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I am a MAJOR fan of pomegranates. Every fall I end up spending an exhorbitant amount of money on them and eat them almost to the exclusion of everything else for a month. I even developed an interest in Mythology when I was a kid because of the story of Persephone.
A bit over a year ago, I bought a house and am now ready to start putting in some fruit trees. Naturally, the one that I absolutely have to have a few of is a Pomegranate.
It is my understanding that you can grow them from seeds (yay!) from the Wonderful brand that you can purchase in the stores. I'm pretty clear on how to get the seeds out, but that is where it all starts to fall down. So I am posting my questions for you in the hopes that you will be able to help me grow some of this wonderful fruit.
1) How do you prepare the seeds so that you can grow the trees? Do you just pop a few in some soil and water, or is there a trick to it so that you will get germination?
2) When do you plant the little plants? In the fall or the spring? When I was living in Maine, we planted pretty much everything in the Spring so that it would have time to root and start really growing the following year, but Houston is so very different than Maine, that I need to ask.
3) Around how many years will it take for a pomegranate tree to start producing fruit? I figure that I won't be able to harvest for a couple of years after that, but I was curious about how many years it should grow before I should expect to see anything other than the occasional flower.
Thank you, in advance, for any and all advice given.
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