Sven: I tried some fruits with flower sepals the last year, and they are too sour, so I prefer to remove them; but I like the skin. Now I am eating just the pulp because I want to understand better this flavour... I guess that a guabiju fell from the tree would be super sweet, I have to wait but it's very difficult to me
, as I like them a lot and cant wait for this to happen.
Anyway, for now I have to say that I prefer a very good grape over a guabiju; but I would prefer any good guabiju over a good grape.
Tomas: in our urban garden any fruit is free of pests and pesticides, but the citrics suffer from citrus canker (a bacteria) and sometimes the p. cattleianum was bitten by a bird.
They say guabijus attract a lot of birds (thrushes, etc..), But that has not happened yet here.
Overall Internet reports say that all native fruits (feijoa, pitanga, arazá, guabiju, ubajay, butiá, aguaí, etc) are free from pests and diseases here, the guabijú is said to have a "reasonable health" and is a typically long-lived tree,
See this 164 years old one at Uruguay:
Adam: I dont know... the skin is somewhat hard.
BTW: this is a good photo of the fuzzy skin: