When they collect Feichoa harvest. Feichoa - what is it and where it comes from: photo and description of an exotic plant

Feichoa for the Slavic man of exotic, and the inhabitants of the tropics familiar fruit, often used in food. A fruit tree grows in a subtropical climate, is used not only in food, but also for therapeutic purposes. If you know the beneficial properties and contraindications of Feichoa, then you can enrich the body with valuable substances. The population of South America, New Zealand, Brazil is known, and they often use fruit in nutrition.

Today, the places where Feicho is growing, it has become more. The tree was cultured in the southern regions of Russia (Krasnodar Territory), Georgia, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Australia. Therefore, these healing berries have become accessible and closer.

Faja fruit is an oblong shape berry, having a smooth dense green hue peel. Soft juicy flesh reminds a combination of several fruits: strawberry, kiwi, pineapple. Fruit is edible entirely and completely with the skin, but not everyone likes her taste. In color, it is possible to determine its maturity: if the flesh is white - the fruit is not ridiculous if brown, then overreared. Ideally ripe fruit has a transparent core.

Chemical composition of Faja Fruits

Microelements and macroelements necessary to maintain immunity and the normal flow of all chemical processes in the human body. Feichoa is particularly saturated with iodine elements necessary to maintain the functions of the thyroid gland, as well as iron involved in the transfer of oxygen, magnesium, potassium, calcium, zinc, phosphorus.
Vitamins of group B supporting the work of the nervous system.
Vitamins C and A, strengthening vessel walls.
Amino acids (arginine, tyrosine, asparaginic, glutamy) involved in the formation of proteins in the human body.
Essential oils and tanning substances.

Useful properties for women and men

For women, fruit is especially useful during pregnancy, when the body of the future mother needs a large amount of iron, folic acid, calcium, magnesium. All trace elements are contained in Feichoa. In addition, for the development of a healthy fetus, a sufficient amount of iodine is necessary, which favorably affects the work of the thyroid gland and the formation of the child's nervous system. With its disadvantage in the body of a pregnant woman and in a newborn baby, congenital hypothyroidism may develop (reduced function of the thyroid gland). Complication of this disease - dementia. At the same time, the fruit refers to the low-calorie and does not add excess weight to the future mother.

For men Feichoa is useful for prostate (inflammation of the prostate gland). Thanks to the healing properties of Faja's fruits are able to prevent inflammation of the prostate, so they are used to prevent male problems. At the same time, the erectile function in men is improved.

Therapeutic properties of Feichoa

It fills the disadvantages of iodine in the human body, which is especially necessary for diseases of the thyroid gland, to maintain its function.
Improves the work of the nervous system.
Normalizes sleep.
Strengthens immunity. Due to the composition of vitamins and microelements, fruit stimulates the formation of immune cells - leukocytes.
Fights with anemia. Because of the large amount of iron Feichoa is effective in iron deficiency anemia, strengthens immunity.
Lowering cholesterol in blood, so the fruit is useful to people suffering from atherosclerosis.
Improves the operation of the digestive tract: the content of an increased amount of plant fiber helps to enhance the peristaltic and intestinal cleansing.
Natural antiseptic. A disinfecting effect has a bark of tree, leaves and rope of fruits. The decoction of them is used in inflammatory diseases of the mucous membranes - periodontal dishes, cuts, inflammation of the kidneys.

How to choose a mature fayo?

The degree of maturity of the fruit depends on its benefit. Than Fayicho's sleeve, the more nutrient components it contains. For transportation, the harvest is carried out by non-existent fruits, so when buying should pay attention to such nuances:

Solid fruit postpone not a few days. It will give him a trim and become softer. The most useful Feichoa, who has a jelly flesh.
Litard fruits should not buy. Control the start of fermentation processes is difficult, and the fairyae purchased will be unsuitable.
Fetal peel should not have visible damage. They indicate that the useful quality of the fruit is reduced. The reason may be mechanical damage during transportation. It is better to postpone the fruit even with small dents so as not to doubt his freshness.
A large fruit is always preferable. It contains more sugars and vitamins. But this is not the main criterion. Depending on the variety, Feichoa has a different size of fruits.
If you need to buy a ripe fruit, then easily press it on it. It should be soft, and the peel is not quite smooth. Cut the fairya and examine the pulp. Unswerky fruit has a white painting of pulp, overripe - brown. An immature fruit can be put on the ripening, overripe - is not suitable for use.
Fruits should not be frozen. She testifies to the fact that Faicho was cut off from the branch, without waiting for the harvest date.
The fragrance of Mature Feichoa reminds the smell of pineapple. On him, judge the maturity of the fruit.

Sales season in Russia. Prices

Faja fruit ripening time is the end of October-beginning of November. The fruits are taken to Russia from Azerbaijan, Abkhazia, they are grown in Sochi and the Krasnodar Territory. The price of fruit is not high - hesitates around 50-100 rubles per kilogram. Therefore, it is possible and you need to afford to eat at least a few Faja fruits per day during the cold season.

Calorie Feichoa

100 grams of fruits contain a small amount of calories - 50-55. This fruit refers to dietary. Most of all in its composition carbohydrates, namely sucrose. Fruit is quickly digested and digested.

How to store?

Saving Feicho for a long time, we provide stock of vitamins for the body. Store useful fruit in different ways.

The most famous options are storage:

in fresh form;
in the form of jam (with the use of thermal processing and without it).

