Some say that when it's not the rainy season and it rains, some fruits get damaged. I know that this happens a lot with mangoes, because I had a mango tree right in front of my house. We used to pray that it wouldn't rain before time so that when the mangoes ripened, we could enjoy them without any problems. But when it rained, they would spoil or, as they say around here, "get sick."
I think something similar happened with my guava tree, which has been bearing fruit for the first time in recent months. The rainy season is over, yet every now and then there is a sudden, uncontrollable downpour, and I don't know if that has contributed to some of the guavas I have harvested being damaged or getting sick, or if it is simply the fact that this is the first harvest from the guava tree. The thing is, we hadn't been able to taste any of its fruit yet.
Until we finally did, one of the guavas turned out to be super pretty and was also good and healthy. When we opened the others, even though they looked fine on the outside, they were already spoiled and dark inside. This one, on the other hand, was pink as it should be, sweet and delicious. Here at home, we could easily eat them just like that, without peeling them or removing the seeds, because we like them that way. However, we know that eating them can be dangerous for the appendix, so we avoid it as much as possible.
When we lived in the Amazon, there were several guava trees, but they were all white guavas. Our dream was to have a red guava tree, so this tree is also a gift for that reason, because we finally have a red guava tree, and we ate its fruit, or rather, we drank it. I am different from my husband. He likes it to be super thick and heavy, but I like it to be light and smooth. In this case, since it was only one guava, it had to be smooth, just the way I like it.
I would say that the fruit was quite sweet, even though it wasn't as big as another fruit that the tree had produced, but that one had arrived diseased. I hope that this will be the beginning of our fruitful harvest of healthy and sweet guavas, but even so, we will strive to take good care of the tree so that at some point it can give us more guavas like the one we tasted, because we love it.
As I told you before, we love guava at home, and it is in fact my husband's favorite fried fruit, so having these in the garden is incredibly cool. I can imagine hearing my husband say, "I feel like some good guava juice," and just having to go out to the yard to get some to make it, and I think that's the best part of all. Yesterday it rained heavily again, and I just hope that helps the guavas that are growing and not the other way around.
-Content entirely of my authorship and inspiration.
-Original text in Spanish, translated at DeepL.
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