Different guava cross pollination (forum)

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I have a regular guava next to a younger pineapple guava (Feijoa) and want to plant a strawberry guava as well. Will 3 different types help to cross pollinate each other or are they too far different from each other? How close do guava need to be to cross pollinate?
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Time: 8th May 2024 7:30am

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TyalgumPhil says...
I"m thinking they're not closely enough related to pollinate each other. The regular guava and the strawberry guava should form crops on their own but unless you have a self fertile feijoa you won't get fruit on it in all probability

Time: 29th May 2024 1:56pm

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RDavies says...
Oh dear, I sort of suspected what you said. The Feijoa is now about 4 years old and hasn’t shown any signs of fruiting so you might be right.
I will give it another year to redeem itself and if it doesn’t fruit, it was get ripped out.
Thanks for the heads up.

Time: 30th May 2024 12:33pm

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Edward3 says...
Did your feijoa have any flowers yet? I was just wondering whether you were asking about cross pollination in advance. If it did have flowers but no fruit, then why not plant a second feijoa for cross pollination. The fruit is really delicious, better than guavas in my opinion. See if you can get the variety called Unique, which is self fertile. I have one growing in Katoomba and it had a huge crop even though only a few years old.

Time: 8th June 2024 1:54pm

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