Pomegranate advice?

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I got this pomegranate recently. Don't look too close, the wire that is there is disgusting, I know. What' I'm trying to figure out is how to keep it healthy.

Can these be treated as a tropical without a dormancy period, or do they need a period in the 40s? It sounds like anything lower than that is no bueno. Any tips that may be different about this one in terms of how it likes water &etc compared to other flowering or fruiting bonsai?

At some point I'm going to need to learn how to style it as well. i hear ramification is difficult. The trunk on the far left in the first photo has a bit of a problematic long straight section.




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They are not tropical per se. Giving them a dormancy period treating them like mediteranian plants works well too. So avoind deep frost but the occasional cold spell is fine. I do believe however there are different varieties with different hardiness levels.

Mine move into an unheated shed for winter. This year we have lows around 3F for several nights in a row, daytime temps in the teens. The shed was well and fully frozen. This week I noticed the buds starting to swell, no damage as all. One of them I forgot to bring in and got the full cold spell. I still need to check whether it lives.
 

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I have a dwarf pom in a pot (not bonsai) that stays on my patio 365 days a years has gone down as far as -7c with no issues, produces lots of flowers and ping pong sized fruit every year so far.

Just got seed for dwarf pom orange master this year in a local garden center going to give them a try.
 

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that might be the dificult part. You keep taking sprouts away!
You are right! If one is not careful enough, that branch can be died , especially if it carried a lot of fruits and/or the tree is old !
Thanks for cold tolerance information. I know there was a big pomegranate research farm in the Soviet Unions in the past. They were growing well there !
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You are right! If one is not careful enough, that branch can be died , especially if it carried a lot of fruits and/or the tree is old !
Thanks for cold tolerance information. I know there was a big pomegranate research farm in the Soviet Unions in the past. They were growing well there !
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Yes branches on poms do tend to die back on older branches, but it is easy enough to get them to back bud.
 

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so how do i get it to do not that
Thinking out loud here..

It is for a tree hardly ever interesting to replace a branch. If invested in a branch, why drop it? If it costs more to maintain than what it brings in? So.. Being shaded out, not having enough growth in a year and being depleted by fruits and flowers?

If I think about Birch, a colonizing group of plants: If they become too dense they start dropping branches at will. The trick there is to keep the canopy open enough, if I remember correctly.
 

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Thinking out loud here..

It is for a tree hardly ever interesting to replace a branch. If invested in a branch, why drop it? If it costs more to maintain than what it brings in? So.. Being shaded out, not having enough growth in a year and being depleted by fruits and flowers?

If I think about Birch, a colonizing group of plants: If they become too dense they start dropping branches at will. The trick there is to keep the canopy open enough, if I remember correctly.
Thanks. Pruning time is also very important for pome. If we prune it too early in the season, we might loose that branch in the long run!
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