Do you guys have guava growing?

[ElysianWort]

I wonder. Nobody I know has done any grafting experiments using wai wi guava as the root base. I DO know that sometimes when I build a frame out of wai wi for the lima beans to climb on, the guava post that is simply stuck into the earth might begin to sprout new branches and grow.

[Rob Tucker]

Does anyone recall The Sorcerer's Apprentice starring Mickey Mouse? When Mickey takes an axe and chops up the broomstick and the splinters each turn into another broomstick? That's what guava is like.

[My 2 cents]

I think it would be a very high maintenance root stock because of it's tendency to sprout new growth. It would be constantly putting out new branches below the graft, robbing energy from the grafting stock.

[kalakoa]

Bugs like wood from trees that bear sweet fruit.

I am told waiwi can be cured by soaking in saltwater, then drying; have not tried this, but there is (or used to be) at least one local artisan making furniture out of it, they probably have a technique.

[randomq]

Why not just plant the furniture and let it continue to live? And the posts and beams of the house... Maybe we are doing this whole housing thing wrong!

[HereOnThePrimalEdge]

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Patrick Dougherty made this strawberry guava structure in Honolulu:
http://honolulumuseum.org/art/exhibition...dougherty/

Here’s one of his living houses, although I’m not certain if there’s live rooted furniture inside:
https://inhabitat.com/patrick-doughertys...ing-trees/

[Durian Fiend]

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Originally posted by HereOnThePrimalEdge

randomq-
Patrick Dougherty made this strawberry guava structure in Honolulu:
http://honolulumuseum.org/art/exhibition...dougherty/

Here’s one of his living houses, although I’m not certain if there’s live rooted furniture inside:
https://inhabitat.com/patrick-doughertys...ing-trees/

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That's cool. I wonder if a soft cutting of the plant would readily root going straight into the ground. Most likely.

Why on earth, right? Perhaps it could be shaped into a living fence.

Grafting-I think the trees have to be from same genus, not just family.

[dayna]

haha working on taking out 700+ commercial guava trees. It'll take me 100 years I bet. Can't stand the stuff and it takes over everything. Big yellow rotting fruits on the ground calls the pigs from miles around. So far we've pulled out 6 rows of 7 trees across and are working on putting in fruit trees and other plants that produce food we'll eat.

Dayna

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