Thank you for the great information and for keeping it brief and to the point. Very helpful as we have 2 trees that are bearing fruit for the first time and we were confused about when to pick them.
I am sure your trees will do fine in FL. The greatest problem with pomegranates outside of their desert home is split fruit from the rains. I may educate myself on this subject by planting a few at my home in Hawaii and see how the put up with the showers. I see the plants for sale there all the time. With the cracking I get in CA I had passed them by but I may plant a few.
It's hard to choose this time of year, the persimmons are coming in as well as the late apples. Pomegranate take 3rd place on my table at this time. Good thing they keep well. I'll get to them as soon as I tire of Fuyu Persimmons. Next up, persimmon video.
Persimmon are fantastic. I just planted a small tree late summer this year. Not the best time to plant, I know. The heat was not kind to it. Hoping it survives . . .
aerofart The Japanese Persimmon can be a bit tough to get started. Mine struggled for a few years. In fact it was brought back by a customer to the nursery in July claiming it was dead from the Jan. bare root season. I knew it was alive so I took it home with me. The trees often exhibit poor foliage for years after being planted. I believe it takes them time to build a mycorrhizal culture on the roots.
aerofart Ah, there you go again worrying about time. My partner bought me a membership in AARP years ago but I still keep planting trees from seed. Keep busy and interested, the time will pass before you know it. How is it, time flies when you're having fun?
Thank you so much for posting this and other videos. I learned so much! I bought an old home 4 years ago and inherited about 50 trees that came with the house. This is the first year that I've tended to the trees and noticed that the younger trees (smaller/shorter) are producing fruit while the taller and wider trees are not. Is there a certain point that these trees stop producing? What do you suggest for next season? I've never pruned these trees and they are very tall 25ft+
Each type of fruit tree we grow has specific personalities and requirements. Questions about them need to be addressed to the specific fruit in the specific location and attention to the cultivar. The only way I can answer your question from the information provided is to affirm that fruit trees require annual pruning and several specific cultural practices to bear fruit. If they are neglected they usually fail to fruit properly. Fruit trees also have an effective fruiting life span too. Different fruit have life spans between 7 and 50 years. Citrus and cherries fruit for many decades, peaches enter old age after ten years.
Great pomegranate video sir, I an an indoor gardener so I don't think my location is a factor (las vegas) even though I know the dry non irrigated climate would make for perfect pomegranates. im going to buy a 2 x 2 grow tent and an led grow light and grow my very first pom tree from seed!
Hi GGGuy.I planted a P tree in my yard 5 years ago in Vegas. It produced only one piece of fruit last year for its first crop. This year was the same unfortunately. It's a nice one though, good size. Why only one ......what do you think?
Hey Charles, pomegranates can take quite a few years to come into bearing. Five years is on the edge of what it takes. It can actually take as much as 15 years to get the plant to make a decent crop. When young they seem to grow too fast for their bloom so it knocks all the flowers off. The plant has to slow with age before the fruit holds on the branches. Since rapid growth favors fruit loss consider these three factors. They will take dry conditions so too much water favors fruit drop. Since slow growth favors fruit don't over fertilizer with high nitrogen fertilizers. Pruning makes for rapid regrowth so don't prune much until the plant starts to crop.
This is great! Thank you. I wish I had seen this before I picked a bunch. We live in Woodacre and last year I waited almost too long and the flavor was very sweet. Just picked some today and perhaps I should have waited a little longer. Had some with our chicken, rice, and salad dinner which added a tangy sweetness. The ones I harvested aren't bad-still delicious but just a little tarter and less sweet. Is there anything I can do to let them ripen up just a little bit after being picked too soon? The ones I picked are large, with taut skin. and reddish but not completely red all over. Next time I will definitely just pick one and try it first. I got alittle carried away wanting to give some as gifts. Greatly appreciate any advice on this. Thankfully I do have more than half the tree still untouched! I will wait on those lol!