What a way to choose, you need to solve depending on the desired storage period. On average, Feichoa fruits retain freshness within 10 days after collecting. If you take into account the period of transportation, packaging, preparation for sale, then mature fairya is better to use immediately or a few days to hold in the refrigerator. The unworthy fruit lies until spring with the correct observance of the storage parameters - temperature mode and high-quality ventilation. It is enough to put it in the compartment of the refrigerator, intended for storing fruits.

How is Feichoa? Recipes

This fruit can be consumed both in the raw form and thermally processed. Fayaho raw frigues have a specific taste, resembling pineapple, kiwi and strawberries at the same time. Delicious only pulp, skin is dense and not very pleasant to taste. But it is that the skin contains most of the beneficial substances. Therefore, to not lose them, prepare a jam or jam from fruits along with the skin.

Recipe for cooking cheese jam from Feichoa

Many hostesses prefer jam - a reliable way to enjoy the taste of Feichoa for a long time. The minimum loss of the vitamin value of the fruit provides the "living" jam from Feichoa. Prepare it according to the classic recipe for berries. Sugar and fruits are taken in the ratio of 1: 1 and shake into one mass. The amount of sugar can be increased - this will prolong the storage period of the jam, but will deprive it of the specific taste of Feichoa.

Preparation stages are simple:

The fruits wash, remove tails and frozen.
Grind in a convenient way - in a blender, meat grinder.
Lay out the mass into the enameled dishes and shrink sugar.
Stir until the sugar crystals are dissolved.
Enclosed sweetness in the pre-prepared glass floor. Covers and jars are thoroughly wash with soda mortar, rinsed and hung with boiling water.
Store jam in the refrigerator no more than 2.5 - 3 months.

There is a recipe at which sugar is replaced by honey. This is a natural preservative, which is not recommended to be thermal processing. Therefore, for the "living" jam, it can also be used.

If the composition (with sugar) is thermally processed, then the shelf life increases to 1 year. In this case, 1 cup of water is added to the components listed above, which is poured into an enameled container and adjusted to a boil. Then sugar is added with parts and dissolves. The fruit puree is shown in syrup and mixed with a wooden spoon. We boil a mixture of 10 minutes, regularly removing the foam. Tar for jam is thoroughly wash and sterilize. Unlock ready-made jam on banks, roll and deposit into a cool place. Jam is used during the year.

In the classic composition, many hostesses love to add a highlight. For jam from Feichoa, it will be lemon juice, cranberry, pear, orange flesh with peel or ginger root.

Jam from Feichoa

For the preparation take 600 grams of raw faja fruits, they wash them, remove dry tails, cut the fruits in half. Grind in a blender, add 0.5 kilograms of sugar, juice and a zest of one lemon, 3 tablespoons of grated ginger. After that, half liters of drinking water are added, laid out into aluminum dishes and boiled to the state of thick jam. The finished jam from Feicho is shifted into sterilized banks, roll with covers.

Medical use of Feichoa. What are we treating and how?

The main spheres of the use of Faja fruits in medicine is endocrinology (treatment of thyroid and pancreatic diseases), cardiology (treatment of hypertension and blood purification from cholesterol) and immunology (treatment of reduced immunity and vitaminosis).

Treatment of the thyroid gland using Feichoa

Use jams from raw fries of Faja or mashed potatoes. You need to take on a tablespoon 30 minutes before meals 2-3 times a day. The course of treatment is at least a month. It should be remembered that only ripe fruit uses for therapeutic purposes.

Also used infusion made of dry fruits of Feichoa. For this, 3 tablespoons of fruits pour two glasses of boiling water, insisted overnight. The next day, drink in 3 receptions. So continue every day for a month.

Feichoa with diabetes

Sugar diabetes is a disease of the pancreas, in which a violation of the absorption of glucose cells is noted. In this case, the blood sugar level is increased. Violation of the diet and the use of products containing a large amount of sugar exacerbates the course of the disease, leads to an even greater increase in blood glucose. Therefore, it is not used for the treatment of diabetes, taking into account the content of sugars in its composition, but to use in minimum quantities is permissible.

What else

Feichoa is also used in the treatment of the cardiovascular system. It cleans blood from cholesterol, stimulates the formation of blood cells, prevents the formation of blood clots. Clean juice from Feichoa fruits. The tablespoon of juice is mixed with 50 grams of water and take one time a day.

To strengthen vessel walls, you can use jam with oranges. For cooking, they take a kilogram of Fayicho fruits, 2 kilograms of sugar and juice of two oranges. Boiled jam and take 1 tablespoon 2 times a day. The combination of a large amount of vitamin C in an orange and a complex of trace elements and vitamins in Feichoa strengthens the vessels.

Feichoa in cosmetology

The fruit has an anti-inflammatory effect, so it is used to combat acne. Rejuvenating, softening and nutritional properties help fading and aging to keep a healthy look. The simplest recipe is to apply the chopped flesh of the fruit on the skin of the face and leave for a few minutes.

Before applying any mask, you need to carry out a skin test: put a small amount on the inner surface of the forearm and wait for 10-15 minutes. If there is no reaction, you can safely apply a mask on the face.

There are several face masks from Feichoa:

Due to the large number of essential oils and antioxidants, fruit is used to strengthen skin and hair. Cosmetologists recommend using the following face mask every 3 days. Prepare a chamomile decoction (1 teaspoon of grass on a glass of boiling water), cool, add a tablespoon of oat flakes and two tablespoons of the pulp of Feichoa. The mixture must be broken until the flakes are swollen. After that, add a teaspoon of almond oil and can be applied to the skin cleaned skin.
The pulp from several fruits of Fayicho is crushed in a blender to a homogeneous mass. 2 tablespoons of bold cottage cheese, one yellow chicken egg and a tablespoon of olive oil add to it. Before applying, clean the skin from cosmetic products and skin fat. Apply a mask on the face, after 20 minutes, washed off with warm water.

