How Much Does a Quality Guava Sapling Cost per Plant? Key Planting Techniques Explained

Guava is cultivated throughout southern China and is an economic fruit tree with promising prospects. When it comes to growing fruit trees, saplings and planting techniques are key. So how much does a quality guava sapling cost per plant? What are the planting techniques? Let's find out below.

1. Basic Facts About Guava

1. Where guava is grown

Guava is a tree that can reach about 13 m in height. It is also known as bale, jishiguo, bazi, laba guava and so on. It originated in tropical America, and is now grown in Guangdong, Guangxi, Taiwan, China and Fujian, among other places in China. It also grows wild on wasteland and low hills in southwestern China.

2. The value of guava

Guava is juicy and sweet, with tender, seedless flesh. It is rich in dietary fiber, carotene, fructose, fat and other nutrients. It has astringent and anti-diarrheal effects and helps stop bleeding, and it works well for treating diarrhea, dysentery and indigestion in children. In addition, the fresh leaves of guava are applied externally for bruises, bleeding wounds and chronic unhealing ulcers.

3. Guava prices

Guava prices vary by place of origin, quality and purchase quantity. For example, pearl guava from Zhangzhou, Fujian costs 20 yuan/box (net content 0.5 kg (inclusive) to 2.5 kg (exclusive)); guava from Rong County, Yulin City, Guangxi costs 21 yuan for 1 box, 20 yuan/box for 10 boxes or more, and 19 yuan/box for 500 boxes or more.

2. How Much Does a Quality Guava Sapling Cost per Plant?

These days, whether growing fruit trees or landscape trees, planting is mostly done with saplings, so below we introduce the prices of quality guava saplings.

1. Red-fleshed guava from Tai'an, Shandong: 6 yuan/plant for 100-499 plants, 4 yuan/plant for 500-999 plants, and 2 yuan/plant for 1000 plants or more;

2. Guava from Puning City, Jieyang, Guangdong, with a trunk diameter under 4 cm and a height of 1-1.5 m, costs 3.8 yuan/plant, with a minimum order of 100 plants.

3. What Are the Quality Guava Planting Techniques?

Guava is a fast-growing economic fruit with strong vitality and early sprouting. It generally flowers between March-April and July-September, and fruit can usually be picked 7-8 months after planting. Its yield increases year after year until it reaches peak production. To grow high-yielding guava, you still need to master its planting techniques:

1. Guava is a tropical fruit, so its cold resistance is relatively weak. When choosing where to plant it, it is best to choose a temperate area without frost or fog. It grows better in well-drained sandy loam and clay loam, which allows guava to grow healthily.

2. Guava can be propagated by seed, cuttings, air layering and grafting, or you can directly buy grafted fruit saplings for planting. If buying grafted seedlings, choose ones with well-healed graft unions, plump-looking buds and relatively well-developed branches, stems and leaves.

3. Growing guava requires watering and fertilizing throughout the year, especially during sprouting and growth, when the demand is relatively large. Therefore, ensure monthly fertilizing and watering, and you can also add some trace-element fertilizers to improve the quality of the guava fruit. In addition, fertilizing young guava trees should focus on frequent light applications, while fruiting trees should focus on flower-boosting fertilizer, fruit-setting fertilizer and fruit-sizing fertilizer.

4. During guava cultivation, it is easily attacked by pests and diseases such as canker, damping-off, nematode disease, anthracnose, sooty mold, fruit rot, mealybugs, cotton aphids, peach fruit moths, whiteflies, aphids and yellow stinging caterpillars. Therefore, growers should best do preventive work in advance, and trees with disease should be treated promptly.

In addition, when guava sets fruit, it should be bagged. This can reduce the probability of agrochemicals adhering to the fruit and ensure guava's health, and it can also improve the quality of the guava fruit, achieving two goals at once.