Are guavas easy to graft? How are they normally propagaed? Cuttings or grafting? I may try strawberry guava and plant it in a pot or maybe in ground but with very good cold protection in zone 9. The seedling pineapple guavas are now about three feet tall and are still a long long way from fruit production. I read that seedling Feijoas may not produce good quality fruit. Anyone have seedling Feijoas that bear quality fruit?

can't answer your questions sorry. But i was going to ask, how long has it been from sprout to 3' for your feijoa's? i just had my first sprout pop up. And i have an order of tropical fruit seeds that has both strawberry guava and regular tropical guava seeds. with the feijoa seeds i have heard they can be either better or worse than the parent tree, crapshoot.

-Luke

I bought my pineapple guavas(feijoas) online March 2010 growing in 4 inch pots and the plants were about 6 inches tall. The largest one is about 3 feet tall now and the other is 2.5 feet. They are seedlings and the fruit quality will probably be a crap shot. It is very slow growing compared to citrus. I notice it is extremely hard to find named cultivers( grafted or cuttings from known cultivers).

I planted Red Malaysian Guava from seed about 3 years ago. It fruited last year and tasted great. Its currently about 7 feet tall.

A link to my past attempt at grafting guavas.
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TRI - if you are looking for named pineapple guava's i know one green world carries some. I've never ordered from them, but have heard good things.

Thanks
-Luke

Air layering should also work.
Few years ago, I tried it. I saw roots around the medium I had used.

Fruit fly can be a big problem down in south Miami Dade county. I read that you can bag them by folding the ends of newspaper and then inserting the open end over the fruit. It seems labor intensive though.

Seedling pineapple "guava" and strawberry "guava" are both IMHO not worth growing. The fruit are yes edible but no not good tasting. I currently have strawberry guava in the ground but after tasting the fruit the first time let the birds eat them all.

MrTexas, where did you buy your seedling guavas? I heard that seedling guavas are a crap shot, some have very good fruit but often the fruit is small and not good quality.

Yes, the real guava's regrow from the roots pretty quick. I have some sort of Mexican Cream guava. It freezes at about 26-28deg. Then takes a year of regrowth to produce.

Carefree plant that produces heavy. Fruit is egg to small baseball size. I eat a few fresh but the guava smell will overwhelm a house if left indoors. Most of mine are made into a very good jelly.
Hoping for mild winter as my jelly supply is almost out.

I would like to grow some guavas but the fruit flies destroy most of the fruit in warm areas. You can bag the fruit just before it ripens and prevent damage but this is labor intensive. On the northern gulf coast you are limited to Feijoas or strawberry guavas. When I move down to the tropics I will try star fruit.