Pomegranate Growing Tips | Only Video You Need To Watch!

[@growyourownavocados]

Poms are wonderfully easy to grow! If I had a farm it would be mostly pomegranates. In the bay area there are lots of wild pomegranates which get no attention or care and still produce fruit every year.

[@WebSurfingIsMyPastime]

My neighbor has a huge pomegranate in his backyard in the east bay and he hasn't watered it in the last decade. It gets plenty of fruit every year.

[@joshholschuh1847]

Where are you guys at

[@growyourownavocados]

I am in NorCal but he is in Arizona.​@joshholschuh1847

[@joshholschuh1847]

@@growyourownavocados down here in Georgia the humidity is so high that dry feet plants barely need watered. I put cherry trees in and they rarely want watered. I got a pom seedling I'm considering putting out but haven't yet

[@growyourownavocados]

Must be nice!

[@inharmonywithearth9982]

When there are no droughts the bugs get sick and die from bacteria. The droughts are good for bad bugs like locusts, stink bugs and leaf footed bugs.

[@RainbowWarriorChris]

My pomegranate took down to 15ﾟ for 5 nights in December and now it's got leaves all over coming back to life no frost damage whatsoever

[@noname-nq5zn]

Try putting socks on a few of them before the bugs

[@doctorhadland6510]

Chickens help control the leaf footed bugs.

[@Hansulf]

As somebody who gets over 30-40kg of pomegranates from a tree, you dont need them to be bushi to flower at all. Mine is shaped as a tree, with the clasical cup shape (three main franches that divide into another 2 each). Dont leave low long new brances during pruning, because fruits can be very heavy and grow near the tips (sometimes more than 2kg), and they will end up near the ground. The branches will bend and stay that shape after taking the fruit, so you will have to cut them anyways. Also, cracking is a very important issue. Is not about water, is about boron and potassium deficiency. Make sure they got enough nutrients.

[@qctropicals]

ofcourse being bushy is not a requirement for the tree to flower. But more branches = more flowers.

[@Hansulf]

@@qctropicals Yes, thats true. But at the end if you let It get too bushi, Its pretty hard to reach inner branches for the fruit. pomegranates are quite spiky. You can get as many branches with a tree like structure and is easier to spread the tree over a large área while being far from the ground (new branches tend to be very flexible under the weight of the fruit).

[@dunedainmom]

I'm in Mesa, and my pomegranate keeps having pale, not very sweet fruit. No bugs or rot, but my pomegranate avrils are very pale, with very little sweetness. I would chalk it up to inexperience, but my neighbor down the street with 12" of mulch a decade ago, and scads of earthworms, has the exact same problem. Beautiful big red fruits, cut them open and pale pink (or white) avrils. Not much sweetness, very little flavor We're both in Mesa, Arizona, trees near block walls. Is it the heat?? The trees look happy from the outside (to me). Is it a nutrient deficiency that causes the lack of flavor?

[@lindablackwood2932]

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[@treeislife93]

What amount boron should I mix in one liter water? and how and what I terval ??

[@noname-nq5zn]

Could try putting bird bath putting bird bath to increase bird coverage

[@desertedenblooms]

HI, love your channel info! I live on A quarter acre in vegas, its a sandbox ...gave my pom to neighbor who dug it out. A year later their was a new seedling grew back, a few years later , its 7 ft high, never gets water, its on the hottest side of the yard/house, west side, full sun starting at 10 am in the morning, sets fruits, no pest, matures in Nov, I have no idea what variety it is. This year we got lots of rain and noticed that fruit as of today 10/18/23 is still hanging on the tree. MAKES great shade, so Im making cuttings to use it as a nurse tree , to protect new additions to my fruit forest and get more fruit. IM in love with this shrub/small tree! Taste very good! Cant believe I once thought it was ugly and unkept. Fruit is one of the healthiest to eat for your heart! thank you for being an incredible and honest resource of honest real info! we love ya BLESS YOU!

[@qctropicals]

thank you friend

[@MrBlackdragan]

😂 I like how you said "I don't care what the label says don't believe anybody anymore" made me laugh! 😂 Crazy thing it's so true

[@behzadkhan37]

Good work bro. I am from pakistan and i am growing almost 3000 pomegranate. Problem is that in pakistan after 3 year fungus attack on pomegranate and all fruit shed away. If possible please help me. Thanks

[@511eden]

You should bring/ attract in birds to your garden or something else that eats the pest.

[@ejeanroh377]

Ours grow well in Albuquerque, N M... just keep trimmed...

[@eddiespaghetti7878]

Mine don’t come out sweet. What’s going on?

[@doctorhadland6510]

Here in Pahrump, NV near Las Vegas, about 20/26 of my pomegranates flower in the Fall. They are all different cultivars.

[@qctropicals]

hot days/cold nites plants think it's spring.

