How to Eat Guavas Infested with Fruit Fly Larvae || Guava Fruit Harvest
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- čas přidán 26. 08. 2024
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Most of my summer guava crop is infested with the little worms. Not all is lost though, some parts of your guava can still be eaten. Watch this video to learn how to salvage your guava crop. To learn more about the guava check out my blog post on it in the link below:
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I get rid of the worms by blending them with the guava, ice, milk, sugar, and strawberries. Delicious and refreshing.
Haha that is definitely an option!
Gross
makes sense
Ah yum, a refreshing guava smoothie with a hint of larvae juice perfect for a hot winter day
Haha! I can’t!
I just found out about the worms. Lol, my subscriber told me about it 😂after i tasted the fruit but mine didn't have any if those signs, thank God. Thanks for sharing
Thankfully it wasn't infested! I am glad you enjoyed the video.
I never missed one video of yours,the food you made for your family looks very delicious and healthy,you are blessed to have an extraordinary talent,thanks for sharing your life with us
Wow your guava tree is loaded with fruits. That's what I want, a fruit tree growing in the yard.Your tips about how we can tell if the guava has the worms are interesting! I'm from FL too and have potted guava. I did air layering and peat pellets propagating. Thank you for the tips.
Thank you for watching and I am glad you found it interesting. The guava tree is super loaded with fruit again right now. Guava smoothies and jam await our future. We bag our guavas now and that has pretty much eliminated the worm problem in the guavas.
if you put them in a smoothie, you can't taste em... i bet they're packed full of nutrition :D
ZenGrow I bet you couldn’t! I’m kind of squeamish about that though.
@@OurTropicalSoil yeah I rinse off all the veggies that I put in my juicer but what I don't know won't hurt me haha!! I'm squeamish too... should have seen me jump and hollar the first time I saw a horned tomato worm :P
Yesss, the squeamishness comes after you know! :)
Nice guava tree 👍 looks like it’s loaded with fruits
Thank you! It is such an abundant producer. Sometimes we can't keep up with it.
I've been eating them little guys for years, lol .thanks I'll be doing it different now.
Easy home made spay you can use canola oil/vegetable oil baking soda and dish soap all 2oz to a gallon and mix well DONT SPRAY DURING 11AM - 4AM ! Great video and I love you they just pop off so easy
Thank you! After filming this video we were using a fish spray that we had. We wanted to just finish up the bottle. It dint make too much of a difference. I ended up purchasing bags that I need to put on the young fruit. I will try spraying with your method. We love guavas and in the summer they get seriously infested. There are no guava growers around us and we pick up all the fallen fruit so idk how they are reproducing so much. I know they do have other host species so I suppose its through that.
11 am to 4 am.. I think you mean 4 pm..
I will try that. Thanks
I have been getting big guava and even with me picking them earlier, I still had worms. I put them in ziplock bags and press out all the air and within a day the worms come to the surface and they die and I can easily cut that section away. What i have been doing for my new babies is putting them in silky mesh bags and tie them off and it keeps the flies away. We will see if this helps. I've seen it done in St Lucia when I visited and they had their banana trees tied up. And I'm in South FL too so I feel ur pain lol.
Yes the larvae can be difficult. That is a good idea with the zip loc bag! I heard someone say that in some commercial settings they soak the guavas in water and then the larvae come out that way too. I don't know if that works. We have purchased plastic mesh bags from amazon that are made specially to prevent bug damage to fruits. We have been using them to bag our guavas. It takes quite a bit of time to bag the guavas and we bag them when they are perhaps 1 inch or smaller in diameter. This has worked well to keep the larvae away! We get fruits with no damage! Even if the fruit get bigger than 1 inch in diameter we still bag them if they are green and that has worked also. It seems that the flies lay eggs when the fruit are already quite large. At least that has been the case for us.
@@OurTropicalSoil yes I've bagged the ones I have left and bought bags from amazon for my other veggies that tend to get attacked.
@@shenika77 Good! I hope that works! Give me an update when you have one :)
@@OurTropicalSoil i sure will. Thanks
My grandmothers guava tree trick is to put a honey trap in the tree when the flowers start, she had told me the flys start infesting from the flower? Not sure which one of us is right there but either way we both get the worms 😂 get a jar and put about half an inch of honey in it and poke little holes in the lid of the jar and hang it towards the centre of the tree. Last couple of years we forgot to put the trap in and the whole crop was full of worms. I put the trap in this time and it seems to have done the trick! First fruit picked today and no worms 🐛 thanks for the tip on harvesting the flesh from the spoiled ones, we’ve just been chucking them out.
