Guava Growth Progression, Tropical Fruit Photography Archive

From the Tropical Fruit Photography Archive
by Ian Maguire

Guava Growth Progression from Pruning to Harvest

The pictures below were taken around this time last year in TREC's guava collection. I had tagged a number of the pruned branches to track the growth and development. I found the guava to be just as interesting as the other tropical fruit crops that I have spent time shooting. Nature, again, has proven to provide a wealth of analogies when observed closely.

Guava branch 1 month after topping & hedging

Fig. 1

Guava hedging

Fig. 2

Guava branch 1 month after topping and hedging

The same guava branch 30 days later with unopened flower buds

Fig. 3

The same guava branch 20 days later

Fig. 4

The same guava branch 30 days later with unopened flower buds

Fig. 5

Guava flower

Fig. 6

Set guava fruit developing

Fig. 7

Fruit maturing

Fig. 8

'Blanca' guava

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Photographs

Maguire, Ian. "Guava growth progression from pruning to harvest." Tropical Fruit Photography Picture Archive, 2002, trec.ifas.ufl.edu. Accessed 14 Dec. 2014.

Published 14 Dec. 2014 LR