Growing & Harvesting The Delicious Feijoa aka Pineapple Guava Fruit Tree | All You Need To Know!
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- Опубліковано 9 гру 2019
- The Feijoa aka Pineapple Guava is the most delicious late season fruit producing tree we have growing in our backyard food forest garden. Besides producing an abundance of tasty fruit late November into December, the Feijoa makes a great ornamental plant throughout the Winter with it's green silvery evergreen foliage. Grows in USDA climate zones 8-11
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Feijoa is my no#1 fave fruit ever!!! 🟢 My favourite in whole world!! 🟢😋 Tastes like sour fizzy gummies! I’m so crazy over Feijoa that I’m going to try grow some Feijoa bushes and get my own tree for a free supply of Feijoa! 🟢 I slice them, like a cucumber and eat skin. How anyone can waste the skin is beyond me! Lol 🟢 A lifetime supply of free Feijoa I’d be so content! 😂💚✌🏽 The pink flowers are sweet and edible too. 🌸🟢🌸🟢🌸🟢 Feijoa a gift from god.
Aspiring backyard gardener here. I’m fortunate to have stumbled on your channel. Thanks for the good content.
I'm putting this tree into my food forest as a privacy hedge (very noisy and close neighbor). Thank you. This was so very helpful. I can't wait to get it planted!
How's it growing!?
I use the peels in my compost pile, very great addition to my compost. Oh, and I use the fruit in my beers! A passionfruit/pineapple guava sour is fantastic!
Thanks Dan that was an awesome inside look at the Brix Meter!
Thank you for pronouncing the name correctly 👍👍👍😁😁😁
It's a good small tree, very popular here in Australia 🇦🇺 It can tolerate very hot 🔥 temperatures of easily 45+°c (113+°F) to frosts down to -7°c (19°F) that I know of in my area. They're a wonderful, prolific shrub to 3-5m high tree (if left to grow up). Thanks for the vid, have a great day 👍👍👍from Down Under 🦘🇦🇺🦘
Apart from just being very scrumptious eaten fresh, Feijoa crumble is yummy. It is delicious in baking and juiced. Feijoa ice cream is to die for. My two trees begin fruiting in March here in NZ.
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Thanks Dan for the informative video. I would have loved more expansion on how to process the fruit for making simple syrups and smoothies
Great video. Really enjoyed watching and listening to it.
Fantastic information about feijoas !
Good info; thanks for sharing. I don't have a 🌳 yet, I buy them at the local farmers market, make preserved and jelly. delicious.
Great vid
Never heard of that fruit before
Looks sooooo good
wish I could try it! 😋😊
Great and informative video. Thanks!
Some great info thanks brother
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I ones i used to have retained their delicate flavor if frozen but not jammed. My grandmas were good for jam. Always trying to beat the weather, i put many breathable landscape fabric strips (4×3) under a row of bushes and each day just picked up and dumped into bushel basket. Easier to get it done in the rain and cold. Sorting in the garage out of the wind and rain much nicer. Zone 7, against a white stone wall sandwiched between a cement walkway in a slightly raised bed. ( the sweet spot 🤗) Great video. Thank you for your hard work.
I'm in South West Arkansas zone 7. We do get snow occasionally and hot humid summers. I'm hoping I can successfully grow this..
Oh....Mr.Dan great explanation 👌👍
Thank you! Very informative!
Awesome garden,,,, I just bought a straw berry guava and pineapple guava...thanks for sharing... love to visit your garden... I am here in the desert ...Palm Springs, California..
New subscriber! I enjoy watching your video.
I have heard so many great things about this fruit. I need to get me this plant soon. Thank you for the information on it 😊
nice flavored icecream
It’s my favorite tree at my house. It’s large and beautifully fanned, a stunning ornamental. When it flowers the bees are all over it. The fruit reminds me of kiwi. Thank you!
It is indeed a wonderful specimen. And delicious at that! Cheers!
So many people have said it has a more kiwi taste that we should probably call it a kiwi guava 😉
@@kellikelli4413 Yes! It is SO a kiwi guava!!
Great stuff love it
Thank you.
Mashalllahh Amazing
Awsome tree/ fruit I have one growing for 4years now I got one fruit last year hoping to get a bunch this year it's time . Best taste
Just had my first feijoa a couple of days ago after 3years of planting. Came outside to check my fruits and saw some on the floor. I thought it was rain that knocked them off because some was not full size but it was a lil soft. Couldn't wait to try them. Pulled out my knife and spoon and the taste was amazing. It had its unique flavor but nothing like a pineapple. I have the Nazemet variety And you're right about the kiwi taste.that was the first thing that Came to mind when I first tasted it
It’s called pineapple guava because shape and striations make it look like a tiny green pineapple not because it tastes like a pineapple. Feijoa don’t really taste like anything else. They are that distinct.
