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Pomegranate from seed?

10 years ago

Hi, I bought a pomegranate a week ago, consumed the fruit but kept 20 seeds for growing.


I have used the method with the napkin where you put the seeds in the napkin and then you water it and then seal the wet napkin in a plastic bag. In my room there are aprox 22 degrees Celsius [~73 fahrenheit] but they are not germinating, not a single one of them and it`s been a whole week.


Will puttin them next to my laptop heating fan to get them to around 32-35 degrees C help? Is that too hot?


Also, will they produce fruit in 2-3 years like the ones from the nurseries? From what I know the pomegranate does not need to be grafted.


If they eventually germinate how many should I put in one pot? 2? 3?

Comments (11)

  • 10 years ago

    It's practically impossible to graft pomegranate. It's also a waste of time to grow from seed.


    ask for or buy some cuttings or plants and grow a known variety. Poms root easier than almost anything else. Stick in ground and walk away.

  • PRO
    10 years ago

    Pomegranate from seed could revert to double-flowered variety that is unlikely to produce fruit.

  • 10 years ago

    'that`s about all I can do.' Can't you get cuttings from someone with a good plant? As others have said you are gambling on getting worthwhile fruit from a seed raise plant. Even if the fruit were from Wonderful the progeny will not be clones so could turn out variable or non existent. Regarding your seed, expecting germination in a week for a woody species is pretty unlikely.

  • 10 years ago
    last modified: 10 years ago

    I wish I could but no one in the city or at least not people I know have them. People don`t grow pomegranates in Romania as an usual thing, people growing them are super rare and I don`t know how to find them. We have pears, apples and the usual stuff that can withstand super cold winters [ around -15 degrees Celsius]

    I wanted to grow a pomegranate in my apartment since I have my windows south and all of my other plants are doing really well. But I don`t want to grow it just for beauty, I want fruits from it as I love pomegranates and they are SUPER expensive in my country to buy.

  • 10 years ago

    Well Adrian,

    Just grow as many as you can from seed and surely one of them will fruit one day. That's how we got pomegranate for eons. Go for it.

  • 10 years ago

    I'm sure they all will fruit, but it's a guessing game on how many you need to grow to get one that makes high quality fruit.


    Sorry to be the bearer of bad news.

  • 10 years ago

    It's not aall bad. You still get a nice ornamental in the meantime.

  • 10 years ago
    last modified: 10 years ago

    A major problem is that you are trying to grow these indoors. I doubt you have the space to grow a number of bushes to maturity in your apartment. Even one excellent cultivar would be a huge challenge.

  • 10 years ago
    last modified: 10 years ago

    Pomegranate make great house plants. Treat them like cactus.

    My local store placed 6 bushes in a 3 gallon pot. They all fruited in there. Two year's later I keep those at a foot tall.

    Another one is a five foot bush in a five gallon pot. Same size as when I bought it last year. The size of the pot determines the size of the bush. All of mine fruit.

    Once you get fruit then you can place those plants in larger pots to get bigger fruit. I just like mine to look pretty and watch hummingbirds enjoy the flowers.

  • 10 years ago

    I have a 10 gallons pot and my room is 12 feet tall and aprox 400 sq feet. My windows are not that big tho. Aprox 5 feet tall and 15 feet wide.