probably sold it without realizing it at 
one of our many AzCRFG plant sales over the years.

Dick

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Marcia Lincoln" <boahiss at gmail.com>
To: <arid_gardener at CALS.arizona.edu>
Sent: Sunday, May 04, 2008 8:45 AM
Subject: [Arid_gardener] Pomegranates from seed


>
> Dick,
>
> Just so you know, pomegranates will sprout from seed, although if you
> deliberately tried, probably they wouldn't! Years ago I had some strange
> "weeds" sprouting in my outdoor parrot cage, which has a dirt floor. I
> puzzled over them for quite some time until I figured out they were
> pomegranates from dropped seeds that I fed to my bird. They grew a few 
> feet
> tall until I cut them out for fear the roots would destroy the 1/2" mesh
> wire underneath that kept wild rodents from digging up and getting into 
> the
> cage, plus the bird liked to tear the plants apart anyway.
>
> Marcia (Tucson)
>
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> 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
>
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