How to care for a potted pomegranate
You may not know how to care for a potted pomegranate and related topics about the cultivation and management of flowering plants. Here is a comprehensive introduction.
If you want to grow some beautiful potted plants on your balcony, you can raise some kaffir lilies, epipremnum aureum, jasmine, or Chinese roses. You can also plant some fruit-bearing potted green plants, such as a potted pomegranate, which is quite good. It has a strong vitality and can grow from a small seedling into a graceful bonsai. There are ornamental pomegranates and fruit-bearing pomegranates, but they are relatively easy to care for. They can be grown from seeds or propagated by cutting branches.
How to care for a potted pomegranate? Follow "2 points" for more flowers and fruits, beautiful flowers, and sweet fruits
Firstly, plant the potted pomegranate with grafted seedlings
If the potted pomegranate at home does not bloom, it may still be a seedling and not a mature plant, or it may have been directly sown from seeds and has not yet reached the blooming conditions. Therefore, you can choose a grafted pomegranate seedling or make it grow more vigorously and larger to bloom as soon as possible.
Also, its blooming period is in spring. If you have been raising a pomegranate tree on the terrace and it's almost April now, it has just started to sprout and grow leaves, which are still quite small. Once all the leaves have grown, it will start to produce flower buds and bloom normally. It usually blooms from April to May, so don't worry, be patient.
To make the potted pomegranate bloom and bear more fruits, you need to pay attention to the following points:
Firstly, ensure sufficient sunlight
If the pomegranate tree blooms few flowers or does not bloom for several years, you should check the maintenance environment. Pomegranate trees love sunlight and fear shade. If there is not enough sunlight, the branches will grow excessively, resulting in the growth of leaves and branches without flowers or fruits. Therefore, it is essential to ensure sufficient sunlight.
In this way, the branches will be particularly lush and the leaves more abundant, and it can grow flower buds smoothly. In just a year or two, you can make a small pomegranate tree grow larger and more vigorous, with thicker branches.
Secondly, increase soil fertility
When raising a potted pomegranate, another important factor is fertile soil. Poor soil is difficult to provide it with enough nutrients and difficult to make it bloom and bear fruits. The soil should be a mixture of leaf mold, some garden soil, and sandy soil, plus some decomposed cake fertilizer and other organic fertilizers as a base fertilizer. Spring is when the pomegranate tree sprouts, and it is important to fertilize more before flowering to promote faster growth.
Choose a larger pot, or a smaller one for seedlings, and as the plant grows, you can change to a larger pot. It's best not to use ceramic pots to grow pomegranate trees because they do not have good ventilation and drainage. You can use clay pots, earthenware pots, or plastic pots with drainage holes at the bottom. In winter, you can prune some branches to promote better growth in spring. When the pomegranate sprouts in April, expose it to more sunlight and give more fertilizer to double the number of flowers and fruits!
This article shares detailed explanations on how to care for a potted pomegranate and the cultivation and management of potted pomegranates, for everyone's reference and suggestions.