Just as any other fruit, pomegranate has its site conditions that will ensure a healthy growth and development of the fruit. This site conditions will serve as a major fact in growing pomegranate. This article will discuss more on the site conditions necessary to grow pomegranate roots.
How to plant a pomegranate root?
For planting pomegranate roots, the best soil to use is the sandy loam soil. Here are the necessary steps to take:
- Pomegranates, like most other fruit trees, thrive in fertile, deep, loamy soil that is rich in humus, despite the fact that they can withstand most types of typical garden soil. The pomegranate prefers soil that drains properly. Their roots may experience issues in perpetually moist or wet soil.
- Make a planting hole using the soil or you can backfill. In order to improve the suitability of plots for planting. Backfilling involves adding soil to the hole.
- Make compost or get manure and mix some manure or compost into the backfill soil and then fill it up.
- Since you are planting a bare-root tree, place the soil line 2 inches above the roots.
- For young roots, water once a week, letting the soil dry out in between applications.
Can you plant a pomegranate tree near a septic system?
Yes you can, however, this is not an ideal thing to do because plant roots one way or the other can cause damage to septic system. Pomegranate is a drought resistant plant and doesn’t need much water to grow, it also has a shallow root system. However, for the safety of your septic system, it is better for the plant to be planted meters away from the septic system. Generally speaking, trees have effects they cause when planted close to a septic system and some of them includes:
- Bursting septic system tanks
- Causing blockage in tanks
- Causing cracks and openings in pipes , etc.
Also, here are some examples of the trees you should never plant close to your septic system:
- Gum tree
- Maples
- Hickories
- Butter nut
- Shepherd tree
- The sycamore tree
- Willow
What are the common problems with the pomegranate root?
Pomegranates are quiet easy to grow and develop, but they also some problems common to them which includes the following:
- Pest attack: The plant’s root system can suffer significant damage from root and stem borers. When the root of the pest is attacked, it can cause a reduction to the fruit yield.
Examples of pests that affect pomegranate are:
- Mealy bug : Mealy bugs are tiny, soft-bodied insects that prey on pomegranate fruits and their stalks. By sucking the sap from the leaves, flowers, and fruits, both nymphs and adults significantly harms pomegranates by causing yellowing of the leaves and shedding of the tender flowers and fruits.
White fly : Whiteflies can cause major damage to plants by sucking their juices, which makes their leaves turn yellow, shrivel, and die off too soon. It’s possible for plants to die if there are enough whiteflies on each leaf.
- The Gopher pest
- Leaf footed bugs: They have an adverse effects on the plant by causing fruits to become brown in color and eventually cause the fruit to wither and dry off.
- Pomegranate butterfly: Pomegranate fruits’ worst enemy is the brown butterfly. The female lays her eggs on flowers and small fruits, and the dark brown larvae that hatch from these eggs bore into maturing fruits and consumed the pulp and seeds, causing the fruits to decay and fall off1.
- Aphids: They cause reduced shoot growth and leaf damage to the pomegranate plant.
- Citrus flat mite: They cause damage to leaves of plants and changes color of leaves.
Another major problem of pomegranate root is:
- Disease (especially fungal diseases): Growing pomegranate plants involves dealing with fungus problems. Pomegranates thrive in hot, dry climates, thus northern gardeners in cooler areas with abundant rainfall could find it difficult to grow the tree.
- Also, because of its shallow nature, pomegranate are prone to soil compaction.
What is abnormal with the pomegranate root?
Some abnormalities in a pomegranate root includes:
- Roots being brown or crumbly, this indicates rot most times.
- Over soft root
- Roots having fungal spores on it.
- Weakened unstable plant.
- Inability for root to maintain or hold enough plant water.
What are the site conditions of the pomegranate roots?
In this section, in order to get the best site conditions for the pomegranate plant to grow, we will be outlining some features here and looking into them one by one.
- Soil type: Pomegranates grow best in loamy, deep soils but can also be grown successfully in sandy and clay soils. Pomegranate trees thrive in a soil pH range of 5.5 to 7.5 and may tolerate mildly acidic to slightly alkaline soils. Pomegranates can grow in a wide range of soil types, from alkaline calcareous soil to acidic sandy loam and everything in between. Pomegranate trees will not grow in thick clay soils because of drainage issues.
