Curling leaves on new pomegrante tree

14 years ago

I wonder if anyone could help shed any light on this. IÂm not experienced at gardening so any help would be appreciated.

I planted a pomegranate tree about 2 weeks ago. I live in San Diego. The existing soil was reasonable as it had a giant birds of paradise which was removed. I dug out a 2Â diameter x 2Â deep hole and filled with topsoil (loam) mixed with some Miracle-gro (organic). I also installed a drip watering system consisting of 3 2GPH drippers.

Everything looked fine until today although I must admit I had not looked at it closely for a few days although I thought it looked okay on Sun as I was out in the yard building a block wall (part of the yard is undergoing remodeling). But tonight I went out to cut off a leaf off the birds of paradise next to the pomegranate tree as it had got blown into one of the uplights (halogen) Â I was concerned it might start burning.

I then noticed that the pomegranate tree almost all the leaves had curled Â not by much but it seems like most of them had. They had curled down and even the branch tips looked a bit droopy.

We have been having odd weather this year with all the rain and so on. In the last few days we have had rain and the overnight temps has been in the low 40s at least. Today it was 85 with high winds.

IÂm not sure what the exact cause is Â not enough water, temps, winds or some other issue like pH. I do have a pH meter but have not tested the new soil.

Any ideas?

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tim45z10

14 years ago

Flower fall is not uncommon. I still have a few flowers fall after 5 years.

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calistoga_al ca 15 usda 9
14 years ago
New leaves on my pomegranate always look curly to me. I think what you are seeing is normal. Al
blue_can
Original Author
14 years ago
It looked much better this morning in the daylight - it seems like it looks worse under the landscape lighting.

I'm adding some pics just to show what the plant is looking like. The first pic shows the whole plant and the others show some exmaples of the "curled" leaves.

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On the downside one of the flowers fell off today. It has about 10 - 15 buds and the one that fell off was quite large. It was also windy today. I hope they don't all start falling off.
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blue_can
Original Author
14 years ago
I guess I got the syntax wrong for posting the pics. Hopefully this will work.

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sreeb
13 years ago
Six gallons an hour seems like a lot of water. How long is your drip cycle?
blue_can
Original Author
13 years ago
Just saw the late followup post on this thread dated May 2. Yes, actually I was way overwatering the poor thing. A few days since I posted this thread a lot of the leaves started turning yellow. It was made worse by the sudden heavy rains we were having. I tested the soil with my moisture tester and the needle was way off the scale it was that wet.

I immidiately suspended watering until the moisture went back to normal and then experimented with the watering (and testing with the moisture meter daily) until I found a schedule that works. Currently it has 2 2GPH drippers and is watered for 10 min every 5 days.

All the original flowers fell of including even the tiny buds. Thankfully with the watering issue fixed it has recovered - almost all the leaves are now green. Some of the yellow leaves fell off but it seems like many went back to green. I'm not sure that's possible but it seems like that.

Now it has started flowering again. It has about 25 - 30 flowers - one has already opened up and most of the others are very close to doing so. It is looking very heathy right now.
Suzi AKA DesertDance So CA Zone 9b
13 years ago
Poms have male and female flowers. The males will never fruit. The females are bell shaped. And when the stem end of that bell swells, you got fruit!!

Good luck!
Suzi