Caring Guava

POLLINATION
-chief pollinator-> (apismellifera) honeybee
            CLIMATE
-both humid and dry climates
-bear more heavily in areas with distinct winter season than in the
deep tropics
                SOIL
-heavy clay, marl, light sand, gravel bars near streams or on limestone
-salt-resistant
-high water table-too wet
        PROPAGATION
-germination for two to three weeks
-transplantation for two to thirty inch high
-root cuttings
-Air-layering and inarching
-budding and grafting
            CULTURE

-light pruning to develop a strong framework and suckers
-irrigation
-complete fertilizer mix apply once a month during the first year and
every other month the second year (except from mid-November to mid- January)
-nutritional sprays providing copper and zinc are recommended
thrice annually for the first two years and once a year there after
   HANDING AND KEEPING                 QUALITY
-ripened in the tree
-it has been demonstrated that the fruits picked when yellow-green
and artificially ripened for six days and store in room temperature
-sprayed with gibberellic acid within 20-35 days before normal
ripening