That is one odd feijoa, reminds me of the blossom end of a crook-necked summer squash.
But I will withhold the Nobel Prize in Fruit–because that bright yellow feijoa was still not detected until it was on the ground! You will have to wait until the Nobel prizes are announced for 2026, or even 2027, if you have fruits that stand out on the bush.
Yes. A lot can happen when a fruit isn’t picked immediately once it falls. Also 1 example isn’t a pattern.
But I’m still happy to see that you get a ripe feijoa on your climate.
To be honest, I stopped even looking for fruit in the bush a few months ago when I thought all the fruitlets had aborted. I will say, it definitely did not taste over ripe, so I don’t think the color was from sitting too long on the ground. Time will tell.
I bought a few varieties (Anatoki, Kakariki, and Marion) last spring in anticipation of moving to a new house, which we moved to a few months ago. I got 3 fruits off of the potted Anatoki variety that I didn’t even have in optimal sun conditions for some of the growing season - this is the last and largest one at 166 grams. I have only ever had one feijoa before this year so I have nothing to compare it to, and some of the reviews here about the early NZ varieties had me nervous, but it’s delicious! I’m a big fan, and looking forward to harvesting bigger crops of these in the future once they’re in ground! Victoria BC
Almost all my fruit came out like that.2 trees out of 55 had pulp And rest looked like your picture.the only thing I didn’t do this year was give it fertilizer.did you feed your tree a while back? The non pulp didn’t taste good.
I don’t think I’ve paid enough attention to them to have done any over fertilizing. Mostly just a bit of extra water when I happen to walk by with the garden hose.
I will be growing all the red blushed ones. So far, i have over 20 seeds lol. Will start germination soon.
Taste wise, the red blush ones taste more berry flavored and really sets themselves apart from all the ones I’ve ever had. They were all jelly filled as well.
Some fruit I picked today. The Feijoia is from a first-time fruiting Coolidge plant (I think…tag is missing). The fruits are mostly small and weirdly shaped, but they’re interesting and good tasting, unlike the seedling’s fruit I picked a few weeks ago. I gobbled up a bunch of them, flower remnant and all.
After I juiced my citrus I added some juiced seedling fruit to it, and was quite pleased. It was delicious.
The seedling fruit tasted like sour sandy cucumbers a couple weeks ago, and were very hard. Now they are softer, but they taste like perfume with a little sand in it. If I didn’t grow it, I would have given it to the chickens, but now I know to squeeze it in my hand juicer and add it to juice.
What grocery store? Just asking in case there are any in Oregon.
I don’t think that there is a useful average because the size of unpollinated fruits varies tremendously on the same bush and probably between varieties. For example, my unpollinated fruits varied from 6 to 23 grams; and the only pollinated fruit picked, so far, from the same bush was 43 grams.
Marvel food and deli, it’s a small family owned grocery store. As far as i can see, they only have 2 locations here and the feijoa farm only listed those 2 locations so far.
These plants were a ton bigger than expected. The Earlihart is as thick as the bamboo it came with.
Kind of shocked at the size because when Marion first came out, I bought them too and they were less than half the size of these.
2 Kakapo
1 Earlihart
I have close to 40, if not more than, feijoa trees now.
Hoping to be one of the first feijoa farms up here in Washington state. May not be near the 200 trees but close enough 
Shipping was 38$ or so…
was thinking if just driving down the to pick the trees myself but it’s so far away…
They look great size! Were they from OGW?
Hey guys, I’m joining the Feijoa cult 
I have 8 trees planted out and ate my first fruit a few weeks ago. Now I want more, they are so tasty! Because I’m in Switzerland, I only have the standard varieties (Mammoth, Apollo, Gemini, Triumph, Unique). The NZ varieties are hard to get here. I was able to source Kaiteri, Kakapo and Takaka from a czech friend.
I’m still looking for Wiki-Tu, Opal Star, Waingaro, Pounamu, Anatoki or other good varieties.
If anyone grows these and will prune his tree, I’d be very interested to buy a few scions!
tritonus
Yes! They’re from OGW. All of their feijoa are in a greenhouse last i checked so they don’t really stop growing, just slows down for the winter.
man i wonder if itd be possible here… im in zone 7a/b seems like a microclimate could get it done 
New feijoa beer. Delicius !
I started growing feijoa in the first year that One Green World (then Northwoods Nursery) offered them, 1992. Since them, many of you in the PNW have started collections and I am glad to see your successes. The only way I can impress now is with the total 2025 harvest from my one old bush:
2025 harvest dates: 13 Oct - 5 Dec
Total of all counted and weighed fruits: 1,608 weighed 2,052 ounces (128 lb).
Many of these became culls: fruits that were bruised, chewed, became over-ripe, or were considered too small (but would have been used in sparse years).
Fruit that was actually used: 1,111 weighed 1,566 ounces (98 lb or 44Kg)
Average size of these was 1.4 ounces (~40g)
Large: 9 weighed over 3 ounces (average about 90g)
Largest: 4.80 ounces (135g)
Not counted: Squirrel consumption (upwards of 100 fruits of usable size), and at least 500 considered too small to deal with (20-25gm).
Wow!!
What sort of “spot” did you all chose for your feijoa, torn between putting it along fence or treating it like a hedge. Any mature plant pics?
