Best guava variety amrud, Allahabad Safeda L-49 high density planting
Which guava (amrud) variety is best and how should I plant it?
MMahendra Singh1yr ago · 407 views
7 Answers
🌾Farmer.in Krishi TeamExpert ✓1yr ago
Allahabad Safeda and Lucknow-49 (Sardar) are the classic, widely grown guava varieties in India, valued for taste, yield, and keeping quality. For modern orchards, meadow or high density planting is increasingly popular: instead of traditional wide spacing, plants are set much closer with regular pruning to keep them small and productive, which raises early yield per acre. Guava is hardy, adapts to many soils with good drainage, and bears in the winter and rainy crop seasons, with the winter crop usually preferred for quality. Manage fruit fly and wilt, and prune to maintain canopy and fruiting wood. For the right variety, spacing, and whether to go high density, consult your state horticulture department and local KVK.
MMahendra Singh1yr ago
I grow L-49 and take the winter crop for better quality by thinning the rainy season flowers. High density with regular pruning gave me fruit earlier than the old wide spacing my father used.
DDilip Kushwaha1yr ago
The winter crop is sweeter and has far less fruit fly than the rainy crop in our area, so I deliberately stress the plants to skip the monsoon flowering and concentrate on winter. The market quality and price were both better for me.
SSubhash Patil11mo ago
Meadow high density looks attractive but it is a pruning-heavy system. We prune lightly but often to keep the small frame and the fruiting wood coming. If you cannot give that regular attention, the older wider spacing is more forgiving.
RRamautar Yadav10mo ago
Wilt got into a low, poorly drained patch of my orchard and those plants slowly declined. Good drainage and not injuring the collar at the base really matter for guava. I avoid deep tillage close to the trunk now.
OOm Prakash9mo ago
For taste, Allahabad Safeda is hard to beat in our market, but L-49 is a more reliable yielder. I keep both, with Safeda for the premium buyers and L-49 as the bulk crop. Ask your KVK what your local market actually pays more for before choosing.
LLakhan Verma8mo ago
Plant grafted or layered plants from a good nursery rather than seedlings if you want true-to-type fruit and earlier bearing. The seedling trees an old farmer gave me were variable and took longer to fruit. The certified planting material was worth the extra cost.