Long Term Evaluation of Guava (Psidium Guajava) Genotypes on the South Coast of Puerto Rico.

Abstract

Soils from the arid coastal plains of southern Puerto Rico are among the most fertile of the Island. Most of these fertile soils used to be devoted to sugar cane. As sugar cane production became unprofitable, many farms fell into disuse. Some of those farms are now mostly devoted to the production of vegetables, plantains and bananas, mangos, avocados and other fruits (Department of Agriculture of Puerto Rico, 2009-10). Guava, specifically for processing, is an easy-to-grow, low maintenance, potentially profitable fruit crop for this area (Vélez-Colón et al., 2003). This fruit has been studied by the