- After 3 months of pruning the guava trees and we can see more guava in the trees.
- Normally Guava fruit will be ripe and ready for harvest about 90 and 150 days after flowering and pollination.
- Each branch in the tree has at least 3 or 4 guavas and they have matured and are ready for harvesting.
- These fruits cannot be maintained on the tree longer in ripen stage. So, fruit picking should be done, as sooner as they attain maturity.
- There are several ways to harvest fruits. One can go for manual hand picking of fruits at an interval of few days.
- Fruit plucking machine is also available in the market to harvest fruits.
- Guavas depends on the plant age, soil fertility, soil type, frequency of irrigation, pest and disease control. Also Yield is always different from variety to variety.
- Yield will further increase after completing third and fourth pruning as more lateral branches will be available in the guava tree.
- Also apply 10 kg of organic fertilizer for every plants, 2 months after pruning the guava tree to increase the size and quality of the guavas
- In warm year-round locations, guava can produce two crops each year, a large crop in summer followed by a smaller crop in winter.
- Ripe guavas will develop mature light green as they ripen;
- The changing of the color from green to light yellowish green is an indication of their tender age.
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