Fajoa cultivation at home

Faja cultivation at home is possible and becomes more and more common in Russia. This tree is loved not only for useful fruits, but also for beautiful flowers. Grow the plant in two ways.

Growing from seeds. For the workpiece, they take offering fruits (important - not overweight!), Remove the flesh from them along with seeds. Rinse the flesh in a weak solution of manganese, dried by separable seeds and sow them into the soil. Initially, you can use small pots, and then transplant sprouted seedlings into more spacious containers.
Growing from cuttings. Take a cutlength of 8-10 cm long, leave on them one pair of top leaves. Divide them on 2/3 lengths under the tilt into the soil. The soil is shed a warm weak solution of manganese. To keep moisture in the soil (Feichoa loves it), you can cover with polyethylene. The lighting should be intense, but the light fall dissipated. The rooting of cuttings occurs after 1.5-2 months. After that, they can be planted into the ground.

Contraindications

The abuse of any of the products can cause irreparable harm. Therefore, you must always carefully relate to the properties of food used. Not an exception and fruit of Feichoa. The benefits and harm of the fruit should be taken into account if there are any other diseases in humans.

Hyperthyroidism. This is a disease of the thyroid gland at which the hormone content is increased. Due to the high content of iodine in Fayicho's fruits, they cannot be used in hypertension.
Allergic reactions. People who are prone to allergies need to use Feichoa caution. Due to the large number of essential oils, fruit can cause allergies.
Diabetes. Feichoa contains many carbohydrates, which can affect the blood sugar level of patient with diabetes.

It should be remembered that every useful fruit may be dangerous. For example, the overdose of Feichoa can lead to anxiety, an increase in body temperature, pulse increase or, on the contrary, inhibition of state, weakness and lethargy. Therefore, before using fruit in medicinal purposes, you must consult with your doctor.

Dear readers, today we will continue with you conversation about Feichoa. I already told you about. All remembered my words from my article that if you are not familiar with Feichoa and have not tried it, it means that life passed by. Well, we were too much together, and now we will talk in more detail about this wonderful berry - and it is the seasonal berry.

Compared to other fruits and berries, this tropical fruit appeared on our market quite recently and is still a little studied by buyers. I want to introduce you to him closer so that you also bought Faicho in the season with great pleasure, like me.

In the middle of the 18th century, a boy named Joao da Silva Barboz lived in Brazil's capital. He loved the nature very much and was inquisitive, reading books, encyclopedia. I watched a clock for life in an anthill, woke up with the sunrise to see how the flowers bloom. I often walked with friends and told them about everything in the world: why moss grows on trees from the northern side, why berries can be poisonous, how to distinguish birds by voice. After the university, taking the new Fairo surname, he was one of the participants in the creation of a Museum of Natural History in Lisbon. All his life Joao dedicated to the study of the vegetation world of the islands of Green Cape, Portugal and Brazil, wrote books on geography, toponymy and botanic. Subsequently, after a hundred years, Botanist Karl Otto Berg opened a new fruit tree in Portugal and called Faicho - Feicho in honor of Silva.

Where does Feicho grow?

The subtropical areas of South America are considered to be the birthplace of Feichoa: Paraguay, South Brazil, Uruguay and North Argentina.

In the form of a undergrowth, this tree grows in the wild forests of South America. Feichoa is a subtropical plant and all the possibilities to put it in tropical areas were unsuccessful.

By the end of the 19th century, Faicho was brought to France, then in 1900 in Sukhumi and Yalta, and at the beginning of the 20th century in California, where this exotic fruit spread well. In 1913, the fruit tree was brought to Italy and all Mediterranean. This plant strip of subtropics has conquered more northern areas. In the Crimean Peninsula, a fruit tree withstands frost to -11c without damage.

Currently, Feichoa is grown mainly at the household plots in Azerbaijan, Georgia and Krasnodar Territory.

Very popular Feichoa among flowerfields - lovers who grow it, as an exotic tree, in room conditions.

Thanks to beautiful flowers and leaves with silver color, Feichoa is often used in the form of decorative landing. In some hot countries, Parks and Squares are decorated with fruit trees.

Feichoa. Photo

Here's what the Feichoa berries themselves look like, which we can buy on the market or in the store.

But what does the Faicho tree look like. Photos sent me Victor Bessonov, the permanent reader of my blog and the author of several very interesting articles. Victor grew Faicho first at home in a flower pot.

But what it looks like a tree (still very small) at the country's country. Victor himself lives in Rostov-on-Don.

Fajoa species and varieties

For use in cooking, a tropical fetus variety differ slightly.

The first grade of Faicho, which the Europeans learned about, brought from Brazil in 1890 by the French nerd Edward Andre and landed on Riviera. Seven years later, the first harvest was assembled, and another year, E.andre published his work with a description of the plant, subnoop, colors. In honor of Botany and called this variety - Andre. This variety is well known in the countries of the Mediterranean and in California.

After that, in California, breeders brought three more fairya varieties, which were greatly distributed:

Choysean is a rapid variety with dark green (up to 7 cm) fruits;
Kuljj is a large-scale variety;
Supereba - the fruit of a rounded or pear shape, very large (up to 80 g)

Faja Besson is growing in South India, with small fruits of oval shape, soft to the touch. The skin of this grade is green with a burgundy or reddish tint.

