I’m considering getting some feijoa and putting them in containers, bringing them inside whenever temps look to dip below 15F in a night. Given that I’m in 7a, it seems I’d need some early ripening varieties.
Before I go off and order a set of 3 (for cross pollination) I was wondering if it’s even plausible for me to grow feijoa in my zone, or if the plants likely won’t get enough light to fruit reliably. If it is possible, does anyone have advice on the earliest ripening (or most cold hardy) varieties?
? would this be because the plants would be taken inside for perhaps a month’s worth of nights during the winter? This should not affect fruit production. I don’t think feijoa is as fussy about low light or drops leaves as readily as citrus from being seasonally moved around.
I’ve just generally heard of people having issues with fruitset for feijoas and wasn’t sure if it was possibly a temperature, light, or season length kind of thing. Want to make sure I’ll actually get something from them before spending all the time and effort.
Get a grafted variety and most of these issues will be resolved. They even fruit in light challenged Seattle. If they can fruit here they can fruit in 95% of the rest of US.