+Patricia Doolittle I see you live in a cool coastal climate even cooler than Fremont. Coastal climates are difficult for pomegranate because they love heat and dry conditions. Pomegranate have turned ripe enough to pick in Fremont during the past couple of weeks. The longer they are left in the bush without cracking from the rain the sweeter they will be. Once removed from the plant the development of sugar stops. If they are set on the counter they will color up, and become a bit softer inside but sugar will remain pretty much the same. It is possible that they lose a bit of acid while sitting. If they don't ripen well enough to use fresh in a couple of weeks consider turning them into syrup or jelly. For these applications we add sugar so the under ripe fruit won't matter much. I use a classic Mexican style orange juicer, the type that crushed the fruit, to extract pomegranate juice. After juicing I run it through a strainer to remove any bits of membrane. Once you have juice the world is your pomegranate because it can be used in many ways. Pomegranate Daiquiri anyone?
+GreenGardenGuy1 Thank you so much! I'm so glad I happened upon your video with my search to learn more about pomegranate. You have very useful wisdom/advice regarding this fruit and it seems endless good ideas about how to get the most out of your harvest. After I saw your video I went and salvaged all the split pomegranates we had and emptied them via the wooden spoon method to use with our salads and chicken dishes or just to eat plain :) Appreciate you responding to everyone's questions including mine-super great info! Happy holidays and enjoy those pomegranate daiquiris! :)
I live in the Caribbean and Al the pomegranates ae small in size and light in color they are never large and dark. Not sure if it's just the popular kind here or if it's because of soil. What types of pomegranates are darker and larger?
IT sounds like your local pomegranates are seedlings rather than clonal cultivars. To get a good pomegranate you have to reproduce it by cuttings from a high quality plant. There are hundreds of different varieties. The most common dark fruit in the USA are Wonderful and Utah Sweet.
Depending on where you live you will want to bring in the crop before the winter rain begins. When i lived in San Francisco we brought them in during October. When i lived in Phoenix I could usually let them hang until February because it is much drier there.
Wendy, I'm not sure what you mean by "pretty confused on soil". I'm goning to let that one be. As far as pruning your Pomegranate bushes is concerned, this is a good time of the year to to do that. They usually become too thick and often grow too tall to reach the fruit. Start by thinning the oldest and tallest wood out of the bushes. This should bring them down closer to the ground. Folow this by thinning them out leaving strong productive wood to produce next years crop. Too much pruning on pomegranate will limit the fruiting for a year or so. Go easy and work at them over a few seasons is my suggestion. Bill
Brad, Your minimum temperature will work for pomegranate but your rainfall is probably over the top. You need a really dry fall to ripen these without cracking. On the other hand if your soil drains really fast you might get by.
Sir my pomigranate always cracked their skin before getting sweet. I used Boron spray two times but still problem not yet solve. Even There is good moisture in soil. I used to give proper watering. Their leaves and steam look green and healthy but when fruit become big it get cracked.. please suggest me
If you are the one supplying water to ripening pomegranate you can solve the problem by stopping. If the rain is coming during the ripening then the trouble is more difficult to correct. Simply put the trouble is water. The fruit must ripen in drought to avoid cracking. If water is added in the end stages cracking is inevitable.
I prune the plants as I pick down the fruit with no real attention to anything special other than size of the plant and how thick it its. Every few years I cut some of the older stalks out of the middle in favor of young would. Like citrus, Pomegranate will reduce the yield if you prune too hard. I do not feed pomegranate much because our soil holds nutrients well here in the SF Bay. Too much rapid release food will just promote rank growth. When I do feed an organic labeled for fruit trees works fine. Once in the spring is good.
Juan, Sorry about this but we sold the California home last year and moved to Hawaii. People raise a few pomegranates here but the high rainfall makes them very difficult. I am raising pineapples instead.
