Where can one get named cultivars of pineapple guavas

Here in S. Calif, Nazameth is a named variety that’s supposed to produce good fruit. I’ve see them at Home Depot. I have one in a 15 gal container, it bloomed this year but as others have mentioned, you need to hand pollinate and I didn’t do much of that this time. I have some others that were grown from cuttings taken from plants grown from seeds from 5 different Mark Albert varieties…I don’t know if they come true from seed, and these haven’t bloomed yet. I’ve lost the tags so I won’t know the specific varieties…but Mark Albert feijoas have a good reputation.

I’m glad to hear about shaking the bush for pollination, that’s much easier than hand pollination the many many blossoms I get occasionally on my two in ground pineapple guava trees. I’m still not sure what makes them bloom, but I have a feeling that fertilizing produces blossoms directly. Does anyone know if this is true?

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