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My sugar apple season is ending and I picked some beauties this weekend. The biggest this year are 20 ounces for both Big Red and Big Green. The Big Red on the scale was actually a bit larger but a bird attacked one side and removed a nice chunk. I have gotten larger ones in the past but this year I did not thin the crop so as a result I did not get any of the bigger ones (24oz+). The quality of the pulp is still awesome and I encourage more people to try these especially since they are easy to fruit in pots. Fresh seeds are available so PM me if interested.
So! what is unique for you?
Thanks dxgn for your report! and what about fruit taste, pulp, etc?
Wow, that's a very reddish/pretty 'Apple' guava. I wish that variety was here in S. Florida, USA. It definitely would be worth the trouble bagging. There's quite nothing like a perfect, worm free, quality good tasting guava.
Some of your guys and gals have a mango fetish some have avocado fetish
I am crazy over feijoa/ pineapple guava / Acca sellowiana
Was trying to figure out the best method of propagation of feijoa / pineapple guava / Acca sellowiana cuttings and came across thiS video.
Anyone try it this way?
http://youtu.be/zBD671kKkCQ
Bass,
Yellow Egyptian guava? Very tasty....I really like it!
Just send me an email.
I may be able to help you!
I have limited quantities of Valentine pomelo seeds. The seeds are collected from a fruit grown at
Lindcove REC. The seeds are light pink in color. I will pot them soon if no one wants them.
Ken
Pine apple tasting yellow small fruit is notorious for slow germination. Too much watering will kill it during winter time here in s. florida. Its tend to drop leaves & go dorman in winter; water once a week just to keep soil barely moist.
Wood ash mixed with dam vermiculite & sand 20:30:50 combination, wood ash will trick it into thinking a Savannah burn off if seed come from dry Savannah like in Senegal.
Wet area, take a fresh shit, make sure its moist almost diarrhea & mix it in with seeds right away, wait a day, & add the material on top. This stimulate it going through animal digestive system.
Giberallic acid produce spindly sickly plant, all my plants succumb to mysterious & die from gb treament
In West Africa its a much appreciate weed fruit of the millet field, the soil poor sand, the field get burn after harvest, sit fallow until next rainy season, and they pop all over the dry savanna.
Here in Florida I lost a few to wet season fungus, please do not give it too much tender loving care or it will not fruit well but produce edible young leaves for your millet mash with bush meat dinner.
These sites have them on & off
Tradewindsfruit.com
http://www.tropical-exotic-seeds-and-plants.com
Rarepalmseeds.com
Buy from different sources because they are pan african so you can find strain more suitable to your climate, young shoot were eaten by villagers in West Africa mash in smoke herring on millet mash; not bad!
Jet,
The bud graft method works for me.
I have been successful grafting guavas. The only success that I've had was using the veneer graft method. That's it. Nothing else has worked for me. Also the freshness of the budwood is critical. I've had the best results when the scions are grafted the same day they were harvested. It seems that once they take, they grow fast. I did not document the time of the year that I performed those grafts. The last successful graft that I performed I think it was in the middle of the winter. It was Red Malaysian Guava and is pushing already. One more thing, it seems like some of the grafts take awhile to push as well. Hope that helps.