I live in South West Florida ... so climate is perfect but can you offer me any help with getting mine to bloom? I had two flower's (pom's) but they fell off when they were just a week old, and in the past few years no blooms what so ever :-( (this is a plant the I planted from a seed.) any help would be appreciated ;-)
Andrea, I suspect you have several problems going on here but the hardest one to over come is what we call Winter Chilling. Most deciduous fruit trees require a certain amount of weather that is consistently below 41 degrees f. in order to flower and fruit. Pomegranates require between 100 & 200 hours of chill time. South West Florida only receives an average of 0 to 50 hours of chill. Perhaps after a real freeze the tree may flower well but most years it will be too mild to set fruit. All the information I can find indicates that your climate is not perfect for pomegranate. The other issue is age. Most pomegranate don't hold the flowers until the tree has very mature wood, at least 6 to 10 years old. The older the wood the better when it comes to holding onto a bloom. I suspect your tree is younger than 10 years. The final problem is the seed. Since this is a seed grown plant you have no control over the genetics. In your case I would be contacting either the county agent, the local Universities or local fruit grower societies to find information on varieties that flower better with limited winter chill. There has been a lot of interest in growing pomegranates in Florida lately so some one has compiled some data on best types for the climate. From looking at some of these articles on the web I see growers are beginning to realize winter chill is effecting their crops.
Thank you for your lengthy and thoughtful response! ... I really appreciate this information ... yes I will contact the experts here in the state of Florida... and yes the plant is about 4 years old now... so well under 10 years :-/ but interestingly it DID bloom in the first year but I lost both of the blooms almost right away ... and have not seen a bloom since . I really enjoyed your video ... I learned so much! Thanks again for getting back to me
***** Young pomegranates do a lot of blooming without setting fruit. This condition is normal and I have never seen a cure for it. Even old pomegranates drop most of their flowers without setting, they crop just because they make so many flowers.
I wish I had the birds and rain problem, but no, we have a squirrel problem. The first year we lived at this house we had an abundant crop of exquisite pomegranates, but the last 3 years they never made it to ripe. The squirrels ate the whole crop when the fruit were still green with little blotches of red. It just started again, some fruits lay on the ground consumed, others are hanging open and empty. And I cannot collect the remaining because the inside is just pink. How sad! Do you have a remedy against squirrels?
I see you have met the true gardeners nemesis. Rats can be bad but I don't believe any rodent can destroy a garden like a family of squirrels. You probably aren't going to like my answer but dispatching the creatures is the only way I know of that works. On small plants a wire cage can work but a pomegranate is a bit large for that sort of business. I have trapped hundreds of squirrels using the Hav-a-hart Live trap. The one with a door at both ends works best. I used to put one up on top a fence the critters used as a highway and they thought is was just a covered bridge. Worked like a charm. The only trouble is it is illegal in most states to transport wild animals but it isn't illegal to destroy a varmint. Most gardeners do not have the stomach for this. Depending on where you live a .177 pump pellet gun works well. If your eyes are failing like mine one with a scope on it is best.
I have grown to hate them as much as people hate rats. They are rats with a bigger tail, as far as I am concerned. Besides, I cannot prevent my dog from killing them. He got to 4 baby squirrels a couple of months ago, and I saw a huge Gopher snake eat another baby squirrel in my backyard, still they are thriving, burrowing in my yard, driving my dog nuts, eating pomegranates and avocado. We'll give the Hav-a-hart Live trap a try. We are in So. California, by the way. Thanks for the heads up!
I naturally assumed when you had squirrels that they were tree squirrels but I see I was wrong. You have just let me know you have Ground Squirrels. This is a slightly different issue and a bit easier to control. There is no bait for the tree squirrel but they do have commercial station type baits for the ground squirrel. If used with a well anchored station they are quite safe for other creatures. The only caution would be to patrol the yard for any dying squirrels before allowing the dog out. I have also used the Hav-a-hart trap on ground squirrels too. For the ground squirrel lay the trap on the ground near the runs and bait it. The best bait for trapping a ground squirrel is a stale raised glazed donut dipped in bird seeds. They are suckers for it. Because the squirrels diurnal it is possible to use a gopher gasser in the burrows at dusk. Make sure all openings are closed though.
