Tikal Guava Tree — Sweet Pink Guavas for Your Garden

Bring the pleasure of fragrant, homegrown guavas to your backyard with the Tikal Guava Tree. Its sweet, juicy flesh and beautiful pink-to-pinkish-red interior make it inviting for fresh eating, refreshing drinks, or a batch of homemade guava preserves. Imagine picking fruit from your garden and carrying it straight into the kitchen to prepare something your family loves.

Tikal adds tropical flavor and color to a backyard orchard, edible landscape, or food forest. Everglades Farm

Fruit Flavor & Appearance

Tikal guavas are described by growers as having sweet, aromatic pulp, a pinkish-red interior, and yellowish-green skin.

Enjoy your harvest:

• Fresh, sliced, or chilled
• Blended into smoothies and juice
• Made into jams, preserves, and fruit sauces
• Added to your favorite desserts

Fruit characteristics vary with ripeness and growing conditions. Everglades Farm

Tree Size & Garden Placement

Guavas generally grow as small trees or large shrubs and can reach approximately 20 feet when unpruned. Selective pruning helps maintain convenient harvesting access.

This is general guava guidance; a dependable mature-size range specific to Tikal has not been established here. ask.ifas.ufl.edu

Harvest Season & Your Food Forest

Harvest Planner recommendation: Confirm Tikal’s local fruiting season before assigning monthly filters. Avoid promising a year-round harvest without observations from your own growing conditions.

Plan Your Harvest Before You Plant.™

Compare locally verified harvest windows across your guavas, mangoes, avocados, and other fruit trees to help spread fresh food across more of the year.

Pollination & Plant Care

Guavas can self-pollinate; insect cross-pollination can improve yields.

• Sunlight: Full sun for best growth and fruit production.
• Soil: Well-drained; avoid locations that remain wet after rain.
• Watering: Water regularly during establishment and prolonged dry periods.
• Mulching: Mulch the root zone, keeping 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 freezing weather.
• Fruit protection: Bag developing fruit at approximately one inch in diameter to help prevent fruit fly damage.

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

Picking Your Guavas

Pink guavas are generally picked as the skin changes from green toward light green or yellow, then allowed to soften. Handle fruit gently to prevent bruising. ask.ifas.ufl.edu

Local pickup in Palm Bay, Florida.
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