Feijoa (Part 2)
It is very easy to get plants from seeds. Choose the ripest fruit with a yellowish peel. Put it to ripen in a warm place (for example, on a spotlit window-sill). After it becomes soft, open it with a knife and get the central part with numerous smallest seeds. Place pulp on a dense fabric and wash out with water. Dry seeds slightly, and then you can start sowing.
On the true surface of the ground put seeds and damp with a pink solution of potassium permanganate. Feijoa seeds require light for germination, therefore they are not covered with the soil. Cover crops with a glass and put in a warm place with ambient light. At a temperature 20 C seeds will come up in 3-4 weeks. All this time air seeds and don’t give the soil to dry up.
When the shoots appear, adapt seedlings to a dry air of your room and to a direct sunlight.
Young plants of feijoa grow very quickly. The feijoa grows better, when it has space for the root system.
Feijoa is propagated not only with seeds, but also with cutting. It is preferable to do it in November - December. As cuttings use the top and middle parts of young shoots.
To speed up formation of roots, treat cuttings with stimulators and use the bottom heating.