+Billy Nguyen The answer is yes, if you live in the very far south west corner of Kansas. It would be risky but possible in protected spots along the southern border. Anywhere else in the state would be too cold for the wood of the plants and the growing season too short. Thanks for watching, Bill
Awesome thank you for letting me know Mr green garden guy1 and i.m about to plant a pomegranate seeds love the way the tree look and product the fruits
I see people selling the plants over here in Hawaii too but I have seldom ever seen a crop of fruit in the market. The plants seem to put up with tropical conditions but the rains destroy the fruit. What techniques do you use in Florida to keep the fruit from splitting in the rains?
+Hammad Alshammry Pomegranate is a native plant to the Middle East. I am sure it is historically grown in many places that have temperatures as warm as yours. I once had nice Pomegranate in Phoenix Arizona where the temperature was comparable.
Thank you for the great information and for keeping it brief and to the point. Very helpful as we have 2 trees that are bearing fruit for the first time and we were confused about when to pick them.
+Isabel B. Thank you for taking the time to comment. Enjoy the pomegranates.
Thanks for the video. Hopefully I'll be successful with my trees in FL. I'm going to try to grow a few/several different varieties.
I am sure your trees will do fine in FL. The greatest problem with pomegranates outside of their desert home is split fruit from the rains. I may educate myself on this subject by planting a few at my home in Hawaii and see how the put up with the showers. I see the plants for sale there all the time. With the cracking I get in CA I had passed them by but I may plant a few.
nice to see you, Bill. it's always nice to get some gardening in by means of proxy. those are some poms. my mouth is watering . . .
It's hard to choose this time of year, the persimmons are coming in as well as the late apples. Pomegranate take 3rd place on my table at this time. Good thing they keep well. I'll get to them as soon as I tire of Fuyu Persimmons. Next up, persimmon video.
Persimmon are fantastic. I just planted a small tree late summer this year. Not the best time to plant, I know. The heat was not kind to it. Hoping it survives . . .
aerofart The Japanese Persimmon can be a bit tough to get started. Mine struggled for a few years. In fact it was brought back by a customer to the nursery in July claiming it was dead from the Jan. bare root season. I knew it was alive so I took it home with me. The trees often exhibit poor foliage for years after being planted. I believe it takes them time to build a mycorrhizal culture on the roots.
GreenGardenGuy1 That's good to know - but not the greatest news. Looks like I might have an AARP membership before I see a harvest . . .
aerofart Ah, there you go again worrying about time. My partner bought me a membership in AARP years ago but I still keep planting trees from seed. Keep busy and interested, the time will pass before you know it. How is it, time flies when you're having fun?
Thank you so much for posting this and other videos. I learned so much! I bought an old home 4 years ago and inherited about 50 trees that came with the house. This is the first year that I've tended to the trees and noticed that the younger trees (smaller/shorter) are producing fruit while the taller and wider trees are not. Is there a certain point that these trees stop producing? What do you suggest for next season? I've never pruned these trees and they are very tall 25ft+
Each type of fruit tree we grow has specific personalities and requirements. Questions about them need to be addressed to the specific fruit in the specific location and attention to the cultivar. The only way I can answer your question from the information provided is to affirm that fruit trees require annual pruning and several specific cultural practices to bear fruit. If they are neglected they usually fail to fruit properly. Fruit trees also have an effective fruiting life span too. Different fruit have life spans between 7 and 50 years. Citrus and cherries fruit for many decades, peaches enter old age after ten years.
Great pomegranate video sir, I an an indoor gardener so I don't think my location is a factor (las vegas) even though I know the dry non irrigated climate would make for perfect pomegranates. im going to buy a 2 x 2 grow tent and an led grow light and grow my very first pom tree from seed!
+Las Vegas Nights Good luck with that. Sounds like a hard way to go.