Hi, Do you put the honey alone or mix with water and soap? Does the honey dries out from the sun? How often do you change the trap? Thanks for the advice
Thank you so much for the tip! The traps probably help decrease the fly population even when the tree is just flowering. :)
Guavas grow wild in Queensland Australia and a lot of them have worms if you let them ripen on the tree. I pick them when green with barest hint of yellow and let them ripen on the bench. Yummy with vanilla ice cream 😋
Oh yum it’s basically the same for me except I’m in Sydney
Sounds delicious! I like making guava ice cream :)
Hello. Thanks so much for sharing this. I tried growing with mesh bags last year and it did not work out. I just picked 2 and noticed one was slightly different and slightly mushy. Anyways I soaked in vinegar, water and baking soda. So far one worm came out! I can even see the exit hole. 😮
My guava tree is easily 30 feet tall and has no branches low enough to just pick them from the ground. I picking basket is a good solution but it is easy to pick the fruit before it is ready to pick, even a little green.
We have been harvesting the fruit, mainly by picking it up off the ground and of course, they are full of fruit fly larvae. I will try picking the fruit using a ladder and picking by hand in the method you show. I have not been around the tree for a full year, full time so I don't know if it fruits twice a year or not. Not leaving the fallen fruit on the ground is a good suggestion but especially after a storm there can be as many as a hundred that need to be picked up. That's a real pain, especially if they are on the ground for even a day and have been drilled by the fly.
My gardener says to sprinkle rock salt all around the ground under that canopy. I'm guessing that this is supposed to kill or prevent the flies. We'll try the this year.
Thanks for the video.
its well and good to spend countless hours looking for infestations in the Guava fruit, it was probably a mistake on my part of not reading the warning label when purchasing a young Guava tree, They are Quick to grow and quick to fruit 2-3 years but you will have to constantly fight the fruit fly and its lava possibly all year round, and if you got to go to work all day and the only time you can attend to the tree is during the weekend damage by fruit fly complete. Thanks for your Tips there im at the stage where im limiting the Guava tree growth mine is the Mexican Creme and its growth to two branches and sacrificing the other limbs and already premature fruit to the garbage bin. Im going by the saying only grow what you can eat not overgrow and let pests such as Fruit fly ruin the harvest.
Yes rain is always welcomed in the garden
Had a question and would be hopeful for a response :) would bagging the small fruit in a net like bag prevent these problems
How long did it take to produce once you planted the guava tree? I want to plant fruit trees once we buy our house so I can make my mom less homesick when she starts living with us.
Vannia Cuervo Guava trees are great fruit trees to plant from seed. The fruit are usually good and they should be producing by the time they are 3 years old. You can prune them and keep them small also. Keeping them small makes it easier to bad the fruit so they don’t get infested. If you are planning to buy a house and moving in within 2 years you can go ahead and plant some seeds in a pot now. That way when you bug the house you’ll have a 2 year old tree to plant and ready to go! You could also purchase a tree from a nursery that is around 2 yeard old.
1 to 2 year
For how long should be soak the uncut fruits in water before we decide to cut them open to check? Also for how long should we soak the spoilt cut guava in water before putting it in compost bin?
I am not sure... I think I might have tried soaking the uncut guavas but I don't remember for how long or if it was successful. We put all our food scraps in 5 gallon buckets, cover them, and leave it there till we have three buckets full and then we take the compost out. This works for killing the larvae. Because it causes anaerobic decomposition for a few days to weeks and this kills the larvae.
Thank you,! Great video.
These guavas are red inside I have white guavas when I cut them I can see brown colored path from where worm entered in fruit 🤢 I throw them in compost pit. I am thinking of spraying guava tree with boiled mixture of.
1. Neem leaves
2. Tulsi leaves (holy basil)
3. Garlic
4. Peepal leaves (Sacred fig)
5. Tobacco
Let's see if this works.
Lucky for you i almost ate the worm
Did it work?
@@pixellerror I have not tried it because now it is winter. I will try in summer. First I will try pheromone trap available commercially. I have also heard on youtube that spraying potassium permagnet also works.
Wow that is unappetizing :(. We have actually ended up purchasing fruit fly bags on amazon. They are like plastic or nylon material. It is a little bit of a pain to bag the guavas but it works well. We bag them when they are small and this way we get very good guavas with no larvae in them.
Love this it gives me a lot this video it gives me a lot of info
Thank you. I am glad you liked it
If accidentally I eats guava worm 🐛 so it is harmful ???
