Papaya trees CAN be pruned, and if you want to keep your tree short, they SHOULD be pruned. I have several trees around my property in various configurations. After the 1st year, you'll get suckers growing on the trunk. You can keep your tree short by chopping the trunk at ~3-4ft from the ground. when there's no more chance of frost in early spring. The first time you do this, you won't get fruit that season, but new suckers will grow into multiple trunks. It's like managing an indeterminate tomato plant. Keep one stem/trunk if you want big fruit, or keep multiple stems/trunks if you want higher quantities of smaller sized fruit. I usually keep a single sucker that is growing in whatever direction looks nicest, and use the other suckers as clones via airlayering.
Excellent reply. Your name was aptly chosen. It's obvious Luke is new to papayas. I'm growing mine from seed and they're MUCH thicker than his plant. They just started to flower at 18" and they're hermaphrodites so pollination won't be an issue. Papayas grow true to type so why both with grafting? And you can definitely top and prune them. I'm growing them in a very similar climate to Luke's so my results are not attributable to my region's climate, especially being in Canada lol.
This is absolutely true. I m from Indonesia and I know exactly how to grow papaya. Papaya tree CAN be pruned. I've been living in Canada for almost 10 years. I love papaya and I've been trying to germinate papaya seeds from store bought papaya but unsuccessful . Noone sells papaya trees over here as far as I m concerned.
@@Free_Falastin2024 How do you know your seeds are hermaphrodites? Where did you buy your seeds? I tried from seeds of fruits bought in store it grew to 1 ft and slowly died. I live in Canada as well. Thanks for your knowledge
Great vid. Have you fruited papaya indoors? I will add that you can top papaya if they get too tall and they will shoot and form multiple trunks that will go on to produce fruit. Might help those with a ceiling, They grow and produce fruit so quickly in warmer climates that it is easy to just cut it down and grow a replacement.
Ripe papaya drizzled with lime juice and a little honey is such a healthy and refreshing breakfast! the seeds also have antiparasitic/antiviral properties I believe, and have a peppery taste similar to nasturtium leaves.
TWO corrections.. you can top a papaya if it gets to tall and it will grow a new flowering stem. #2 if you grow ungrafted papayas you will need MANY plants to grow either male, female, or hermaphrodite trees for pollination. You dont know what your growing until well into its life so you need to grow several if you want one to fruit. Awesome, super easy tree to grow, but definitely not easy to fruit with just one.
topping or stressing it in other ways can force a male to fruit. I've done it via topping and have seen others literally driving stakes thru the trunk.
When I lived in Papua New Guinea, I found that the BEST papaya were a deep pink . . . they're better than the orange fleshed ones. I don't know the names - but they were huge fruits and so GOOD! Thanks for this video about papaya - they're worth it! (I now live in Illinois - not the best natural environment for papaya! )
I'm in the tropics. One of my Papaya trees is planted alongside running water in partial shade. In 5 months it has grown 5 1/2 feet and already producing fruit.
I have 4 papayas growing in my back yard and last year they got hit super hard with red spider mites. Lost all the leaves and the tops died. Didn’t even have to cut them back and they shot out new branches from the trunks which currently have fruit so even without cutting them back it is possible to get fruiting branches on papayas. I’m in CA. Low humidity doesn’t seem to bother them much either but strong sun and good drainage is a must. And give them as much heat as you can.
You can absolutely cut the top of a papaya off. It has AMAZING results and can be done multiple times. You will end up with bushy plants that have multiple trunks. I had some that were only male and looked into if you can make them fruit. Found out you can stress the plant out by cutting the top off and it worked. So then I started thinking about using this to grow a bushier plant that's not as tall. Took a new papaya and cut the top off at about 2ft tall, then it bushed out with multiple trunks. I've also seen people sticking wooden stakes thru the trunk to stress a male into fruiting. I've also seen people take a small papaya out of the soil to expose the roots. Then you snip the main root and put it back to make into a female.
Hello, thanks for your video. I'm from El Salvador in Central America, but living in Argentina. I have 2 papaya's plant growing and they need to be transplanted. As I always have them in my garden in my tropical native land, I did not know what the pot size need to be safe. I heard they need 50 or 60 liters and I thought please, I need to know who have papayas in pots and say the true with a real experience. Now, you safe my life :D cause I live in a little department with a terrace, I cant' put a tone of soil as you said :) Thanks a lot!!! Of course you are my new best channel info (I don't have to think always in spanish, even if papaya is a tree from latin america countries - The sunrise solo type s from Hawaii, USA).
Thank Luke! I found your channel looking for info on why my leaves die but new babies are present. To hear it's normal made me happy. Very helpful video. New follower for sure!!
When the papaya’s terminal bud is cut they will produce multiple side shoots. The new shoots will transform the plant from male to female leading to positive fruit production.
