tasting strawberry guava for the first time

[fruitlovers]

Those big green guavas in BKK are called Thai apple guavas, and are a totally different species than strawberry guava of this thread. Yes the apple guava is picked green and hard, before fruitflies feast on them. Very fine netting works very well to keep out fruitflies. I notice they use them for this purpose in Israel. It's hard to get such netting here. If our strawberry guavas were netted we could export billions of pounds of them. I think this fruit would have very wide consumer acceptance, it's a very good tasting fruit.

[bangkok]

Oscar that net is very cheap here, my wife made my mango-bags from that. It costs 40 baht a metre by 1.5 metre (3.1' x 5') for 1.3 us$. We can buy it at the fabricshop at the market. They have it in many colors but i like the darkgreen one.

I don't like the apple-guave so much but it is a good diet snack for at night. Thai eat that with sugar and salt and/or chilipowde or some sauce.

I will try the strawberry guave when i see them.

[huertasurbanas]

Hi, reading wikipedia about feijoas:

"Feijoas may be cool-stored for approximately a month and still have a few days of shelf-life at optimum eating maturity. They also may be frozen for up to one year without a loss in quality."

now I am wondering: strawberry guava and maybe almost all the fruits from myrtaceae could be stored that way?

[fruitlovers]

Strawberry guava a lot more perishable on shelf than feijoa. But sure you can freeze them for long time.
PS Feijoa not even really a guava, so very different.

[BirdsAndTrees]

:0

Strawberries!

.....

Just watch out for pests

[venturabananas]

Not worth growing....the fruits are unsavory and the tree is invasive. I dumped mine after 2 years of XXX yield and growth plus cruddy fruits.

I shared this opinion initially.  When we bought our house a few years ago, there was a strawberry guava in the yard.  It had been neglected for years.  The fruit were tiny, resinous, and sour.  I don't mind resinous and sour that much, but they were still outside of my range of enjoyable fruit.  After months of regular watering and a bit of fertilizer, the fruit transformed.  They are now sometimes as big as ping-pong balls and sweet and delicious.  On top of that, the little tree is disease and pest free (here in CA, at least), attractive, and aside from a little water and fert, requires nothing.  And it produces fruit most of the year.  What's not to like?

[huertasurbanas]

Would be a very easy fruit to mass produce in Argentina. If you don't have fruit flies there you could become a millionaire!    Dried they might be good mixed with your yerba mate? Or how about membrillo made out of strawberry guavas?

I agree, very nice ideas. Anyway, I think there is fruit fly here (I dont had it in my yards, but I know people at Junin that talks about fruit fly in peaches and so on).

Maybe de guaraní indians mixed them with their yerba mate! for sure!; and, of course you can make a similar to membrillo jam of this fruit; yes, it could have many ways.

I am very enthusiastic like you and I like to innovate and do crazy things and risky. It could be a total failure, and you need a lot of money to mass produce, but maybe it could be possible.

[huertasurbanas]

Not worth growing....the fruits are unsavory and the tree is invasive. I dumped mine after 2 years of XXX yield and growth plus cruddy fruits.

I shared this opinion initially.  When we bought our house a few years ago, there was a strawberry guava in the yard.  It had been neglected for years.  The fruit were tiny, resinous, and sour.  I don't mind resinous and sour that much, but they were still outside of my range of enjoyable fruit.  After months of regular watering and a bit of fertilizer, the fruit transformed.  They are now sometimes as big as ping-pong balls and sweet and delicious.  On top of that, the little tree is disease and pest free (here in CA, at least), attractive, and aside from a little water and fert, requires nothing.  And it produces fruit most of the year.  What's not to like?

Very nice to know it... mine is flowering again, really cool! but the bad thing is that we will have frosts in mid may (autum)... so I dont think we will have another crop.

How is your climate at CA?

oh, now I see, zone 10, just -1.1 ºC frosts, you are lucky

when there is a frost, does your s. guava still flowering and bearing fruits?

