[Arid_gardener] Pomegranates from seed

[Dick]

You have found the key to sprouting Pomegranate seed, Marcia. They won't 
take root until they have been through the birds digestive system, or 
gullet, to soften the shell and imbide the embryo.

This theory probably won't hold up under scientific scrutiny but it is 
faintly feasible.

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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