Tried pink guava for the first time...

[savemejebus]

Neighbor was nice enough to bring one over. Let's just say I'm glad he only brought one.

It had a very pleasant/tropical aroma, but the taste and abundance of seeds in my mouth just did not combine for a pleasant experience. Glad I haven't planted one of these.

[Coconut]

Neighbor was nice enough to bring one over. Let's just say I'm glad he only brought one.

It had a very pleasant/tropical aroma, but the taste and abundance of seeds in my mouth just did not combine for a pleasant experience. Glad I haven't planted one of these.

Its the only fruit that I have grown in S. florida that truly thrives on neglect & is noted for for their exemplary high protein content when overly ripe! 

[zands]

Neighbor was nice enough to bring one over. Let's just say I'm glad he only brought one.

It had a very pleasant/tropical aroma, but the taste and abundance of seeds in my mouth just did not combine for a pleasant experience. Glad I haven't planted one of these.

I have one growing. I believe it can be juiced and this way you bypass the seeds. I have a juicer so am ready for it

[jez251]

Yeah, too may seeds is a problem. I removed mine as the flavor and seed combo didn't do it for me. I have a Thai guava planted, but it hasn't fruited yet. Hoping that one produces decent fruit.

Jaime

[huertasurbanas]

Hi, how is the pink guava? yellow skin, pink flesh? size and weight?

[savemejebus]

It was small - maybe the size of a large strawberry. Green skin, pink flesh.

[huertasurbanas]

Did you tried some bigger yellow skin, pink fleshed ones? (for sure there must be a lot a variation, the colours maybe dont mean anything) the smell when they are not ripe is similar to cat urine, but when really ripe is similar to mangoes+roses or something like that.

[starling1]

It was small - maybe the size of a large strawberry. Green skin, pink flesh.

Any pink guava that size is a maldeveloped and therefore very low quality example. I suggest trying again.

[JF]

My Pink La Verne Guava are of low quality, They are yellow seedy about the size of my eureka lemon and they produce hundreds of fruits. They are production guavas good for juicing and marmalade

My Hawaiian Honk Kong Pink guava are very mediocre and some as big as an orange. They are thick skin, very meaty good for juicing and  Guava Shells.

My Jalisco Red is the best dessert guava I have, better than Allahabad Safeda and Thai Cream.

[huertasurbanas]

It was small - maybe the size of a large strawberry. Green skin, pink flesh.

Any pink guava that size is a maldeveloped and therefore very low quality example. I suggest trying again.

For sure, it seems that it was not well ripe at all

[starling1]

My Pink La Verne Guava are of low quality, They are yellow seedy about the size of my eureka lemon and they produce hundreds of fruits. They are production guavas good for juicing and marmalade

My Hawaiian Honk Kong Pink guava are very mediocre and some as big as an orange. They are thick skin, very meaty good for juicing and  Guava Shells.

My Jalisco Red is the best dessert guava I have, better than Allahabad Safeda and Thai Cream.

I'd love to get my hands on thai cream and Jalisco. The best I have is china pear. I grow this, Hawaiian and Thai white.

[Mike T]

There are lots of pink fleshed types and they have a stronger aroma and taste than the white fleshed.Some have softer and smaller seeds and a smaller seed cavity in the middle. Most seedless types are white. It sounds like that specimen was not a good one. Mexican cream is a pale fleshed one that is pretty good, and the than types usually have softer seeds than many.I have a couple of seedlings of an orange and yellow fleshed from Brazil and I am hoping they are good.

[BMc]

I find the china pear disgusting. Really horrible. Crops like mad but even juiced it is the poorest example of a guava I could imagine. The parts near the skin are gritty and bitter and the rest of the fruit is just not very good. Can't think of a use for the fruit so as soon as the round leaf tamarind underneath it no longer needs the shade, it gets the chop. Mexican cream is much nicer IMHO.

[Mike T]

Bruce, Limberlost were selling white fleshed and pink fleshed china pears that head pear shaped fruit.I got a pink fleshed and it was good with soft seeds and not as strong as Hawaiian or Hong kong pink. The bugs took it out ad I suspect they just made up a name of a seedling grown variety.

[jmc96]

Mike, those "orange fleshed" labelled guava seeds you sent me ~18mos-2yr ago, are getting to a nice size, may fruit next year, do you have any info on fruit quality?

[huertasurbanas]

Hi, I have an orange variety too, just some months old. Didnt found on the net any photo of a orange guava pulp: do you know about some photo of it?

[JF]

Hi, I have an orange variety too, just some months old. Didnt found on the net any photo of a orange guava pulp: do you know about some photo of it?

Yes. Tlaquepaque guava, we have them all over the place in Socal they are decent nothing special.

do a search in this site and you will find it, in fact here it is with pix I posted

Tlaquepaque amarilla

http://tropicalfruitforum.com/index.php?topic=8129.msg104035#msg104035

[jcaldeira]

The most common type of guava in Fiji is yellow-skinned with pink fleshed.  Size of a plum.  Sweet and tasty, but does have a lot of seeds. 

When eating in the field, I only eat down to the seedy part.   The center is sweetest part, but the seeds in my teeth are annoying.  At home, they make excellent seedless guava jam and guava paste.

[lajolla]

are there any GOOD pink guavas? Anyone had any experience with hong kong pink?

[bangkok]

are there any GOOD pink guavas? Anyone had any experience with hong kong pink?
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In Thailand they eat the guava's unripe. It's not bad but also nothing to write home about.

One day i tasted a ripe guava that was pink inside , it tasted bland and just a little sweet. I never had a good guava so i wonder if they even exist.

[starling1]

Man, so much Guava hate! The trick with Guava is remove the seed cavity and flesh closest to it entirely--only eat the firm flesh. Under ripe is better than over ripe IMO. A good guava is a good fruit.

[Mike T]

They are a good fruit especially large pink ones that have a rich taste. I have been eating them since I was a kid and just swallow the seeds. The cherry guavas are a bit more of a 'drag' with the seeds.

[huertasurbanas]

are there any GOOD pink guavas? Anyone had any experience with hong kong pink?

I love our guavas, have 2 trees from Argentina (they naturalized in the north of our country), I tried just another variety, cream, and the taste was too bland -it was over ripe-. So, pink guava it's one of my favourite fruits and cant wait form them to enter in season