[huertasurbanas]

Hello again,

I went to a friend's house, he has several fruit trees (cold weather) as a hobby in his country house. I took two ripe fruits strawberry guava from my tree.

He is very critical of what he does not like.

I gave him the first fruit, small but quite ripe. He wanted to cut it with a knife to see inside. I said "no, eat it whole, and then cut the other that is larger."

He savored a moment, he thought about it and said, spectacular! something different!

What a joy, if the strawberry guava liked to this friend of mine, will like almost everyone!

[huertasurbanas]

it is incredible how the people confuse strawberry guava with another guavas:

https://farmtropical.com/product/strawberry-guava/

[venturabananas]

when there is a frost, does your s. guava still flowering and bearing fruits?

I can't say -- there hasn't been a frost in my backyard, where the tree is, for the 3 years I've lived here.  But when it gets down into the mid-30's (F) for several nights, the banana plants look bad, but the strawberry guava looks perfectly happy.

[huertasurbanas]

Hi all,

how long strawberry guava seeds maintain their viability?

what is the best way to save them?

[fruitlovers]

Hi all,

how long strawberry guava seeds maintain their viability?

what is the best way to save them?

If you dry them and refrigerate them they will be viable for over one year.

[huertasurbanas]

Thanks Oscar

Do feral pigs deliver strawberry guava seeds to your house there in Hawaii?

those feral pigs have a paradise there!

[fruitlovers]

Thanks Oscar

Do feral pigs deliver strawberry guava seeds to your house there in Hawaii?

those feral pigs have a paradise there!

Not any more. Had to fence my whole place to keep the pigs out. There were huge herds running through my property thrashing everything. Their favorite was tossing all my pots around looking for grubs under the pots. Giant headache till i fenced the place.

[huertasurbanas]

Huertas,

Man those look sweet! and super ripe!!  They'd be a Maggot motel in south FL.

now you need a refractometer to test the brix of the fruit!

The higher the brix level, the more nutritious and valuable the fruits are.

Hi master...

something like this?

http://www.soltec-cmc.com.ar/tipo1.php?Sec0=068&gclid=CKi5gsOohrYCFQnznAod7XsAqw

[huertasurbanas]

I am loving it, all my friends and familiars liked them:



The only problem maybe are the hard seeds, but in traditional and popular fruits there are many of them with that kind of problems (citrics, etc)!

[CoPlantNut]

I shared this opinion initially.  When we bought our house a few years ago, there was a strawberry guava in the yard.  It had been neglected for years.  The fruit were tiny, resinous, and sour.  I don't mind resinous and sour that much, but they were still outside of my range of enjoyable fruit.  After months of regular watering and a bit of fertilizer, the fruit transformed.  They are now sometimes as big as ping-pong balls and sweet and delicious.  On top of that, the little tree is disease and pest free (here in CA, at least), attractive, and aside from a little water and fert, requires nothing.  And it produces fruit most of the year.  What's not to like?

Very nice to know it... mine is flowering again, really cool! but the bad thing is that we will have frosts in mid may (autum)... so I dont think we will have another crop.

How is your climate at CA?

oh, now I see, zone 10, just -1.1 ºC frosts, you are lucky

when there is a frost, does your s. guava still flowering and bearing fruits?

I had to pull my strawberry guava in during the winter; it gets down to -30ºC here but at least that prohibits fruit flies...  The plant was given a spot 2 meters from a small south-facing (sunny in winter in the Northern hemisphere) window.  Even with a maximum 1/2 hour of sun for 5 months, it flowered, set fruit and though smaller than during summer, it's starting to ripen today:



That's a very light-deprived dragonfruit growing over it.  The whole strawberry guava plant is less than 1 meter tall and wide in a 5-gallon fabric pot:



The Barbados Cherry / Acerola closer to the window has churned out 3 batches of fruit since it came inside for the winter (the strawberry guava is on the left in this picture, and the window in the background with the blind down is their only source of light for the winter):



Both the strawberry guava and Acerola seem to be extremely adaptable and easy-to-fruit plants; even as houseplants for half the year they seem to keep fruiting.  I don't have room to keep all my plants in my basement grow-room over the winter, so plants that can survive the winter as houseplants (and keep fruiting!) are nice.

