Presently the bottom branches of my pomegranate are touching the ground. These branches have a lot of flowers, which are going to turn into fruit. I plan on placing a brick under any fruit that should actually set on the ground when they develop, so that the fruit won't rot. After harvest, I will cut the branches off, and root them. Pomegranates can be propagated easily by either hardwood or softwood cuttings. The use of a rooting compound helps greatly, and the softwood cuttings must be misted or kept in a high humidity. Root suckers can also be dug from the base of the plant and transplanted, and it is also possible to increase them by layering, budding or graftings (they can be increased by almost every method). They also grow easily from seed, but the resulting tree is always, always, always of inferior quality. I have left the bottom branches on because they provide a lot of energy for building a strong main trunk. I should have cut them off a couple years ago, but never got around to it. The best to you and your trees. - Millet (630-)

My Wonderful seem to be very low growing and producing a lot of branches while the Red Angel seem to have a more upright growth pattern. I just watch them this year and see how they adapt.

My Angel Red is doing fine thus far.

Should I fertilize now or wait?

I do not think pomegranates are heavy feeders like citrus and bananas so I would not fertilize them at least not the first year. I also would avoid watering them too often. It has been very dry here and I have only watered my pomegranate three times so far since planting it in February. The new fig tree I planted this year needs a lot more water.

Sounds good. Thanks very much.

My pomagranate tree is flowering.

On my three Angel Reds and one Wonderful I have had many flowers and some what I thought were fruit but they have all disappeared. I say dissapperaed since I have never found one on the ground so they could have been eaten. They have never wilted and they all had pitiful root systems when I planted them. The Wonderful still wants to hug the ground and the Red Angels are still upright growing.

I hand pollinate all the flowers on my Wonderful to insure a good fruit set. My tree must have somewhere between 60 to 80 fruit at the present. - Millet (567-)

The Pomegranate tree, which is about 11 ft. tall and the same wide, is growing inside my greenhouse. -I have 7 large trees inside the greenhouse that are planted in the ground. Pomegranate, Genoa Lemon, Marisol Clementine, Cara Cara Navel Orange, Bearss Lime, Meyer Lemon, and a Sanboken Lemon (some people call them Sanboken Grapefruit). All the rest of my trees are in containers. Millet (563-)

Darkman,

I just counted this morning about 30 fruitlets on our Wonderful. I would say it had at least three or four times more flowers... It is funny that once flowers fall they somehow shrink and become almost invisible... The tree was planted in spring 09 as a few foot-long sticks and dropped it's flowers (most of them) last year. needless to say that only occasional bees pollinated them - perhaps, this is the reason for the flower drop.

I'm sure your poms will fruit next year!
Good luck!

Millet,

It's is good to know that some of my selections are the ones you keep in your greenhouse. I don't see how some of the people here have time for everything that is necessary to do.

GT,

I hope you are right. The root system on these were poor to say the least but next year they should be ready to produce. My Wonderful on the other hand should be well rooted and ready but maybe it need one more year.

My angel red pomegranate is growing really fast after the recent rain over the past two weeks. This is a very vigorous plant even more so than citrus! I noticed a lot of new growth from the base of the plant.
Does it grow into a scrub?