Yes! and nice smelling, too.

So far, so good. Will have to start hauling a lot of them inside soon. Big job...

Good weather over the summer helped things along. Thanks for stopping by, Brett!

Wondering if the fruit can ripen and sweeten up outside where they're at without help.

​@@EastsideGardening how old is that tree?

​@@EastsideGardeninghow old is that tree?

​@@EastsideGardeningI just got a lemon guava today. It'about a foot tall.

@@stephendunn4942 These Lemon Guavas are about 4 years old. Sorry, I forgot exactly when I planted the seeds.

I'm pleasantly surprised by how fast growing and beautiful the foliage is on the Restinga seeds I grew in the past 3 years. Hoping they will start making fruit soon, too.

I did hand pollinate the flowers, which is likely the reason the fruit set.

Are you asking about Lemon Guavas? (Psidium littorale) I'm not familiar with lemon feijoa. Thanks for stopping by!

A lot of small plants turned into big plants.

​@@EastsideGardening your patio is like a dream wishlist.😊

@@stephendunn4942 Haha. Thanks for stopping by!

Thanks! I was a bit surprised that the branch would continue to fruit as a small rooted cutting.

Oh cool! I have the Kaiteri in a 10 gallon pot, as it's still fairly small. Was thinking about bringing it into the greenhouse when the weather starts cooling off in hopes that I can extend the growing season a bit and have the fruit develop and ripen.

I've been hand pollinating it, but not sure if any flowers are setting a fruit.

@@EastsideGardening I recall an old saying, "If at first you don't succeed, try, try again!"

@@stephendunn4942 My gardening philosophy, which is "there's always next year", tends to be along those lines.

Sorry to hear that. I bought 3 recent New Zealand varieities. So far, so good.

@@ahmentor4003 Generally yes. I try to wait until the fruit falls or falls off easily in the hand when you grab it.

Very true. I haven't actually tasted a fruit yet. Only have bought seeds. I'm not sure if I can pull it off to actually grow a fruit. Might have to travel to a tropical location to try some.

Yes! I got a few fruits this year. The male I grafted didn't make a lot of flowers yet, but I think as it grows and makes more, the pollination will improve on the females vines and should get more. The only trick now is to get the fruit before the squirrels do. However, my son just got two kittens that seem to like to hunt, so the squirrel problem might go away soon, too.

I'm in zone 8B/9A depending on which map you look at. I brought my big Jamaican cherry outside in April to check the cold hardiness in 40-60F weather. It failed the test and is dead now.

Thanks for the good tips!

Thanks G! It's still going.

Yes. Fruit is set at the end of August. Not sure if it will make it to full ripeness. We'll see.

@@VirginiaFruitGrower they're in pots and can be moved inside, away from squirrels and cold weather, haha.

@@lyonheart84 thanks Brett! How have you been doing lately?

@@EastsideGardening yes I'm pretty good now thanks, recovering well

Thanks G! This is just a suspicion at best. Need to further test to determine a hypothesis.

They are self fruitful. This year, I didn't have a pollinator because my male vine died last year. There is a lot of fruit on the vine now.

It was labeled by the nursery as a CAS/Costa Rican Guava (Psidium friedrichsthalianum). I will send some photos to some friends that have more expertise with guavas and let you know what they say.

@@TheDiversifiedFarmer I'll be pruning it back soon and will root a bunch of cuttings of various sizes. Probably will even try to graft some onto some 1 year old rootstock I've been growing.

@@TheDiversifiedFarmer have they flowered yet? Curious, did you also get them from fruit and spice park?

You are correct! I wait until they start turning pinkish and all the green is gone now.

Thanks for the kind words. Insider information is that I compost a lot of dead tropicals that don't make it, but I do get some here and there that do survive. Occasionally even get a fruit to sample.

There's always hope, so I keep trying to hand pollinate...

@@dejasonfowler8267 when I was at fruit and spice park in late August/early September 2021, they were ripe and dropping off the trees there. Lots to sample and lots of seeds on the ground.

Yes! These do taste a little different. More floral, but in a good way. If you let them get fully ripe, which is after they turn yellow, then they start to turn a little pink, then they're the sweetest and best tasting.

I would suggest to put the seeds in a small plastic bag with damp vermiculite until they sprout, then transfer them to a small pot to grow.

Thanks G! It's a good one.

Hi Brett! I think mine took nearly 4 months, give or take.

@@EastsideGardening that's pretty good, here even my tiny cherry guavas take at least 5 months to mature !

@@lyonheart84 is that psidium cattleyanum?

no tartness either. Wondering if on the next fruit, if I let it ripen longer, maybe the flavor will develop more.

Hi Carrie. Thanks for stopping by. I'll be checking out some of your videos, too.

@@Lochness19 I sometimes need to resort to removing old leaves manually before some plants will start regrowing and flowering. Especially sone that really love heat; they won't shed and grow unless they're forced to. I think removing the old leaves is a necessary, but sometimes harsh transition the plant needs to go through to have a productive summer.

@@EastsideGardening I do have a fair bit of growth on all my plants, but it depends on the vine. Some vines within an individual plant have new growth on them, others not so much. The shoots that are growing grew about 2-5ft since mid-May. Mainly, it's the lack of serious flower buds that has me a bit frustrated. I did get one little flower bud a month ago on my p. edulis var edulis but the flower bud got aborted, and haven't had any since.

