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Growing guava

Psidium guajava · also called amroodGuava is a hardy tropical and sub-tropical fruit tree raised from layers or budded plants. It bears a rainy-season and a winter crop in north India, and suits the plains and foothills below about 1,000 m, not the cold high hills.

Temperate Himalaya: Kashmir valley, Shimla, Kullu, Uttarakhand hills

Our team has checked this guide against the sources at the end of the page.Guava grows only up to about 1,000 m. The Kashmir valley and the temperate hills sit higher, with long frosty winters.Includes AI suggestions where no published guide covers a detail
Two green guavas hanging on a guava branch among the leaves
Photo: Jeevan Jose, Kerala, India · CC BY-SA 4.0
Not suited here

Not a crop for this region

Guava grows only up to about 1,000 m. The Kashmir valley and the temperate hills sit higher, with long frosty winters.1

Where it grows nearest

Across India

When to sow it

Twelve growing regions, January to December. Your region comes first.

Not suited here

Sowing now in:South interiorEast coast
  • Transplant
  • Harvest
  • Today
  • Not suited here
Temperate HimalayaKashmir valley, Shimla, KulluNot suited hereSub-tropical foothillsJammu, Kangra, DehradunCold desertLadakh, Lahaul and SpitiNot suited here
Compare all 12 regions
Cold desertLadakh, Lahaul and SpitiNot suited hereSub-tropical foothillsJammu, Kangra, DehradunNorth-west plainsPunjab, Haryana, DelhiGangetic plainseastern Uttar Pradesh, Bihar, West Bengal plainsNorth-east hills and valleysAssam, Meghalaya, SikkimArid westRajasthan, Kutch, north GujaratCentral plateauMadhya Pradesh, Chhattisgarh, VidarbhaDeccan plateauinterior Maharashtra, Telangana, north KarnatakaSouth interiorBengaluru, Mysuru, interior Tamil NaduWest coastKerala, Goa, KonkanEast coastcoastal Tamil Nadu, Puducherry, coastal Andhra
Today
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RegionSowNurseryTransplantHarvest
Temperate HimalayaNot suited here
Cold desertNot suited here
Sub-tropical foothillsFebruary to MarchJuly to AugustAugust to SeptemberJanuary to February
North-west plainsFebruary to MarchAugust to SeptemberLate July to SeptemberNovember to February
Gangetic plainsJuly to AugustFebruary to MarchLate July to SeptemberNovember to February
North-east hills and valleysJune to AugustLate July to SeptemberNovember to January
Arid westJuly to AugustAugust to SeptemberNovember to February
Central plateauJuly to AugustAugust to SeptemberNovember to early February
Deccan plateauJune to AugustJuly to AugustNovember to DecemberMarch to April
South interiorJune to DecemberFebruary to JulySeptember to January
West coastJune to JulyAugust to OctoberJanuary to March
East coastJune to DecemberFebruary to JulySeptember to January

What it needs

Soil, sun and warmth

  • Soil pH1,3,14

    5.5 to 7.5

    Grows on a wide range of soils, including shallow, medium black and alkaline soils, but cannot stand waterlogging. Deep, well-drained, friable sandy loam to clay loam suits it most, at least 0.5 to 1 m deep with no hard pan or high water table. The roots are shallow, so the topsoil should be rich. Avoid soils with lime nodules or sheet rock within 90 cm.

  • Sunlight1Part of this comes from the sources cited. The rest is an AI suggestion.

    Full sun. Lay out rows east to west so the trees get even light.

  • TemperatureNo published guide covers this for the Temperate Himalaya, so this is an AI suggestion. Check it with local advice before you rely on it.

    Grows best at 23 to 30 °C

    Takes light frost.

    Monthly temperatures for the Temperate Himalaya aren't in the library yet.

Good neighbours1,3,7

Seed and the season's end

Saving seed1,13Part of this comes from the sources cited. The rest is an AI suggestion.

Guava trees raised from seed do not come true and bear late, so seed is saved only to raise rootstocks. Use freshly extracted seed from fully ripe fruit.

Cleaning the seed

Scoop out the seed, wash the pulp off and sow straight away.

Seed loses viability soon after extraction, so it is not stored. Sow it fresh; it germinates in three to four weeks.

After the last pickingNo published guide covers this for the Temperate Himalaya, so this is an AI suggestion. Check it with local advice before you rely on it.

Guava is a perennial, so nothing is cleared after harvest. Collect fallen and rotten fruit and bury it deep or compost it in a closed pit. Chip or compost healthy prunings; burn diseased wood.

Rotation

When an old orchard is removed, grow legumes or vegetables for a season or two before replanting, and do not set new trees back into the old pits.

Sources

Where this comes from

Our team has checked this guide against the sources at the end of the page.Reviewed by our team on 13 November 2026.

These published guides are the sources. Where none of them covers a detail for this region, the page shows an AI suggestion and labels it.

  1. 10Guava: pestsNational Horticulture BoardRead the source
  2. 11Guava: plantingNational Horticulture BoardRead the source
  3. 12Guava: post harvest technologyNational Horticulture BoardRead the source
  4. 13Guava: propagationNational Horticulture BoardRead the source
  5. 14Guava: soil and climateNational Horticulture BoardRead the source
  6. 15Guava: varietiesNational Horticulture BoardRead the source
  7. 2Guava (horticulture: fruits)TNAU Agritech Portal, Tamil Nadu Agricultural UniversityRead the source
  8. 4Guava: area under cultivationNational Horticulture BoardRead the source
  9. 5Guava: diseasesNational Horticulture BoardRead the source
  10. 6Guava: harvesting and yieldNational Horticulture BoardRead the source
  11. 7Guava: intercultural operationsNational Horticulture BoardRead the source
  12. 8Guava: irrigationNational Horticulture BoardRead the source
  13. 9Guava: manuring and fertilisationNational Horticulture BoardRead the source

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