Celgen® Sardar (L-49 / Lucknow-49) Guava Plant

Celgen® Sardar Guava Plant, popularly known as L-49 or Lucknow-49, is a widely cultivated commercial guava variety known for its regular productivity, attractive fruit quality, sweet white pulp, and excellent market acceptance.

Sardar is valued by commercial growers and home gardeners for its vigorous growth, prolific bearing habit, wide adaptability, and suitability for both fresh consumption and processing.

Celgen Biotech offers this variety in two distinct planting options:

1. Premium Tissue Culture-Developed Plant

Produced through tissue culture multiplication for true-to-type varietal uniformity, healthy fibrous root development, and consistent orchard establishment.

2. Premium Grafted Plant on Tissue Culture-Developed Rootstock

Prepared by grafting selected Sardar scion material onto healthy tissue culture-developed guava rootstock. This option combines the true-to-type fruit characteristics of Sardar with a vigorous and uniform root system.

KEY HIGHLIGHTS

• Popularly known as Sardar, L-49, and Lucknow-49

• One of India’s established commercial guava varieties

• White-fleshed premium table guava

• Prolific and regular bearing habit

• Sweet pulp with characteristic guava aroma

• Attractive commercial-quality fruits

• Suitable for fresh consumption and processing

• Good adaptability across tropical and subtropical regions

• Suitable for home gardens and commercial orchards

• Available as direct Tissue Culture-Developed Plants

• Also available as Grafted Plants on Tissue Culture-Developed Rootstock

FRUIT CHARACTERISTICS

Fruit Shape:
Round to round-oval

Fruit Size:
Medium to large under suitable orchard management

Skin Colour:
Green, becoming light green to yellowish-green at maturity

Flesh Colour:
Creamy white to milky white

Texture:
Firm, juicy, and fleshy

Taste:
Sweet with a pleasant characteristic guava aroma

Seed Content:
Moderate, with relatively soft seeds under suitable maturity

Best Use:
Fresh eating, juice, pulp, nectar, jam, jelly, and processing

PLANT SPECIFICATIONS

Botanical Name:
Psidium guajava L.

Variety:
Sardar

Other Recognized Names:
L-49 / Lucknow-49

Flesh Colour:
White

Growth Habit:
Vigorous

Bearing Habit:
Regular and prolific

Sunlight:
Full Sun

Water Requirement:
Moderate

Suitable Climate:
Tropical and Subtropical

WHY CHOOSE CELGEN® PLANTS?

Celgen Biotech supplies premium guava planting material using advanced tissue culture and grafting systems.

Our direct Tissue Culture-Developed Sardar plants are produced for uniformity and healthy root development.

Our Grafted Sardar plants combine selected true-to-type scion material with tissue culture-developed guava rootstock for vigorous establishment and dependable orchard performance.

DISCLAIMER

Product images are for reference only. Plant height, branching, foliage, and overall appearance may vary depending on the season, nursery stage, and growing conditions.

Fruit size, shape, skin colour, flesh quality, sweetness, seed hardness, yield, and bearing time may vary depending on climate, soil, irrigation, nutrition, pruning, pollination, crop regulation, and orchard management.

Tissue culture and grafted plants are separate propagation options. The plant supplied will be according to the propagation type and size selected by the customer at the time of ordering.