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Grow Sweet Guavas at Home: Easy Tips to Get Bumper Fruits Using Kitchen Items
- •Choose a grafted guava plant instead of a native one to get fruits within a year and a half to two years.
- •Prune the plant and loosen the soil in September, then add cow dung manure or vermicompost for better growth.
- •Use kitchen waste like water from washing rice and lentils, soaked banana peels, and tea leaves as natural fertilizers.
- •Spray diluted buttermilk on the plant and roots to stop flowers from dropping off and ensure heavy pollination.
Key Questions Answered
To get fruit quickly when growing a guava plant in a pot, you should choose grafted varieties rather than native ones. Recommended varieties that start bearing fruit early include Allahabad Safeda, Lucknow 49 (Sardar), Chinese guava, Punjab Pink, and Taiwan Pink.
To stop flowers from dropping, you can mix 100 grams of five-to-six-day-old buttermilk with half a liter of water, spray it on the plant, and pour a little into the roots. Additionally, dissolving 50 grams of jaggery and 40 grams of gram flour in water and pouring it into tilled soil promotes heavy pollination and prevents flower drop.
A grafted guava plant begins bearing fruit in just a year and a half to two years. In contrast, a desi or native guava plant takes about five to seven years to start producing fruit.
