Well, I am growing a pomegranate pre-bonsai, and now the fruits are coming.
Some sites advise to cut them off, to gain strenghth focusing on the trunk and branches.
So, what do you experts think, should I prune the fruits?
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Thanks for your answer.
My goals are growing a healthy tree for the moment; later, thickening the trunk by pruning.
Of course if I chose to grow a fruit tree, I want it to have them in the future.
The real question is, does it matter if I leave the fruits now, or pruning them is better for the tree?
hahaha, it's not ripe enough!
But... as Auk said I should cut if off, I will follow both advises: will wait a little longer, cut it and eat it!
You might as well do that. You should have removed the flowers. If the fruit is this size already, I guess there's no point removing them anymore.
You could have removed the flowers once they started wilting, before the fruit developed so the tree could have put the energy into better growth. I have de-flowered (wait... that sounds very wrong. But I like it. So I will leave it ) my crab-apple every year after flowering. This year I want to see the apples and take the reduced growth for granted.