That looks beautiful. How did you juice it?
After several days of not checking, and a big wind storm that knocked out power for 4 hours Tuesday evening, I finally checked on my 2 full-sized mammoth feijoa. Only one was hanging, the other was gone. I picked it and it came off easily. I’m looking forward to tasting it.
I can compare to the delicious fruit that Larry sent me.
Arhus76 is now the only member of the “200 Club”.
I’m noticing that fruit tastes much better this year than in past years. This is particularly true of the NZ varieties that weren’t all that good in prior years. Now they all have a strong feijoa flavor and high sweetness and much less sour.
The Albert varieties are starting to get large. It’s always fascinating to watch feijoa get larger this late in the year when everything else is going to sleep.
Kind of irritated this time around.
I ordered more from fruitwoodnursery and paid more for shipping but got a much smaller box than last time…
I got the seedlings rooted pomegranate cuttings. Last box they came in, i only ordered 2 and got a bigger box that the plants actually fitted in.
Do some nurseries not want long term business? I don’t get it
Everything I’ve gotten from fruitwood has looked a little scrawny and then absolutely exploded with growth.
I don’t care if they ship it in a thimble if they grow well
Their shipping calculator has been broken as long as I’ve known of them. I think I’ve ordered from them 3 or 4 times.
The first time they gave me a refund for the error, but now I just consider that part of the consideration when deciding if I want to order. It seems clear to me that they put their energy into the material more than the business. Generally I can appreciate that priority when it comes to this hobby.
Fruitwood is not a typical nursery. They are not a garden center that sells 5 gallon potted plants.
They are more a specialist nursery - for serious hobbyists. They expect the person buying to know the basics - rooting from cuttings, grafting etc.
They have stuff that no one else has and they collect and sell rare and exotic varieties.
Yes, their website isn’t very fancy and their shipping is a bit broken. But their plants and plant material are great. For what little they charge, I’m happy to let them keep any extra.
I would rank them as my favorite or close to favorite mail order nursery.
I agree there. Last year I could have sworn their plants used pots instead of bags. But then I thought, for what they offer, I really dont mind. There isnt another scionwood source that has this much variety at this type of price. For that Ill easily put up with wacky shipping and inability to combine orders.
Yes, I think you’ve expressed it better than I, agreed.
I actually like that they come in bags vs pot but man was it cramped in there. One of the seedlings lost a bit of the main growth
From the name I’d expect it to be more spherical.
Roughly how many feijoa trees do you have?
Yes, I would have thought so too.
I have over a dozen trees. Haven’t counted. Lined as hedges. They are starting to grow into each other.
That is amazing! Very impressive size!
I have the same problem with snow on Feijoa’s, the trees are hardy enough to survive the cold, but the wood is too brittle to withstand the weight of the snow.
That seedling is truly amazing.
Here is a picture of the range of variability that I found between my feijoa seedlings here. Some seeds from ornamental varieties, some from fruits bought on the market, some from fruits of commercial varieties.
My range so far in my climate goes from plants that consistently produce fruit of just 5 grams to consistently fruits of 75 gr.
Your fruits are an order of magnitude bigger again!
These fruits come from a different tree from the other photos. These are its first fruits. The average weight is over 130 grams.
For the snow I should have listened to my wife and gone out to shake the branches.
I don’t have any seedlings that produce fruits as small as what you mention.
The smallest fruits are 35/50 grams on what I call bad trees.
I consider that you need at least 85 grams. But when you start to have large fruits you only pick those that are over 100 grams.
Statistically, on the seedling trees in front of the house, 1/3 produce large fruits (7 trees) 1/3 medium fruits and 1/3 small fruits. 70% of the seedlings produce fruits. 1 is 100% sterile, I think it is triploid, because the leaves are larger, greener, the flowers are twice as large as normal. We are far from the statistics that say that it takes 4000 seedlings to get 1 or 2 varieties… I am curious to know what my seeds will give at your place.
I think that my origin is more resistant to cold than conventional fruit varieties.
That is probably correct. The first two batches of seeds that I received came from wild or naturalized populations on Madeira and the Canary Islands. I think these were imported there over 100 years ago.
I had hoped that the different origin would give some extra traits that might work in my climate, but the trees remain small and have more problems. The plants struggle with winter and with diseases. More so than trees from other sources. Their fruits remain this small, pale and smooth and are the latest to ripen. It seems in order to survive on these islands that they have been selected for all the wrong qualities that I am looking for…
My first good results in my local climate were from seedlings of commercial varieties and from fruits I found at the market.
