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Pomegranate Growing Guide: Planting, Care & Harvest

A deciduous shrub or small tree with showy orange flowers, tolerating heat and drought and cracking its fruit in wet autumns.

Pomegranate

Punica granatum

Growing calendar

Typical timing for central Japan (Kanto region). Shift it for your own climate, and record your actual dates.

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Guides

Pests and diseases (4)

Problems recorded for this plant, most serious first.

Brown Leaf Spot

Disease

Small light brown to gray-brown spots form on the leaves and enlarge into irregular lesions. When they merge the whole leaf dies and plant vigor drops sharply.

Root-knot Nematode

Pest

The plant wilts in the daytime and does not recover with feeding or watering. Pull it up and the roots carry beaded chains of galls of varying size with few fine roots.

Leaf Spot

Disease

Small round brown to gray-white lesions appear on the lower leaves, the centers turning gray with tiny black specks. As they multiply the leaf yellows and drops early.

Scab

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