No it is not harmful.
I have a Yellow Guayaba fruit and found worms in it... Are these essentially just harmless fruit fly maggots or are there different kinds of species?
NO.....
Long time guava lover, first time worm finder. It ruined the fruit for me. Dammm. I knew something wasn’t right when there was a hole. I cut down the middle where the hole was and found two fat worms. Sigh. Threw it all out. Nasty.
Yeah not gonna lie eating the worms is just part of eating guavas for me. The “bad parts” your referring to taste completely fine, plus the worms do give a little extra protein 😋
Is it ok if I ate it by mistakenly
I by mistakenly ate it.. is there any problem
Same 😢
@@aliseflair9566 hehe no problem nothing will happen
@@aliseflair9566 I am Zinda hoon
@@bshiva6620 you are telling based on your experience??🫠🫠
Ya! Harvested a guava off the ground. Ate it. After, noticed something crawling on my hand. What the heck? Grubs. Extra nutrients. Now that I noticed, I tasted a slightly bitter taste. Hmmmm....
Same here
Haha we have probably eaten tons of larvae. They can be so small sometimes that you can barely see them. We try to avoid them but don't lose sleep over eating one.
@Our Tropical Soil . My problem is inside the guava is black,
I like the new format. What was that pink guava variety?
I don't know the variety. We just got the plant from a local gardener who grow it from seed.
What if i accidentally eat guava with maggot is ut dangerous?
Any good tips for preventing this? Maybe like those mesh fruit bags to keep the flies off trhe fruit? or fruit fly traps?
I tried bagging them with mesh bags this year, it helps a little but really not too great. I think it's because the mesh isn't thick enough and when it rains, or on windy days the mesh will eventually touch the fruit and the fruit flies can still get to them. I have just removed a lot of fruits that are still attached to tree and still in mesh bags, but can see many fruit fly pupae at the bottom of mesh bags so those fruits were definitely infested. I'm going to try double bag next time, or find a way to keep enough distance between fruit and mesh bag at all times so fruit flies can't reach.
Can u check if my guava have worms? How can i ever eat guava 😢
Grew up on Guavas!!! Thanks for sharing. 😊 🇹🇹
Thanks for watching!
I just subbed and liked ! I live in Pasco County, FL. Thumbs up.
Thanks for the sub!
@@OurTropicalSoil YW
I had same problem we spray our trees and it seemed to work great they are so much better when they ripen. I think it is spinoza I will find out this weekend. Invest in a good hand pump sprayer. We make guava infused vodka. I like to eat the skins
I have never heard of guava infused vodka. That is pretty interesting. I think we have a hand sprayer. My dad sprayed the tree with some fish product he had. We ended up buying bags. It seems that is what everyone does down in homestead and the redlands. I am assuming if something else worked that was easier then bagging they would do it. All the trees in orchards here are covered in little bags. You said you were in vero beach. I think you guys get a bit more cold then us so you might have less fruit flies. Whenever we get a colder winter there are less larvae in our guavas and in the winter there are barely any.
@@OurTropicalSoil Hi if you scrape out All of the inside along with the seeds and just leave the shell will worms still be in the green part (shell)?
Vanessa .C Good question. I don’t think there will be very many worms since they tend to be in the inside part. However, the fruit does get damaged on the outside also so you might want to do a quick inspection and cut off any bad pieces. You will also sometimes see little holes on the skin so it is possible that there are worms in the outside flesh too. But again they seem to be mostly on the inside softer flesh.
@@OurTropicalSoil yeh your right that's what i was thinking.
It is possible to salvage a lot of the fruit but I found that it is much easier just to bag them. I thought it would be a lot of work to bag them but it really isn't too bad.
I ate a few of them on this last batch because I didn't know until I saw them....
I`m in Pasco County, FL. Do you think I could grow a guava tree in a container ? Keep it small so I can cover it from central Florida frost.
I'm in South Carolina and I have a ruby red guava in a container. I have about 24 guavas maturing with one probably a week away from being ripe enough. It's about seven feet. I plan on keeping it in a small greenhouse and run a light for it on any nights that dip below freezing. But yeah they grow great in containers.
@@40wonder Thanks Tim !
Yes guavas do well in containers. They fruit when small and can be pruned back :)
@@OurTropicalSoil Thanks !
