Pomegranate?? Do you own one?

[Wolfus]

I bought a Pomegranate fruit yesterday for the seed and was curious if anyone here has a Pomegranate Bonsai of there own. If so, did you start it from seed? Do you dry these seeds or plant them fresh?
Also, what are you supposed to eat from a Pomegranate fruit? There is no flesh to speak of??????? :confused:

Any tips appreciated,
David

[centaura]

Greetings,

Haven't grown a pomegranite bonsai, though I have seen photos of a few. For eating, you eat the red casings from around the seeds. Yeah, my opinion when I first tried one was "What's the point?". I still kinda think that, though I'm sure it was more because the fruit we get up here wasn't ripe. To me it was a lot of work for a little bit of sour flavor. Not sure if that is how they're supposed to taste.

-Centaura

[kumar]

probabaly u should eat the seedless varities..we get a lot of them here in india. they are great.
as far as growing one..i tried with a small sapling, but it withered away soon.
i think for pomogranetes we need to plant them quickly or take some more care than other plants. since the sapling whithered away i was wondering whether to dig one small tree which is in my farm.

[Jerry Meislik]

Pomegranate are delicious. You eat the red flesh including the seeds. Plant the seeds and you will get plants! You can remove the red flesh before you plant the seed.
They will do best if allowed to rest in the winter and to get somewhat cold but not freezing.
Good luck.
Jerry

[Wolfus]

Thanks for the replies folks,

I'm quite certain I will not be any competition in the buying of these fruit to eat. The market is safe in that respect. *blehhhhh*

Jerry, I had read in one of your posts on anyther forum on pomegranate about them needing dormancy to flourish. I'm taking the end of your post to mean the tree needing dormancy and not the seed needing a cold stratification period.
I have the seed drying now and hope to get a chance to plant some this weekend. I gather they require similar conditions as far as soil, moisture bottom heat etc as other tropical seed....

David

[soumya mitra]

Greetings,
Haven't grown a pomegranite bonsai, though I have seen photos of a few. For eating, you eat the red casings from around the seeds bit of sour flavor..... Not sure if that is how they're supposed to taste.
-Centaura
They taste great also make wonderful Bonsai with its scarlet bell shaped flowers. To have the taste ,have the ripe seeds peeled and put in juicer.. add sugar to taste . if you prefer!
Seeds grow easily also cuttings can be tried . The plant needs fairly good amount of water in summer till winter.Fairly easy plant to grow in tropics though difficult to wire. Cut & grow is better than wire shaping.

[dracothered]

Thanks for the replies folks,

I'm quite certain I will not be any competition in the buying of these fruit to eat. The market is safe in that respect. *blehhhhh*

Jerry, I had read in one of your posts on anyther forum on pomegranate about them needing dormancy to flourish. I'm taking the end of your post to mean the tree needing dormancy and not the seed needing a cold stratification period.
I have the seed drying now and hope to get a chance to plant some this weekend. I gather they require similar conditions as far as soil, moisture bottom heat etc as other tropical seed....

David

Hi David,

I'm new to the list and just got back into the art of Bonsai.

Don't know if you tried planting your Pomegranate seeds yet, but here is how I started my four seedlings. I placed them on a damp paper towel, folded it over and then placed it in a plastic bag and set it aside. Check it about once a week to see if it sproted and after it does I carefully plant it in the soil and placed it under lights. Originaly had 5 seedlings and lost one (started with 10 seeds total).

Mind you these seeds are also 5yrs old and where in a small plastic container. I also tried growing some 5 yrs ago by just puting it in the potting soil, but failed.

[Wolfus]

Hi Draco,
I tried planting 6 in potting soil and 1 has come up. I think I will try the paper towel method and see how that fares.... This isn't the best time of year for this either I know but I have a pretty good idea Santa is bringing a little Propagating setup with dome and bottom heat that may help out. ;)
Right now I'm just playing anyway, I have a few other iron's in the fire going...

Thanks,
David

[dracothered]

Hi Draco,
I tried planting 6 in potting soil and 1 has come up. I think I will try the paper towel method and see how that fares.... This isn't the best time of year for this either I know but I have a pretty good idea Santa is bringing a little Propagating setup with dome and bottom heat that may help out. ;)
Right now I'm just playing anyway, I have a few other iron's in the fire going...

Thanks,
David

Hi David,

Just don't get burned on any of those Irons, OK. As far as bottom heat goes I didn't use any and it worked out fine for me. You could also try puting it in dirt and then put a baggy over the pot to help and keep the mosture in. Don't know if that would make a difference or not with using the soil route.

[Wolfus]

Oh I did put Saran Wrap over the top of the seedlings planter. I'm thinking thats what gave me my limited success this time of year. I have a humidity gauge near where I have most of my plants and even with humidity trays beneath my plants (filling them daily) the humidity stays around 39%. I'm considering a humidifier for that room.

David

[centaura]

I put a baggie over a pot and got my first calliandra seedling that way. I'd had little success germinating them until I tried that method. Now I'm going to try some seeds that I got off a tree on a recent trip to Texas. The tree had this great, colorful peeling bark. It was dormant, so I didn't get to see its leaves. But it looked interesting.

-Centaura

[Wolfus]

I just received some dwarf Pomegranate seeds yesterday and have a few soaking now.... I'm anxious to see what they do vs the seed I took from a fruit myself. I have 3 sprouts now under grow lights of the regular seed I planted.
I did add a humidifier to the room and have been able to increase the humidity to around 55%. Not great, but a bit better...

David

[bevs38]

Hi every one there.

I am new in this list. I have three plants of bonsai of Pomegranate and they are flowring and fruiting too. I bought small saplings from near by and planted in the por two yers back. This is first time they are fruiting.

[Wolfus]

Very cool. How tall are the plants?
Would you happen to have a picture?

Thanks,
David