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bonsaiTALK Craftsman
Join Date: Jan-2003
Location: Tennessee
Country: U.S.A.
Posts: 73
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Anyone Else Growing Pineapple Guava?
I saw a pineapple Guava Specimin on Ernie Kaou's site a while back. Very beautiful. I bought a fruit from the store a little over a year ago and planted some seeds. Tons germinated, but I only kept a few.
I haven't heard of many people using this, but I think this species is VERY well suited to bonsai. It has a very shallow root system with fiberous roots. It has very attractive flowers in the spring (mine hasn't flower yet obviously).I've found the leaves reduce dramatically when it's pruned. It has a kind of thin lanky growth to it, but buds back very readily. The part I like the most is the bark though. My seedling is starting to show very interesting textured bark. The bark peels away in strips similar to serissa, but it grows MUCH faster.
Here is a picture of one of mine. I was letting it grow wild just to thicken it up rapidly, and I just cut it back a week or so ago. The thing was about 3 times larger. The trunk is already pencil thick in under a year.
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