Grafted
Lemon guava
Tart-sweet, more lemon than candy. Good for drinks and jelly as well as eating out of hand if you like a bright fruit.
This variety
The fruit
Tart-sweet, more lemon than candy. Good for drinks and jelly as well as eating out of hand if you like a bright fruit.
Taste, season, cold, and how to plant this one.
- Taste
- Tart-sweet, more lemon than candy. Good for drinks and jelly as well as eating out of hand if you like a bright fruit.
- Ripens
- Multiple warm-season crops once the plant is established.
- Zones
- Zones 9 to 11.
- Hardiness
- Typical guava. Protect or accept a cut-back after a hard freeze.
- Size
- Shrub scale. Easy to espalier or keep as a hedge if you prune after a crop.
- Tips
- Use it if the sweet white guavas taste too perfumed. Same nematode mulch rule applies.
- Pollination
- Self-fruitful.