My Coolidge is taking its sweet time to produce fruit. Maybe next year!
It gets pretty humid here in Virginia. 7a where we are....but maybe I'll find a variety that will do well?!? Thank you for sharing!
That's a lot of guava. I like guava . Thanks for the tips.
Thank you kindly. Cheers!
Thank you 🙏
Hi Dan,
You need to do a book on growing your own food and your weight loss success story. First buyer here. 👍
I found a nursery in my state that sells several varieties of pineapple guava, and they shipped it to me. I’m so excited to grow and try them
I'm from South Italy. In my garden I have two plants of feijoa - cultivar Apollo. Feijoa is the best fruit of the world!!!
Wow I want to taste it😊
Woa, i like this fruit. Unhappily, we don't have it in Vietnam
Thank you for this as a kiwi I eat the skin and all gorgeous fruit
I grow these in new zealand and have picked fruit up to 220 gms .They are easy to grow and very productive.
My compliment
Thank you for sharing- I hand pollinated for the first time and my 5 year old feijoa has finally set fruit. It must not get pollinated as a balcony plant 5 stories up
One of my all time favorite plants, I grew up eating the fruits in Southern CA, I find the taste unique, a mix of sweet and sour, now I live in Tacoma, and it grows very well, and withstood a fairly deep snowfall last spring. I don't know if mine is self fertile, but so far, I have only had a handful of fruits after several years. I do nibble at the flowers, LOL. Fingers crossed for more fruits next year---I have no room for a second one.
I'm in Tacoma too. How long did it take to fruit?
@@justinfiorini3142 mine has been in the ground 14 years on western exposure slope, I got a few fruits 2 years ago and a few more this past summer--my advice is to buy 2 just in case it needs a partner to produce well.
omfug how big did it get in those 14 years? did you prune it at all?
@omfug 14 years and all you have gotten are a few fruits ? ? Maybe I'll get my tree a partner ? 4 years growing and only one fruit last year
@@Lion-dq9uj It has never gotten better, I didn't get a single decent fruit this year either. I either need to use the flower petals (they taste like the fruit) or find a way to fit in a second plant.
Beautiful! My pineapple guava (also bought from HD) is only a couple years in the ground, and just starting to flower/fruit. How long has your tree been in the ground?
I've tried these before and they failed in our hot arizona summers. Makes me want to try again. Dang it Dan, everytime you feature a plant i want to try growing it.
They don't grow well in hot temperatures.
@@raymondwhiu99 I live in Australia and I have huge feijoa tree in my front yard.
Guava likes heat. But not the desert.
Wondering if they would do well as a container planting?
I find the skins a little bitter to eat whole, but do keep them on for some of my preserves. You can also make a very nice jelly from just the skins, which you strain out afterwards. It has the look and color of an apple jelly, but is delcious with tiny bit of a bitter finish which I enjoy. Mostly, we scoop out the fruit and make jams, fruit leather, or sorbet, or just eat fresh.
here in new zealand just about every backyard have a feijoa tree. waimea nurseries are good at developing new cultivars.
Well I have a feijoa bush in my front yard
I enjoy ur channel... thanks for ur effort..... my feijoa is growing very slowly... it's that normal?
I bet those skins from skinning it would be great in some cooking dishes
We live in Oracle Az with a altitude of 4500 feet! We are looking for some different varieties . Tryumph, Unique, and Mammoth. Any ideas where we can get them?
You think I would be able to grow this in 7a with some wind protection or is this another one to make me even more jealous of your climate? I love the guavas from the store.
I have Guavas growing in 7B but they come in during the winter season..
Where do you get fruit trees and plants. We are in Brentwood zone 9b. Thank you
When is the best time of year to plant rooted cuttings? I’m in zone 7
Good video. My pineapple guava is a slow grower. Only six inches per year. I'll plant another if I can find one.
Yes, they are slow in the beginning. After two years in the ground they start to take off.
I have a tree in Melbourne Australia and my 6 year old has only flowered once
Ah. So that is what I have growing in my garden
What type of fertilizer do you recommend and how often….I have two that have never formed fruit…
Do these do well in central Texas hill country?
