I have a 1 yr old Pomegranate tree?

I have a 5 year old pomegranate plant that I had to prune heavily back in February. It is grown from seeds and has not set any fruit yet, but it has many buds on it at this time. When it bloomed before (summer before last) it didn't set any fruit. This is alright because I found out they often do not set fruit their first time blooming and usually set less than 50% their second time blooming. It did something very strange last year and I thought it had died; in late August and early September, in less than a week every leaf turned brown and fell off. I kept it through the winter hoping it would recover. This spring it started putting out leaves but the top half of the 3 main stems were dead. I usually don't prune trees unless they are dormant but, since I could see where the dead parts were, I pruned it while it has leaves. It now seems to be doing well; it has about 150 buds and I hope it sets fruit this year.

As for your variety, I cannot say without a picture. There are many varieties, including red, pink, white and even variegated. If you can't match it up through photos online of the various varieties and you can't contact the seller to find out you may have to wait for it to produce and check the varieties again. Mine are seed-grown using seeds I saved from a 'Wonderful' I bought at the grocery store. Yet, the buds on mine are very different then the buds on my sisters' purchased 'Wonderful' tree. Mine are pear-shaped and dark red; hers are oblong and more of an red-orange color. So, mine is probably reverting back to one of the parent varieties but should still produce a good fruit.

I would recommend not pruning at this time unless you have obviously dead branches or stems. The dead parts can be pruned out if you don't cut into the living portion. Once it goes dormant in the fall you can prune to remove excess growth and for shape or height but, for now, I would leave any live growth alone.

You can check these images if you want to try matching yours to find the variety:

http://images.google.com/images?q=pomegranate+vari...

You can poke around on here for more info, including photos:

http://www.oakcreekorchard.com/id79.html

Good luck and enjoy!

There are fourteen types of pomegranate trees that can be bought and grown for your own personal use, but only a handful are popular enough you would be able to find them for yourself. Some hybrids have been made to make it easier to grow them in different climates but they still are mainly restricted to proper growing and blossoming in areas that are mostly hot and humid such as the lower quarter of the United States of America or the more southern most countries of Europe.

Four main types exist in common sales, the Wonderful, which is the most popular pomegranate tree species the world over. It produces very large pomegranate fruits and each fruit has a blushed red skin and juicy red flesh. It grows about 18 feet tall total and if you really have a taste for pomegranate, this tree is considered the best bearer of fruit.

Another type of Pomegranate tree is the Greneda or Grenada that resembles the wonderful tree closely but the fruit it blossoms in much smaller and a much deeper red in color.

The Sweet pomegranate tree is a fairly big pomegranate with distinctive light pink flesh.

The last type we will discuss is the Angel Red; it is the newest type of pomegranate tree available and has grown in popularity recently. It has some very unique qualities in comparison with other pomegranate trees and many now consider it to be the very best type. First it typically bears fruit in early September or late August, earlier than most other pomegranate shrubs, but most amazing is it capacity for bearing many fruits compared to the other species.

I don't know much, but I read somewhere that the dwarf pomegranate tree should grow up to 3 feet tall, maybe 4 feet tall could also be the norm. If your tree continue to grow taller, then you have the regular variety. I think it's okay to prune them. I think you need to wait until your tree have the fruit to be able to determine the variety.

Don't prune before blooming, unless you're willing to sacrifice protential fruit.