Do I take the cuttings in the summer or winter? And how do I pretreat the cuttings before planting them in the pot? (drying or no drying?) Do I leave them outside or inside during the winter?

I will also get some "Nana" cuttings. I assume they should be treated as "Wonderful".

Thank you very much for your input.

Changsong

I have yet to take cuttings from my pomegranate tree. However, I have read that they do better when the cuttings are taken in the winter. If you want to start now, you might want to try airlayering.

~james

So far we have 3 cuttings growing leaves 2 different types of leaves, so we got 1 or 2 for each tree. There are 2 other cuttings still holding there. I think they will survive, although there haven't been leaves showing up.

So far so good. I had hoped more for Pomegranate, but I'm surprised and happy that we get success for Flowering Apricot (Prunus mume), since it is said to be a hard one for propagation.

Now I wonder whether and when we shall dig the cuttings and pot them up. We need to move them to a different place.

Thank you very much for all the inputs.

Happy Gardening,

Changsong

So my goal is to now get as many pomegranate cuttings going this winter as I can. I am going to try both ways from seed and from a cuttings. I am now collecting samples from different individuals that have pomegranate trees in their yards. But, the goal is to actually plant an entire orchard of pomegranate trees of several types.

Cross pollination of pomegranate trees increase production around 69%. This ole' tree out back has never produced as well as it has in the last 2 years. Honeybees are diffinitely a plus for this fruit tree's production.
I sure would like to hear more from all you that are trying also to propagate pomegranates..And if you have never had the opportunity of tasting the honey produced by this tree try to find some..It is wonderful!

Buzzashuck

This last spring, we actually got one small rain the whole time, and it really messed up a lot of our fruits. Most of the persimmons fell off, and we didn't have nearly as many muscadine grapes as we usually have. This summer, we have gotten so much rain that the pears seemed to grow too fast and not ripen correctly. Many of our pecans seemed to have been falling off pre-maturely as well.

I suspect that if you find a good time in the summer when the weatherman is predicting a good two weeks of heavy rain, the pomegranate cuttings should root easily. If you don't get enough rain, put a humidity chamber over the cuttings and mist the cuttings over day or so when we don't get rain at least every other day. Keep the cuttings in shade.

One thing good about pomegranates is that they should produce enough limbs to let you experiment summer, fall, winter, and spring, as long as you're not training it to be tree-like.

Check with me in a year or so and I will probably have some cuttings (if they survive the winter). I have an unknown Georgia tree, Parfyanka, Ink, and Koinekasyrsky going and should have some cuttings next fall. Might give you some variety.

scott

Put me on your waiting list - I would like some pomegranate cuttings - a variety that is frost-resistant would be ideal, but I will try any variety and cover them over winter if necessary.

Thanks, Rick_in_VA

Somewhere between one half and 2/3rds of my summer cuttings actually took root. It's probably slightly less than winter or spring cuttings, but I believe it could be about equal to the success if I would have spent more time taking better care of the cuttings. In this case, the cuttings were pretty much put in a cheap potting mix, watered a few times, and then nature did the rest.

In the right conditions and care, I believe you could get close to a 100% success rate year round.

One of the best things about rooting your own plants is being able to give them as gifts to family and friends. It saves money from buying expensive gifts and is a personable item, because you did the rooting yourself!

Happy gardening!

Changsong

Update to my cuttings: The cuttings from last year all died due to my fault. They took off quite nice but I put them in ground too soon.

The 3 small trees from seeds a few years ago did excellent. They are about 4 feet and very healthy. Two of them bloomed red flowers last year but did not bloom this year. The other one bloomed WHITE flowers this year. They were all from the same pomegranate fruit I bought in the grocery store. Amazing!

Happy gardening

Changsong

I started some seeds from the pome fruit bought from grocery store 2 years before. They started off nicely but died like the other cuttings