guava wanted

[robsorchids]

hi im looking for some plants of the edible guava please.

thanks
rob

[Maggi Young]

Well, Rob, we are a "broad church" here in the SRGC and particularly in the Forum, but if someone here can help you with THIS request, I will be REALLY amazed.... might even give up chocolate for two or three days, as a penance for doubting the Forumists... there, that's a challenge!

[Carlo]

I grow two or three different guavas and obtained them from nurseries known for tropical plants here in the US.

So there Maggi!  (coffea arabica about to bloom)

[Maggi Young]

Nah, Carlo, that doesn't count... Rob's looking for a UK source..... ARE YOU NOT, ROB???

[Anthony Darby]

If it's seed you want Rob, buy a fruit from a supermarket. They sometimes have them in. Mind you, what we call 'guava' may be different elsewhere? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guava

[Maggi Young]

They sometimes have them in.

Best chance is that, I think. Not that one sees them on offer very often 
It might be an interesting experiment to try seeds from tinned guavas, just in case the seeds can survive that process... after all, seeds can survive all sorts of things over many years... has to be worth a shot, don't you think?

[Maggi Young]

Rob, Anthony may be able to advise you on the feeding of your insects..... he is our resident Bug Buff!

[Anthony Darby]

This is the third time I've tried to post this. Rob, leaf (and most stick) insects will eat bramble leaves.

[Maggi Young]

Don't apologise about "off topic" Rob, it's a matter of life and death, after all

[Mick McLoughlin]

Rob,
Is it a particular species of Guava that you need. As I have something that is known as pineapple guava (or fruit salad bush see this post http://www.srgc.org.uk/smf/index.php?topic=543.0).
Details of plant here
http://www.plantpress.com/plant-encyclopedia/plantdb.php?plant=11484
Regards,
Mick

[mark smyth]

Dont parents prepare for babys arrival months before the arrival and not on the day? 

You should try some of the tropical plant nurseries advertised at the back of GW magazine

Off topic - you're buying bulbs on Ebay. Dont get sucked in by the adrenaline rush and pay way over the odds

[david m]

googled and found this:

Welcome to David's Exotic Tropical Plants UK!- Exotic Plant ...
David's Exotic Plants UK is a specialist nursery based in Canterbury Kent. ... psidium, guava trees, olive trees, bauhinia, exotic punica pomegranate, fig, ...
www.davids-exoticplants.co.uk/ -

HTH,
David (not of the above)

[Paul T]

Rob,

It's Mango season here in Australia at the moment, so if seeds of those would be helpful I can send some.  I'm guessing that isn't what you're after though. 

[Paul T]

Rob,

I'm not sure that you'd actually need to remove the last of the fruit pulp.  I think you'd just get most of it off and then plant it with the remains on.  I'm sure the soil bugs would clean it up quite quickly.  I must admit I don't know whether there are particular conditions that Magno would need to germinate, other than that I'd imagine that it would need to be fairly warm.  I was just commenting because it is our summer here so Mangoes are available.  Of course I have no idea of the legality of sending fruit seeds to other countries either?

[Anthony Darby]

Unfortunately Rob, Mango seeds from supermarkets are often immature and fail to germinate. If Phyllium bioculatum won't eat bramble then the conditions are wrong. I have, with difficulty, reared it on this. I have the Philippine species (Phyllium hausleithneri) second generation UK reared on bramble, but this is a much easier species. The eggs are small and the nymphs blackish.