Pomegranate Surprise

[Thymetraveller]

I brought my little Pomegranate indoors yesterday to cut back some wild shoots and think about removing the wire and there, smiling at me, was a little bud!
So, the wire stays on a while longer.
I potted up and wired the plant in early October, and it seems very happy, but I wasn't expecting it to flower for a good long time!
The pick on the bottom right is how it looked before the wiring.

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Trees...Good, aren't they!!!

[Thymetraveller]

Well, after much fevered anticipation...the bud fell off.
Never mind!
Dewired and lightly trimmed, I'm starting to think about a new pot for this little cutie when the time is right.
She's 2cm at the base,
15cm tall,
and 25cm across at the widest point.
What size pot should I go for?
I read somewhere that pomegranates like a deeper pot. Can anyone confirm this?
As for shape and colour, the search is on!

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[Watto]

I find that they like/need quite a lot of fertilizer and that also improves fruiting and flowering. I think a smaller pot would make yours look better.

[Thymetraveller]

Thanks Watto!
I was leaning towards a smaller pot.
I'll up the fert regime as advised, but I presume I should hold off over winter?
I have a lovely twin trunk full size pomegranate waiting to go into a bonsai pot come spring too. It's the double-flowered one on my avatar.

Cheers!

[kcpoole]

No reason to hold off fertilisiing our trees unless they go dormant.
I doubt (in Sydney) a pomegranate will stop growing over winter.

I fert just about everything year round here and Grants test on pines indicates that fertilising them over winter is probably a good idea
the only reason to stop fertilising deciduaous trees IMHO is to help them get better colour in Autumn

Ken

[Thymetraveller]

Thanks Ken, that's worth knowing.
If they don't go dormant, does that affect when we can repot?