• Pomegranate plants are available in flowering or fruiting varieties.Pomegranate image by Mariyan Gochev from Fotolia.com
  
  

Harvest Times

• Pomegranates, like most fruit trees, support a single harvest. Though pomegranates can be harvested from September through December in warm, dry climates, successive picking will not increase the overall yield.
  
  

Healthy Harvests

• Thinning immature fruit will increase the size and quality of an existing crop but will not result in a higher yield. Harvest diseased and cracked pomegranates before they spread contagion to healthy fruit. Removing damaged fruit will result in a higher yield of healthy fruit.
  
  

Bottom Line

• Thinning immature fruit improves fruit quality, but picking fruit will not increase the yields.