Hi GGGuy.I planted a P tree in my yard 5 years ago in Vegas. It produced only one piece of fruit last year for its first crop. This year was the same unfortunately. It's a nice one though, good size. Why only one ......what do you think?
Hey Charles, pomegranates can take quite a few years to come into bearing. Five years is on the edge of what it takes. It can actually take as much as 15 years to get the plant to make a decent crop. When young they seem to grow too fast for their bloom so it knocks all the flowers off. The plant has to slow with age before the fruit holds on the branches. Since rapid growth favors fruit loss consider these three factors. They will take dry conditions so too much water favors fruit drop. Since slow growth favors fruit don't over fertilizer with high nitrogen fertilizers. Pruning makes for rapid regrowth so don't prune much until the plant starts to crop.
I have a lot of pomegranates which are rotting on the ground. Should they be thrown away or they are some kind of good for the soil fertilizer?
+Xlora Yaltova I never throw out any form of organic matter in my garden. I would either compost them or dig a hole and bury them.
This is great! Thank you. I wish I had seen this before I picked a bunch. We live in Woodacre and last year I waited almost too long and the flavor was very sweet. Just picked some today and perhaps I should have waited a little longer. Had some with our chicken, rice, and salad dinner which added a tangy sweetness. The ones I harvested aren't bad-still delicious but just a little tarter and less sweet. Is there anything I can do to let them ripen up just a little bit after being picked too soon? The ones I picked are large, with taut skin. and reddish but not completely red all over. Next time I will definitely just pick one and try it first. I got alittle carried away wanting to give some as gifts. Greatly appreciate any advice on this. Thankfully I do have more than half the tree still untouched! I will wait on those lol!
+Patricia Doolittle I see you live in a cool coastal climate even cooler than Fremont. Coastal climates are difficult for pomegranate because they love heat and dry conditions. Pomegranate have turned ripe enough to pick in Fremont during the past couple of weeks. The longer they are left in the bush without cracking from the rain the sweeter they will be. Once removed from the plant the development of sugar stops. If they are set on the counter they will color up, and become a bit softer inside but sugar will remain pretty much the same. It is possible that they lose a bit of acid while sitting. If they don't ripen well enough to use fresh in a couple of weeks consider turning them into syrup or jelly. For these applications we add sugar so the under ripe fruit won't matter much. I use a classic Mexican style orange juicer, the type that crushed the fruit, to extract pomegranate juice. After juicing I run it through a strainer to remove any bits of membrane. Once you have juice the world is your pomegranate because it can be used in many ways. Pomegranate Daiquiri anyone?
+GreenGardenGuy1 Thank you so much! I'm so glad I happened upon your video with my search to learn more about pomegranate. You have very useful wisdom/advice regarding this fruit and it seems endless good ideas about how to get the most out of your harvest. After I saw your video I went and salvaged all the split pomegranates we had and emptied them via the wooden spoon method to use with our salads and chicken dishes or just to eat plain :) Appreciate you responding to everyone's questions including mine-super great info! Happy holidays and enjoy those pomegranate daiquiris! :)
+Patricia Doolittle You are welcome Patricia. Everyone needs a way to give back to the world, you tube gardening is mine. Bill
I live in the Caribbean and Al the pomegranates ae small in size and light in color they are never large and dark. Not sure if it's just the popular kind here or if it's because of soil. What types of pomegranates are darker and larger?
IT sounds like your local pomegranates are seedlings rather than clonal cultivars. To get a good pomegranate you have to reproduce it by cuttings from a high quality plant. There are hundreds of different varieties. The most common dark fruit in the USA are Wonderful and Utah Sweet.
thanks i just bought a house and i have a tree in the backyard i was wondering when they were best time to pick them thanks
Depending on where you live you will want to bring in the crop before the winter rain begins. When i lived in San Francisco we brought them in during October. When i lived in Phoenix I could usually let them hang until February because it is much drier there.
I'm in Vegas, pretty confused on soil. I'm moving into a new house with two Pom trees. These things look like they have never been pruned. Help!
