03-18-2008, 02:27 PM
While we're talking guavas, has anyone heard how the Beaumont Guava trees are faring, these guavas grew 20'plus high and had apple size fruits they were touted as an ag crop in a lot of subdivisions! The best were in HPP, where some nice stands took off. But more common was like in FFVE, 3-9 acres clear grubbed, everything shoved to the side, strings pulled the depth of the lot and kekei dropped every 20', with 30' spacing.
A nice seed sprout, literally dropped on black barren lava. One in 20 made it, and those did poorly!It seems the red sreawberry, with useless fruit does better, and until now, never saw a possible use for it!
The kinky shaped, yellow skinned guava was the charcoal stock, it used to be common, and people picked the yello fruit wild, to sell to fruit makers in Hilo and Honolulu! Beaumont was a hybrid off the wild! The strawberry is newer!
A nice seed sprout, literally dropped on black barren lava. One in 20 made it, and those did poorly!It seems the red sreawberry, with useless fruit does better, and until now, never saw a possible use for it!
The kinky shaped, yellow skinned guava was the charcoal stock, it used to be common, and people picked the yello fruit wild, to sell to fruit makers in Hilo and Honolulu! Beaumont was a hybrid off the wild! The strawberry is newer!
Gordon J Tilley