- Climate: As long as there are irrigation facilities available, it may survive during the hot, dry summers and the chilly winters. The climate must be hot and dry for the tree’s fruit to mature and ripen. We can also put it like this, mild-temperate to tropical regions are suitable for growing pomegranates. However, places with cold winters and hot, dry summers are where the best-quality pomegranate fruit are grown.
- Sunlight: Pomegranate trees can grow in partial shade, but ideally they should be planted where there is the most sunshine and warmth. Your tree needs at least six hours of direct sunlight each day to produce a strong and crop.
Any site chosen for pomegranate planting should ensure all this requirement are in place to produce a healthy plant.
What is the horticultural history of the pomegranate root?
The pomegranate tree is native to Iran and the Himalayas in northern India, and has been cultivated since ancient times throughout Asia, Africa, and Europe’s Mediterranean region. As it is today, the fruit was featured in Egyptian mythology and art, lauded in the Old Testament of the Bible and in the Babylonian Talmud, and was brought by desert caravans for its thirst-quenching juice. It spread from Iran to central and southern India around the first century A.D., and it was discovered growing in Indonesia in 1416. It is widely grown in India and the drier sections of Southeast Asia, Malaya, the East Indies, and tropical Africa. Egypt, China, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Iran, Iraq, India, Burma, and Saudi Arabia are the most major expanding regions2.
What is the environmental history of the pomegranate root?
Pomegranates is one of the first fruit plants to be domesticated and planted in the environment since in the eastern Mediterranean region, maybe as early as the fifth millennium BC3
What are the gardening tools of the pomegranate root?
Some of the garden tools for pomegranate are:
- Plough: is a farm implement used to turn or loosen the soil before to planting or sowing seeds. A blade attached to a frame made of wood, iron, or steel ploughs cuts and loosens the earth.
- Bucket: Used for the movement of seeds or transfer of roots.
- Spade: The form of the blade on garden spade tools makes it easier to cut sod, rearrange beds, and dig deeper planting holes. Garden spade tools are used for light cultivating rather than earth shifting.
- Planter: Planters are made up of a number of wheels and blades that are topped with seedboxes that hold the seeds that will be sown. The method used by the planter involves quickly opening up the ground, releasing individual seeds, and then quickly shutting it again.’
- Hand gloves: Gloves give comfort and protection for hands from extremes of temperature, sickness, and harm from chemicals, abrasion, and friction. They can also act as a guard against objects that bare hands shouldn’t touch.
Some of the examples of other general farm instruments are:
- Tractor: It can be used to push or pull agricultural equipment or trailers. The tractor can also be used for ploughing in preparation for sowing seed or planting.
- Harvester: The modern combine harvester, or simply combine, is a flexible machine designed to harvest a wide range of grain crops efficiently. The term comes from the fact that it combines four independent harvesting procedures into a single process: reaping, threshing, gathering, and winnowing.
- Harrow: A harrow is an agricultural tool that pulverizes soil, breaks up crop residues, uproots weeds, and spreads cover seed.
- Hoe: They are used to loosen soil and cut weeds in gardening and horticulture.
- Shovel : A shovel is a tool used to dig and transfer loose, granular materials (such as soil, gravel, grain, or snow) from one location to another.
- Cutlass: The cutlass is used for pre-planting chores such as clearing and cutting down grasses, bushes, and trees. It can also be used to plant various crop seeds.
- Sickle: This a single-handed agricultural implement with differently curved blades that is mainly used for harvesting or reaping grain crops or cutting succulent forage primarily for feeding cattle, either fresh cut or dried as hay.
Others also includes:
- Handfork
- Rake
- Spading fork
- Axe
- Sprayers
- Wheel barrow and many others.
Some of the benefit of farm tools in pomegranate includes:
- Farm tools makes farm work easier to be carry out.
- It ensures efficiency.
- It saves time.
- It ensures a higher production of crops.
- It increases the farmers or planters income.
In this section, in order to get the best site conditions for the pomegranate plant to grow, we will be outlining some features here and looking into them one by one.
