Too Many Guavas? Preserve Them Now!
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 6 ก.ย. 2024
- While you can preserve different ways my favorite option for an abundant harvest is to half and freeze white guavas for smoothies and make a jam or jelly out of my pink guavas.
This is an awesome video I followed for the pink guava jam: • Homemade Guava Jam
Happy harvesting and preserving!
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thanks for sharing guava options. I use them for smoothies but jam/jelly is on my to do list
Now I have to get one of those trees!
Excellent video, Mam, you are best Guava grower , I like too.
😆 Love it! Thanks for the tips.
Beautiful crops!!!
Seeds are ok to eat as you said, but they can cause constipation 🫢, so it’s a good idea not to eat too many at once, especially the white ones with the larger, harder seeds. That’s the common opinion in Egypt where they usually grow the white variety. One can smell them from a street vendor a mile off!…. Such a wonderful fruit and fruit juice. I didn’t know I could freeze them, thank you for that! Loved the different varieties you have! Costco imports the white ones up here to Canada, but I’ve never seen the pink ones. I’ll have to see if local nurseries can import the seeds and I’ll give it a try in pots. We’re very close to Seattle, Washington so our winters are mild, but still get the occasional snow. Thank for this video.
Good job on your guavas!
Thanks for sharing
Rootstock better than the grafted variety! Those look great. Thanks for sharing.
You should grow the best guava varities. Once you try them you will never be the same.
What are the best in your opinion?
@@Mangoberrylemon123 The Taiwanese Seedless guava or the Taiwanese Ruby Seedless guava. It is crunchy, sweet, and seedless.
@@JohnDoe-ql9pf thanks John! I’ll look into those varieties 😋
You explained how you preserve the white guavas but how would I preserve the pink guavas until I have the time to make jelly? I found only one option and it was Wikihow that said to half them and freeze them in simple syrup but that would make them too sweet to make jelly with. I've never made jelly before and want to but wouldn't know how to adjust the recipe to accommodate the storage in the simple syrup. Any suggestions?
You can half and freeze the pink ones too just like the white varieties; no simple syrup is required. The pink varieties begin to degrade in taste in a couple months but would buy you a few weeks of time before making jelly without sacrificing the flavor
Thank you, that is very helpful.@@EnlightenmentGarden
Bad idea to put rotten fruit under the mulch under the tree as it will attract fruit flies in large numbers that will quickly infect the entire crop. I know because I did the same dumb thing. Lost all of last years crop due to worms. This year I put out fruit fly homemade bait stations and every day collect any fallen fruit and if soft I bad them for disposing. Also any guavas that I collect that pass the visual test I put into a bowl of water in the kitchen and observe them for a day. Often the tiny white worms will begin to wiggle out and you can discard those fruits. In addition I spray the tree with Monterey orchard spray once a week in hopes it might reduce fly infestation. Still some fruits get worms. I am in zone 9b in Port St. Lucie Florida. My tree variety is Ruby supreme. Someone told me there is a variegated leaf guava that does not get fruit flies but I have strong reservations.
Thanks. We have miserable summers in general like we are going through now with relentless dry heat almost at 120 degrees Fahrenheit. The good thing about that is there are no fruit flies here or worms. I do try to pick up most of the fruit but only to prevent rodents from getting attracted to my yard. I have the honeymoon guava that is variegated but since we don't get fruit flies in general I have no idea if they are attracted or not to that variety.
Thank you for sharing your knowledge
I live in Darwin Northern Territory Australia
Guava grows fantastically here in the tropics
However I do have one problem every time I open up a guava it is full of worms
Do you have this problem? How might I go about solving it?
Thanks! It's so hot here in Arizona during ripening that we encounter few pests. Fortunately we do not have fruit flies. Not sure what type of worms are attacking the fruit but read fruit fly larvae will turn into worms. You may want to pick them early and ripen inside, clean up any fallen fruit and set up some fruit fly traps if that's the root cause consisting of vinegar and soap. Hope that helps!
