See posting #16 of this forum topic. Feijoa back in the day was described as semi-hardy, so I planted it just outside of the house eve dripline for extra protection. Now it is draped all over two sides of the house, but that is tolerated because of the fruit.
Remarkably, the 30+ year-old plant has made absolutely no ground surface disturbances with its root system. All surrounding ground remains flat as a board.
I agree! Great size on those!
I have some small mulberries on young rootstocks grafted this year. Hopefully they are hardy enough to survive the winter. Perhaps I’ll add a picture later, but its interesting to note that Black Prince, the more hardy, has been leafless for a while now while Himalayan DMOR 9 is still in green leaf.
edit: Oops, I mistook this for the PNW general thread. This is clearly off-topic here.
Impressive indeed. @LarryGene, now that a few of use have your old bush/tree grafts growing, it might be time to give it a name. What would you like us to call it?
Stan brought some of his “Larry” feijoa. Quite delicious indeed. We measured brix at about 13.7 They were a bit sweeter than most of my feijoa I still had left.
The naming of this bush’s fruit was brought up a couple of years ago, perhaps on another forum thread.
At that time, I suggested “GenePool”, a play on my middle name, and a sardonic comment on the unknown parentage or varietal for this bush. I showed the original receipt several years ago to Mr. Gilbert himself (the owner-operator of the selling nursery) and he did not recall the details of the source. The plant was sold as “Pineapple Guava”.
I think your proposed name ‘GenePool’ could catch on, but it would help if it were officially documented as such so that it doesn’t just end up being an overlooked suggestion in a forum thread. The traditional way to publish a cultivar name is via a printed format such as a plant catalogue. However, with how accessible online information sources are nowadays, I personally feel it can be more effective to publish a name in digital form. If you don’t have your own website or blog to publish the cultivar name along with a description on, then I think you could still establish your chosen cultivar name into common use by starting a new thread on this forum announcing it as an official cultivar (which it can be now that it has been propagated clonally and now exists as multiple plants). If possible, it might be useful to tag everyone you’re aware of who has a clone from you so that they all can be aware of and start using the same cultivar name before it ends up circulating under multiple different names.
I like “Larry” but “GenePool” is pretty cool too
GenePool has a good ring to it, but the first thing that popped into my head was GreenGene. 
GreenGene: Nice alliteration, but possible confusion with TV’s Mr. Green Jeans, a Captain Kangaroo sidekick of the 1950s.
Larry: A bit too casual, and even more dated, having peaked in popularity in the 1930s
I will consider posting the new thread.
Well that’s what made me think of that name, but of course anyone born in the last 40 years would probably have no clue what that reference was about.
For those in Washington state:
Restoring Eden will have Kakapo and Earlihart in March 
I will post when they’re there lol.
The last of the Apollos came down today
Rats/squirrels have discovered them and had chewed up several of them right on the bush.
My California Bay Laurel tree had a bumper crop this year and the nuts distracted the squirrels for some weeks, but once those were gone, they went right to the feijoa and continue to remove and discard even fingernail-sized fruits.
It was actually decent. Saving the other half for my daughter who absolutely loves feijoas. I lost my entire crop this year
Cant believe you guys still have stuff dropping. They are again larger than the east coast crops. But Takaka is supposed to be early?
It was dropped many moons ago by the looks of it. I’ve been living in hotels for the last 3 months, just finally got home. If i recall correctly, the previous years, mine ripened late October/September
I picked my last Feijoa maybe a week or so ago. Still have many in the fridge. This is my best tasting variety. - a prolific seedling I have not named yet. These photos are from earlier.
How did u lose the crop?
Best tasting tree I have produced about 60-70lbs of fruit.it kept dropping fruit like every week.this year I used blush brush on the flowers to pollinate and results were good with that.
