Pink Guava Tree — Tropical Flavor for Your Backyard

Bring a familiar taste of the tropics to your garden with a Pink Guava Tree. Enjoy the pleasure of picking your own guavas for a fresh snack, a refreshing homemade drink, or a batch of preserves to share with family. There is something special about carrying fruit from your garden straight into the kitchen.

For The Island Gardeners, guavas are among the island fruits that inspired our food forest. Planting a pink guava tree offers another way to bring that connection between garden, food, and family into your own space.

This listing is for a pink-fleshed guava without a confirmed cultivar name. Fruit size, flavor, seed content, and harvest timing may vary.

Fruit & Culinary Uses

Enjoy pink guavas fresh or use your harvest in:

• Juice and smoothies
• Jams, jellies, and preserves
• Guava paste and fruit sauces
• Pastries and other desserts

Allow your fruit’s ripeness and flavor to guide how you enjoy it. Pink guavas are generally picked as the skin changes toward light green or yellow, then allowed to soften. ask.ifas.ufl.edu

Tree Size & Garden Placement

Guavas generally grow as small trees or large shrubs, reaching approximately 20 feet when unpruned. Selective pruning can maintain a smaller canopy and make harvesting easier.

Choose a sunny location with room for the tree to develop. ask.ifas.ufl.edu

Harvest Planning

Harvest Planner recommendation: Record the season from local observations before assigning monthly filters. A generic pink guava should not automatically receive the harvest months of a named cultivar.

Plan Your Harvest Before You Plant.™

Compare available harvest information when choosing trees for your backyard orchard or food forest to help spread fresh food across more of the year.

Pink Guava Tree Care

• Sunlight: Full sun.
• Soil: Well-drained; avoid standing water.
• Watering: Water regularly during establishment and prolonged dry periods.
• Mulching: Keep mulch away from the trunk.
• Fertilizing: Follow a fruit-tree fertilizer program appropriate to tree age and label instructions.
• Cold protection: Protect young trees during freezes.
• Pollination: Guavas can self-pollinate; insect cross-pollination can improve yields.
• Fruit protection: Bag developing fruit at approximately one inch in diameter to help prevent Caribbean fruit fly damage.

Harvest promptly and remove unwanted seedlings to keep guava contained. ask.ifas.ufl.edu

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