My Pineapple Guava’s are now beginning to flower and there is a small window of time to hand pollinate, so I can hopefully get an abundance of fruit 🙏🏽🤗
Great demonstration for people Joe. Once you get a surplus of flowers it’s a bit easier to remove a whole flower with ripe pollen and brush that over flowers of other varieties 😁
Only with the trees that are self fertile. There are varieties of Pineapple Guava that are self fertile, and I don’t have them 😂. In their native habitat which is South America birds usually do the pollinating. Bees 🐝 don’t usually seem interested as the flowers don’t have a scent to entice. Hence the hand pollinating
Nice video Joe, thanks for sharing!
Thank you my friend. Have a fab weekend 🙌🏾
Great demonstration for people Joe. Once you get a surplus of flowers it’s a bit easier to remove a whole flower with ripe pollen and brush that over flowers of other varieties 😁
Thanks Brett, it’s funny you say that! I was tempted to remove a flower and do just that 😂 hopefully we both get a larger harvest than last year 🙌🏾
That's why I've got the unnamed seedling still, the fruits are small and not much use but the flowers are ideal for pollinating the others 😁
Thanks for sharing the knowledge. Those Pineapple guava petals do taste really nice.
Thanks Moebius 🙌🏾
Do you have to do it between different trees? So if you wanted to actually grow them, you’d need two? How come bees can’t just pollinate them?
Only with the trees that are self fertile. There are varieties of Pineapple Guava that are self fertile, and I don’t have them 😂. In their native habitat which is South America birds usually do the pollinating. Bees 🐝 don’t usually seem interested as the flowers don’t have a scent to entice. Hence the hand pollinating
How did this work? Did you get a nice crop?