Just checked out your YT vids. Looks like you have the same exact winter died back with your inground citrus and feijoa. The two feijoa seedlings I planted flowered for the first time this Spring but no fruits formed.
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Your inground feijoas flowered? Wow that’s awesome! Did you cover them?
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I tried to protect them from desiccate winter wind with plastic, though not on top since I want any snow fall to help insulate them. I removed the plastic around the end of March and there were still green leaves near the ground that were protected by mulch. The larger plant had around 3-4 flowers in early June. The last picture is what they look like this week.
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That is awesome! My potted ones, when I had 2 different strains in pots, flowered in June as well and the fruit ripened in November though it had to finish inside (soften on the counter) because the temp dropped to 22f I had pulled them off before that. The fruit came off easily so it was already close to ripe! I hand pollinated them. I am now growing 3 seedlings from a self fertile variety and will pot them up as well as put one in the lightly heated greenhouse. The current feijoa in the GH is not self fertile, I tried grafting some Takaka onto it but it failed.
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That’s awesome you got actual fruits, it give me hope now that my plant flowered. I also tried a dozen grafts of Takaka and Unique onto my seedlings but none took, I think I may have grafted them too early in May. My plan for this winter is to pile mulch/woodchips higher up on the trunk, it seems the leaves stayed green through the winter under the mulch without any sunlight.
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I’ve had various volunteers sprout up over the years. Most of them are peaches, they seem to sprout most easily in the field. If I want to keep them I will wait until they are dormant and then transplant to a place where they will be able to grow for a few years. I have a nursery bed where I usually put them. Then I might move them to a permanent spot later. Most of my peaches that I have now are grafts on seedling volunteers and I am regularly moving volunteer peaches to my nursery.
It can be fun to grow seedlings, but usually the taste is nothing special. This year I got my first taste of a peach seedling which is actually a decent peach. It’s like Indian Free but ripens a few weeks earlier. Usually the seedlings produce smaller fruits but this guy is big. All of the peach seedlings at least taste decent. I’ve also grown out a bunch of apples and none of them was all that good. They were certainly unusual though - huge mealy balls, hard small dry things, sourballs, etc.
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