In our country, breeders have brought several varieties of Feichoa:

Nikitsky buggy;
Nikitsky fragrant;
Light coloured;
Crimean early;
Firstborn.

When does Feichoa matures?

Feichoa matures late autumn - at the beginning of winter.

The smell, taste and fragrance of Feichoa

For me, the fragrance and taste of Feichoa reminds the mixture of aroma of strawberries, pineapple and kiwi. Well, so unusual, and so tasty. And what is still very important - useful! Try, and you yourself will understand all his charm.

Feichoa. Sales season in Russia. Price

On the counters of Russian shops and markets, Feichoa appears from the Transcaucasia, where it was brought before the war. The sales season in Russia begins from October - November, because at that time Faicho is actively fruitful. In Yaroslavl, I always try on the market without burning the sales season of this amazing berry. The beginning of October and the whole December - always on the market and in stores you can buy these berries. We are now for 1 kg-150 rubles now. It also happens more expensive. But not so long ago bought at this price.

Calorie Feichoa

Caloriciness 100 g of exotic fruits - 49 kcal. On 100 grams of berries.

How to choose Faicho?

Before you buy tropical fruits - remember that it becomes useful Feichoa when it takes. They collect them unreasonable, so that during the transportation of the fruits do not surpage and not deteriorate.

If you buy Faichoa, pay attention to the fruits and take into account several subtleties:

fruits should choose those that bigger. They are the most useful. I try to buy exactly such fruits, up to 10 cm long;
inspect the Feichoa from all sides, it is necessary that the fetus have a whole, smooth, without dents and damage to the skin. Good fruit is tight and elastic. There should be no dark large spots. Small specks - there is nothing terrible here;
if the fruit is solid, then most likely it does not dose and can be left for several days at room temperature for the ripening;
if, when pressing the fruit is soft, it means that Feichoa has already matured and it needs to be immediately used in food;
ask the seller to cut Feichoa and look at the color of the flesh. Have a good ripe fetal, the flesh is transparent with a creamy tint. If the flesh is white, then it means that the fruit has not yet slept. If the flesh is brown, it means that the fruit fell and starts spoiled;
outowable Feichoa should not be bought, since it will quickly begin the fermentation process;
the ripe fetus is a rich dark green skin.

I suggest you watch the video footage in which the expert is a candidate of agricultural science Alexander Kulenkamp tells how to choose a qualitative ripe Faja Freak, to pay attention to when buying.

How to keep Feichoa?

Store Feichoa follows in the lower section of the refrigerator, for vegetables and fruits for one to two weeks. In this compartment, the optimum temperature for storage and other products are not poisoned by the smell of fruit.

When stored, Fayicho's fruits lose some moisture and become only sweeter. When buying up to one kilogram of Feichoa, it is possible to eat in a fresh form.

Under the fairy apartments, it can be stored only if the fruits have not been dosed.

For longer storage of Faicho, it is better to grind and mix with sugar. In this form, it can be stored all winter in the refrigerator, useful and taste quality is not lost. On a blog, I have already shared my universal recipe for health, as I personally do this recipe for health for many years. You can read it.

How do Feichoa eat?

As I said, failed the flesh of Feichoa reminds the sour-sweet combination of strawberries, pineapple and kiwi, a very refreshing and pleasant fragrance.

The flesh of ripe fetus resembles jelly, so there is Fairoa, as well as other fruits will not work. Attempts to cut into the fruit slices will end the failure - the pulp will slip and spread.

How is Feichoa with Kindle or without?

Very often asked me, how are Feichoa with skin or without? I can say one thing that Faicho is best to eat a teaspoon, cutting the fruit in half, in the middle line. And the peel has a tart bitter taste and in fresh form it is better not to use.

In culinary dishes, tropical fruits add to snacks, salads, prepare sauces from it. The general recipe, as eating Feichoa, no, it all depends on flavoring addictions.

And for the soul, we will listen to today Rolf Lywland and Fionnuala Sherry Song from Secret Garden Canzona . Amazing music and beautiful video sequence. I listened and enjoyed. I hope you will rest from the fuss of our life. Listen to good music. She gives us an unforgettable state inside.

I wish everyone a pleasant winter mood, simple joys. Give your warmth, care for you to people.

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Faicho. - evergreen shrub plant from the Mytov family, reaching in adult age no more than 1 meter in height, with delicious and fragrant fruits of a saturated green color.

Fruit weight It is 30-50 grams, in taste and smell they are similar to Pineapple, Kiwi and strawberries at the same time. Ripen fruits in November.

Faicho. Can be raised at home. No need to possess the knowledge of agronomas to surprise friends and acquaintances of an exotic plant in the apartment. It is enough to adhere to simple rules and advice on fayohea.

Fayicho varieties

Total exist Three varieties of Feichoa. Only one species is cultivated from them - Feicho Selloa, perfectly growing and capable of fruit and blossom in room conditions.

Actions To increase the possibility of the appearance of fruits in the plant:

buy self-polling variety;
expanded with brushes cross artificial pollination;
spray water flowers plants in the evening.

Fruit benefit

Faicho. It blooms incredibly beautiful and has inconspicuous, but useful and delicious fruits with many healing properties. The ripe fruit is, the more useful they are for the body.
Rich Fruit composition:

iodine, perfectly assimilated by the body due to the presence of water-soluble compounds (its content is comparable to the amount of seafood and fish);
vitamin C;
pectin;
sucrose;
cellulose.

