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["MARIE ASHTON" <bwoodtx@verizon.net>]

Pomegranates should be grown as a shrub in all but the very warmest zones (9 &10) where they can be grown as a single trunk tree. In the wild it is naturally a shrub. It should not be pruned the first couple of years; then pruned to 5-6 trunks and all suckers removed in all later years. In the production areas for commercial pomegranate fruit it is grow with 3 - 6 trunks depending on the grower.

Regards,

Richard Ashton

Oak Creek Orchard

www.oakcreekorchard.com

bwoodtx@verizon.net

 

----- Original Message -----

From: Shirley Murphy

To: nafex

Sent: Monday, July 24, 2006 4:20 PM

Subject: [NAFEX] Richard's Pomegranates

I too received 2 each of Kazake and Salvatsky, all of which rooted.  Three survived and are flourishing in a pot.  They are approximately 1 foot high.

Thanks, Richard. 

Should they be trained as  trees or as shrubs?  They seem to want to be shrubs.

 

Shirley

SW TN, z7

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