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Non-Dwarf Pomegranate Bonsai 4 years 8 months ago #51263

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I've tried searching for information on pomegranate tree bonsai but almost all the information I find seems to refer to the dwarf variety.

My mom has several nice pomegranate trees around the garden and I was thinking of taking a few cuttings with me and trying to grow them into bonsai. Are they worth the trouble of growing into bonsai, or would I be better off starting with a dwarf pomegranate tree instead?

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Non-Dwarf Pomegranate Bonsai 4 years 8 months ago #51264

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João, where are you from? Portugal, Angola, Brasil, Goa? It depends on the climate.

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Non-Dwarf Pomegranate Bonsai 4 years 8 months ago #51265

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Hi Clicio, nice that you recognised the name :)

I'm indeed from Portugal, but I currently live in Berlin.

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Non-Dwarf Pomegranate Bonsai 4 years 8 months ago #51266

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Hi Clicio, nice that you recognised the name :)
I'm indeed from Portugal


João, para um brasileiro como eu é fácil!
Pommegranates can be beautiful bonsai, but they are tricky. Best would be to collect an old short specimen (yamadori), chop it down and build the ramification. If you get a sapling it will take many years to be an interesting bonsai.
Perhaps your mom in Portugal has a small gnarly olive tree also? They make wonderful bonsai too!
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Non-Dwarf Pomegranate Bonsai 4 years 8 months ago #51267

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Ahh, true, you have home advantage ;)

I'm not sure if I'd be able to easily collect pomegranate yamadori material so my plan was to take a few cuttings and allow them to grow in a pot for a while before turning them into bonsai. I know they take quite a while, but oh well... My main question is about the specific species though; is a regular pomegranate tree suitable for bonsai, or will I get much better results with the dwarf pomegranate variety?

As for gnarly olives... There aren't any in the garden here, but maaaaaybe I could find some :) And I agree, I've seen some amazing olive bonsai trees :)

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Non-Dwarf Pomegranate Bonsai 4 years 8 months ago #51273

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I have a bunch of semi-old pomegranates. I dug a large one from a garden in winter, and it turned out, there were multiple plants in there. Stems of about 5cm.

I will be selling a bunch of them once I am convinced of sufficient roots/establishment.
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Non-Dwarf Pomegranate Bonsai 4 years 8 months ago #51292

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I'd love to see them :)

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Non-Dwarf Pomegranate Bonsai 4 years 8 months ago #51425

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Perhaps your mom in Portugal has a small gnarly olive tree also? They make wonderful bonsai too!


Actually... I noticed some wild olive trees on the rocky area behind all the pines and cork oaks here. I need to go on short hike and see if I spot anything interesting sometime :)

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Non-Dwarf Pomegranate Bonsai 4 years 8 months ago #51457

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Perhaps your mom in Portugal has a small gnarly olive tree also? They make wonderful bonsai too!

Riding the bus up the hill in Corfu I noticed some old olive trees. Some - that is may a couple of hundred, and they were pretty old- trunks over a meter thick. I asked the guide on the bus how old they were, and the answer was 500-600 years, mostly.

A six hundred year olive tree is something. A forest of them is really something.

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