I have 2 trees that make 2 -3 fruits for the second year
How do I make them producing more female flowers?
Fertilizers, trimming, special watering timing, etc?
The only difference between well producing and not is the location, 12 hours of sun vs. 7-8. But with our z10a heat 8 hours should be enough I think.
What you are getting seems average for that age of bush. With age they just produce more and more if you prune and water them right, eventually they can't produce more. I have tried advice that guarantees large crops and it did not work on our young trees, it worked on an older tree of my families that was not producing well though. I think that the roots have to be very well developed for a large crop. All my family does is prune in October, and water like in this video
I'd imagine your climate is a lot like the climate in Malta, and their bush is in even less sun than yours, their tree is 20 something, maybe 30 something years old.
I have a very young wild pomegranate seedling, that is filling up with fruiting flowers, the opposite of what all our other pomegranate bushes are doing. Another interesting thing, the seedlings of this wild pomegranate variety produces high production young as long as they stay on their own roots. An online friend of mine sent me an air layering of one of his seedlings grown from the same wild pomegranate, the seedling was fruiting for him, the air layer created bush he sent me, the two years that I have had it, no flowers at all, while my seedling (on it's own roots) is still producing fruiting flowers. Last year the flowers produced too late to fruit, and so the flowers aborted. This year we are definitely going to get fruit from it.
Very interesting! Thanks for sharing.
What he is saying is opposite to what I read about
I read that during flowering period the pom trees need less water not more to keep the flowers on, otherwise they are dropped . Go figure, I will try the watering tip when the time comes.
I also will try with honey , having more insects is always good.
greenfig wrote: Wed Jun 23, 2021 12:43 am
Very interesting! Thanks for sharing.
What he is saying is opposite to what I read about
I read that during flowering period the pom trees need less water not more to keep the flowers on, otherwise they are dropped . Go figure, I will try the watering tip when the time comes.
I also will try with honey , having more insects is always good.
I think that if the ground is very wet, watering can make the flowers drop, that was happening to me, just like the same thing can happen to a plants leaves, yet your climate I think is too dry to worry about that.
I related unanswered question: how to make the tree to produce more flowers in general?
What Alan suggested was to how to keep the flowers on a tree when they are there, but we need them there in the first place
