{"id":12079,"date":"2023-11-12T10:41:08","date_gmt":"2023-11-12T09:41:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alpagrumi.ch\/harvesting-feijoa-guavas\/"},"modified":"2024-02-25T19:17:07","modified_gmt":"2024-02-25T18:17:07","slug":"harvesting-feijoa-guavas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alpagrumi.ch\/en\/harvesting-feijoa-guavas\/","title":{"rendered":"Harvesting Feijoa guavas"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

From mid-October to mid-November, Feijoa guavas (Acca Sellowiana) ripen and fall on their own. You don’t pick them, you gather them from under the tree.<\/p>\n\n

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The Feijoa guava tree has evergreen foliage and forms a ball about 3 meters high.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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A guava tree about 12 years old. It blooms in June and fruits in October.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Native to Uruguay, southern Brazil and Argentina, the Feijoa guava tree keeps its foliage throughout the winter and is frost-resistant to at least -12 C. <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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No treatment required, no pruning, just water and sun. On the other hand, it fears snow, which accumulates on the leaves and bends the branches until they break. For a good harvest, it is essential to shake off the branches as soon as more than 3 to 4 centimetres of snow fall.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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For trees planted on slopes, boards stop the fruit to facilitate harvesting. <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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The fruit can remain on the ground untouched for several days, as the birds don’t touch it.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Depending on the season, an adult plant will produce 20 to 40 kilos of fruit.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Fruits vary greatly in size. Older plants produce larger fruit.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Guavas are eaten fresh.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Straight to the picker.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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The taste is exotic, really delicious.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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They can also be dried for 8 hours at 70 degrees Celsius.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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At the end of the harvest period, at the beginning of November, it had already snowed at the top, above 2000 meters.<\/figcaption><\/figure>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

From mid-October to mid-November, Feijoa guavas (Acca Sellowiana) ripen and fall on their own. You don’t pick them, you gather them from under the tree.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1630,"featured_media":12075,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[62],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12079","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-en"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alpagrumi.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12079","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alpagrumi.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alpagrumi.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alpagrumi.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1630"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alpagrumi.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12079"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alpagrumi.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12079\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alpagrumi.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12075"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alpagrumi.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12079"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alpagrumi.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12079"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alpagrumi.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12079"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}