white pomegranate seeds

fruittrees · Joined: 23 Oct 2008 Posts: 2

I have 2 trees in my yard however, the seeds still white!! although its late October already. I really take care of these tress and planted them from cuttings years ago, the tree that took the cuttings from had VERY RED seeds... Am I doing something wrong? any advise would be appreciated. Embarassed

phoenixtropicals · Posted: Thu Oct 23, 2008 12:56 pm Post subject:

As you probably know, the part you eat is the jello like fiber around the seeds. It does seem unusual that you would have a different colored seed than the parent plant if you grew it from a cutting. Maybe they aren't ripe yet?

As far as I know they are generally an easy plant to grow here. Unfortunately I haven't tried to grow them myself. I dug up an article on growing them on the internet that looks good. Hope this helps.

http://www.unce.unr.edu/publications/files/ho/2004/fs0476.pdf

phoenixtropicals · Posted: Thu Oct 23, 2008 1:00 pm Post subject:

It appears you should water them like a citrus, meaning that you should deep soak them once a week in the summer, and once a month in mid winter. Here is another article.

http://www.crfg.org/pubs/ff/pomegranate.html

sherman.boyd · Joined: 17 Dec 2008 Posts: 1 Location: Tempe, Arizona

Like you I've planted a new "Wonderful" pomegranate that is producing white seeds. I picked the fruit at various times, even up till when it was a little rotten. Last year it was all white, and this year it was getting a little red.

It's my hypothesis that maybe the trees just need to mature a bit before I start getting good fruit. Could this be the case?

The plant gets a lot of water, and a lot of pruning as I am trying to get a treelike shape.

obietrice88 · Joined: 21 Feb 2012 Posts: 6

How long do these seeds take to reach maturity? I don't want to plant something only to have it die when it gets cold outside.