Wendy, I'm not sure what you mean by "pretty confused on soil". I'm goning to let that one be. As far as pruning your Pomegranate bushes is concerned, this is a good time of the year to to do that. They usually become too thick and often grow too tall to reach the fruit. Start by thinning the oldest and tallest wood out of the bushes. This should bring them down closer to the ground. Folow this by thinning them out leaving strong productive wood to produce next years crop. Too much pruning on pomegranate will limit the fruiting for a year or so. Go easy and work at them over a few seasons is my suggestion. Bill
Great info! I guess I would get to much rain up here in Vancouver Island? Zone 8b
Brad, Your minimum temperature will work for pomegranate but your rainfall is probably over the top. You need a really dry fall to ripen these without cracking. On the other hand if your soil drains really fast you might get by.
yeah, to much rain was what I took from your video as well. oh well, i'll just stick to buying them in the store.
Sir my pomigranate always cracked their skin before getting sweet. I used Boron spray two times but still problem not yet solve. Even There is good moisture in soil. I used to give proper watering. Their leaves and steam look green and healthy but when fruit become big it get cracked.. please suggest me
If you are the one supplying water to ripening pomegranate you can solve the problem by stopping. If the rain is coming during the ripening then the trouble is more difficult to correct. Simply put the trouble is water. The fruit must ripen in drought to avoid cracking. If water is added in the end stages cracking is inevitable.
What fertilizer is good to use for pomegranate and how to prun
I prune the plants as I pick down the fruit with no real attention to anything special other than size of the plant and how thick it its. Every few years I cut some of the older stalks out of the middle in favor of young would. Like citrus, Pomegranate will reduce the yield if you prune too hard. I do not feed pomegranate much because our soil holds nutrients well here in the SF Bay. Too much rapid release food will just promote rank growth. When I do feed an organic labeled for fruit trees works fine. Once in the spring is good.
hope to see updates this year 2017 harvest
Juan, Sorry about this but we sold the California home last year and moved to Hawaii. People raise a few pomegranates here but the high rainfall makes them very difficult. I am raising pineapples instead.
I live in South West Florida ... so climate is perfect but can you offer me any help with getting mine to bloom? I had two flower's (pom's) but they fell off when they were just a week old, and in the past few years no blooms what so ever :-( (this is a plant the I planted from a seed.) any help would be appreciated ;-)
Andrea, I suspect you have several problems going on here but the hardest one to over come is what we call Winter Chilling. Most deciduous fruit trees require a certain amount of weather that is consistently below 41 degrees f. in order to flower and fruit. Pomegranates require between 100 & 200 hours of chill time. South West Florida only receives an average of 0 to 50 hours of chill. Perhaps after a real freeze the tree may flower well but most years it will be too mild to set fruit. All the information I can find indicates that your climate is not perfect for pomegranate.
The other issue is age. Most pomegranate don't hold the flowers until the tree has very mature wood, at least 6 to 10 years old. The older the wood the better when it comes to holding onto a bloom. I suspect your tree is younger than 10 years.
The final problem is the seed. Since this is a seed grown plant you have no control over the genetics. In your case I would be contacting either the county agent, the local Universities or local fruit grower societies to find information on varieties that flower better with limited winter chill. There has been a lot of interest in growing pomegranates in Florida lately so some one has compiled some data on best types for the climate. From looking at some of these articles on the web I see growers are beginning to realize winter chill is effecting their crops.
Thank you for your lengthy and thoughtful response! ... I really appreciate this information ... yes I will contact the experts here in the state of Florida... and yes the plant is about 4 years old now... so well under 10 years :-/ but interestingly it DID bloom in the first year but I lost both of the blooms almost right away ... and have not seen a bloom since . I really enjoyed your video ... I learned so much! Thanks again for getting back to me
***** Young pomegranates do a lot of blooming without setting fruit. This condition is normal and I have never seen a cure for it. Even old pomegranates drop most of their flowers without setting, they crop just because they make so many flowers.
