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I've tried searching for information on pomegranate tree bonsai but almost all the information I find seems to refer to the dwarf variety.

My mom has several nice pomegranate trees around the garden and I was thinking of taking a few cuttings with me and trying to grow them into bonsai. Are they worth the trouble of growing into bonsai, or would I be better off starting with a dwarf pomegranate tree instead?

Thanks!

Jo?o, where are you from? Portugal, Angola, Brasil, Goa? It depends on the climate.

Hi Clicio, nice that you recognised the name

I'm indeed from Portugal, but I currently live in Berlin.

Jo?o wrote: Hi Clicio, nice that you recognised the name
I'm indeed from Portugal

Jo?o, para um brasileiro como eu é fácil!
Pommegranates can be beautiful bonsai, but they are tricky. Best would be to collect an old short specimen (yamadori), chop it down and build the ramification. If you get a sapling it will take many years to be an interesting bonsai.
Perhaps your mom in Portugal has a small gnarly olive tree also? They make wonderful bonsai too!
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Ahh, true, you have home advantage

I'm not sure if I'd be able to easily collect pomegranate yamadori material so my plan was to take a few cuttings and allow them to grow in a pot for a while before turning them into bonsai. I know they take quite a while, but oh well... My main question is about the specific species though; is a regular pomegranate tree suitable for bonsai, or will I get much better results with the dwarf pomegranate variety?

As for gnarly olives... There aren't any in the garden here, but maaaaaybe I could find some And I agree, I've seen some amazing olive bonsai trees

I have a bunch of semi-old pomegranates. I dug a large one from a garden in winter, and it turned out, there were multiple plants in there. Stems of about 5cm.

I will be selling a bunch of them once I am convinced of sufficient roots/establishment.

I'd love to see them

Clicio wrote: Perhaps your mom in Portugal has a small gnarly olive tree also? They make wonderful bonsai too!

Actually... I noticed some wild olive trees on the rocky area behind all the pines and cork oaks here. I need to go on short hike and see if I spot anything interesting sometime

Clicio wrote:

Jo?o wrote: Perhaps your mom in Portugal has a small gnarly olive tree also? They make wonderful bonsai too!

Riding the bus up the hill in Corfu I noticed some old olive trees. Some - that is may a couple of hundred, and they were pretty old- trunks over a meter thick. I asked the guide on the bus how old they were, and the answer was 500-600 years, mostly.

A six hundred year olive tree is something. A forest of them is really something.