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Feijoa self fertile?
« on: December 30, 2022, 03:54:31 AM »
Hello, i am planning on buying a feijoa tree in march and i dont have space for another one so i wanna know if there is a way to know if the feijoa is self fertile or not from a picture of the tree?
i am buying it from here https://horomidis.gr/product/acca-sellowiana-fezoia-i-fegoia/ and it doesnt say what variety it is

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Re: Feijoa self fertile?
« Reply #1 on: December 30, 2022, 09:44:40 AM »
I believe 2 cultivars/varieties or seedlings are needed for cross pollination

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Re: Feijoa self fertile?
« Reply #2 on: December 30, 2022, 12:25:26 PM »
yea you’ll need 2 for good fruit production even if they’re marketed as the “self fertile” variety. Don’t get me wrong thr self fertile ones will make a fruit sparingly, but 2 is just so much more worth it.

You can graft 2 types onto one stock, online says grafting is difficult but not impossible. The colder it is outside the better they taste
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Re: Feijoa self fertile?
« Reply #3 on: December 31, 2022, 12:29:28 PM »
yea you’ll need 2 for good fruit production even if they’re marketed as the “self fertile” variety. Don’t get me wrong thr self fertile ones will make a fruit sparingly, but 2 is just so much more worth it.

You can graft 2 types onto one stock, online says grafting is difficult but not impossible. The colder it is outside the better they taste

I would give them a 2/10 for grafting difficulty. I had almost 100% takes. It's not quite stonefruit status which is 1/10 for ease but still not bad. Grafted in spring. I finally got fruit off mine when it was flowering on several different branches.

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Re: Feijoa self fertile?
« Reply #4 on: December 31, 2022, 01:01:14 PM »
YOU ONLY NEED ONE TREE. I have one nazemetz and it Produces a ton of fruit, more than we can eat, and it’s a small tree.
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Re: Feijoa self fertile?
« Reply #5 on: December 31, 2022, 02:08:27 PM »
YOU ONLY NEED ONE TREE. I have one nazemetz and it Produces a ton of fruit, more than we can eat, and it’s a small tree.

Perhaps selected varieties are this way, or you have flowering on the rootstock? I had substantial flowering on two plants with zero fruit set for years. Tacked on a few types and it's game time now.

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Re: Feijoa self fertile?
« Reply #6 on: December 31, 2022, 02:32:18 PM »
Ya Kevin maybe selected varieties like Nazemetz are self fertile. Rootstock is clean, no flowering or anything.


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Re: Feijoa self fertile?
« Reply #7 on: December 31, 2022, 02:56:09 PM »
YOU ONLY NEED ONE TREE. I have one nazemetz and it Produces a ton of fruit, more than we can eat, and it’s a small tree.
i dont have any other choice, i will get one and see. I cant find a different variety and i dont have space

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Re: Feijoa self fertile?
« Reply #8 on: December 31, 2022, 02:56:43 PM »
I believe 2 cultivars/varieties or seedlings are needed for cross pollination
i cant find 2 different ones so i will get one and see

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Re: Feijoa self fertile?
« Reply #9 on: December 31, 2022, 02:57:18 PM »
yea you’ll need 2 for good fruit production even if they’re marketed as the “self fertile” variety. Don’t get me wrong thr self fertile ones will make a fruit sparingly, but 2 is just so much more worth it.

You can graft 2 types onto one stock, online says grafting is difficult but not impossible. The colder it is outside the better they taste
deffo but i cant find another variety!

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Re: Feijoa self fertile?
« Reply #10 on: December 31, 2022, 03:09:21 PM »
"Fruits have been described as fragile with bruising common, and some varieties (e.g., ‘Mammoth’) have been shown to be hollow and pulpless from self-pollination." - from https://edis.ifas.ufl.edu/publication/HS1424

Only one of my trees flowered in 2022 and it ended up with hollow fruit, presumably from self-pollination.

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Re: Feijoa self fertile?
« Reply #11 on: December 31, 2022, 03:09:53 PM »
I had a large feijoa that was covered in blooms every spring for years and not a single fruit set.
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Re: Feijoa self fertile?
« Reply #12 on: December 31, 2022, 03:12:32 PM »
they aren't true to seed, perhaps whoever you're buying from has those as options? I know it's quite a longer wait but in terms of fruit, they are -very- fast growers. If I remember correctly they are pollinated almost exclusively by hummingbirds (coming from some guy that grows it in arizona on youtube can't remember the name)

I would give them a 2/10 for grafting difficulty. I had almost 100% takes. It's not quite stonefruit status which is 1/10 for ease but still not bad. Grafted in spring. I finally got fruit off mine when it was flowering on several different branches.

Good to hear! I plan on grafting some feijoas soon but read that the wood is pretty fragile
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Re: Feijoa self fertile?
« Reply #13 on: January 01, 2023, 11:41:02 AM »
I've had pretty good (not great) success rates with grafting (60-70% takes), using cleft grafts in early spring. The wood is very brittle and splits easily, but if you make very long cuts on the scion then you can do a pretty good job slipping it into the split in the rootstock. If you do shorter cuts then the scion will likely split the stock too far and create a gap, which decreases your success rate.

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Re: Feijoa self fertile?
« Reply #14 on: January 01, 2023, 01:08:17 PM »
Here's a video I did of me grafting mine. https://youtu.be/th2l50fwWIc


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Re: Feijoa self fertile?
« Reply #15 on: January 02, 2023, 08:13:43 AM »
know anyone selling the nasemetz variety?

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Re: Feijoa self fertile?
« Reply #16 on: January 02, 2023, 02:30:58 PM »
know anyone selling the nasemetz variety?

My local Home Depots had stacks of them last year. Try fruitwood nursery for scions