Pomegranates not eatable.
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Diane
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Five years plus we have 3 Pomegranates Bushes (Trees). They produced beautiful Red flowers and surprisingly fruit in Oct and Nov. But you can't eat them they are Pink inside and not Red and the seed is really hard. When we got the first Bush got flowers but no fruit and told the Nursey and they gave us two bushes and they produced but just like I said unfit to eat. Tried to talk to them, but they were too busy. My husband got perturbed and we left. Can anyone help me?
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Did not finish my problem. They produce beautiful Red flowers and surprisingly fruit in Oct and Nov. But you can't eat them they are Pink inside and not Red and the seed is really hard. When we got the first Bush got flowers but no fruit and told the Nursey and they gave us two bushes and they produced but just like I said unfit to eat. Tried to talk to them, but they were too busy. My husband got perturbed and we left. Can anyone help me?
Pomegranates are normally in the form of a tree (I have two of them in my garden). A bush for me sounds like it is an ornamental pomegranate (which I also have in my garden ) and the fruit is not edible. I am not sure what you have, but if the fruit is very small then it definitely is an ornamental variety. The trees I have are two different ones, one being a deep red colour when ripe and the other one a pale pink and they both grow to the size of a big orange (approximately). I hope that helps :)
I've found it best to find a good or the best tasting tree and cut the branches for clones. you need to cut the growing end and the top off. Dip the bottom in root hormone and put them in peat moss in a plastic container with a lid. Drill holes top and bottom. After about a month raise the lid to harden them and transplant them. I have a great Pink Pome I've cloned 150-300 big Pomes a year. You pick after Thanksgiving and second crop after Christmas.
I have a dwarf pomegranate bush, but I don't harvest the fruit. I like the bush for aesthetic reasons; I don't enjoy messing with the fruit. I don't recall the bush being labeled as ornamental but I did find this online (not sure if yours are dwarf, but here goes):
Where the dwarf fruits do ripen, they are no less edible than full-sized pomegranates from large shrubs or small trees. But being so small, with such thick rind & mostly seeds, the dwarf variety is realistically only an ornamental. ... It is not only small in stature, but even the flowers & fruits are dwarfed.
Dwarf Pomegranate Seeds
www.seedaholic.com/punica-granatum-nana-dwarf-pomegranate.html