Fruits and Nuts: Pineapple Guava, 0 by jujubetexas

jujubetexas wrote:
This is the time of the year that the Pineapple Guava fruits are ripe and drop from the bush/tree. Once you eat your first fresh Pineapple Guava, you are hooked. Imagine Pineapple mixed with the sweetest Strawberries. When you buy them from the store, they were picked and not allowed to fully ripen and drop. The taste is usually very poor. These plants can take it below 10F and over 100F. They dont require special special soil or fertilization.

Seedlings have fruit about the size of a quarter to half dollar. Named varieties can get much larger. You should always plant two together for increased yields.

The flowers are very beautiful. The pedals look and feel like popcorn and taste like cinnamon cotton candy. I eat all the pedals and leave the stamen intact for fruiting. Many plants have edible flowers but few have edible flowers like this plant. The taste is amazing.

The one in the picture is pretty small because I ate all the big ones already.





This message was edited Nov 14, 2010 12:56 PM