   Kevin

[FlyingFoxFruits]

yes that looks like the device.

I need one as well...I've seen fancy digital ones that are easier to use, but more costly.

Huertas,

Man those look sweet! and super ripe!!  They'd be a Maggot motel in south FL.

now you need a refractometer to test the brix of the fruit!

The higher the brix level, the more nutritious and valuable the fruits are.

Hi master...

something like this?

http://www.soltec-cmc.com.ar/tipo1.php?Sec0=068&gclid=CKi5gsOohrYCFQnznAod7XsAqw

[PedalaiMaster]

"It was not necessary to add sugar, which happens with other traditional fruits such as strawberries."

You must be eating unripe strawberries if you have to add sugar.

I have a young strawberry guava which should fruit this year. I have lemon guava which has fruited and tastes very good. Most people seem to prefer the yellow/lemon guava to the strawberry.

I've got both! I think they are only of the same quality. regards-PM

[huertasurbanas]

Huertas,

Man those look sweet! and super ripe!!  They'd be a Maggot motel in south FL.

now you need a refractometer to test the brix of the fruit!

The higher the brix level, the more nutritious and valuable the fruits are.

Hi, finally, I got it! 4 years later, jajajajjaa

20º Brix! (a bit overripe) amazing fruits!

[Tropicdude]

Huertas,

Man those look sweet! and super ripe!!  They'd be a Maggot motel in south FL.

now you need a refractometer to test the brix of the fruit!

The higher the brix level, the more nutritious and valuable the fruits are.

Hi, finally, I got it! 4 years later, jajajajjaa

20º Brix! (a bit overripe) amazing fruits!

Pictures, or it never happened,   haha      I must have missed this thread way back then,  I also have what is supposed Strawberry guava,  growing in a container,   thr tree looks very nice,  its growing in a self watering pot  I have at work on the balcony.   I was concerned about it attracting fruit flies someday.    I have the same problem as you did,  it sometimes puts out a few flowers, but never make any fruit.  so guess I need for it to get a little bigger.

[WaterFowler]

Thanks Oscar

Do feral pigs deliver strawberry guava seeds to your house there in Hawaii?

those feral pigs have a paradise there!

Not any more. Had to fence my whole place to keep the pigs out. There were huge herds running through my property thrashing everything. Their favorite was tossing all my pots around looking for grubs under the pots. Giant headache till i fenced the place.

Wow, I wish I had your problem. I'd never run out of pork chops and bacon. Them bothering my plants would be a small price to pay.

[huertasurbanas]

Huertas,

Man those look sweet! and super ripe!!  They'd be a Maggot motel in south FL.

now you need a refractometer to test the brix of the fruit!

The higher the brix level, the more nutritious and valuable the fruits are.

Hi, finally, I got it! 4 years later, jajajajjaa

20º Brix! (a bit overripe) amazing fruits!

Pictures, or it never happened,   haha      I must have missed this thread way back then,  I also have what is supposed Strawberry guava,  growing in a container,   thr tree looks very nice,  its growing in a self watering pot  I have at work on the balcony.   I was concerned about it attracting fruit flies someday.    I have the same problem as you did,  it sometimes puts out a few flowers, but never make any fruit.  so guess I need for it to get a little bigger.

I would like to take a photo to the refractometer results, but you have to put you eye almost inside it to see something, dont know if the cam can take it...

[greenman62]

the first i tasted them they were great.
later in the season not si much.
not sure if it was too much rain (we had a lot)
or what the problem was.
i have a yellow and a red. the red is flush with flower buds now, the yellow just isnt growing as vigorously.
i figure i can always remove them if i need the space. i am keeping them pruned down for now.
I am thinking to maybe graft to them  later.
i hear there are a couple of "varieties" with improved flavor now.
i even got seeds for some (top tropicals seeds), seedlings are a few inches tall now.