I live in North Western Turkey and it seems feijoas love subtropical climate of my region (hot and dry summers, mild and rainy winters with couple of snowy days). There are seven trees in my garden, they are prolific fruit bearers. Obviously there isn't any native pollinator bird here and I never hand pollinate but still they produce abundant amount of fruit. Much more than we and our neighbours can consume. Bees and insects are very busy around the trees when they are in bloom. They may be some local species which like feijoa flowers and they are doing pollination job well :)
Thank you for sharing your wisdom. I am in the Fraser Valley and will give pineapple guava a try. I bought a plant last year and lost it. I now realize that I need at least 2 plants, so I just as well get 3 if I can find 3 different varieties. My figs and persimmons did amazing, but we moved and now I need to start over.
Feijoa is never available where I am in Philadelphia, so I tried to grow my own in April 2017. I planted the ~6" plant in pot, thinking that I'll have to bring it inside in the winter. I didn't know it is such a cold hardy plant. Now it is ~5 feet tall and my indoor grow light is failing it somewhat. Most of its leaves are dying and it is becoming too big to care for indoor. Now that I learned it is hardy to below zero temperature, I can't wait for spring to transplant it into the ground in my garden. Here's to hoping for some feijoa fruits soon in the future. Thanks for the information in your video.
Another great video, thank you for sharing your knowledge and passion. I have a farm just south of Cowichan Bay, and you keep tempting me with these wonderful fruits.
Outstanding video. I just so happened to purchase a feijoa last month at a nursery purely out of the recommendation of the owner, so your video is timely. My climate is very different than yours here in southeastern coastal North Carolina, but our hardiness zones are very similar. I enjoy watching your videos and wish you would post more often. You do an excellent job.
This is the dream. There's so little fruit-growing culture around the coast, at least where I grew up, and yet we have so many options. I've got to find a way to afford somewhere in Saanich and have an orchard some day, with as many different species as possible. Just discovered the Quince the other day... had only heard about it, now I discover it has the most beautiful aroma and cooking combinations. Quince Parfait... here we come.
You can also grow sudachi up there on southern Vancouver Island. Sudachi is an excellent mandarin x yuzu hybrid and makes small citrus fruits that taste like limes and only have 3-5 seeds per fruit. I’m always amazed about how fertile Vancouver Island is. Bob Duncan grows loquat, pomegranate, citrus, figs, feijoa and Chilean guava. That’s all the same stuff I grow down here in California. Of course, Victoria isn’t as sunny as warm, but is definitely mild enough to grow certain cultivars of these subtropical fruits.
Hi Bob, just across the way on San Juan Island. Your videos are super instructive and inspiring. I would love a video detailing some of your systems that we can see in the background to create the protection and microclimates that you have...Ie awnings, any reflective material, heat sinks, etc. Thanks!
Bob has these planted against a white, south-facing wall. He has a sloping overhead cover, made from the glass from discarded single-pane patio doors. You might enjoy a trip up to see his operation. It is quite fascinating!
muchas gracias por el video, ha sido muy interesante, y no pensaba que se pudiera cultivar tan al norte. vivo en España y tengo un bebé feijoa, las flores son preciosas . aquí no se conoce mucho ésta fruta. saludos cordiales.
The feijoas i've grown here on Quadta Island in an unheated greenhouse have grown and fruited beaitifully but i warn others that the fruits i harvested did not taste good at all. I may have done something wrong but Im going to let mine grow for another year or two. Ill try thinning the fruit, too.
I live just south of you in Saanich. Do you do anything to prepare the plants for winter? I have a couple of plants and they seem to do ok up until about March. Then suddenly they will lose all or most of their leaves and spend the next 2 to 3 months recovering.
Dear fruit trees, do you sell feijoa trees? I am in Vancouver and looking to try to cultivate some of these wonderful fruits after a recent trip to New Zealand I’m hooked.
