Recent Fruit News – Pomegranate News

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Come see the recent fruit news – pomegranate news :

January 23, 2012
Right now it is the hot pruning season.
In the past few years my trees grew up very tall,so I am trying to cut them much shorter, please see the enclosed pictures.
There are some benefits with shorter trees:
First of all it is much easier to pick the fruits;
Second the trees will have more sun and air so that the fruits will grow nicer and tastier.
We will also get less fruits on each tree; therefore they will be bigger fruits.
Most people tend to look for nice and big fruits and that gives us a head start on selling them.
The branches in tall trees are also more breakable, especially when they are loaded with fruits.

Good luck, have a good pruning season.

September 1, 2011
Alternaria in pomegranate

This disease is popular among crops and lately it has been found in the pomegranate crops.
It is a fungus that goes into the flower and then passes onto the small fruit.
The fruits look fairly normal, they grow like regular pomegranates.
When they are ready to be picked you will open them and see that the pomegranate inside is black and is not edible.

Right now there is no chemical solution to this disease. The primitive way of helping your crops, is to pass by each fruit and try to identify the bad fruits. They will be darker on the outside, half a pomegranate will be dark red and the other half will be in a lighter color. The fruits will be lighter in weight and they will be very easy in picking. It is advisable to pick them out and throw them away so they don't infect the good crops.
Here's a picture of the diseased fruit.

August 21, 2011
Good News!!
The pomegranate season has started! You can find fresh pomegranates in the supermarket. They will be a bit expensive because the season has just barely begun. Give it about two to three weeks and there will then be a lot more pomegranates in the supermarket at decent prices. Then you will also be able to buy pomegranate juice.
Here is a picture of the pomegranate I picked and tasted today. It was delicious.

August 7, 2011
Now is the time to wrap your pomegranates with nylon stocking to protect the pomegranates from bugs.
This way they will be clean from insects, red, ripe and ready to eat in September.
Here is a picture of a wrapped pomegranate.

May 26, 2011
The New Season is Blossoming
The trees are full of flowers and little fruits could be seen thru the blossoming flowers.
Now it is time to spray against ants around the trees trunks,these ants bring harmful insects to the fruits.
Now it is a good time to thin out the twins and triplets fruits and leave one good fruit to grow properly.

April 6, 2011
Starting a new pomegranate Season
A nice new season for the pomegranate trees,the trees started blossoming,they have red beautiful leafs,they really look like its the fall.
Now it is the time to look for those black insects on the leafs.

February 1, 2011
Pomegranate weeds treatment
Pomegranate trees are very sensitive to weed killers. We usually use weed killers to kill the weeds in pomegranates orchards. You should be careful not to spray on the tree's trunk or around it, or on the tree's leafs, this can damage the trees.
I would use my hands, or any tool to cut out the weeds that are around the trees.

January 25, 2011
Pomegranate Pruning Season - Continued
More facts about pruning pomegranate trees.
You should prune all the small branches called "suckers" that grow up the earth all around the trunk, this way the trees will grow stronger, and your fruits will grow bigger too.

January 16 2011
Pomegranate Pruning Season
This is the right season for pruning pomegranate trees.
If you grow your Pomegranate trees for fruits, you shouldprune all the branches that grow in the middle of the tree,this way the trees will have more sun and more air,this will make your fruits grow bigger, nicer and they will have the right beautiful color.

October 12, 2010
Breaking Pomegranate News!
As I have told you on September 14 2010 news, on how to wrap the pomegranates in nylon socks instead of a paper bags.
I just heard that the pomegranates that were wrapped in a white paper bag this year turned out white instead of red; I think it’s because of the very hot summer that we had, and therefore can only be sold for juice and not as a fruit.
This happened in a few big commercial pomegranate fields that all the pomegranates were wrapped in paper bags.
This caused major economic loss to these fields.
The commercial whole sellers need to try to come up with some idea of how to wrap the pomegranates in a type of nylon net that will let the pomegranate breath, get sun and water and turn out in the right color.
So remember for the new season to wrap the pomegranates in nylon socks or nylon nets.

September 14, 2010
Now that the Pomegranate Season is at it's fullest.
We need to keep those pesty insects away from our lovely fruits.
I just heard of a great way to protect pomegranates from insects.
It is as easy as 1 2 3:
no chemicals, no poison and environmental friendly...
Put a nylon sock on each pomegranate instead of the paper bags which everyone else is using.

1. the nylon sock protects the pomegranate from insects and still lets enough sun and fresh air get to the pomegranate.
2. the pomegranate therefore gets great color and becomes bigger then the pomegranates protected by paper bag.
3. the pomegranate then grows into a better organic, sweet, red wonderful fruit.

Eat and enjoy all its amazing health benefits.