Very helpful thanks! I couldn’t believe the size of my cherry guavas a couple years ago on a young tree that had very few fruits, they were like golf ball size and way more juicy and delicious, double the size of fruits from older trees that were loaded with fruit so I experimented with the other older trees the next time they fruited and did thinning and sure enough they produced huge fruits too! My 3 bigger guavas are all fruiting properly for the first time this year so I will be following your suggestions. Thanks again for the logical and easy to understand video!
Oh wow thank you so much for your supportive comment 💚 I'm so glad this video helped you and verified your experiment! Also super happy to hear you got nice big fruits again and I hope you get lots more in future 🌻
It is a pleasure and I'm glad you got value out of watching this video and that it was the perfect timing for you and your guava that is currently in flower 🌻
Hi Sir. My guava tree is 3-4 years old and started fruiting this year. The fruits are huge and still green and hard. But this morning, two unripe fruits have dropped. I tasted one which was softer still green, and it wasn’t sweet. Is this issue of fruit drop due to it becoming overbearing? Should I pick some of the green guavas so that the others can ripen and taste better ? Will the dropped fruit ripen and become sweeter if I keep it in a paper bag?
Wow, what a great set of questions you have there! From the sound of things you probably have too many fruit on the tree as it is still quite young. Thinning the curentt fruit to only a few will help them get bigger and ripen quicker. It will also save energy for the next growing seasons. As for the ones that have fallen. If they have slightly started changing colour then they should ripen, but if they are green and hard they won't. I hope this helps 🌻
I have a question - what kind of fertilization schedule and what kind of NPK you use? I’m in South Florida, so my guava was growing through winter months as well, everything grows here year round. How many crops do you usually have? 2? I’m particular interested, because I am too planning to keep my guava dwarf and I think I have the same variety - Ruby Supreme, leaves and fruit are the same, only mine hasn’t fruited yet. Thank you in advance !
Great set of questions here, thank you! So all I do is regularly add horse manure compost that I make at home, worm tea and wood ash. I find that works for me as I am trying to not bring in any external fertilisers, but if you do, it needs to be a balanced fertiliser. This is because guava trees put on lots of growth so they need nitrogen, but you don't want aggressive growth, so you shouldn't go with a N-heavy fertiliser. You then need the support of the P and K for flowering and fruit set, so balance works best. I do find that the most important thing with fruit set on guava trees is that they are well watered and maintain consistent moisture during fruit set and any dryness could cause the tree to drop its flowers and young fruit. I also usually only get one crop per year, but if you are in a more tropical climate then you could possibly get 2. I hope this helps? 🌻
As far as I know you would need to thin them all besides a cherry guava we that's more of shrub/bush and puts on much smaller fruits so it can handle the full load. You don't technically need to thin guava trees, but if you don't you will end up with much smaller fruits that are not as sweet with lots of them staying green and not ripening, which is a waste 🌻
