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Tropical Fruit => Tropical Fruit Discussion => Topic started by: Eclissato on November 29, 2018, 11:54:30 AM
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Hi, I wanna try to grow psidium cattleianum, but I've read a lot of contraddiction on the web, in taste especially.
Are there some cultivar in particular? Which is the most cold resistant? First of all I wanna eat fruit, so transformation of fruit fall in a second line of importance for me. Are there cultivar without seeds?
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I haven't seen any improved varieties of strawberry/lemon guavas. In my own experience:
Strawberry (red) guava advantages: Plant is more vigorous, heavier bearing, fruit keeps a little longer on the counter.
Strawberry guava disadvantages: Smaller fruit, a little more astringent than lemon guava, a little more tart, and the fruit's red color might attract more birds/pests than yellow ones.
Lemon (yellow) guava advantages: slightly larger fruit, softer fruit, better fruit to seed ratio, sweeter.
Lemon guava disadvantages: Less vigorous plant, fruit doesn't keep as well on the counter.
I'd go with the lemon guava, but that's just my two cents from growing both varieties in Southern California.
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I had both and removed the yellow one. The yellow fruit get sun burn if you are in a hot area and turn to mush to easily. The red fruit has a much longer hang time on the plant and firmer texture that doesnt go mushy. And it makes way more fruit.
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I like them both and it will be hard for me to chose between them. Here is my Yellow. The fruits are bigger then Red. I put them in a frig and forgot for nearly a month and they were still good when I found them. The Red ones would be spoiled.
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They are super variable across the board. There are ping pong ball sized red and yellow.
There are incredibly productive for their size red and yellow.
Bottom line: most people think yellow tastes better but again so much variability in seedlings.
I want to know what people have successfully grafted on ??, as i have a large red i’d like to top work.
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Yellow. You won't bother with the red after it gets medium size and they'll just collect fruit flies.
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Miguel.pt from Portugal has selected better larger fruited strains from both the red and yellow varieties. Try to get some seeds from him.
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I removed my Strawberry guava as the fruit is subpar in my opinion and gets heavily attacked by fruit fly.
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my red is starting to ripen. tastes like a fruit drink but shelf life is short
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I would get the better selected varieties if you can. I have the lemon guava and the fruit taste horrible.
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OmG it is an hard problem :o so the best choice is to grow psidium cattleianum from a selected seeds? how many years does it takes for the first fruit? :-X
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If you strain out the seeds from the pulp/juice, they make an excellent italian ice!
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It can fruit in 3 years from seed is my experience.