Question about pomegranate seedling

[seed_beaver]

Hi everyone, i have been growing pomegranate seedlings under some artificial light, the tallest one atm, is about an inch or so.. looking really healthy, and has new leaves all the time, the question is, would it be better for the pomegranate to live on the windowsill with natural winter sunlight, or keep it under artificial light, the reason I'm asking, is because I don't want it to go into winter dormancy, and I'm worried the winter light amount may not be enough - What do you all think?

[RedThorn]

All I can say is these grew wild where I grew up and winter temps were never below 20 in day and nights were 13hrs long.......

Sorry, that's all I can add ... Not very helpful


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[binley100]

Why don't you want it to go into Winter dormacy? it's a deciduous bush, loses some if not all its leaves in Winter . Mine lives outside in the summer and spends the winter in an unheated conservatory .....keep it on the dry side over winter .

[seed_beaver]

Why don't you want it to go into Winter dormacy? it's a deciduous bush, loses some if not all its leaves in Winter . Mine lives outside in the summer and spends the winter in an unheated conservatory .....keep it on the dry side over winter .

Because its such a young plant, I'd rather get it bigger and healthier before i let it go dormant..
But thanks for the reply

[binley100]

Mine was grown from seed last summer and overwintered fine ....

[seed_beaver]

Hmm, i may do it with the one then, and keep the other in full bloom, be interesting to see the results

[veggiechicken]

Aren't you going to stress the plant by attempting to keep it growing when it wants to shed its leaves and rest.

[seed_beaver]

I presume that wont be a problem, as i will be keeping it iindoors which is considerably warmer than outside so..

[veggiechicken]

I realise that your plants are just seedlings - and not trees but...........if a plant is programmed to carry leaves for 6 months of the year, then shed them and be leafless for 6 months, is it reasonable to expect them to keep their leaves for longer? I have seedling oak trees but there is no way that I could stop them shedding their leaves in Autumn. Even the ones in the greenhouse, planted by the squirrels will lose their leaves soon.
Just asking as I haven't a clue really.

[seed_beaver]

I do get where you are coming from, my worry and what initiated this post is because the plant is so young, I'm worried that whilst in dormancy is may be more prone to disease, I'm just trying to gain the best health from the plant before it has its more 'natural' cycle, I mean this seedling is only a month or two old, so I don't want it going through all sorts before it gets a good root base, and a healthy stock of leaves

[Kirk]

Being deciduous it may shed it's leaves anyway, they go because they do not get the sunlight to produce the food needed so they shed leaves because of the amount of sunlight as much or more then temperature.

One source of information may be a good bonsai place as pomegrantes are often grown as a bonsai.