🔴 How to Plant Pomegranate from Seed

In today's video I will be showing you how to germinate these pomegranates that start to appear in the market at the beginning of autumn. It is a fruit that we can consume directly or we can also prepare juices, but for example in Mexican cuisine it is used a lot for chiles en nogada. So that tomorrow you have your pomegranate plants and as we do the transplant, we are going to try to make the plant have a single basal stem so that it branches out in the morning from above and that the pomegranates stay hanging and all the cup that forms above protects the fruits. The pomegranate is a fruit that has high levels of antioxidants and this allows us to remove all the free radicals that we have in the body and helps all cellular rejuvenation. Notice that they are very red, just like everything is on the outside and this is because the shade was well cultivated so that the sun is not affecting them. In each of these angles we are going to cut to be able to consume it directly in this way. Look what this is. They have a lot of seeds and in this case it is to eat it as it is, but if you wanted to use it to make juice, we are going to cut it this way. Look how it is inside. And with a squeezer, of these that are used for lemon, for example, we squeeze it this way. It is going to burst all the pulp that it has around and we will have practically the seeds ready to be able to plant them. And we are going to get the juice. Very red and super nutritious. And I'm going to tell you how it is. It is spectacular, super sweet. And I'm going to put it directly on this plate to get some seeds and start doing all the cleaning for planting. On a strainer, we are going to put a few. The juice that is going to come out of here, you will be able to take it, so do it on a clean container and then we are going to squeeze them. Because we are going to want all this pulp that is around the seed to disappear with the juice and this is the seed that we are going to be looking for. It has to be even cleaner than this. And you see how they are very white? We will only have to pass it through water to be able to release all the pulp and any remaining juice. And so I leave the juice in a glass. Look at the coloration it has, which is spectacular. And I'm going to start cleaning this with water. The first wash is to be removing all the remaining juice. And we already have practically all the seeds free. In a glass with water, I'm going to put all these seeds that we just separated. Do you see how the pulp is separating? And at this moment we can also put the seeds that we were taking out when we made the juice, which are also quite clean. And now we are going to stir this so that the pulp is in suspension and we are going to take it out in this way. So we are going to have to do several washes to try to eliminate all the remains of pulp that may remain. I add more water to it and separate the pulp again. So, until I make sure I have all the seeds clean. And they were already quite clean. I'm going to take this water, which is the last one I have left, to start doing all this planting. This is how they have to be. And since these pomegranates are obtained for the beginning of autumn, I am going to recommend that the seeds, once you have them very clean, leave them, for example, on a plate until they dry. It is important that they are well separated so that they do not stick. And once they are dry, we are going to have them in this way and that they will not be sticking. And in this case, we are going to store them in paper napkins to be able to be doing the planting in the middle or late winter. So that in this way, once they germinate, we have all the heat and the photoperiod that increases throughout the spring season. This is how we can store them until this planting season. And to do the planting, I'm going to use a container that is well perforated by the base. It will not be like the case of the fruit or the blueberries. And we are also going to make a hole in the lid so that any excess we have of moisture can be going up here. As a substrate, the advantage we have with the pomegranate is that many types of soils grow, so we are not going to have a problem in terms of choice. In this case, I'm going to use a black soil, full, passing approximately, more or less about 4 or 5 centimeters, because they are quite large seeds and I want the root to have good space to grow. And once we have the seeds, we are going to try to put them as far apart as possible. The ones that got stuck together, we separate them. And also the ones that remain on the edges. More than anything, so that when we are doing the first transplant, we do not have problems with the roots. And since they are much larger seeds than, for example, blueberries or plums, we are going to be burying them approximately with half a centimeter of soil. We make a good irrigation. It is normal that we have seeds that come out, then we sink them a little bit again and we add soil again. So we have this mass ready. I leave it covered and I'm going to take it to a place that is warm and well lit. Approximately after 20 days, we start to see the first shoots. And it will be at that moment where we are going to open it and when we see that the substrate dries, we are going to water it. Because that's when this plant will start to consume more water. And as the plant develops and we have this size, we are going to move it to a place that is well lit before doing the transplant so that the plant grows faster. These are the cotiledons. I show you well so that you realize when they are germinating, they are very round. And they will remain with the plant until we have, look, about 15 to 20 centimeters high. Now we do this transplant to see how the root comes and give it more space. I'm going to use a pot that is well perforated. I put these choclo leaves, the chalas, which is spectacular for me because this does not take up space. I'm going to have more soil and tomorrow it ends up decomposing and the roots will already be containing all the substrate well. And I put the same black soil I had before. I'm going to fill it up to half, more or less. And before removing the plant, I water the center well so that the roots have a good level of humidity. This was the one I liked the most. Look at the height it has. And this is going to be ensuring to have a plant that grows much faster. With the fork, and as it grows in many roots, we are going to loosen. Look at the number of roots this has. It's impressive. And you have to try to make it as straight as possible. I squeeze here so that the ones next to it do not dehydrate these roots. A watering and these remain to transplant them later. And in this pot I'm going to drill a little more. At first it may be that the plant ends up falling to one side, but we can solve that very easily with a tutor. In this case, we are practically in autumn, you can do the planting if you want and the transplant, but what you have to keep in mind for this time is that as it is a plant that the leaf falls, we are going to have to try that during all autumn and winter it has good light intensity so that it does not lose the leaves and the plant can continue to grow. Because if at this point we are losing the leaf, we do not have much reserve accumulated in the stems and it will cost a little more to be able to reactivate in the spring season. So what I recommend is that the planting, if you can not keep it in autumn and winter with good lighting, that you do it for the middle of winter so that you arrive with plants of this size in the spring and that you can leave it little by little in the sun. It is important that it does not retain water, that it does not soak, because these plants do not like to have the roots soaked. I clean the pot and I'm going to take them with the others that I have that I transplanted some time ago. And they are plants that we are going to have to put in a place that has good solar radiation because we are going to need all the reserves to accumulate in the stems because when the flowering season comes, all that accumulated reserve will turn into flowers and fruits. They are plants that take about 3 years to start giving flowers. And here I have these others that I transplanted some time ago. Do you see what I was telling you? When this happens to us, we are going to help them with a tutor. We put a stick, a rod that you have, not very close to where the stem is because there we have all the roots, more or less around here, to try to straighten this plant and not have these problems. Because all these bent stems, tomorrow it will be a problem because what we need now is to educate the plant until we have a straight stem so that later on we make it branch everything. To tie it, do you see these cotton threads? As it is very thick, if you open it like this, you can take it out and I have all the threads in this way. They are much finer and it is great for me to be tutoring this plant. We are not going to tighten it much because I don't want the stem to be strangled. That is very important. There it was and we are going to try to put the other one higher to correct this error it had here. And in that case, with a thread, we are going to turn it like this. Here we press a little more, but when we see that it is well straight, we are going to cut this thread. And this is how it was a little more straight and as it develops, I will continue to straighten it so that a good vertical stem can be generated. I hope you liked today's video. 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