@@Lochness19 I wonder if it's possible that your plant has too much nitrogen available to it. I've had Passiflora edulis var flavicarpa (yellow) that only grew and grew, never flowered after 2-3 years. I gave up on it, not enough room.

@@EastsideGardening I think I'll give them at least another year. They're supposed to bloom after 2 years, but maybe that assumes a warmer climate, that has a longer growing season, or even a year long growing season. Although my plants did grow indoors over the winter, I'd say they're only barely at that size where you'd expect it to start producing. Might be a pruning/insufficient sun issue too, so I'll try and prune and trellis them so as the maximize sun expose next year. Did you start your plants from seeds or from cuttings? I've also found that plants started from cuttings bloom earlier. My passiflora caerulea barely bloomed at all on the first season grown from seed, but then after taking cuttings, those bloomed profusely beginning in late July. And now on the second season, the plants from cuttings bloomed profusely beginning in mid June. My edulis and ligularis, as well as manicata and tripartita were all started from seeds, but I've also taken some cuttings from them that I plan to grow in 2025.

Mine bloomed on the 2nd year. Unfortunately, it was only one vine that made flowers, and it was self sterile (couldn't pollinate itself), so I didn't get any fruit. I haven't discovered a practical way to move a mature Passiflora vine inside and outside of the greenhouse with the seasons, and because it stays inside, the bugs can overwhelm it. I had mealybugs take out my Passiflora edulis before, and lately the spider mites won't leave the Maliformis, Alata, and Laurifolia alone. I think getting them outdoors during the summer would help a lot, if it's feasible.

@@EastsideGardening What I did was wrap the vines around a tomato cage to move them. It can still be a fair bit of work to untangle them though. I was willing to put in the time to do so, but maybe in the future I'll prune them back more so that it's less work to untangle. I haven't had any pests inside other than spidermites, which were only on my p. incarnata and then started to spread onto the adjacent tripartita and ligularis. However, my edulis, ligularis and manicata that were in a separate room had no pests whatsoever. What sort of temperatures were your p. alata experiencing leading up to the blooms? Can maliformis or laurifolia (or ligularis) pollinate alata since they are in the same subgenus? I think caerulea can pollinate edulis, and I've already successfully used caerulea to pollinate incarnata. Caerulea blooms reliably for me, so it's good that it seems to be a viable pollen donor, at least for passiflora stipulata and passiflora passiflora (ex incarnata) subgenus.

@@Lochness19 If I remember correctly, my Alata was blooming in Sept/Oct before. I think it might have been the transition to cooler weather that inspired it to bloom. I thought about trying to grow a Passiflora in a big pot that would stop growing in the fall, I would prune it back to 10 feet or so and encourage it to stay dormant until spring when I could put it outside and let it regrow, flower, and fruit. So far, I haven't discovered a Passiflora that would cooperate with my plan. They tend to get too buggy and diseased in the winter and don't recover well enough in the spring to do much of anything, or they stay healthy and want to become dominant monsters inside the greenhouse. I've seen Passiflora pollination compatibility charts before, but I'm not sure who published it and how accurate it is. I've had not success in cross pollinating any Passiflora, so I'm not able to comment on what works.

@@EastsideGardening What sorts of temperatures are your Alata experiencing (in the greenhouse?) in mid summer, and how cool does it get in Sep/Oct? My summers are not that hot, generally around 22-28C in the day, 11-18C at night. By September it will cool to 15-24C days, 6-12C nights roughly. 30C+ heatwaves are possible in both summer and September, but uncommon. The one flower bud I got on my edulis (var edulis) appeared, and aborted, during a heatwave that saw daytime temps of 28-33C with high humidity. What temperature do you keep your greenhouse in the winter? So far I've kept my plants in the house, which is around 18-21C in the winter, but have considered keeping some plants in my basement cellar in a dormant state where it would be 5-10C. I'm thinking that at cool temperatures like that, the insects would also go dormant and leave the plants alone, it's just a question of whether the plants themselves could also withstand it. I've heard of people keeping edulis var edulis in greenhouses over the winter that get rather cool, but I'm not sure if it would work for flavicarpa (which prefers warmer temps), or ligularis.

@@Lochness19 My greenhouse in the summer/warm season typically has low temps 60-70F range and highs in the 80-95F range. During the cool season, starting in October until May, it's usually in the 50-60F range for the lows and 65-75F for the highs. When the weather is sunny, the temps can go up to the 80-85F range in the cool season.

Haha, yeah. I got lots of comments about that. I just changed the potting mix as the root mass was small. If the roots start filling out the new pot, I'll move it up to a bigger one.

This is one of the few plants I have that I didn't grow from seed, however it is a seedling I bought from Florida about 3 years ago. I'm guessing it was about 3 years old when I bought it, so probably about 6 years old now. It did start flowering a few months after I bought it and flowered pretty much continuously for nearly two years until I forced it to stop by putting it out in the cool weather in April. The pause in flowering didn't last long, as now it's covered in flowers again.

Yes. Rose apple is fairly fast growing. In the right tropical conditions it could be a tall fruiting tree in just a few years.