DiseasesIn which the use of Fayicho fruits gives a positive effect:

atherosclerosis (boiled or cried with sugar fruits);
diseases of the thyroid gland;
reduced immunity;
avitaminosis;
gout;
basedova disease;
constipation;
cold;
depression;
sclerosis;
pyelonephritis;
disorders in metabolism;
gastritis and diseases of the gastrointestinal tract.

Peel It has an antioxidant effect, but it is too tart, so the best option for its use is to add to tea. The taste of fruits grown at home is not different from those that have grown in natural conditions. Feichoa is a dietary product that is well absorbed by the body.

Plant landing

For the plant requires soil with the following properties:

feederness;
looseness;
weakness reaction;
wealth Gumus.

Watering Feichoa

Summer Feichoa Requires abundant watering. Power of the soil can lead to the feet of leaves and wound up and even the death of the plant. In winter, when wintering plants in a cool room, it should be pulled out.

Roots Water absorb not so quickly, so its oversuetting increases the risk of reloading the roots and the death of the plant.

Reproduction

Reproduction Plants are possible in two ways: seeds, rooted branches. At the same time, in reproduction, the seeds of fruits should not be waiting for the next 5 years, when using Chenkov - 4 years.

There is a third Method - Buying an expensive adult plant in the store, but there is a risk that it does not fit. During long blossom from May to June, the plant is very beautiful. Flowers of pink or red shades.

With vegetative reproduction is the best moment of process - spring and early summer. Rules for performing reproduction with cuttings:

semi-previve branches with 3 interstices are the perfect option;
the cuttings are processed by the coaches of the formation of roots (for this you can use coconut soil, washed sand, vermiculite, perlite or simple floral soil with adding vermiculite or perlite in proportion 1: 1;
put the cuttings in the greenhouse, which can be used plastic bottles;
suitable temperature for the appearance of roots - +25 degrees;
for the appearance of the roots, it may be needed for several months and not all cuttings will come down;
if the plant has grown from the cuttings of the fruiting face, flowering can be expected by 2 or 3 years.

For breeding Fayaho seeds perform the following actions:

the best period of sowing is February, seeds - freshly collected;
seeds need to be separated from the pulp and dried within 5 days;
the semen should be shown in the glasses of plastic shallow, slightly sprinkled with the earth and are located in the greenhouse;
next, it is necessary to perform irrigated from the shallow watering can on the filtered paper located on the surface of the Earth;
The ideal temperature for breeding the plant by seeds - + 23 ... + 25 degrees;
the first shoots are waiting in 3-4 weeks.

When transplanting Feichoa Care should be taken, as the branches are very brittle and fragile.

Falker Plants

In summer Fejoa requires feeding, for which complex fertilizers are perfect. Superphosphate is used for feeding, horse manure in proportions 1:10, ash hood.

For getting Potash fertilizer in 1 liter of water insist 1 tbsp. A spoonful of ash trees (mainly deciduous) in continuation of 1 week. Before feeding fertilizers, the plant should be pouring water.

Selection of place for landing

Faicho. Loves bright rooms and withstands the effect of direct sun rays. With a reduced arrival of light, the plant will not bloom and be fron.

Summer ideal The option for the plant is fresh air, in winter - a bright room with air temperature + 10 ... + 12 degrees.

Faicho. It moves normally for the winter period and at room temperature, but it will take 80-85% air humidity and high lighting. Welcome regular spraying plant.

Perfect placefayaho wintering is a glazed aparth balcony.

Diseases, pests and Faja Treatment

Pestaffecting the plant: ,. Young shoots harm red. To help the plant, it is recommended to use a Celtan solution in a proportion of 1 liter of water: 2 grams of spraying substance that is better carried out in the evening.

When exposed Sunny rays solution can burn facey leaves. The validity period of the solution for more than a month, therefore, to get rid of the pest is sufficiently single processing.

Brown fuddle appears on the glossy section of the sheet along the central vein. Carbofos will help in the struggle with the pest, which is required to dissolve in 1 liter of water (5-6 grams of the drug).

For improvement Plant states It is necessary to carry out a full spraying of the fairya and repeat the procedure 3 times with the gap per week.

Most Frequently found problems when growing Feichoa: Spotted leaves, from which you can cope with the help of a spraying of bordeaux liquid; Gray rot on the leaves.

Faicho. - The original plant with non-allergenic delicious fruits suitable for consumption and adults, and children from which many delicious dishes can be prepared.

And the most curious, we suggest familiarizing with the video about Feichoa

Feichoa is an evergreen shrub up to 4 meters high, refers to the genus of the Accc, the family of the Mirate. The view is highlighted in a separate genus called Feijoa. This plant was first discovered by Europeans in the 19th century on the territory of Brazil and received its name in honor of the discoverer, who was Naturalist from Portugal Zhuan da Silva Faizho.

In the reference books of plants, the word Feichoa is indicated with different removal: on the last or on the penultimate syllable. They call this shrub also differently: AKKA, AKKA SELLOVA, AKKA FAYHAA.

For the first time, the fruits were brought to Europe in 1890 in 1901, in 1901 he tried him in California, in 1910 - in Italy, from where Faicho was spread through the Mediterranean territory. Today, the plant is successfully grown in subtropical regions of the world, a culture in Northern Argentina, Uruguay and Colombia, in the protected areas of the Caucasus, in New Zealand, Australia, USA, Turkmenistan, Georgia, Armenia, Abkhazia are common. On the territory of Russia, the plant is grown in Krasnodar, Crimea and Dagestan.

