@@lyonheart84 Mine was full of fruit this year : ruclips.net/video/c-nbyT9pyCA/видео.html It's the first year I have it so it's really nice. I hope it will go through winter well
Haha yes it wasn’t very happy but it’s pulled through and now sending out new shoots, I’ll probably post that update today. Not sure it will ever fruit outdoors due to short summers but it’s worth trying 🤞
Nice! I'm so jealous. I'm still babying my yellow guava which I managed to salvage from my dead 5 years old tree. Going to do my best to not lose it as its almost impossible to replace
They take a couple of years to get established but after that definitely more forgiving than tropical guavas providing they aren't overwatered in Winter and are kept frost free
Hi Brett, I recently sent an email featuring a photo of large potted specimen citrus being grown in nothing but perlite (no compost of any sort). The only reservation I'd have about a 100% perlite (or pumice) grow is that the material has a low CEC (cation exchange capacity), but those citrus in the photo look really healthy nonetheless (they are in full fruit and there's no sign of chlorosis. The root system is very healthy). I think that nutrition is supplied in water-soluble form and incorporated into the watering regimen. I suppose that a small % of vermiculite (no more than about 10%), which has a higher CEC than perlite/pumice, may help to retain nutrients (materials with higher CEC hold onto nutrients better). One could add a top-dressing of compost, manures, and crumbled-up dead leaves to the surface of the perlite/pumice; microbial action will steadily release soluble nutrients to the roots growing in the perlite/pumice layer below. A 100% perlite or pumice grow for root rot-prone species like citrus may help avoid the dreaded root rot that occurs over winter.
Yes seen the e-mail and glanced at the article, just haven't had time to sit down and write a proper reply together with some observations I have made 😂😂. Reply to follow soon 😉
Looking fantastic Brett, but where do you find room in your house for the size plants is mind boggling. I have both the strawberry and yellow variety but they are tiny compared to yours and are overwintered in our unheated greehhouse.
About 4 or 5 squeeze into the bay window in my front room, the other 30 plus squeeze across the front of my kitchen where I’m fortunate enough to have full width French windows. Obviously they take up space but as I don’t have a nagging wife I can do as I please lol. Although trust me my ‘ex’ still nags all the time 😂😂. The citrus now all squeeze into the unheated summerhouse I got in 2021 except for any I risk outside. So far most of them survived quite well in there, I only lost a couple
Good looking plants Brett !Are you able to get the white Indian and red indian gauva? They are Florida natives developed in 1946. The leaves and fruit look like the cherry gauva. Not sure of Latin name but they are different to the cattleium and gauyava.
It’s virtually impossible to get any guavas in the UK but fortunately I spent a long time locating other varieties of regular tropical guava. I have a White supreme, a Bangkok giant plus various other unnamed plants which I believe are mostly meant to be variations of pink , white and green guavas although of course I’ll never know unless they fruit 😂😂. I have not been able to get a Malaysian red guava unfortunately as I love the leaf colour.
@@lyonheart84 👌! Thats sucks! It's strange how every country seems to have issues with getting certain plants! I guess alot of your problems are due to regulations. I would a Malaysia red myself. They are beautiful!
It doesn’t really suck Thomas. Truthfully there’s almost zero interest in growing tropical fruit plants here as realistically you’d need a very expensive heated greenhouse or conservatory to have a decent chance of getting fruits here. I can squeeze most of mine into my kitchen over winter but it’s far from ideal conditions for most of them. So as there is zero demand, no nurseries or commercial growers are interested in raising tropicals. They also would need extremely expensive heated greenhouses to keep them alive so I guess the cost of the plants would become ridiculous. That’s why it’s so easy and cheap to buy cold climate fruit plants and trees here. Literally every garden centre sells dozens of varieties of apples, pears, peaches, cherries, redcurrants, raspberries, blackcurrants, gooseberries etc etc. they crop extremely reliably in our climate. There are only a few butters like me that try to grow tropical plants 😂😂
@@lyonheart84 Ok that makes sense! I assumed you just couldn't import them. You guys do have great weather for stone fruits and apples and such. Its difficult growing most of them here. Just too hot and too much humidity. One of my biggest cherry trees just died. I was going to end up getting rid of them anyway. I purchased them before researching! I hope I can produce apricots, if not they will be the next trees I get rid of!
