I planted a pineapple guava in March and just switched it to drip irrigation. I have a 5 GPH emitter, and run it 1 hour every 2 days. It's about 2 feet tall and wide.
I just bought 3 of these this year and I live in Florida and they are growing fast one was in a 1-gallon container two of them were in Pint containers and the ones that were in the Pint have almost caught up to the one gallon size but they're steadily putting on leaves and growing real well I water them at least every other day. I put osmocote around them and gave them a couple of doses of miracle grow plant food
Best Feijoa video I’ve seen! Just one question, what is the best time of year to plant them in-ground? I’m in a Mediterranean climate and have heard citrus, avocado and olives shoud be planted in spring but most other fruit trees in fall. Wondering which category feijoas fall under? Thanks!
Its kinda weird. I planted a pineapple guava about two months ago and it doesn't look like it has grown at all. It doesn't look like it's dying though either.
I have five varieties on my property in central Florida. It took about five years to get fruit. I only got fruit production when I started hand cross pollinating them. I’ve noticed this is a popular bush in Florida however the nurseries don’t usually sell them as fruit trees, they sell them as ornamental bushes. So I think people usually get ungrafted varieties and they usually do not produce fruit because they are all the same variety. For example in my area I’ve seen and talked to a lot of people with pines guava. Most people I met who have this in their yard are unaware that there is even a fruit.
@@TheChenny73 yes I noticed hand pollination helps with fruiting. I stopped trusting the nurseries who sell "named" varieties as I've been burned before.
@@qctropicals I purchased five varieties online from a place called EdibleLandscaping approximately five years ago. It took awhile to get fruit as they were literally grafted sticks. Now they are all bushes six feet tall. I actually lost all the tags so at this point I couldn’t tell what’s what. However, I’ve noticed they are all different in appearance and fruit shape.
I am planning to transfer my 4 years old PG to better place in my garden. Tree branches are soft and fragile. Do you suggest replanting or not. Since the roots are shallow l am scared to kill it
So any other variety of guava will cross pollinate with the the pineapple guava, I don't have pineapple I have strawberry and pink, I would like to find a Mexican cream guava they are supposed to be very sweet. Do you know anything about Spanish limes, do they need a male and a female to fruit, those are supposed to be very sweet when they are fully ripe, one guy said they will look like they are going bad when they are fully ripe? They are supposedly not limes, they are related to lychee. Thanks You may already know this but here is what google says "First, though self-fruitful, no pineapple guava varieties are entirely self-fertile. The percentage varies per type, weather, cross-pollination, bird and bee activity, etc. All varieties, including the species, generally produce more and better quality fruit if a second variety is planted nearby." I don't necessarily believe what google says because there are bad about telling a person one thing on one side of the page and something totally the opposite on the other side of the page.
pineapple guava is not a true guava. The fruit just looks like it hence the name. You need another pineapple guava to cross pollinate. Spanish limes need separate plants male and female. They also need high humidity to set flower.
Great video, never thought i could grow this in AZ. From your experience, will two pineapple guava plants of the same variety, planted next to each other, will fruit and pollinate? Or they need to be of different varieties to be be able to pollinate and fruit? Also hand pollination only works for different varieties?
@@qctropicals thanks, my friend, would like to plant a feijoa Bambina variety, and he received a reply from Tharfield Nursery in New Zealand which as I understand produced this variety and asked if this variety can fruit on its own without nearby Feijoas, as on their website it is listed as self-infertile and online appear as either self-infertile or self-fertile. Below is their answer. Do you believe it can still fruit on its own, as I can understand birds can help if there's a nearby feijoa but I doubt it can fruit on its own especially in countries other than New Zealand where feijoas as it's not so common to be planted so that birds can pollinate. I guess their argument for fruiting on its own is mostly based on birds to travel distances to pollinate feijoas What do you think of this? Would you plant this when this is listed as self-infertile? as I know that for self-infertile varieties you need another close or nearby variety to pollinate/fruit 'Thank you for pointing out the (I must agree) confusing description on our website of the ability of the Bambina to set fruit. Being self-infertile means that the same flower can’t set fruit with its own pollen and requires pollen from another flower (of the same plant or another Feijoa plant) to set fruit (hence only one plant would only be required to set fruit but multiple plants just increases the changes for pollinating and hence the possibility of more fruit. (This being different from Wiki Tu which required another variety for pollinating)'Probably the easiest way to explain is that if you have just one Bambina plant you will get fruit (as birds will go from flower to flower on the same plant) Additional opportunities for pollinating are, additional plants (of Bambina or other Feijoas) (and this doesn’t have to be close by, birds will fly considerable distance and still provide additional pollinating). So minimum requirement would be 1 Feijoa (bambina) and 1 bird visiting the flowers. In our experience it is seldom that a Feijoa (of any variety) will not provide fruit, mainly because there are so many feijoa plants in gardens around the neighbourhood. It is true that additional plants (or more Feijoa plants in the neighbourhood) provide more opportunities for pollinating and hence a higher possibility of more fruit per plant.'
As far I know from reading other pollination issues, for example blueberries, you need to have other varieties to pollinate. The same variety doesn't make your tree to have fruits. I guess it is quite difficult to find another variety for pineapple guava in USA.
How many *inches per year do these grow (in TREE FIRM) in the ground in ideal conditions for zone 8b/9a? I heard you say it’s a slow grower. Wanting to find something that might grow at least 12 inches per year roughly. Thanks