The plant blooms very beautiful large flowers in May - June. Pink colors, white on the edges, with large numerous stamens (50-80 on one flower).

Feichoa fruits are berries with green and rigid skin, sour bitter taste. Maturation occurs late in autumn and in early December. The pulp, jelly-like consistency, with seeds, sweet and juicy, taste resembles a combination of kiwi with pineapple or strawberries. Eating fairy spoon, cutting the fruit into two parts. The peel into food is rarely used.

Sort

The breeders brought various varieties of Feichoa, the most popular of them are as follows:

Besson, gives fruit weighing up to 120 g, with a green leather and a reddish blush. Inside fruits a lot of small seeds, the taste of Faicho is very juicy, with a pleasant strong smell. The crop gives unstable;
Andre, fruits with a dark green hue leather and weighing about 120 g, very juicy and a little sour. Inside very small seeds, but they are a bit. Berries are very fragrant, a large crop does not give;
Light, fruit during the ripening period acquire light green color. Mature Fairoa weighs about 60 g, the skin is a bit litter, the fruit is tastefully reminded strawberries. Harvest stable;
Coolidge, fruit weighing about 60 g, dark green, with slightly corrugated peel. The crop is stable, but the fruits themselves are not so fragrant as previous varieties;
Early aroma, fruit with smooth skin, fragrant, juicy, with sour and sweet taste. In one berry there are a lot of seeds, up to 55 pieces;
Firstborn, small fruits weighing up to 50 g, inside every 75 bones;
Superb, fruit round shapes, slightly stretched at the end, juicy, with a pleasant aroma;
Cheyseana, round fruit with smooth and very fragrant skin. A bush gives an unstable harvest;
Nikitsky fragrant, fruit oval and fragrant, weighing up to 50 g, with wrinkled light green leather, pulp with refreshing and sweet taste;
Crimean early, fragrant sweet fruits, green shade with juicy, sweet pulp.

Benefit and harm

Feichoa fruits - record holders in the content of iodine, so very useful for the thyroid gland and during its dysfunction. But the amount of iodine in berries directly depends on where the plant has grown. The greatest percentage of iodine content in berries growing by the sea or 40 km from the sea coast.

The peel of fruits contains anthocyan natural dyes. These substances are very powerful antioxidants, the peel is used in cosmetology and medicine. It is useful to sometimes eat Feicho with crude for the prevention of cancer and the rejuvenation of the body. Many antioxidants in Feichoa's leaves, which are still rich in tannies and are natural antibiotics. The leaves and fruits of the plant are effective when coughing, Faicho essential oil well helps from acne and during problem skin.

Thanks to the large content of vitamin C, it is useful to eat Feichoa in the cold season, influenza and ARZ. Fruits well strengthen immunity. Faja's essential oils are an excellent component for inhalations during the prophylaxis of a cold.

The peel is dried, crushed and stored in glass jars. Apply when the stomach and constipation are used: in the glass, boiling water weave the tablespoon of the peel and drink half a glass before meal.

Fresh skin can be pouring boiling water, add a little soda and breathe over a solution for several minutes, covered with a towel. Effectively with a cold with a runny nose. Very useful for health There are fresh fruits with honey.

Feicho and contraindications that need to be observed in some health problems:

oxalaturia and Gongs
hyperacid gastritis
stomach ulcer
complications for atherosclerosis
diabetes

The nutritional value

100 g of fruits are rich in vitamins C, groups B, RR, microelements and other useful substances:

fats - 0.78 g
proteins - 1.24 g
carbohydrates - 10.63 g
ash - 0.74 g
water - 86.6 g
phosphorus - 20 mg
sodium - 3 mg
potassium - 155 mg
magnesium - 9 mg
calcium - 17 mg
iron - 0.08 mg
zinc - 0.04 mg

Fruits include in diet for weight loss, because their caloric content is only 49 kcal per 100 g.

How to choose and store

The choice of Feichoa is not like this, since in appearance it is not easy to determine whether fruits matured or have spoiled. You can ask the seller when buying one yoke. If the flesh is white, then Feichoa is still greenish, if a brownish or yellow shade - the fruit began to deteriorate and wander. The flesh of ripe and suitable berries translucent and resembles jelly.

If you choose high-quality fruits on external characteristics, Feichoa peel is always green, brilliant and elastic, without spots. When pressing the fruit should be soft. If it is solid, then green. Too soft berries are spoiled, and there are no them.

Berry is stored for up to 7 days in the refrigerator. It is possible to store re-fruits with sugar, in glass sterilized cans closed with plastic lids.

Faicho in cooking

Eating fresh and purified, with sugar or honey. From fruits prepare jam, jams and compotes, juices, drinks, squabbles, cocktails, sauces, fruit and vegetable salads. Especially good Feichoa is combined with apples, carrots, beet and citrus. Pieces of fruits are baked with meat, they give dishes spike and sophistication.

Salad with Feichoa, Nuts and Oranges

Ingredients:

lemon;
300 g Fairoa;
sour cream;
50 g of raisin;
300 g oranges;
powdered sugar;
salt.

Cooking:

Clean the fruits, cut the Fihoa and Lemon and Lemon, Orange - Cubes.
Connect the prepared ingredients, add chopped nuts and raisins.
Sweep the salad of sour cream, add a pinch of salt and sprinkle on top of the way.
Before serving, sprink out the orange zest salad, thinly sliced \u200b\u200bstraw.

