OK, I’ll stop beating around the shrub and get to the question at hand. The key to knowing when to prune any plant is knowing your plant’s flowering behavior.

To increase the size of pomegranate fruit, focus on pruning, applying fertilizer and watering enough so the plant doesn’t get droughty. Right now, because it is late fall and it is getting ...

Q: I have a 4-year-old pomegranate. It is growing as a six foot tall multistemmed shrub. It appears lush and healthy, but it has never had more than two or three flowers and never any fruit.

The beautiful pomegranate shrub is well-suited for our valley. It is easy to grow, long-lived, withstands neglect and produces fruit to eat fresh or make into jellies and jams. This plant offers ...

Where pomegranate pruning is concerned, there is really no reason for it except to remove old wood or stems that have stopped producing fruit. Generally, stems are productive for about five years.

Pomegranate growth habit is that of woody shrubs with willowy, thin but tough long branches. Shrubs require little pruning since fruit is borne on second year wood, wood that was produced last year.