Those mammoth are looking fantastic ... Now I have a couple of named varieties I'll probably sell my large seedlings Feijoas for the price of a coffee and jam doughnut, or maybe I'll just give em' away as freebies. lol.
All the large seeding plants are good for to be honest is cross pollination, although of course you could be lucky and have a seedling with great fruit. I suppose it’s worth keeping them long enough to find out although as always space is the issue 🤪
Mine are much smaller after several months of heat, with temperatures around 40 C since June. The ones in full sun are the worst even though I watered them every day and sometimes twice a day. A lot of my potted plants got sunburns. Sometimes I am a bit jealous of your climate.
Lol don’t be jealous of our climate, we’ve had a terrible summer. If your fruits are still tiny maybe they’ve not been pollinated properly OR maybe the fruits naturally develop as the weather cools from late summer into Autumn
They seem to be progressing well, Brett. I don't think I have any chance of fruit this year. Looks like just one plant has a fruit on it that has even swollen at all, but it's barely grown. I'm probably going to give the plant a repot as that did seem to help it last year with the fruits it was holding when it arrived.
They are extremely greedy plants and need very large pots. In fact my potted ones have done terribly this year with no fruits likely to make it to an edible size and they are in 32 litre pots !
@@lyonheart84 wow, yeah. I think I need to spend some time this autumn getting a couple of them in the ground. Not sure which I’d plant though out of the 6 named varieties I have 🤔
@PeterEntwistle doesn’t really matter I guess as long as you get a couple in ground and not too far apart as they will pollinate each other. Mammoth and Triumph are reliable of course, can’t say too much about the others
The fruit from the seedling is terrible lol, very small, hard, bad flavour and the flesh turns brown when you cut them open. I only really keep it for cross pollination 😂. I should really dig it out and plant a named variety instead 😁
Those mammoth are looking fantastic ... Now I have a couple of named varieties I'll probably sell my large seedlings Feijoas for the price of a coffee and jam doughnut, or maybe I'll just give em' away as freebies. lol.
All the large seeding plants are good for to be honest is cross pollination, although of course you could be lucky and have a seedling with great fruit. I suppose it’s worth keeping them long enough to find out although as always space is the issue 🤪
Mine are much smaller after several months of heat, with temperatures around 40 C since June. The ones in full sun are the worst even though I watered them every day and sometimes twice a day. A lot of my potted plants got sunburns. Sometimes I am a bit jealous of your climate.
Lol don’t be jealous of our climate, we’ve had a terrible summer. If your fruits are still tiny maybe they’ve not been pollinated properly OR maybe the fruits naturally develop as the weather cools from late summer into Autumn
They seem to be progressing well, Brett. I don't think I have any chance of fruit this year. Looks like just one plant has a fruit on it that has even swollen at all, but it's barely grown. I'm probably going to give the plant a repot as that did seem to help it last year with the fruits it was holding when it arrived.
They are extremely greedy plants and need very large pots. In fact my potted ones have done terribly this year with no fruits likely to make it to an edible size and they are in 32 litre pots !
@@lyonheart84 wow, yeah. I think I need to spend some time this autumn getting a couple of them in the ground. Not sure which I’d plant though out of the 6 named varieties I have 🤔
@PeterEntwistle doesn’t really matter I guess as long as you get a couple in ground and not too far apart as they will pollinate each other. Mammoth and Triumph are reliable of course, can’t say too much about the others
They look very healthy! The seedling ones are smaller in size, will you be able to eat them in Nov? Or only the big ones?
The fruit from the seedling is terrible lol, very small, hard, bad flavour and the flesh turns brown when you cut them open. I only really keep it for cross pollination 😂. I should really dig it out and plant a named variety instead 😁
@@lyonheart84 Oh 🙏😂
Are there any self fruiting feijoa?
Yes some varieties are considered partially self fertile but it’s always better to have 2 varieties