- Soil type: Pomegranates grow best in loamy, deep soils but can also be grown successfully in sandy and clay soils. Pomegranate trees thrive in a soil pH range of 5.5 to 7.5 and may tolerate mildly acidic to slightly alkaline soils. Pomegranates can grow in a wide range of soil types, from alkaline calcareous soil to acidic sandy loam and everything in between. Pomegranate trees will not grow in thick clay soils because of drainage issues.
- Climate: As long as there are irrigation facilities available, it may survive during the hot, dry summers and the chilly winters. The climate must be hot and dry for the tree’s fruit to mature and ripen. We can also put it like this, mild-temperate to tropical regions are suitable for growing pomegranates. However, places with cold winters and hot, dry summers are where the best-quality pomegranate fruit are grown.
- Sunlight: Pomegranate trees can grow in partial shade. However, they should be planted where there is the most sunshine and warmth. Your tree needs at least six hours of direct sunlight each day to produce a strong and crop.
Any site chosen for pomegranate planting should ensure all this requirement are in place to produce a healthy plant.
What is the horticultural history of the pomegranate root?
The pomegranate tree is native to Iran and the Himalayas in northern India, and has been cultivated since ancient times throughout Asia, Africa, and Europe’s Mediterranean region. As it is today, the fruit was featured in Egyptian mythology and art, lauded in the Old Testament of the Bible and in the Babylonian Talmud, and was brought by desert caravans for its thirst-quenching juice. It spread from Iran to central and southern India around the first century A.D., and it was discovered growing in Indonesia in 1416. It is widely grown in India and the drier sections of Southeast Asia, Malaya, the East Indies, and tropical Africa. Egypt, China, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Iran, Iraq, India, Burma, and Saudi Arabia are the most major expanding regions2.
What is the environmental history of the pomegranate root?
Pomegranates is one of the first fruit plants to be domesticated and planted in the environment since in the eastern Mediterranean region, maybe as early as the fifth millennium BC3
What are the gardening tools of the pomegranate root?
Some of the garden tools for pomegranate are:
- Plough: is a farm implement used to turn or loosen the soil before to planting or sowing seeds. A blade attached to a frame made of wood, iron, or steel ploughs cuts and loosens the earth.
- Bucket: Used for the movement of seeds or transfer of roots.
- Spade: The form of the blade on garden spade tools makes it easier to cut sod, rearrange beds, and dig deeper planting holes. Garden spade tools are used for light cultivating rather than earth shifting.
- Planter: Planters are made up of a number of wheels and blades that are topped with seedboxes that hold the seeds that will be sown. The method used by the planter involves quickly opening up the ground, releasing individual seeds, and then quickly shutting it again.’
- Hand gloves: Gloves give comfort and protection for hands from extremes of temperature, sickness, and harm from chemicals, abrasion, and friction. They can also act as a guard against objects that bare hands shouldn’t touch.
Some of the examples of other general farm instruments are:
- Tractor: It can be used to push or pull agricultural equipment or trailers. The tractor can also be used for ploughing in preparation for sowing seed or planting.
- Harvester: The modern combine harvester, or simply combine, is a flexible machine designed to harvest a wide range of grain crops efficiently. The term comes from the fact that it combines four independent harvesting procedures into a single process: reaping, threshing, gathering, and winnowing.
- Harrow: A harrow is an agricultural tool that pulverizes soil, breaks up crop residues, uproots weeds, and spreads cover seed.
- Hoe: They are used to loosen soil and cut weeds in gardening and horticulture.
- Shovel : A shovel is a tool used to dig and transfer loose, granular materials (such as soil, gravel, grain, or snow) from one location to another.
- Cutlass: The cutlass is used for pre-planting chores such as clearing and cutting down grasses, bushes, and trees. It can also be used to plant various crop seeds.
- Sickle: This a single-handed agricultural implement with differently curved blades that is mainly used for harvesting or reaping grain crops or cutting succulent forage primarily for feeding cattle, either fresh cut or dried as hay.
Others also includes:
- Handfork
- Rake
- Spading fork
- Axe
- Sprayers
- Wheel barrow and many others.
Some of the benefit of farm tools in pomegranate includes:
- Farm tools makes farm work easier to be carry out.
- It ensures efficiency.
- It saves time.
- It ensures a higher production of crops.
- It increases the farmers or planters income.