@@EnlightenmentGarden thank you
I love guava but it’s really creepy seeing the worms after you’ve eaten half of it
Yep I reckon you’re right. Bloody fruit flies
Hey, can I ask when this fruits in your zone typically? I'm 9B too just curious
The fall crop usually ripens March-May and the summer crop ripens July-September with the largest volume at the middle of those periods. Occasionally I'll see some random fruit ripen outside of those months.
@EnlightenmentGarden hey EG, do you have a video on your foliar feeding regimen? I know you are a TCV viewer as well, just curious if you took his lead on that area as well or if you did things a bit differently
Were the variety names mentioned? I didn’t catch them but was looking forward to you recommendations
Hi. Yes they are named in the video and text is on screen. On recommendations, my best pink variety came from Lowes. That's the one that I made the jam from. It's just named tropical pink so it's not a specific cultivar but is very hardy, productive and tasty. My favorite white variety is Mexican Cream. You can sometimes find these at Lowes also but most tropical fruit tree nurseries carry it.
Can you describe the difference between taste in the Mexican Cream vs the Tropical Pink? We got a TP tree after falling in love with the MC, yet have never tried one
I'll do my best. TP has floral notes mixed with strawberry and pear while MC has a thicker much sweeter pulp and tastes like vanilla with pear and sometimes banana. When TP overripens it can give off a funky odor like dirty feet but not MC.
@@EnlightenmentGarden lovely, thanks so much!
Do you think i could grow pink guava in the ground in the coastal bend area texas?,zone9b fluctuating
Pink guava can survive down to 25 degrees Fahrenheit. If your area gets colder then growing in a container is your best bet so you can move it inside a garage or structure to protect it.
Thank you
Do you have any issues with birds eating them up once they begin to ripen? If so, what did you do to prevent bird damage? Thanks!
The birds primarily go after figs in my yard. They will nip at the guavas if there are no figs available :) but don't do much damage overall. Something like this product can help keep the fruit safe from the birds. If you have rats then this won't work. www.amazon.com/MIXC-Protection-6%C3%978fruit-netting-Drawstring/dp/B09FJYXB5V/
@@EnlightenmentGarden Thanks for your response! I’m also in Phoenix and the birds just love to hang out in my garden. They would eat up the figs, grapes, guavas, and jujubes in that order of preference. Organza bags worked really well for me, but they’re rather time consuming, especially with the number of fruits I had this year. So far, the only fruits they don’t seem to care for are star fruits (carambolas). You have a beautiful garden. Keep up the awesome work!
@@Derek-wn2zc Thanks! Yes individually bagging is a pain! I've tried deflectors with no luck. A water source like a fountain does help reduce fruit pecking. You might consider a 30' x 30' knitted netting option. They are pricey but last awhile and don't snag and become an utter mess like the cheap ones. You may be able to rotate its use amongst your fruit trees as harvest time comes in www.americannettings.com/product/bird-netting/ One other option I like is using the huge organza bags on entire branches. That way you have easier access to harvest and it cuts down on the number of bags you would have to use in comparison to the individual sized bags - www.pouchdepotinc.com/product/jumbo-organza-pouch-22-x25-pdr50/
@@EnlightenmentGarden Thanks so much for sharing your gardening experience! I’ve tried the netting and it worked really well for the grapes, but I have not tried the extra large organza bags. That’s probably a good idea! I’ll have to give it a go and see how it works out in my garden. Thanks again for being so helpful! Happy gardening!
can u ship ur extra guavas? to Texas?
Sorry; I don't sell the fruit I grow. Guavas do not ship well in general. If you are able to grow citrus in your area in Texas then you should be able to grow the tropical pink guavas also. If it's too cold in your area for in-ground planting, they can be container-grown.
can u recommend a grower for pink guavas? nursery here doesn't have them?
I thought this was HOW to preserve them.
Nope--it's options for preserving guava based on cultivar; the title does not indicate it's a how-to. I supplied a link to the jam-making option in the description if interested and freezing is pretty basic and described.