So i have one, you can see it on my channel the last video but i live in zone 7 to 6B so could i put mine in the ground or a bigger pot?
hi. do you need 2 of them to fruit ?
Bonjour
J habite en France et je voulais savoir si vous vendez des plants ou des graines.
Merci pour cette vidéo
I'm in zone 8 and my feijoa has been fine with temps down to 9 degrees.
I know of basic varieties, but there extra, extra good varieties and/or does anybody or institution study these plants? Love your video. How do you spell the name of that “tie”? Peeler? Thank you.
Thai as in Thailand.
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My mom bought one just because she thought it was pretty, and she didn’t know you could eat the fruit. She thought it was purely ornamental! It’s still quite young so there aren’t many fruits and they’re a bit on the smaller side, but they’re DELICIOUS! The texture is amazing. I’ll have to get a tree for myself now.
Have you tried propagating it yourself?
@@susanfreeman5340 what do u mean ?
@@Lion-dq9uj try planting some of the fruit to make a baby tree
Any ideas for my failure? I bought a self fertile variety (very expensive) some years ago to grow in Pays de La Loire in France (winters cold but warm springs and summers). Although this started producing flowers it never set fruit, even when hand pollinated. I then got some seed on a visit to some gardens on the nw coast of Spain and grew these into three more trees, and they all flower, but don't set fruit, even when hand pollinated with the original 'self fertile' one. The best I have ever achieved was one tiny fruit that rotted and fell off before it ripened. I water quite freely in the summer months. My plants are all in large pots, the original one in an enormous pot. I used to bring them under cover but they don't die in the winters. Any suggestions about how to succeed would be welcome.
What zone are you in Mr?
So I bought what looks like a seedling plant off of Amazon recently. It's about a foot high. Would you happen to know when it will fruit? Thanks in advance!
if its a seedling it will take several years to start fruiting. if you want faster results talk to a reputable nursery (not some minimum wage kid at home depot) who can tell you if the tree was grown from a cutting or grafted. a cloned tree from cutting will inherit the traits of the parent. so will start out as how ever old the parent tree was and will start flowering and putting on fruit immediately when in season.
What do you mean by this tree grows as a perennial between zones eight and 11? What is a perennial?
Where can I buy these fruit?
Thank you.
May i know what state are you in sir?
That's alot,you can make a guava jelly out of it.
Do these take well to pruning? I’m trying to replace all of my front yard plants with edibles and I would like to have these a little lower for shrub replacements
you will have to prune
most fruit trees need pruning to put on new flowering shoots and fruit. this plant is sold as a shrub so it can take pruning quite well. though i would do it strategically so as not to limit fruit production.
I planted 4 trees 7 years ago. NOT a fruit seen yet.?
What PH is recommended for them ?
Try hand pollination
How tu Proserve Feijos ❤
Good video though.
I've tried these in Australia due to the novelty factor of us never getting them. Maybe mine weren't fully ripe but sadly they weren't very flavourful or distinctive. Maybe with a little guava taste
keep trying. My tree (NSW far south coast) has a very poor harvest but this season one of the two fruit was huge and the real deal. I'm going to use more mulch around the tree as apparently they are shallow rooting. Good luck.
@@paulneri835 the trick is to keep them well watered after flowering, until harvest
Could these be grown in Texas in partial shade?
zone 8 through 11 so they should grow perfectly in the whole state of Texas. They do especially well around Houston. You might have some issues up in the panhandle but i have heard that they can tollerate mild snow if they are well established and mulched. i would still cover them if you get a hard freeze warning.
how many pounds do you get off this each year?
7:37 how did you not slice your hand open, please be more careful, and practice proper knife discipline :D
In spanish Feijoa is pronounced feeHoa The J sounding like an H. One of my favorites. They even grow where temps get down to 17f.
cheryl jones, yeah but then the bush comes from Brazil mostly, which is Portuguese speaking so the pronunciation is not that incorrect.
fa-jo-a xD LOL
My tree never products fruit, it have a lot flowers
You probably need another tree. Your variety may not be a self pollinating.
You cut it in half the wrong way 😅
I have two Feijoa plants, both are about 3 Years old, never flowered once. Im losing my patience slowly.
4th year from seed here in Mississippi ive got flowers this year!
Throw a bit of citrus fertiliser on them in spring
Make sure when your growing feijoa you get a Male and a female.
How we can get the seeds or sapling from Bangladesh 😨 it is not availabe in our region