Pomegranate cuttings and suckers

[Raymond B]

My pomegranate cutting has been growing good for a few months now, but should I be twisting off that sucker?

[RogerW]

It looks like a shoot from the trunk of the plant , not a sucker.

[Raymond B]

So it's not technically a sucker, but is it good to keep it on?

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[Daluke]

Leave it on to fatten the base.

[shibui]

Any growth from low on the trunk will be helping to make the trunk below get thicker. Most of us aspire to having tapered trunks with quite thick base. Leaving low shoots is one way to get there. At some stage you will need to remove it unless you want to grow a twin trunk style bonsai. Knowing when to remove sacrifice branches is difficult. There's no right answer. Pruning a sacrifice branch does leave a scar which will take some time to heal over - how long depends on how well the species heals, how big the scar is and how well the tree grows after the removal. Most growers try to have sacrifice branches from the rear of the trunk so the scar does not show too much during the time it takes to heal over.
Another alternative is to use the sacrifice branch as a feature - Make a hollow trunk (Uro) or leave a stub of dead wood (jin) to show the tree is old and has suffered some trauma during its life.

Sometimes low shoots like this grow very fast and get taller than the main tree. There is a risk that the lower shoot can swamp the main trunk which can stop growing or even die so generally don't let sacrifice branches grow too big.

Overall there is no problem in allowing this shoot to grow for a while. It will probably be beneficial to leave it for a while anyway.

[Raymond B]

Thanks very much, I'll leave it on for a while

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