Hi sir I have a pomegranate tree that produce lots of flower but the fruits is very small how can I make the fruits grow bigger
Likely the small fruit is due to the genetics. Punica granatum nana makes little fruit.
I wish I had the birds and rain problem, but no, we have a squirrel problem. The first year we lived at this house we had an abundant crop of exquisite pomegranates, but the last 3 years they never made it to ripe. The squirrels ate the whole crop when the fruit were still green with little blotches of red. It just started again, some fruits lay on the ground consumed, others are hanging open and empty. And I cannot collect the remaining because the inside is just pink. How sad! Do you have a remedy against squirrels?
I see you have met the true gardeners nemesis. Rats can be bad but I don't believe any rodent can destroy a garden like a family of squirrels. You probably aren't going to like my answer but dispatching the creatures is the only way I know of that works. On small plants a wire cage can work but a pomegranate is a bit large for that sort of business. I have trapped hundreds of squirrels using the Hav-a-hart Live trap. The one with a door at both ends works best. I used to put one up on top a fence the critters used as a highway and they thought is was just a covered bridge. Worked like a charm. The only trouble is it is illegal in most states to transport wild animals but it isn't illegal to destroy a varmint. Most gardeners do not have the stomach for this. Depending on where you live a .177 pump pellet gun works well. If your eyes are failing like mine one with a scope on it is best.
I have grown to hate them as much as people hate rats. They are rats with a bigger tail, as far as I am concerned. Besides, I cannot prevent my dog from killing them. He got to 4 baby squirrels a couple of months ago, and I saw a huge Gopher snake eat another baby squirrel in my backyard, still they are thriving, burrowing in my yard, driving my dog nuts, eating pomegranates and avocado. We'll give the Hav-a-hart Live trap a try. We are in So. California, by the way. Thanks for the heads up!
I naturally assumed when you had squirrels that they were tree squirrels but I see I was wrong. You have just let me know you have Ground Squirrels. This is a slightly different issue and a bit easier to control. There is no bait for the tree squirrel but they do have commercial station type baits for the ground squirrel. If used with a well anchored station they are quite safe for other creatures. The only caution would be to patrol the yard for any dying squirrels before allowing the dog out. I have also used the Hav-a-hart trap on ground squirrels too. For the ground squirrel lay the trap on the ground near the runs and bait it. The best bait for trapping a ground squirrel is a stale raised glazed donut dipped in bird seeds. They are suckers for it. Because the squirrels diurnal it is possible to use a gopher gasser in the burrows at dusk. Make sure all openings are closed though.
Thanks! You are a wealth of information. Love the donut tip!
You're welcome. Bill
Can this pomegranate tree survive in the cold weather like Kansas? Please let me know Thanks
+Billy Nguyen The answer is yes, if you live in the very far south west corner of Kansas. It would be risky but possible in protected spots along the southern border. Anywhere else in the state would be too cold for the wood of the plants and the growing season too short. Thanks for watching, Bill
Awesome thank you for letting me know Mr green garden guy1 and i.m about to plant a pomegranate seeds love the way the tree look and product the fruits
+Billy Nguyen You are welcome. Call me Bill.
Thanks. Bill
You got a awesome garden & thanks for sharing the video.
Yes I can grow them in Florida
I see people selling the plants over here in Hawaii too but I have seldom ever seen a crop of fruit in the market. The plants seem to put up with tropical conditions but the rains destroy the fruit. What techniques do you use in Florida to keep the fruit from splitting in the rains?
hi i am from the saudi the temperature is 48 c can i grow Pomegranate
+Hammad Alshammry Pomegranate is a native plant to the Middle East. I am sure it is historically grown in many places that have temperatures as warm as yours. I once had nice Pomegranate in Phoenix Arizona where the temperature was comparable.
Thanks
I will try it
I have 10 acre pomogrenate farm very good fruit
Congratulations. I will assume it isn't in the California Bay Area where fall weather is damp.