How and when to harvest guava fruits
- After 3 months of pruning the guava trees and we can see more guava in the trees.
- Normally Guava
fruit will be ripe and ready for harvest about 90 and 150 days after
flowering and pollination.
- Each branch
in the tree has at least 3 or 4 guavas and they have matured and are ready
for harvesting.
- These
fruits cannot be maintained on the tree longer in ripen stage. So,
fruit picking should be done, as sooner as they attain maturity.
- There are
several ways to harvest fruits. One can go for manual hand picking of
fruits at an interval of few days.
- Fruit plucking
machine is also available in the market to harvest fruits.
- Guavas
depends on the plant age, soil fertility, soil type, frequency of
irrigation, pest and disease control. Also Yield is always different from
variety to variety.
- Yield will
further increase after completing third and fourth pruning as more lateral
branches will be available in the guava tree.
- Also apply 10 kg of organic fertilizer for every plants, 2 months after pruning the
guava tree to increase the size and quality of the guavas
- In warm
year-round locations, guava can produce two crops each year, a large crop
in summer followed by a smaller crop in winter.
- Ripe guavas
will develop mature light green as they ripen;
- The
changing of the color from green to light yellowish green is an
indication of their tender age.
- But,
avoid any kind of damage to fruits. It can lessen down fruit quality and
hence the market price.
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