Hello So. FL neighbor! I'm in the Redland. I've seen a lot of commercial Thai (green) guava growers mesh/fabric or plastic bag their fruit. What are you thoughts on bagging your pink guavas? :)
We actually ended up buying bags online and bagged the fruit. It worked well in preventing the fruit flies from laying eggs. We were finally able to eat guavas worry free. However, the bags we bought were of extremely low quality and they basically disintegrated on the plant. We are looking into possibly making our own bags.
Mine were white so it was easier to see any damage, I was able to salvage 95% of my fruit
I have never eaten white guavas! I am glad you were able to salvage your fruit. Bagging the fruit really helps also to keep the larvae out! When they are bagged you can let them totally ripen on the tree. When its ripe the guava falls into the bag and the bag stays attached to the tree so the fruit isn't damaged.
@@OurTropicalSoil could you do a top 10 favorite fruits list?
Thank you.
Of the two seasons, is there one where the guavas may grow smaller? My guavas this season are significantly smaller in size but the numbers are much higher. I’ve gone from baseball and softball size guavas to racket ball sized guavas.
It is normal for a tree to grow smaller fruit when it is growing many fruit. If the tree has a lower number of fruit you will see that the fruits it does have will grow bigger. If you want to grow larger sized fruits then you can thin the fruits when they are young. You would thin the fruits by cutting off young green fruit to reduce the number of fruit on the tree. I find it is also normal that if one year a fruit tree produces very heavily then the next year you might find it produces less fruit.
Saw Some Non-Moving Maggots / Worms In It But Didn't Taste Much Of It, lol, Just Only Took A Bite.
If they weren't moving it might have not been maggots. The fibers from the fruit sometimes look like little maggots but when I take a closer look its not a maggot. Anyways, you probably can't test them but the thing with the maggots is that in infest fruit will get mushy and kind of gross also. Some people just throw them in the blender and don't want to check lol. That works too.
What if i accidentally eat the guava maggots?is it dangerous?
Your funny liked the vid
I am traumatized. My childhood, I ate aaalot of guava, we had fruit trees and this was one of my fav. did not know any of this information.Thank U! But I'm throwing up in my mouth 🤢rt now..after this, I'm setting myself up for an appointment, I need therapy. 😨😭😕
Are they safe to eat?
The fruit fly larvae are safe to eat as far as I know. I am sure we have eaten a couple over the years haha.
you even get street food vendors selling them... soooo
I eat them raw with their worms, I get protein bonus.
Yes, some people prefer that option :) We are not bagging our guavas. It's not too much work and the fruit have zero worms in them.
Me too...I eat them raw with their work...but I never knew that theirs a worm inside I eat it...🤣
I live in a tropical island. Last season scabs developed on the fruits as they were just forming. I used to pluck dozens a week before be sadly not now. It's the pink variety. I live in Sri Lanka Asia. Please guide.
Oh no :(. I am not sure what is causing the scab. We don't have that issue here. I was searching on google and it seems there is something called a guava scab cause by a fungus. Maybe that is what you have?
Thanks for your comment. It seems eggs are layed in the tiny fruits. Crushed neem seeds soaked in water for 24 hours was sprayed on the tree as advised by our agri dept. It did not work. 100s of fruits there now not even growing to normal size 😕😲. Want to trim off all the branches with leaves. Hope I don't kill the tree 🙄🤔
Hm I don't think you'd kill the tree. Guavas are a pretty vigorous plant.
@@OurTropicalSoil thanks
@@lawrencefernando6610 make sure to burn infested branches, not compost them
Today I eat guava and inside thera are little worms .. what will happen
The worms aren't dangerous. You will be okay if you eat them. It is just a little gross haha.
NOTHING...
Extra Protein 😅❤
So uhm earlier i watched a video about figs and then hojrs later my grand ma gave Me GuAva MY FAVPURITE FOOD but then i said to myself hey WHAT IF THERE IS MAGGOTS IN GUAVA ASWELL so i oppen it up and i ate it because i didnt see anything but then i saw a wiggling little thing and it was a maggot
in jamaican we just cut off the worm an eat it we no about that mean dem natural
Would it be ok if I ate them alive or dead on accident because my pink guava did look fresh 😂
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Worm will do nothing in your stomach. so eat as it is.
You know, I thought my guava didn't taste right.
Haha
Cutting mine down too much effort
Instead of cutting u had better pressed them with u hands because the worms may be cut away.
Eat them.
Or just throw the whole fruit away
That is an option.
@@OurTropicalSoil I am serious, you won't believe how much guava we wasted this year, I even have a photo if you would like to see :)
God, that's horrible looking
Hi' you lookin beautiful.