I was unable to go home for 3 months and my ex left them to rot.
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@Melon, That should be grounds for her to lose the house! 
I found another surprise on the ground today. Kind of crazy considering it’s January already, but we’ve hardly had a hint of frost since last spring. First years production of my feijoa, that I really wasn’t expecting as I only planted them last winter. So, I guess 3 out of the 4 feijoa I planted fruited real quickly.
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Unique seeds have been the fastest sprouters and quickest growing as well. And unique is the most precocious variety I’ve had so far.
The red feijoa seeds are second to unique and Kaiteri, last.
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I’ll be looking for your new varieties in 8 years 
I have one seedling of Larry’s, I forget his cultivar name, but it hasn’t fruited. Just surviving at my old place with no fertilizer and inadequate soil fertility and water. I should transplant it.
Edit: I thought about doing a search for the name and then realized this is the very thread. GenePool!
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…yes, GenePool. “Gene pool”, perhaps the original forum reference, would probably require a different search.
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Maybe rather than transplant it, I’ll collect some scion from my seedling.
Hi Ram
What variety of Feijoa pictures above? Thank you. Vincent
That’s my own seedling variety. -I believe from a Mark Albert seed.
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What is your process to making seeds sprout ? Heat mat indoors? I collected a bunch of seeds from tree that was really delicious.planning on putting in lil pots
Ziplock and wet paper towel method
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anyone i nzone 7 have a suggestion for which i should buy from OGW? i’m putting in an order for some other stuff and thinking of trying one. my last frost is early april
I planted a Takaka (spelling?) from OGW last year. It’s planted on the east side of my house and somewhat sheltered. It survived last Winter with moderate defoliation and only some tip dieback. Went from very puny and like ~1.5’ with three branches to 3’ and only a bit puny with more branches. Some of the leaves are very obviously scorched looking now, I’ll see how it does this Spring. Looks way better than all the hardy citrus at this point.
I picked it because it’s one of the NZ varieties that’s supposed to be early ripening and self-fertile.
edit: Looking at the plant today…it’s not looking great. The half that’s furthest from the house is going to be completely defoliated and has some visible tip dieback. I assume that it’ll look worse in two weeks and after the single digit day with 25mph winds.
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