[@emoceanman]

My mama just bought me a pomegranate shrub for our new home !! 🌱

[@NMW80]

Are pomegranates good with frosts? I mean when they are young seedlings do you have to protect them from frost? I know they go dormant in winter in cooler climates so I guess they can hack the cold but the seedlings is what I’m thinking of. Cheers I’m in a cool temperate zone but not many frosts and hardly ever snows here and when it done it’s like 1 day of the year for a short time. It never seems to stick to the ground which is good cos I don’t want my avocados etc to die lol.

[@Yzerbruh]

It depends on the variety. Some varieties can tolerate up to -10°c once they are 1-2 years old. You can keep it in a large pot and move it indoors when it's still young, but like the video said, it grows better outdoors in the ground.

[@mattbartley6501]

Growing a large pomegranate tree here in hawaii on oahu growing very fast and setting blooms do you think chill hours really matter with this species to set good fruit? I'm in zone 12 at 0 ft elevation so it's been a struggle to find fruit trees that survive the heat besides common mango or moringa.

[@qctropicals]

lol you're in the perfect climate for tropicals!!! why waste your precious land with a pomegranate. Plant a mango, sapodilla, custard apple, achachairu, mangosteen, geez plant all the tropicals!

[@mattbartley6501]

I love the taste of pomegranates and they are very expensive to buy and tropicals like those are so incredibly common here and besides mango/mangosteen don't like the flavor of any of them that's why. Didn't answer my question nevermind later. @@qctropicals

[@sunshinedayz2172]

How do you get rid of yours gophers? I could use your advice on that...

[@publicdomain3378]

Poison

[@dunedainmom]

Did you say you lose 9% or 90% of the fruit? (I have some hearing problems) Thanks!!

[@dunedainmom]

To the leaf footed bug

[@qctropicals]

we lose over 90% of our fruits to the leaf footed bug. Common in my area.

[@mikeandrade3839]

Great info! Thank you

[@ginawalsh9203]

Why do some of the pomegranates crack open?

[@qctropicals]

leaf footed bug

[@charlescoker7752]

Have 13 plants over 10 years old. Never produced one pomegranate. The mother plant produced fruit. They bloom every year. I even tried self pollinating. Any tips?

[@Hansulf]

Really? No pomegranate or they just crack open?

[@charlescoker7752]

@@Hansulf No fruit. I have tried hand pollinating. Still nothing. Was told to use a bloom set. It did not work either.

[@charlescoker7752]

@@Hansulf They bloom but never set fruit. One person suggested bloom set. Did not work, hand pollinated, still nothing. Bought another tree. It had a few blooms last year. Tried cross pollinating with it. Still nothing.

[@Hansulf]

@@charlescoker7752 What variety do you have? Maybe the flowers are aborting before setting fruit... Thats strange. It could be a nutrient defficiency. Do the leaves look perfect? No cholosis/yellowing? Maybe the weather is not right... where are you living?

[@homermtz]

maybe its a small oak tree :) hehe just kidding. never heard of this

[@BĒBOLOBO]

Mine keep cracking

[@busker153]

Ok, put me in the hole of shame, because I killed a Pomegranate tree in my front yard here in Tucson, AZ. I am sure it is because my "soil" (dirt) was void of all but bacteria. No fungi. No micro-arthropods. No life whatsoever! Plus, it was hard as a rock. Compact. Concrete. Then, I diverted water from my roof to a ring to hold water to "bless" the tree. All it did was compact the dirt even more. It probably even went anaerobic, too. I have one in now that is thriving, because I have swales, and mulch covering the entire yard!

[@dunedainmom]

I'm in Mesa, and my pomegranate keeps having pale, not very sweet fruit. No bugs or rot, but my pomegranate avrils are very pale, with very little sweetness. I would chalk it up to inexperience, but my neighbor down the street with 12" of mulch a decade ago, and scads of earthworms, has the exact same problem. Beautiful big red fruits, cut them open and pale pink (or white) avrils. Not much sweetness, very little flavor We're both in Mesa, Arizona, trees near block walls. Is it the heat?? The trees look happy from the outside (to me). Is it a nutrient deficiency that causes the lack of flavor?

[@jeffg4686]

@1:20 - someone needs to tell the damn golfers to stay on the course. Don't they know they're not allowed onto the properties???

[@busker153]

We normally get about a 30 degree difference between night and day here in the Sonoran Desert (Tucson, AZ).

[@treeislife93]

What is striptomycine injection? How it use for bacterial Bligh disease control? What amount doses could I use per liter water?? Pakistan

[@qctropicals]

that sounds like some magic juice

[@noname-nq5zn]

Socks work on sweet corn then the squirrels do not eat the sweet corn

[@poverofnature3334]

Hi. I'm in South Africa. Now is late autumn just few days before winter. Zone 9b goes sometime to -4C but very few days. Day time temperatures in 20s. My pomegranate is full of flowers and young fruits. That tree start late flowering and then in the middle of summer in to the winter he start flowering like crazy. tree is in his 4th year. What should I do to force tree to start flowering in spring?

