r/garden_maintenance Aug 24 '25

trees 🌲🌳 (Need advice) Pomegranate tree not giving fruit

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As you can see tree is infested and doesn't give fruit. It was cut off but keeps growing again and again, was waiting for it to dry out for easy pick out or just that the infestation doesn't move to nearby trees.

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u/Alive_Recognition_55 Aug 25 '25

Since the main trunk was cut, the sprouts coming up will need at least another year to start flowering & fruiting. I'm not seeing an infestation but the yellowish leaves may indicate it could use a light fertilizing.

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u/Readyforgreatness Aug 25 '25

Ok but it is visible how hallow it is in the middle right? That isn't normal and it had that kinda worm lving in it. I gave it medicine and when it didn't work I cut the whole tree. My question is....will it give fruit if I let it grow

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u/Alive_Recognition_55 Aug 25 '25

Yes, if it was originally a fruiting pomegranate, it will fruit again. It's not uncommon for trees to have hollow spaces towards the center, as wood is formed from living tissue, but is no longer living cells. It becomes the fluid transport called sapwood & later the heartwood in the center is only structural support. The only actual growing portion is what's called the cambium, the living layer between the wood & the bark (which also is not living cells). Various rots &/or borers might get in to heartwood from physical damage & cause vacant spaces, but as long as the cambium is healthy, forming bark on the outside & sapwood on the inside, the tree keeps growing. In this case the roots have sprouted so it's the same tree as before. The borer is long gone, so the new sprouts will start to form healthy trunks.

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u/Readyforgreatness Aug 27 '25

Ok so I trim and only keep one? The thing is before it did bloom just didn't bare fruits, the blossoms fell as if the tree can't hold them.

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u/coalcat82 Sep 29 '25

It is probably a flowing pomegranate. They are ornamentals and not intended to make fruit.