Today I discover a surprise crop of guavas and show you how to grow your own guavas from seed in under 3 years. I also explain what to do with excess fruit and why I love this tree when you’re starting a food forest. Happy growing! Alex 🌱
Breeds fruit fly and a bit of a weed hazard if your not careful. I chopped all mine down apart from a yellow cherry that I net. Sounds like you eat all yours though so no chance for fly to breed. I wasn’t eating all mine so they had to go.
Yes fair enough! I have them in my food forest tree rows more as a support tree as they’re fast growing and love to be pruned. And then I can keep a couple of the best trees for fruit. 🌿
Just came across your channel today and have subscribed as well as subscribing to your website. I have an acre just south of Brisbane so in a similar climate so I'm excited to see what the growing possibilities are. Already can't wait for future content as I've binged through all your videos already
Fantastic! Thank you so much! That’s so exciting you are in the area. Any questions don’t hesitate to ask and I’ll do my best to answer them for you. Wishing you so much joy in transforming your 1 acre property! Alex 💚🌿
Nice I do the same thing with the water but afterwards I put in sand to take off the flesh off the seeds & then place in the sun to dry out about then plant out
Ok, putting Guava in the hopper. I'm also excited about growing Jerusalem Artichokes, or Sunchokes, which I just learned about the other day. I'll have to look in the store for some Guava, which should not be hard to find around here. I love your over seeding method.
I am currently trying (and trying, and trying, and trying) to get an avocado seed to turn into an Avocado tree. LOL I have planted over a hundred seeds. Of course, now I discovered that I have been doing it all wrong. No worries. I'm sure the microbes enjoyed them all! Plus, I have so many other things growing, it really doesn't matter. I never experience failures. Planting seeds is success. The rest is not up to me. That's Papa's job! And, if He wants the microbes eating Avocado seeds, who am I to complain, right?
@@dreamsofgreen It does help. Thank you. I planted 3 yesterday on a plot that has had tons of organic material from my wife's yardwork company decaying away nicely for ages. (months LOL) Well, I just cleaned it all off, and into the compost pile, and covered it with new woodchips that were just delivered. I dug a hole in the woodchips down to the soil surface and held the chips back with a metal coffee can (that's how deep the woodchips are). I cut out the bottom, and sliced the side so I can get the can off the trunk when they grow. So, that was 9-17-23. I'll keep you posted on developments.
Some seeds if they aren’t fresh I may soak such as custard apple and some I need to scarify with boiling water such as acacia.. just depends on the seed. But with fresh seed as shown here I just sow directly. Hope this helps! Alex 🌿
@@dreamsofgreen yes thanks but boiling water?? Wow I'd thought that heat woulda kill em. How long do you soak em in boiling water?? I have a friend in Mexico who presoaks his seeds especially seeds from the annona family in a solution of Gibberlic acid produces early germination of healthy sprouts. Another guy presoaks dried seeds in a weak Hydrogen peroxide solution with warm distilled water & abit of sucrose. Love your channel doh you really keep it real!!!! Thanks for the inspiration too!👍👍👍👍😉
I planted a pair of pineapple guavas in spring. They did not flower this year. Maybe next year 🙂 Whenever they do, I'll try to propagate them, as the plants are so expensive here in Germany and I've never seen fruits in shops.
Oh my gosh, pineapple guavas are delicious!! I bought some very small plants just over three years ago in the mail and they haven’t flowered yet either! But I decided to propagate hundreds of them from seed and I’ve planted them out in my food forest just under 2 years ago. They’re frost and drought tolerant which is a huge bonus for me. I hope they flower and fruit soon for you Martina! The flowers are beautiful and edible too 😊🌸🌿
@@dreamsofgreen 😮😯😲😳 HUNDRETS 😳😲😯😮 Wow. Now I want a bigger garden 😂 I already have crazy Ideas about guarilla seed bombing with the seeds of my pawpaws (Asimina triloba) 🙃 Don't tell anybody 😎 Or with all the extra raspberry plants my patch constantly produces. Or the hazlebushes... hazles and rasberries would be "normal" here. but pineaple guavas and pawpaws... hmm... 🙃🙂🙃
Yet another great plant to put on my list of things to grow in the future. You really have inspired me! First I have to get some electrical fencing supplies to create my spot where I’ll start my food forest, to keep out the pesky wild deer. Then hubby can stop mowing that patch, which will make him happy 😊
@@sharonhoffer3599 this is the time to get your nursery set up, plan it all out and then when it rains it’s go time!! I’m laughing as I can totally relate, I have so many trees I want to get in the ground! 💚🌿
@@dreamsofgreen for sure! I have a hoop house where I have my 4 wicking beds where I grow my veg, that takes up one half, the other half has plants in pots on one side, so I’m going to set up a table on the other side and start growing some seeds. I’ve got my bush lemons to start with, been collecting plant tags all week at work (I work at Bunnings in the nursery 😁), been collecting my plastic trays and got my compost ready.