They are extremely hard to import as well because of the cost of phytosanitary certificates and the delays involved, but to be honest even in mainland Europe there are very few suppliers of named guava plants. Yes perfect here for cold climate fruits that don't do well in the Florida or California heat 😁
To be honest I don't think this nursery labels half of its tropical plants correctly lol ( it only sells a few examples ). The fact that they call it a red strawberry guava and then say on the label that the fruit is green to yellow doesn't make sense anyway 🤪🤪
Here's an idea: try multi-grafting different guava species and varieties onto one guava rootstock. You'd get something of a novelty from it. Similar has been done with citrus and prunus species.
Apparently guavas are very hard to graft ( I don't know if that's really true or just misinformation ) and given that my total grafting experience consists of one fig graft that took out of two attempted 😂😂, probably best I don't expose my guavas to my butchery 🤪🤪
Nice collection Brett Those nurseries your way are shocking at labelling and mix ups I so far do not know of a time I was sold something and it was different but I have seen a regular on one at store saying it was red cherry with var littorale on tag which is not correct for the red
The problem is that nobody here knows anything about tropical fruit plants in the garden centres as they simply don’t exist here. To them a guava is a guava, there are no real differences. So when a handful of plants come in from day Holland and probably have vague labels on them printed in Dutch then it’s all too easy for details to get ‘lost in translation’. I don’t really mind as stumbling across any type of guava plant for sale here is close to a miracle 😂😂
Those plants are awesome. I have a red one that is beautiful and gave me a lot of delicious fruits.
Thanks, the plants are all much bigger now but I didn’t get fruits this year as the summer was too cool 🙄
@@lyonheart84 Mine was full of fruit this year : ruclips.net/video/c-nbyT9pyCA/видео.html It's the first year I have it so it's really nice. I hope it will go through winter well
So nice and informative gardening episode 👌🏼👌🏼🌺⚘🌷🌻🌺🌺🍀
Thanks for sharing 👏👏🌺⚘⚘🌷
....Greetings from India 🌷🌷🌷🌻🌻⚘🌺🌺
You are welcome, thanks for the greeting 😁
Your Cattley Guava’s are looking great Brett! Hopefully we’ll have a decent summer and autumn to help ripen these tasty guava’s 🙌🏾
Haha here’s hoping for a better Summer Joe. But I’d really like to see flower buds on my true tropical guavas this year 🤞
I am really impressed with you effort to grow tropical fruits plants in UK.
These are one of the sub-tropicals that it is feasible to get some small edible fruits out of here
They are looking pretty good so far Brett 👍
Certainly among the more resilient sub-tropicals we can try and grow here with a fair chance of getting some small but edible fruits 🤩
Hey Brett
It's amazing that one of the trees handled being outside in the winter..
All the trees look healthy
Much success
Haha yes it wasn’t very happy but it’s pulled through and now sending out new shoots, I’ll probably post that update today. Not sure it will ever fruit outdoors due to short summers but it’s worth trying 🤞
@@lyonheart84 Looking forward to the video ..
Enjoyed watching your video 😊
Thanks for watching 😁
Nice! I'm so jealous. I'm still babying my yellow guava which I managed to salvage from my dead 5 years old tree. Going to do my best to not lose it as its almost impossible to replace
They take a couple of years to get established but after that definitely more forgiving than tropical guavas providing they aren't overwatered in Winter and are kept frost free
Spain 🇪🇸 🤯 wow strawberry 🍓
I have both red and yellow varieties
Hi Brett, I recently sent an email featuring a photo of large potted specimen citrus being grown in nothing but perlite (no compost of any sort). The only reservation I'd have about a 100% perlite (or pumice) grow is that the material has a low CEC (cation exchange capacity), but those citrus in the photo look really healthy nonetheless (they are in full fruit and there's no sign of chlorosis. The root system is very healthy). I think that nutrition is supplied in water-soluble form and incorporated into the watering regimen. I suppose that a small % of vermiculite (no more than about 10%), which has a higher CEC than perlite/pumice, may help to retain nutrients (materials with higher CEC hold onto nutrients better). One could add a top-dressing of compost, manures, and crumbled-up dead leaves to the surface of the perlite/pumice; microbial action will steadily release soluble nutrients to the roots growing in the perlite/pumice layer below. A 100% perlite or pumice grow for root rot-prone species like citrus may help avoid the dreaded root rot that occurs over winter.
Yes seen the e-mail and glanced at the article, just haven't had time to sit down and write a proper reply together with some observations I have made 😂😂. Reply to follow soon 😉
Looking fantastic Brett, but where do you find room in your house for the size plants is mind boggling. I have both the strawberry and yellow variety but they are tiny compared to yours and are overwintered in our unheated greehhouse.
