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It is a hardy crop. And grows wells in all type of soil from poor, alkaline and ill drained soil. It can grown in soil having pH ranging from 6.5 to 7.5. It gives best results when grown under deep, well drained, sandy loam to clay loam soil. Do ploughing, cross ploughing of land and then levelled the land. Prepare land in such way that water stagnation should not occurred in field.February-March or August-September month is optimum time for planting of Guava.Ultra High density planting developed by CISH, Lucknow: In this plants are placed at spacing of 1 m x 2 m, accommodates about 2000 plants per acre. Roots should be sown at the depth of 25 cm.Plants are propagated by budding or Air layering. Sardar variety seeds are tolerant to wilt and can be used for raising rootstock. Extract seed f.... (Read More)

It is a hardy crop. And grows wells in all type of soil from poor, alkaline and ill drained soil. It can grown in soil having pH ranging from 6.5 to 7.5. It gives best results when grown under deep, well drained, sandy loam to clay loam soil. Do ploughing, cross ploughing of land and then levelled the land. Prepare land in such way that water stagnation should not occurred in field.February-March or August-September month is optimum time for planting of Guava.Ultra High density planting developed by CISH, Lucknow: In this plants are placed at spacing of 1 m x 2 m, accommodates about 2000 plants per acre. Roots should be sown at the depth of 25 cm.Plants are propagated by budding or Air layering. Sardar variety seeds are tolerant to wilt and can be used for raising rootstock. Extract seed from ripen fruit and sow them in raise bed in August-March. Make raised beds of 2mx1m. When seedling becomes six months old they are ready for transplantation. Transplanted seedling when attain diameter of 1-1.2cm and height of 15cm they are ready for budding process. May and June months are best for budding process. Freshly cut, angular bud wood from current season’s growth is used for budding purpose.Training and Pruning is necessary to provide stronger frame work to guava tree. Stronger frame work help to support high yield. To maintain the productivity of trees, light pruning at time of first harvesting is necessary. Regularly remove dead and disease infected branches. Modified leader system of training is followed. Flowers in guava are borne on current seasons growth so carry out light annual pruning and remove upto 10cm tip, it will encourage new shoots after harvesting.During initial 3-4years, grow vegetable like carrot, okra, brinjal and radish can be taken as intercrop. Also legumes crop like gram, beans can be sown as intercrop. thankyou .