Strawberry Guava VS Hawaiian/Tropical Guava (forum)

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Anyone with experience growing both I would love to know which one would be best for a rural Sydney climate. Strawberry guava has an annoying seed but is more frost tolerant.
-Which fruit tastes better?
-Which will be easier to contain to 3.5m?
-Whose fruit will be easier to protect from pests?

Time: 4th November 2012 8:29pm

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allybanana says...
we have both the tropical guava ripens in winter early spring when its not hot enough to give it much flavor. |Strawberry has a better flavour in southern climates i am a fan of the yellow cherry mysealf

Time: 4th November 2012 8:40pm

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Tommoz says...
Forgot to mention feijoa (pineapple guava) which I suppose is also an option

Time: 4th November 2012 9:17pm

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Fin_ says...
I have plants of Strawberry, yellow cherry, hawaiian, mexican cream and feijoa growing in the Illawarra. My favourite is the Yellow cherry (really sweet and tasty), then the hawaiian, strawberry, feijoa and I'm not keen at all on the mexican cream one - a bit dry and not as strong flavoured. But i guess it's all personal preference.

I keep all my fruit trees below about 2m and I find the strawberry and yellow cherry are both much smaller plants and more bushy - easy to keep these small. Feijoa is a reasonable small bush too and very suitable to hard pruning/hedging. The hawaiian and mexican cream are more of a tree type, not as bushy and I have to continuously prune to keep them small. They both have lovely bark though and are very attractive trees in their own right.

cheers,Fin

Time: 5th November 2012 9:38am

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MaryT says...
I love the flavour of my yellow cherry and so far I've had no problem with it at all; still waiting for strawberry guava which is in flower now, my Hawaiian was dead within days of arrival , Mexican Cream and China Pear have just arrived as well so will have to wait and see. Sorry to hear your negative review of the Mexican Cream, Fin_

Time: 5th November 2012 12:19pm

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BJ says...
I find the smell of most true guajava terrible, but the taste okay in a few. I much prefer guisaro and a good feijoa. My wife is a guava fan so I grow lots of them and they can be squeezed into nooks and crannies and taught to behave themselves amongst more favoured fruiting trees.

I was pretty stunned recently by the taste of the purple guava. I had heard it was only really useful as an ornamental, but the fruit is really good on my little tree. Taste is a bit like guava sherbert. The fruit are small - a bit bigger than yellow cherries but much smaller than normal guajava types, and is often quite prominently ribbed, like a guava pumpkin.

Time: 5th November 2012 12:39pm

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denise1 says...
Tastes vary, many pacific islanders will only eat hard unripe tropical guavas. Perhaps it is for the vitamin C in them- I dont know why.

Time: 5th November 2012 2:38pm

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