I grew mine from seed here in the UK. First year leaves are tiny and I thought I'd been conned. Second year leaves are as you see here. Hoping for flowers in the spring.
It will take some years for a seedling tree to flower for the first time. You can get a named variety at many nurseries in the UK. I recommend an early variety like described in the video.
One was Nikita, another one Mammoth, what was the Large NZ one? Was that Apollo? I'm curious as I have an Apollo which is not nearly as big as the one you are growing :)
Thank you for this interesting video on growing feijoa. There was one incorrect statement though: Crimea is NOT "a part of southern russia", Crimea is Ukrainian territory which was illegally occupied(temporary) by russia with the use of military force in 2014 with killings, kidnappings and death-threatening of local people. For that act of war russian agressors received international sanctions from USA, European Union and condemnation from the UNO. Full name of Ukrainian feijoa variety Nikita is Nikits'ka Aromatna (can be transl. “The Aromatic from Nikita”). It was developed in Nikita Botanical Garden near Yalta, on the Crimea peninsula in the southern part of Ukraine.
First of all sir... thank you for your video. I live in California Central valley, would like to know where I can get those trees. Again, thank you very much sir.
I'm in Northern California foggy cool and not very warm for more than a few days. I'm amazed that you have so many early ripening fruit. Curious if you have any more in the papaya or sub tropical varities. great videos..thanks
hi, i have a feijua tree about 4 years, full of flowers, but no fruit, I only got one tree and I was told its from seeding. should I pollenate followers each other on this tree? you have any idea?
Hello from Duncan BC, just got 2 guava plants, I don't know witch one are, my question is, can I keep them in the pot? or change to big ones, to keep them inside in winter or do you think they will survive outdoor ? thanks :)
Thanks for another great video, and thank you for giving the variety names for successful production in the PNW. Would it be possible for you to revisit your loquat video and supply names of the varieties that are locally adapted. As you may well know, grafted varieties of both of these fruits are very expensive and hard to find - any assistance may avoid failure. Luckily, the ag experimental station in Mt Vernon WA has plantings of Asimina varieties so I can evaluate their performance, but not so for Eriobotrya and Acca. I currently grow all three, but would like to expand my varietes
@@fruittreesandmore7431 Thank you, I did see your response. As to Acca, so far looks like Mammoth will be our best bet so far in Skagit County. Named varieties are extremely hard to find here in the US - so far I have only managed to acquire a seedling ( the only kind readily available in retail centers), a cutting grown Mammoth, and grafted Coolidge and grafted Nazemetz. I keep the grafted plants in containers and protect them in winter, for fear that a hard freeze will kill the plant to below the graft. I experienced 20% defoliation of the seedling this year ( In ground/ South wall/ under eave) after 3 non- consecutive nights down to 11f. I know that low temps can damage the flowering wood, but my plant in the ground is beginning to bloom now - the container plants have been in bloom for a few weeks. Mail order is really the only way to get named varieties here, and even then it is next to impossible to find the finer NZ ones. It may be easier in Canada, I don't know. Feijoa makes a very nice chutney
Que maravilhosa essa FRUTA! Eu gostaria muito de obter sementes dela! Aqui no Brasil eu nunca vi DESTA FRUTA! Sou apaixonada pela terra pelo verde por FRUTÍFERAS! Nossa estou encantada gostaria muito de ter SEMENTES dela!
I hand pollinate but can’t get much success. I tried large brush, small brush, even vibrating brush with about 10% success. I must be doing something wrong
Begging for some advice if you have a moment. Feel like a woman screaming into the void! I have two varieties of younger trees in pots (maybe a couple years old?) and a meter reading is showing the soil isn’t acidic enough. I have googled to death and can’t figure out what I need to do, there’s so much information out there and I’ve confused myself! My goal is obviously to get them to product fruit. I’m so new to this but feijoas are fruit from my childhood that I dream about, so I am determined. I’m also unsure of when/what to feed them. Do you have any tips for any specific products and how to do it? 🙏🏽
I don’t know if I should add - they’re growing in 5 gallon pots about 2 meters apart on a south-facing balcony in East Vancouver. So far they’re still alive but I really want them to grow and blossom.
