How to Grow Guava: Growing Guide to Planting, Care & Harvest

Psidium guajava

Growing calendar

Typical timing for central Japan (Kanto region). Shift it for your own climate, and record your actual dates.

Guides

• Planting a Guava: Ground or Large Pot, and Why the Pot Often Wins
• Guava Care: Watering, Feeding and Keeping a Potted Tree Cropping
• Pruning Guava: Cut It Hard and You Get More Fruit, Not Less
• The Guava Year: Pruning, Bagging and Picking Season by Season
• Guava Pests and Problems: Fruit Fly, Bagging, Scale and Leaf Spot
• When to Pick a Guava: Color Break, and Finishing the Fruit Indoors

Common problems

Start from what you can see on the plant.

Pests and diseases (17)

Written byYasuGrowing vegetables and fruit in Chiba, Japan, and building Gadenin. Corrections are welcome. 15 years of growing.