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Pomegranate leaves turning red/yellow in late spring

7 years ago

I have a bunch of pomegranate trees in containers and they always seem to change leaf color in late spring-early summer. The largest one (in 15 gal container) had about 15 blooms turning into fruit and dropped all of them, just as it did last year and the year before.

The early leaf color change has been so regular that I thought it must be a characteristic of the pomegranate, just like poison oak leaves have been turning red for the past month. But dropping fruit shouldn't be normal.

I'm trying to figure out if I'm watering too much or too little. Are these trees over sensitive to moisture (or dryness). Should the roots be allowed to dry in between waterings, or kept moist all the time?

Any thoughts on these problems?

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Nick (9b) Modesto Area

4 years ago

last modified: 4 years ago

I have a 4 year old Pom called an Eversweet( light pink fruit nonstaining variety ) in a standard 15 gal nursery black pot that gave me 15 fruit this year in the 5-1-1 gritty mix . I just transplanted it into this larger 25 gal size container 2 days ago.It’s leaves are always green . It gets full sun in modesto. I even fertilized it this spring with my citrus/ avocado fert.

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Kevin Reilly
7 years ago
Can you put in ground? You're in 9b CA they would love to go in ground and be easier to manage. Young poms will abort fruit. Based on your description of leaf issues it sounds like the plant is stressed. From what I don't know. Getting them in the ground would be one solution.
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jbclem
Original Author
7 years ago
I'm looking for a place to plant at least one of them, but I'm out of space (too many fruit trees). I do have some partially sunny areas, but there would be morning shade.
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tim45z10
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Poms don't take a lot of water.
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jbclem
Original Author
7 years ago
Do you think that the red/yellow leaves are a sign of that, too much water. There are many leaves that color, in fact most of them right now.
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HU-487201439
4 years ago
Did you figure out what’s going on? I am having the same problem. I have three in containers all have reddish yellow leaves no blooms, had one it dropped. Help!
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jbclem
Original Author
4 years ago
One thing I've learned since my first post, my pomegranates will grow leaves back fairly quickly, and also seem to have a second bloom after they've dropped fruit. So I've stopped worrying about it. I just planted one (Wonderful) in the ground, and even though the leaves didn't look great at first, I notice it's putting out new shoots from the ground(crown?) and they look very good. And it's blooming again.
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