Hi! I’m in BC as well and trying to growing a feijoa indoors. I have one in a nursery pot, he’s not doing so well! Quick growth, but the leaves stay soft and dry out and fall off... I have no great aspirations for him to fruit (as I only have one tree, and a black thumb!) but I really want to keep the tree alive. Thanks!
@@wendytube007 You can get them early in the season at Pheonix Perrenials in Richmond on their citrus pre-order. I was able to pick up roughly 4+ at the end of the summer this year because there were leftover plants.
I live in North Western Turkey and it seems feijoas love subtropical climate of my region (hot and dry summers, mild and rainy winters with couple of snowy days). There are seven trees in my garden, they are prolific fruit bearers. Obviously there isn't any native pollinator bird here and I never hand pollinate but still they produce abundant amount of fruit. Much more than we and our neighbours can consume. Bees and insects are very busy around the trees when they are in bloom. They may be some local species which like feijoa flowers and they are doing pollination job well :)
Thank you for sharing your wisdom. I am in the Fraser Valley and will give pineapple guava a try. I bought a plant last year and lost it. I now realize that I need at least 2 plants, so I just as well get 3 if I can find 3 different varieties. My figs and persimmons did amazing, but we moved and now I need to start over.
Feijoa is never available where I am in Philadelphia, so I tried to grow my own in April 2017. I planted the ~6" plant in pot, thinking that I'll have to bring it inside in the winter. I didn't know it is such a cold hardy plant. Now it is ~5 feet tall and my indoor grow light is failing it somewhat. Most of its leaves are dying and it is becoming too big to care for indoor. Now that I learned it is hardy to below zero temperature, I can't wait for spring to transplant it into the ground in my garden. Here's to hoping for some feijoa fruits soon in the future. Thanks for the information in your video.
It will die down to the roots during winter if you plant it outside in Philadelphia.
Another great video, thank you for sharing your knowledge and passion. I have a farm just south of Cowichan Bay, and you keep tempting me with these wonderful fruits.
Outstanding video. I just so happened to purchase a feijoa last month at a nursery purely out of the recommendation of the owner, so your video is timely. My climate is very different than yours here in southeastern coastal North Carolina, but our hardiness zones are very similar. I enjoy watching your videos and wish you would post more often. You do an excellent job.
And your video got me to buy some and I'm now watching this video...
I second this!
This is the dream. There's so little fruit-growing culture around the coast, at least where I grew up, and yet we have so many options. I've got to find a way to afford somewhere in Saanich and have an orchard some day, with as many different species as possible. Just discovered the Quince the other day... had only heard about it, now I discover it has the most beautiful aroma and cooking combinations. Quince Parfait... here we come.
You can also grow sudachi up there on southern Vancouver Island. Sudachi is an excellent mandarin x yuzu hybrid and makes small citrus fruits that taste like limes and only have 3-5 seeds per fruit. I’m always amazed about how fertile Vancouver Island is. Bob Duncan grows loquat, pomegranate, citrus, figs, feijoa and Chilean guava. That’s all the same stuff I grow down here in California. Of course, Victoria isn’t as sunny as warm, but is definitely mild enough to grow certain cultivars of these subtropical fruits.
so awesome thanks Bob. I have a row of these in my front yard
Just planted two of the trees in Aegina island - Greece!! He are hoping to enjoy the fruits soon! Thank you for your lovely video!
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l love this video and the way you present and share your experience. Definetely will subscribe.
Love the citrus trees in the background. Green thumb
Hi Bob, just across the way on San Juan Island. Your videos are super instructive and inspiring. I would love a video detailing some of your systems that we can see in the background to create the protection and microclimates that you have...Ie awnings, any reflective material, heat sinks, etc. Thanks!