Facey meat and fish sauce

Ingredients:

bulb;
5 Faja fruits;
2 tbsp. l. Sahara;
ground black pepper.

Cooking:

Clean the bulb and Feichoa, cut into a small cube and grind in a blender.
Add sugar and pepper into the ground, mix again until uniformity.

Feicho in medicine

Fruits with peel and leaves are used in folk medicine. Use them for the treatment of various ailments:

joint pain in osteochondrosis, arthritis (except for the gout) and arthritis;
heat;
colds;
inflammatory processes in the body;
unbinding and dysbacteriosis, when digesting the fruits, the substance included in their composition displaced the cavity of the digestive organs;
digestive problems;
reduced acidity;
anemia, because in Feichoa in a well-digestible form contains iron;
increased blood pressure;
kidney disease;
problems with pancreas, because Feichoa is one of the few fruits that can be used in pancreatitis, but not during the exacerbation of the disease. Vitamins of groups in improving the state and operation of the pancreas.

Therapeutic tea with Feichoa

Ingredients:

natural honey;
1 tsp. dried peel;
1 tsp. dried leaves;
200 ml of boiling water.

Cooking:

Surrum with leaves grind and lay out in a boiler teapot or a cup.
Fill with boiling water and mix, cover the lid.
Leave tea to brew 15 minutes, add honey to taste and stir well.

Growing in the country

Feichoa can be easily growed independently, it is important to comply with some requirements. The shrub feels well on any soil, even on rocky and sandy. Reproduction is possible with cuttings and seeds. The most favorable landing time February is the beginning of March.

Landing seeds is carried out in several stages:

seeds need to be extracted from well-ripened fetus. Gently cut the berry and remove the pulp, rinse seeds and dry;
prepare the ground from the leaf land, the upper peat and river sand in the proportion of 2 to 2 to 1;
plant seeds into the ground to a depth of 0.5 cm and sprinkle a little earth. Cover the container or pot with glass and put germing into a warm place where the temperature should be 22-25 degrees. Every day moisturize the soil and ventilate the landing. Install over the pots of daylight lamps. After 1-2 months, sprouts should appear when they go out, transform them into individual pots.

Reproduction with cuttings:

autumn cut from a young plant cutter 10 cm long, remove all the leaves other than two tops. This is necessary for faster root formation;
put the cuttings into the soil on 2/3 and place in a small greenhouse from the plastic bag, ensure good lighting;
after 4-5 weeks, young leaves should appear.

Feichoa loves light, so choose a suitable place for it. If there is little light in the room, use fluorescent lamps. Wrap a plant from the straight rays of the sun.

It is important to know that not every grade during the cultivation in room conditions will give fruit in the future. There are self-polishing varieties (Nikitsky fragrant, culip, Crimean early) and non-introspective. If your plant applies to the latter, you need to grow two bustle and pollinate them yourself, with a brush, carrying pollen from one plant to another.

Transfer

For the first 2-3 years, the plant must be transplanting annually using a mixture of peat and sand in proportion 2 to 1. After 3 years, the transplant is carried out 1 time in 3 years. The soil must be from sand, humus and turf in the same proportions. You can use the transplant transplant method. The twigs in young plants are very fragile, so it is important to do everything neatly. With each transplantation, the pot must be more than 10 cm. Ideal for Feichoa, they are suitable for hubs from wood and clay pots. Metal containers are not suitable, as they have an oxidic property. The plant must be regularly sprayed and maintained the desired temperature.

Care

At the end of winter, the shrub is cut off by 40%, in the spring young shoots begin to actively grow. It is very important to proper crown formation. Young seedlings up to 30 cm high are necessary for 1/3 for the formation of major shoots. The next winter is cut every branch by 50-60%. If the root cervies begin to grow shoot, they are also cut, it is also possible to remove dry and weak branches.

The plant loves moisture, in the summer period to water Faicho need often and abundantly. When the soil dries up, the plant can reset all the leaves. When watering, water should flock from drainage holes into the pallet, it is not necessary to merge it, gradually it is absorbed into the soil. In winter, Feicho watered moderately.

Fertilizers

The soil is enriched with nitrogen, potassium and phosphorus. Use preferable superphosphate, 2 liters of water 1 teaspoon. Of the ash of deciduous trees, preparing feeding from potassium. Fertilizers need to be made to wet soil. During flowering and growth, the feeding should be entered every 2-3 weeks.

Pests and diseases

Facey's young shoots are subject to the attack of the red spider tick. The plant is treated with Celttan solution (2 g per 1 liter of water). It is enough to carry out the processing once.

Another pest who is striking Feichoa, is a brown falconist. The plant spray the "carbofos" emulsion in the proportion of 5 g of the preparation per 1 liter of water. Processing is carried out 3 times with a break of 7 days.

Feichoa resembles a miniature watermelon or gooseberry with thick matte leather. The smell of berries is sharp and shrouded, with unaccustomed it seems that someone accidentally poured spirits. The name is the aroma - unexpectedly magical. Feichoa, arriving from distant lands, has gained a new outmate in Europe and Russia.

Faja description and classification

Feichoa is an evergreen subtropical shrub or a tree not more than 4 m height. The place of its growth is Brazil, where the culture was discovered and described in the XIX century by the Portuguese scientific scientific scientist Juan da Silva Faizho. She received his name in honor of him. Feijoa is sometimes referring to the family of the family of the Mytrent family, but in some cases it is distinguished into a separate family of Faijoa Selowiana. The species name culture received by the name of the famous German scientist, researcher of the plant world of Brazil, Friedrich Sellov.

