Punica granatum
Growing calendar
Typical timing for central Japan (Kanto region). Shift it for your own climate, and record your actual dates.
Guides
- Planting a Pomegranate: The Long Hot Autumn It Needs
- Pruning a Pomegranate: Keep the Spurs, Cut the Suckers
- Pomegranate Care: Steady Water, Lean Feeding, No Suckers
- Pomegranate Year: What to Do Season by Season
- Pomegranate Problems: Splitting, Fruit Drop, Rot and Pests
- When Is a Pomegranate Ripe? Picking, Splitting and Storage
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.