Bob has these planted against a white, south-facing wall. He has a sloping overhead cover, made from the glass from discarded single-pane patio doors. You might enjoy a trip up to see his operation. It is quite fascinating!
muchas gracias por el video, ha sido muy interesante, y no pensaba que se pudiera cultivar tan al norte. vivo en España y tengo un bebé feijoa, las flores son preciosas . aquí no se conoce mucho ésta fruta. saludos cordiales.
The feijoas i've grown here on Quadta Island in an unheated greenhouse have grown and fruited beaitifully but i warn others that the fruits i harvested did not taste good at all. I may have done something wrong but Im going to let mine grow for another year or two. Ill try thinning the fruit, too.
I live just south of you in Saanich. Do you do anything to prepare the plants for winter? I have a couple of plants and they seem to do ok up until about March. Then suddenly they will lose all or most of their leaves and spend the next 2 to 3 months recovering.
Thanks for the video! Feijoa are so tasty and full of vit C. I live in Esquimalt. Where do you get the seeds to start these?
Dear fruit trees, do you sell feijoa trees? I am in Vancouver and looking to try to cultivate some of these wonderful fruits after a recent trip to New Zealand I’m hooked.
I grew mine from seed here in the UK. First year leaves are tiny and I thought I'd been conned. Second year leaves are as you see here. Hoping for flowers in the spring.
It will take some years for a seedling tree to flower for the first time. You can get a named variety at many nurseries in the UK. I recommend an early variety like described in the video.
a detailed explanation. Thank you Sir.
One was Nikita, another one Mammoth, what was the Large NZ one? Was that Apollo? I'm curious as I have an Apollo which is not nearly as big as the one you are growing :)
Thanks for great video...
Thank you for this interesting video on growing feijoa. There was one incorrect statement though: Crimea is NOT "a part of southern russia", Crimea is Ukrainian territory which was illegally occupied(temporary) by russia with the use of military force in 2014 with killings, kidnappings and death-threatening of local people. For that act of war russian agressors received international sanctions from USA, European Union and condemnation from the UNO.
Full name of Ukrainian feijoa variety Nikita is Nikits'ka Aromatna (can be transl. “The Aromatic from Nikita”). It was developed in Nikita Botanical Garden near Yalta, on the Crimea peninsula in the southern part of Ukraine.
First of all sir... thank you for your video. I live in California Central valley, would like to know where I can get those trees. Again, thank you very much sir.
I'm in Northern California foggy cool and not very warm for more than a few days. I'm amazed that you have so many early ripening fruit. Curious if you have any more in the papaya or sub tropical varities. great videos..thanks
I live here in Monterey County in Monterey and these Pineapple Guava grow and thrive where I'm at.
hi, i have a feijua tree about 4 years, full of flowers, but no fruit, I only got one tree and I was told its from seeding. should I pollenate followers each other on this tree? you have any idea?
Can I buy some from you? I grew up eating these at my grandfather's garden and I can't find these anywhere.
Where did you get your fruit trees at?
Love your videos! We have a climate similar to yours, but here in Dunedin NZ it's probably cooler in summer and not as cold in winter. Thank you!
If you are in Canada, wouldn't that be the Pacific Southwest? :-) ... Just planted my first one this last spring. Can't wait for the fruit...
In Canada we don't usually see ourselves as the center of the world so no, haha
Hello from Duncan BC, just got 2 guava plants, I don't know witch one are, my question is, can I keep them in the pot? or change to big ones, to keep them inside in winter or do you think they will survive outdoor ? thanks :)
We have these trees everywhere in Melbourne Victoria, they can take a little frost and a good cold 3 months of winter
Thanks for another great video, and thank you for giving the variety names for successful production in the PNW. Would it be possible for you to revisit your loquat video and supply names of the varieties that are locally adapted. As you may well know, grafted varieties of both of these fruits are very expensive and hard to find - any assistance may avoid failure. Luckily, the ag experimental station in Mt Vernon WA has plantings of Asimina varieties so I can evaluate their performance, but not so for Eriobotrya and Acca. I currently grow all three, but would like to expand my varietes
Hi Tim, I've answered the loquat question on that video. All the best on your endeavours. Presumably you are located in Skagit County?