Feichoa is a low shrub or tree

Origin and distribution

Motherland Feichoa - South America:

Brazil;
northern regions of Argentina;
Uruguay;
Colombia.

It grows, occupying and a tropical belt, but it feels better in the subtropical zone.

Once in France at the end of the XIX century, the plant successfully spread through Europe, even hit Russia to the beginning of the 20th century. The cuttings of unusual cultures first arrived in Yalta and on the Black Sea coast of the Caucasus. In the future, the quiet expansion of the overseas guest has spread to the southern regions of Russia: Dagestan, Krasnodar Territory. Fayaho is growing in Transcaucasia and Turkmenistan.

No less successful was the conquest of the plants of the Mediterranean zone of Europe. Faicho since the beginning of the last century lives in:

Italy;
Greece;
Spain;
Portugal.

With European migrants, the plant fell into a new light and gradually spread through the entire Pacific coast of the United States and some other states. In addition, Faicho is growing in Australia and New Zealand.

Main characteristics

This is a subtropical evergreen moisture-loving plant, forming a bush or a tree. Barrel grungy, brown or greenish. Thick roots are located in the soil surface.

Whole leaves, oblong, green-gray. From above smooth, lowered lowered. To the touch leathery and rigid. A controversy.

Feichoa Obsol and have an opposite location

Fayaho flowers are exotic decorative. There are single, pairly located, as well as collected in inflorescences. Each flower contains 4 velvety petals. They are sweet and edible. The outer surface is brighter, and the color of the inner surface varies from almost white at the edge to dark pink closer to the center. The abundance of stamens attracts attention and gives a colorful look. Most flowers affectly and need insect pollinators, although there are samopidal varieties.

Outer surface petal lighter inner

Usually up to 75-80% of the wound pops.

Fayaho's flowering in Russia is observed from May to June. In natural conditions, in the subtropics of the southern hemisphere, this time falls on November - December. In the tropical climate there are cyclic, and continuous flowering.

Fruits are small meat and juicy berries with a dense skin of dark green or greenish-yellow color. There are covered with waxing. In the form rounded, oblong or oval. The average weight of the berry is 15-60 g. There are Monsters fruit weighing more than 100 g. They have a peculiar aroma resembling strawberries and pineapple.

Fejoa blanks will not be vitamins in long winter months. In the network you can find many ways to prepare these berries. My option implies a minimum of effort and complete absence of heat treatment. The washed and capped ripe berries of Feicho should be skipped through a meat grinder and add sugar sand in a 1: 1.5 ratio. Carefully stir and pour into banks. Keep refrigerated. You can obtain the resulting mass to be baking or submit it to tea.

The pulp is usually white-cream or colorless. Some varieties are painted in pink. Taste with sour-sweet. The consistency usually cream. There are varieties with stony inclusions. Universal berries are applied in fresh and recycled.

Feichoa pulp usually cream or colorless

Facey fruits found organic acids, sugars, vitamin C, pectin substances, iodine. The content of vitamin C in some varieties grown in the Russian Federation reaches 50 or more mg. 100 g berries contains twice as much iodine than necessary for daily consumption. And the amount of iodine directly depends on how close the culture grows up to the sea. In the fruits of Feicho, who dwells by sea coasts, it accumulates more.

Persons suffering from diseases of the thyroid gland should be advised with the endocrinologist before using fragrant fruits, or limit the one or two berries per day.

Plants in the northern hemisphere are actively growing and fruit from April to November. The time of vegetation in the southern hemisphere falls from October to the end of April.

The fertilization among seedlings are observed only for the sixth seventh year after landing, but the vaccination is possible to get a harvest before 2-3 years. Fruit regular.

Studies have shown that these thermal loving plants are able to transfer a decrease in temperature to -11 o C.

Video: How to grow Faicho at home

Some varieties of Feichoa

In Russia, there are 2 scientific centers (in Yalta and Sochi), studying the properties and the selection of Feichoa. Employees of the Sochi Vnia Flowers and Subtropical Cultures and the Nikitsky Botanical Garden in Yalta created the Faicho varieties included in the Russian State Registry:

Fragrant fantasy - Crimean early grade. Fruits weighing up to 35. Hollow juicy, tender pulp. Transportable. The yield is approximately 100 c / ha. Resistance to frosts 3 points. Weak drought resistance.
Dagomysse - average ripening time. Created in Sochi. Berries are large, weigh an average of more than 85. Middle density peel. The flesh is creamy, sour-sweet, with minor stony inclusions. With a pronounced aroma. Yield more than 300 c / ha. It needs cross-pollination.
Dacha - early grade created in Sochi. Berries are large, the average weight of 43.1 g. Skin is thin. The flesh is gentle, creamy. Yield more than 200 c / ha.
Nikitskaya fragrant - Crimean early grade. The average weight of the berry is 35 g. The flesh is juicy, the taste of sour-sweet, neuro is expressed. Yield just over 100 c / ha. Resistance to frosts 3 points.
September - Early grade, needs cross-pollination. Fruits with thin skin. Flesh without stony inclusions. The average yield is about 160 c / ha. Drought-resistant grade.

Overall odiho's outflows have not yet become a common food product, but gradually conquer sustainable interest due to attractive aroma, a pleasant unusual taste and gentle pulp.