First opened flowers are on grafts of Larry’s selection. Lots of flowers this year.
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Sparse growth and flowers on a seedling vs heavy flowering on a named variety in background. No fruit yet, although flowering for 3 years. Wondering if I should hand pollinate.
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Yes, good idea to hand pollinate. I simply use my fingers.
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I now have over 1,000 blossoms fully open on the Old Bush.
Half of the ‘Apollo’ bush flowers were removed by (likely) squirrels.
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Flying in the face of convention, I have first blossoms on Takaka 6/29 and first blossoms on Anatoki yesterday.
I purchased these as well as Kakariki and Kaiteri from One Green World this March. They were nice plants in one gallon pots. I repotted into 3 gallon pots and left outside where they sat without doing anything for a month or so then finally started putting out new growth. All 4 varieties have more blossom buds on them.
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Good to know that feijoa can survive the juglone toxin from the roots of black walnut!
If they can survive that, they should survive any nut tree, since black walnut is the strongest to my knowledge, or does oak have a significantly different toxin?
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…hand-pollinating would only be effective for blossoms in full bloom with free-flying pollen that sticks to fingers. Do you mean that your plants bloomed awfully late?
I found that even if blooms occur late, they still can fruit - especially with early NZ varieties.
My earliest is Arhart but it never blooms before early-mid July.
Meanwhile my seedlings bloomed in early June this year. I wonder when they will fruit. This is the first time.
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How was the fruit from the downtown tree?
Barely edible. Just terrible.
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I mean the pollen felt dry, not sticky at all. I mixed it in a little water.
Oh, those dont look good…
2.49 each or something 
NZ Feijoa on the produce labels?
These were in storage or in transit too long and dehydrated.
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Oh no. They look terrible.
I used to think that feijoas were all pretty good - some were better than others. But I did taste a few really nasty ones. Including one that grows in a downtown park near me. Goes to show that for many fruits it makes sense to grow them – if you are into high quality fruit. Its not just a cost/money thing - most fruits from supermarkets just don’t taste as good.
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I don’t know why but i feel like they must’ve been picked from an ornamental variety somewhere and the stickers aren’t legit 
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I, too, got some from uwajimaya and they made me think I didn’t like fejoa!! 
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