About 4 or 5 squeeze into the bay window in my front room, the other 30 plus squeeze across the front of my kitchen where I’m fortunate enough to have full width French windows. Obviously they take up space but as I don’t have a nagging wife I can do as I please lol. Although trust me my ‘ex’ still nags all the time 😂😂. The citrus now all squeeze into the unheated summerhouse I got in 2021 except for any I risk outside. So far most of them survived quite well in there, I only lost a couple
Spain 🇪🇸 🤯 wow
Thanks
interesting 🤔
Thanks 😊
Good looking plants Brett !Are you able to get the white Indian and red indian gauva? They are Florida natives developed in 1946. The leaves and fruit look like the cherry gauva. Not sure of Latin name but they are different to the cattleium and gauyava.
It’s virtually impossible to get any guavas in the UK but fortunately I spent a long time locating other varieties of regular tropical guava. I have a White supreme, a Bangkok giant plus various other unnamed plants which I believe are mostly meant to be variations of pink , white and green guavas although of course I’ll never know unless they fruit 😂😂. I have not been able to get a Malaysian red guava unfortunately as I love the leaf colour.
@@lyonheart84 👌! Thats sucks! It's strange how every country seems to have issues with getting certain plants! I guess alot of your problems are due to regulations. I would a Malaysia red myself. They are beautiful!
It doesn’t really suck Thomas. Truthfully there’s almost zero interest in growing tropical fruit plants here as realistically you’d need a very expensive heated greenhouse or conservatory to have a decent chance of getting fruits here. I can squeeze most of mine into my kitchen over winter but it’s far from ideal conditions for most of them. So as there is zero demand, no nurseries or commercial growers are interested in raising tropicals. They also would need extremely expensive heated greenhouses to keep them alive so I guess the cost of the plants would become ridiculous. That’s why it’s so easy and cheap to buy cold climate fruit plants and trees here. Literally every garden centre sells dozens of varieties of apples, pears, peaches, cherries, redcurrants, raspberries, blackcurrants, gooseberries etc etc. they crop extremely reliably in our climate. There are only a few butters like me that try to grow tropical plants 😂😂
@@lyonheart84 Ok that makes sense! I assumed you just couldn't import them. You guys do have great weather for stone fruits and apples and such. Its difficult growing most of them here. Just too hot and too much humidity. One of my biggest cherry trees just died. I was going to end up getting rid of them anyway. I purchased them before researching! I hope I can produce apricots, if not they will be the next trees I get rid of!
They are extremely hard to import as well because of the cost of phytosanitary certificates and the delays involved, but to be honest even in mainland Europe there are very few suppliers of named guava plants. Yes perfect here for cold climate fruits that don't do well in the Florida or California heat 😁
There is actually a pear shaped strawberry guava. I know a German nursery that sells one. But yours is probably a regular type
To be honest I don't think this nursery labels half of its tropical plants correctly lol ( it only sells a few examples ). The fact that they call it a red strawberry guava and then say on the label that the fruit is green to yellow doesn't make sense anyway 🤪🤪
Here's an idea: try multi-grafting different guava species and varieties onto one guava rootstock. You'd get something of a novelty from it. Similar has been done with citrus and prunus species.
Apparently guavas are very hard to graft ( I don't know if that's really true or just misinformation ) and given that my total grafting experience consists of one fig graft that took out of two attempted 😂😂, probably best I don't expose my guavas to my butchery 🤪🤪
Actually yellow guava for yellow guava fit since it's yellow guava
Nice collection Brett
Those nurseries your way are shocking at labelling and mix ups
I so far do not know of a time I was sold something and it was different but I have seen a regular on one at store saying it was red cherry with var littorale on tag which is not correct for the red
The problem is that nobody here knows anything about tropical fruit plants in the garden centres as they simply don’t exist here. To them a guava is a guava, there are no real differences. So when a handful of plants come in from day Holland and probably have vague labels on them printed in Dutch then it’s all too easy for details to get ‘lost in translation’. I don’t really mind as stumbling across any type of guava plant for sale here is close to a miracle 😂😂
red🤔yellow
Both types
Cool accent.
Lol thanks 😂
Hey, I sent you a email ?
Hi Sal, I saw it, sorry it didnt make much sense and I didn't get round to replying yet. What did you want to know ?
Actually yellow guava for yellow guava fit since it's yellow guava
@@rhombifer566 I have both red and yellow varieties 😁