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Hi all y’all,
My big pomegranate tree needed some major structural work this winter, so I’ve got a bunch of extra wood to get rid of this winter.

The variety is unknown, but is almost certainly Wonderful, the most commonly planted fruiting pomegranate around here. Even though my tree sets lots of fruit, I only get a handful each year because of major squirrel predation (grr...). The fruits I get are smaller than commercial pomegranates, but have the same big, dark red arils. They’ve got a small, moderately hard (but edible) seed, again comprable to a commercial pomegranate. The taste is again very similar to a commercial pomegranate.

Here’s a photo of some arils from an admittedly underripe fruit off this tree this fall (it started to split so I had to harvest early). My big tree is somewhere between 15 and 20 feet tall and suckers extremely prolifically. This is the pile of wood I cut out of it today, that you’ll get cuttings from. I’ll fill a padded envelope like this with cuttings and send it your way for the cost of shipping if you get back to me within the next day (I don’t want the wood to dry out). The envelopes are 6.75" by 9". Pomegranate cuttings around 9" long have historically rooted very, very well for me. I took a bunch that size last year and had a 100% strike rate.

To root pomegranate cuttings, I dip the end in rooting hormone and stick it in a 50/50 perlite/potting soil mix. I keep them in a plastic bag or other enclosed environment to keep humidity up. I place them in bright indirect light at room temperature. They usually root in about a month.