Well, I don´t know guavas in your area, but in my area, a seedling can bear fruit just after 1 year, and they can endure heat(+120°F), drought, they are almost consider in here as a weed. I like the seedless big ones, I have one tree of this one.

In here they carry fruit year round (sometimes get down to 10°C in winter).

I think that my drought might be a little different. We have been having under 15% humidity and we usually only get like 17" of rain a good year. BUT I have mine in a pot, which is probably the problem, I need to put it in the ground, but we have such clay soil, I am afraid of root rot.
Mine is a "tropical pink" guava.... hoping for fruit year round! :o)
Thanks!

I think it would really depend on the cultivar, some seems to ripen much faster than others. I grow two large varieties of Southeast Asian green guavas. One variety ripens almost a 1 - 1 1/2 month earlier than the other even though they flower at about the same time. A very good technique that seems to speeds up the ripening process a little bit(but just a little) is wrapping fruits with paper. Tracing paper or just plain newspaper works well. You just wrap the fruit and leave an openning in the bottom. Guavas seem to enjoy this very much. The fruit usually ripens more evenly and gives a nice clean unblemish look. I don't think guava fruits really likes direct sunlight.

I live in Ojai, Ca. and have clay soil. I have two Strawberry Guavas, 2 White Guavas and a Mexican Guava all in the ground. White Guavas are the only ones that seem to not like the clay but do grow. Strawberry Guavas fruited the first year, so did the Mexican. They were 5 gal. size to begin with.

Thank you! Ojaisam.... not to be mean, but I have found that strawberry guavas aren't really guavas.... not sure why they call them guavas. This one is called a tropical pink guava. Eggo might have it, I have it in a southern exposure, didn't seem to burn the leaves so I left it. But I can put it under a big tree I have, where my manila mango is... :o)

Heathen1, I know you are not mean so then what is it. Everything I have found says they are.

Strawberry guavas are a Psidium CATTLEIANUM, and the tropical guavas are Psidium guajavas. To me, they look WAY different, the strawberry guava looking (to me) more like an olive tree. My tropical guava seems to want more water here in Sacramento wilting every other day.... while the strawberry guava. I guess just because they look so different.... It's probably just me.... :o) by the way, here in Sacramento, the strawberry guava is grown for it's ornamental value.... I have never seen one fruit!?!?
I am trying....
I am pretty sure once I transplant the pink guava into a bigger pot, it will become way more drought tolerant, so I should probably shut my mouth. :o)

Heathen, where did you find a guava plant? I'd like to try a green guava, they taste best when just starting to ripen!

I got it at a Nursery in Stockton called Main Street Nursery. The owner is from Brazil and has all sorts of tropicals.... that's where I got my Manila mango too.