@@fruittreesandmore7431 Thank you, I did see your response. As to Acca, so far looks like Mammoth will be our best bet so far in Skagit County. Named varieties are extremely hard to find here in the US - so far I have only managed to acquire a seedling ( the only kind readily available in retail centers), a cutting grown Mammoth, and grafted Coolidge and grafted Nazemetz. I keep the grafted plants in containers and protect them in winter, for fear that a hard freeze will kill the plant to below the graft. I experienced 20% defoliation of the seedling this year ( In ground/ South wall/ under eave) after 3 non- consecutive nights down to 11f. I know that low temps can damage the flowering wood, but my plant in the ground is beginning to bloom now - the container plants have been in bloom for a few weeks. Mail order is really the only way to get named varieties here, and even then it is next to impossible to find the finer NZ ones. It may be easier in Canada, I don't know. Feijoa makes a very nice chutney
Where in Vancouver or lower mainland can we buy the New Zealand or mammoth varieties?
Can you eat the flower itself or just the pedal?
Que maravilhosa essa FRUTA! Eu gostaria muito de obter sementes dela! Aqui no Brasil eu nunca vi DESTA FRUTA! Sou apaixonada pela terra pelo verde por FRUTÍFERAS! Nossa estou encantada gostaria muito de ter SEMENTES dela!
Rear fruit..... So very nice 👍👍
I grew up eating them I love the skin too they grow so well in my country New Zealand
could this be grown in an unheated greenhouse?
I hand pollinate but can’t get much success. I tried large brush, small brush, even vibrating brush with about 10% success. I must be doing something wrong
Does anybody know where to get named early varieties in europe?
Begging for some advice if you have a moment. Feel like a woman screaming into the void! I have two varieties of younger trees in pots (maybe a couple years old?) and a meter reading is showing the soil isn’t acidic enough. I have googled to death and can’t figure out what I need to do, there’s so much information out there and I’ve confused myself! My goal is obviously to get them to product fruit. I’m so new to this but feijoas are fruit from my childhood that I dream about, so I am determined. I’m also unsure of when/what to feed them. Do you have any tips for any specific products and how to do it? 🙏🏽
I don’t know if I should add - they’re growing in 5 gallon pots about 2 meters apart on a south-facing balcony in East Vancouver. So far they’re still alive but I really want them to grow and blossom.
Don't you eat the entire fruit just like you would a regular guava ?
Con those grow in surrey bc
Hi! I’m in BC as well and trying to growing a feijoa indoors. I have one in a nursery pot, he’s not doing so well! Quick growth, but the leaves stay soft and dry out and fall off... I have no great aspirations for him to fruit (as I only have one tree, and a black thumb!) but I really want to keep the tree alive. Thanks!
I’m curious, I’m also in British Columbia (Vancouver) and was trying to get a hold of one of these trees where did you get yours?
@@wendytube007 You can get them early in the season at Pheonix Perrenials in Richmond on their citrus pre-order. I was able to pick up roughly 4+ at the end of the summer this year because there were leftover plants.
@@tallboyjules Oh that’s amazing I’ll definitely go out and look! Thanks so much for the tip 👍
Thank you sir
I need this fruit seeds .. we’re can I get ?
Amazon
Our varieties are Unique, Tagan, Kaiteri, Arhart, Kakariki
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Sell me some seeds .
YOU CAN EAT THE SKIN, JUST CRACK ON THEM !!
You could have waited for the plane to go by...
Crimea is Ukraine btw
Exactly!
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