[@qctropicals]

patience

[@charliemagoo7943]

There is a hardy variety. Does best as an ornamental though. Something like salavatsky. Grows easily a foot a year

[@devbachu7072]

I have minds in a container yelliw variety

[@saksija1987]

your anotations go way too fast

[@warrenalbert9336]

Hello 100 degrees is nothing. Here we have had over 30 days of 115 or more up to 119 in the phoenix area . My Pometgante tress is dieing and I dont kn ow if it is the heat of under or over water. I have a timet to give sprayed water for 10 mi utes at 7:30pm but I raised it to 17 minutes today. But all but 10 % of the leaves dried up and fell, and all the tny fruit yas dried up and fall if ou touch them. So can you tell me if it is the heat, over or underwatering please?

[@valoriesmith8875]

In Lake Havasu City, AZ there was a pomegranate (trimmed like a tree) that had lots of fruit. You know LHC gets the remarkable heat also and the pomegranate was in full sun. I only drove by it daily and didn't know the owner so don't know his watering schedule. As I recall my grapefruit trees were watered for 20 minutes in the summer because of the sandy soil.

[@marleneavila4523]

Even though the pomegranates can take some drought, during the summer in Arizona how many days a week do you water the pomegranate’s and during the winter how many days a week? Also, how do you know when the pomegranates are in the first or second year? I didn’t plant the pomegranates.

[@qctropicals]

Being drought tolerant just means it takes longer to die, that's it. Right now I'm watering my pomegranates every 5 days for 6 hours at 13 gallons of water each. They could go longer without water but I have other trees on the same irrigation line. I don't water at all during winter. What do you mean first or second year.

[@victoriao1828]

What time of year do you root prune?

[@danielduran4331]

I like the history of you pomegranates !

[@level2456]

My pomegranate seeds are bitter. Any reasons for this? Is it because it's first harvest? 😢

[@qctropicals]

leaf footed bug

[@doctorhadland6510]

How often do you water?

[@busker153]

If you have a nice mulch layer, you don't even have to water.

[@qctropicals]

that would be another gardening myth. Mulch will only keep the surface of the soil moist. The root system of this plant goes in several feet into the ground.

[@busker153]

@@qctropicals Actually, it is a myth that it is a gardening myth. I have studied the hydrodynamics extensively, and am putting what I have learned into "fruitful" practice. Yes, the pun was intended! LOL Mulching provides organic material for the microbes at the O Horizon to feast, and it gradually traps water moving up from the water table, eventually producing a 24/7/365 automatic drip system. I am in the desert, and it is working. And, when I go to put a plant into the ground, I simply move the mulch aside, dig a hole with my bare hands, and am good to go.

[@greekbarbiexo]

When is the best time of year to plant it in the ground? I have a 1 year old potted one that I want to plant in my yard now.

[@samislam6842]

Fall or late winter / early spring

[@robkeller3431]

Any issues with mealy bug?

[@Hansulf]

Yeah, I had some a few times, mostly aphids. They go for the tips and flowers. My tips that helped me get rid of them are: Dont let any other plant touch the pomegranate directly branch to branch, dont give too much nitrogen if your tree is already the right size, during flowering spray any tip/flower you see with aphid insecticide, put diatomeaceous sand around the main trunk to stop any ants to go protect their herds of aphids. First two are just to put in the general pruning and fertilizing protocols. With those two I'm already having no issues. But other years I wasn't doing It and the other two methods helped to get rid of them too. Good luck!

[@pjharrison5976]

Very Nice

[@ZE308AC]

Can I use Roma powder soap with water to kill those leaf footed bugs?

[@qctropicals]

Soapy water works on a lot of things but you need almost daily treatments.

[@ZE308AC]

@@qctropicals thank you

[@busker153]

If I have something eating 9% of my fruit, I solve the problem by saying that only 91% of THE fruit is MY fruit.

[@sheri023]

Hi, Alan, my pomegranates were loaded last year. They must be resting this year, only one or two fruits on each on my 3 trees. I would like to ask you about grafting mulberry trees, after having watched two of your mulberry-grafting videos, if I may. Can you graft a mulberry scion, like a Pakistani or green variety onto a mature fruitless mulberry (male) tree? Thank you in advance.

[@qctropicals]

yes

[@sheri023]

@@qctropicals thank you.

[@accordfreak1]

I have a mature pomegrante bush and i pruned it a couple years ago and it no longer produces fruit. Do you know why?

[@mikedoingmikethings702]

it's that easy, in California and Florida, not if you live in Vegas LOL

[@qctropicals]

Really? I live in AZ, same climate as yours...

[@Hansulf]

Nah, you have the right Climate unless It get too cold.

[@blackkennedy3966]

What do you mean pomegranate loves arid climates like Arizona and Nevada. They adapt well to deserts and Mediterranean climates even thought they’re from Iranian highlands.