02-28-2019, 02:44 PM
why do you suppose it rots so fast? Or would ohia rot in the same timeframe?
In my experience: There's a bore beetle that loves to eat the wai wi guava. That insect really gives it a head start on rotting. It eats the ohia wood to but it seems to bee much tougher, maybe less tasty and definitely harder. Ohia lasts 2 or 3 times as long wai wi guava, easily. Way more rot resistant.
Both those trees are in the same family btw, a myrtle.
Another myrtle I been trying to grow for a few years now: the feijoa fruit.
Edited to Add:
If you eat them off the tree watch out for worms, the ones around me are full of them.
Those fruit-fly worms don't have any ratlung disease. Just an extra dash of protein in each guava treat. Sometimes I eat them on the half green half yellow phase to avoid that extra protein.
In my experience: There's a bore beetle that loves to eat the wai wi guava. That insect really gives it a head start on rotting. It eats the ohia wood to but it seems to bee much tougher, maybe less tasty and definitely harder. Ohia lasts 2 or 3 times as long wai wi guava, easily. Way more rot resistant.
Both those trees are in the same family btw, a myrtle.
Another myrtle I been trying to grow for a few years now: the feijoa fruit.
Edited to Add:
If you eat them off the tree watch out for worms, the ones around me are full of them.
Those fruit-fly worms don't have any ratlung disease. Just an extra dash of protein in each guava treat. Sometimes I eat them on the half green half yellow phase to avoid that extra protein.