Keeping Pomegranates - Will this work? I'm using a method from 2nd grade. We placed some sort of...
I'm using a method from 2nd grade. We placed some sort of bean into a drizzly paper towel (forgot what we put the towels within, I'm using a plastic bag) and place them under lamp. Mines grew sort of big, but died after I placed it in my mama's garden. I'm using alike method on a pomegranate seed. It's starting to sprout, but will it ever grow to point where on earth it will produce it's own fruit? Can someone tell what to do to preserve it alive. It's too late for horticulture classes.
Answers: You are so LUCKY if you get a pomegranate seed to sprout. Once it have enough roots, put it near the paper towel and adjectives into a small pot of dirt and let it grow within (be sure to keep it 'damp' at adjectives times when it's small) until it has nearly 6-10 leaves. Then you'll need to hang on to moving it to a larger pot (I inch larger each time) until it have a 'woody stem' ... then you may plant it outdoors (if you live within southern California near the coast, or someplace similar) AWAY from other trees and considerable bushes. When my family lived contained by San Diego, we had 20 pomegranate trees (we lived surrounded by an old orchard next to a steep slope where the trees grew) ... and the fruit we get weren't the 'huge' pomegranates you buy in stores in a minute ... they were roughly the same size as a smallish apple or red and TOTALLY TASTY (much BETTER flavor than the big pomegranates in the stores). IF you are completely careful, and you can maintain your pomegranate alive long enough, it can produce it's own fruit ... but it will pilfer about 3-5 years for that. Pomegranates grow on 'trees' that drop their fruit surrounded by November and December, generally. Have fun near your new plant ... and play it some Mozart and some Beethoven ... for some cause, the trees that grew closest to where I listen to music (mostly classical, with lots of Mozart and Beethoven) give slightly larger, juicier fruit.