Below is a picture of our largest MC. I like it but like the one in Ceres more (picture of the seedling below also).
I tried to graft. I cut all leaves except a small part. Made it in the north side of the tree and protected the graft. It stayed green for few weeks then died.
MC tree with fruits
MC - Young - Mother Tree high quality
Is this one from a cutting or an airlayer? the MC?
It is a seedling that owner of mother tree gifted to us last month. The leaves matched mother tree when we picked it up together with fruits.
Because I thinned fruits on a 1 year tree and only left a few, the remaining ones bulked up. Had the same sour/acid with mild sweetness
Here is tropic pink. We were happy to unload it to save the branches! Some of the flavor is lost after rain but it comes back after few sunny days.
It has smaller solid green fruits that seems like the 2nd crop. Fruiting this time of the year till Late Spring makes guava a great addition to citrus and cactus pears to have fresh fruits until berries and stone fruits come online.
Tropic Pink
Thank you!
Where did you buy these from? Most places I look only have Tropical or Mexican Cream
I love this thread! So many great looking guavas. In addition to some hardy guava cousins I’m trialing outside (feijoa, Chilean guava, luma, and P. longipetiolatum), I have two seedlings of Vietnamese guavas I got from @Bradybb when they were just wee little things back in January. I think one is a pink guava and the other is white, but Brady wasn’t sure when he gave them to me and I’ve since mixed them up in any case:
I did also share many of the other guava seedlings (he gave me a lot!) with a few neighbors who have greenhouses, so I’ll hopefully be able to compare my results to theirs.
Does anyone know how soon to expect fruit from seed? I have been impressed with the growth rate so far. This is what they looked like in January:
The two fruit came from an Asian market,near Seattle.
The Mexican Cream is on my wish list to try,from reading reports and seeing videos.
I pulled out the Red Beaumont today. At first the sprightly guavas were interesting but they are too sour for fresh eating. I planted Tropic pink and Tropic white guavas as 2-in-1 in the same place. I am generally not a fan of these N-in-1 hole plantings, but all my guava grafts failed and I am not patient enough to experiment and learn to do it right. It may have to do with the timing of the graft and the kind/age of scions to collect.
Stripped the old tree off leaves and tiny fruits and used it as mulch for the new trees 
Hi californicus, what do you think about the taste? I don’t like it very much, it is sour yes, but not sweet, and no good aftertaste. Definitely not as described online, I think it could be a different tree or maybe the tree needs some aging.
was asking about the Beaumont red guava
I was not patient and pulled it out. For a first taste, the high acid was interesting. But it was just too sour. So, I didn’t wait and replaced it with Tropic Pink and White. I might plop a Mexican Cream next to them. I finally spotted it in Lowes and bought one.
I have some that i grew from seed. Have no idea how long they take to fruit but they were very simple to get going and i had to kill off a bunch of them because i had too many.
I don’t think they should take a long time. La Verne propagates a few varieties as seedlings and they don’t take long time to fruit, so I’d say 3-4 years max.
I think they are seeds from the softball size guava fruit. We really only can get those and the really small seedy ones that walmart sells (although they smell really good).
As a kid i always loved the guava pieces they would put in the tropical fruit mixes you get in a can.
For a tropical fruit, these yellow lemon guavas really shine after a cold night. These are usually ripe in Oct but due to our mild summer, the harvest is still going on. Picked these after a chilly, rainy night and they had notes of vanilla with a hint of lemon. Best guavas this season.
Are they seedy? Love the aroma of guavas. Guava juice is also really good.
I assume those are the yellow cattley guava (P. cattleyanum var. littorale)? If my P. longipetiolatum ends up making it here outdoors I’m planning to try grafting cattley guava onto it, but I’ve never tasted either. Your description sounds wonderful though!
These have very soft seeds for a guava. They don’t have the same strong aroma of the tropical guavas (Psidium guajava) but the flavor is nice
