A field experiment was conducted at All India Co-ordinate Research Project on Water Management, Water Management Research Centre, Belvatagi, U.A.S., Dharwad, Karnataka, during the consectivive years for 5 years (2004 - 2008) to find out the performance of early growth period of guava to drip method of irrigation and fertigation in vertisols effect of irrigation and fertilizer levels through fertigation in drip irrigated guava. Among irrigation leavels crop at 60% PE significantly increased the guava fruit yields during all the 5 years over surface method of irrigation (basin method) and it was on par with I3 (40% of PE). Pooled data indicated the superiority of moderate as well as constraint of moisture regimes (60% and 40% PE, respectively) in obtaining higher yields (36.55 and 34.82 q/ha, respectively).At fertilizer levels through fertigation on fruit yield was significantly superior with 100% of RDF (36.11 q/ha) and this was 31% and 15% more than 50% and 75% of RDF fertilizer application treatments. Interaction effects between irrigation and fertilizer levels were non significant for fruit yield of guava in pooled of all the years. It revealed that application of water at the rate of 6% PE during three seasons i.e., kharif @ 5, rabi @ 9 and summer 12 1/day/tree through drip irrigation and fertigation with 100 per cent recommended dose of fertilizer in six splits at every 2 months interval found optimum dose for better crop growth, yield and saving in irrigation water over remaining treatments.