An important point when growing indoor pomegranate is flowering normalization

Lovers of exotic plants are always happy to get new pets in their collection, among which the indoor pomegranate is especially popular. In search of seed material, you do not need to go shopping, because you can get seeds by simply buying ripe fruits in the market. Having eaten delicious grains, it is easy to grow a new plant from the inner seeds, and with a little effort, after a few years, admire a small bush with bright green foliage, and even take a crop from it. However, in order for fruiting to be good, you need to know some of the nuances, because you should not load the plant with fruits - for a young pomegranate, this is fraught with consequences.

Why is normalization needed?

Any indoor citrus plants need to be rationed, both flowers and fruits. Growing conditions for exotic crops indoors are strikingly different from their natural growing environment. They are more limited, primarily in terms of lighting and temperature conditions. Despite the fact that the pomegranate bloom is very beautiful, fruiting is most often the main goal. In order for the pomegranate to please with large enough fruits, normalization is needed, that is, the unloading of the tree, because if you leave all the buds, then there will be a lot of fruits, but this will affect their size. The tree simply will not be able to "feed" so many fruits, and they will be small.

In addition, overloading indoor citrus fruits with ovaries leads to their depletion, and even death.

How to ration a young pomegranate at its first flowering?

The first flowering occurs in plants at about the age of six months and will not do anything but harm. It is necessary, without regret, to cut off absolutely all the buds so that the pomegranate develops further and does not waste power on them.

How to ration a one-year-old pomegranate tree?

Usually at this age, the trunk of a pomegranate is already quite developed and thickened, but depending on what purpose. If we consider from the point of view of fruiting, then such a one-year-old low tree practically does not bear a single fruit. Even if you leave one flower, then the fruit from it will grow no more than 1.5 cm in diameter.

It is better to "allow" the pomegranate to bear fruit no earlier than it reaches the age of three: then the tree itself will be stronger, and the fruits will be able to give relatively large (up to 5 cm in diameter).

On the other hand, completely cutting off the inflorescences means not giving the plant the opportunity to go through the entire biological development cycle.

Therefore, on a young pomegranate, you only need to limit the number of buds, namely:

choose the largest inflorescences and leave them;
it is better to leave a couple of buds on the top of the head - when they bloom, the twigs will bend under the weight and make the natural crown formation;
cut off all the rest, including the rudiments, that is, give the tree a chance to bloom.

There will be no harm from such a procedure to the plant, and the wounds will quickly overgrow. On a one-year-old pomegranate, no more than 7 inflorescences should be left.

When the flowering has passed, all flowers must be cut off, preventing the pomegranate from setting fruit - for this it is still too young. But already starting from the fourth year of life, you can leave several ovaries.

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