A home made infused oil would be much more reasonable to do. Since you don't need absurd equipment. Even "hobbyist" ones can be easily $150 and not that easy to use.
Great video Luke but you made one massive mistake and that is papayas grow lateral branches as well but it just takes a while. Being from Jamaica I've seen more papaya trees in one week than most will in a life growing everywhere and they send out lateral branches eventually. The original stem can be cut if strong lateral growth is present to keep the tree shorter. this was also correctly noted by another youtube gardener Rob from Australia.
I totally agree, store-bought papayas are rubbish. I'm even not sure how a fresh fruit tastes, as I'm from Eastern Europe, but have a plan for changing it!
"Taste like dirty socks" that got me good. I used to live in a tropical area when I was little and loved papayas, then I moved to the desert and didn't taste papayas for years. When I finally tried papaya again I was surprised and disgusted that at some point in my life I liked "that" flavor. That was until my mom told me that wasn't the flavor I grew up with.
Topping a papaya tree can give you two main trunks. You might have to wait till the trunk is generating sprouting s on the sides of it's trunk while growing but the tree does make two main trunks when topped.
Hello Luke! So I'm planning my garden for this year and a doubt came up....you say peppers like to be planted together but I want to save seeds from my fruits this year, so the question is..will they cross pollinate ? should i plant them together or separately? same with squash and tomatoes?? thanks!!
Thank you for this video. I love papaya. I am originally from Brasil and I miss the juicy and sweet papaya from my home town. Found a big papaya in the supermarket, which wasn't that bad. Now I got many seeds ahaha.
You said not to top papaya, IV watches other videos that say to top papaya to keep it short. You generally have very good info, I just wanted to clarify because I have my papaya seeds growing!
I need to up-pot my papaya... grew from 8 inches to 3 feet in a couple months, I'll be bringing it in over the winter with some select tomato and pepper plants. :P Cant wait for fruit... so I planted figs... 2 months in and I have fruits growing on a 1ft stick.
can you please make one for growing date palm? it's quite a popular fruit to consume in my region, especially for iftar~ thank you for all your videos, they are very structural and easy to munch.
Last year i actually found a nice flavored papaya. It was dk green and dk red. Was a bit citrusy, tutifruity. I saved all the seeds. Ive got 5 or 8 about a foot now. My last papayas were in a poly tunnel, didnt make it after a freeze. But they had produced 4 fruit. Not knowing what to do, i cut fruits hoping they would still ripen. But they molded. So i try again with trees i actually like flavor of. Take care.
I have cut my trunks in order to be able to get the fruit and they do branch out. U have to make sure that water doesn’t go into the trunk. So cover the hole in order to keep it dry. Otherwise it’ll prob rot.
@MIgarderner. Thank you very much for an informative video. I had tried and failed multiple time trying to grow papayas from seeds from store brought fruit. I live in the northeast, colder than MI. Two questions: 1) Where do you recommend that we buy the grafted and non-grafted trees, online or brick and mortar? 2) What growing light do you recommend that is not too expensive and where to buy it on sale? Looking forward to eating REAL papayas in a year or so.
I don't think it's a good idea to chop it down too short. Maybe around 3 and 1/2 feet from the ground approximately. Else they just die. They do send out multiple "branches" when topped off and each branch does fruit. But I believe the tree needs to be mature enough for this to happen. I have them growing in my yard and they usually suffer some kind of fungus or bacterial infection at the heads and sometimes I just chop them halfway down instead of fighting up to pull them out and they do send out 3 to four heads after a while.
@@alcatelkey so far it has started sending out like 3 new trunks. I was only doing an experiment to see if it would work. Now to see if it'll fruit and when.
We have 6 Papaya trees in our backyard here in the Philippines and they sometimes fruit at the same time and we end up getting overwhelmed with so many ripe papayas at once.
Where do you get the stick to graft it and where do you get the Dorf root? Love papaya, I lived in Brazil for 2 years. ..they grow like crazy. We threw the seeds in the back of the house and we got a forest. ...so cool. Papaya de Amazon is the best has a redish flesh....yummy. I miss Brazil, best fruits ever!
Are you sure that if you prune the top it won't fruit? I saw a lot of videos on youtube that recommend to cut the top in order to get a shorter tree...
It won't keep growing, and if you prune it too low that means it will never fruit. Papaya do not form lateral growth like normal trees. They form latteral growth more like tomatoes do. They are essentially suckers that grow fully mature trees before fruiting again and these suto branches can be 3-4 feet in length before they fruit again.
I think it depends on the tree & your luck. I've seen some cut trees that have grown a couple shoots where they cut the tree and have continued to grow & have fruit on each of the shoots. However, I haven't seen it often and those papaya trees were tall (20-40 ft) so I don't know how long it took for it to start fruiting again. I live in Hawaii and see Papaya trees everywhere. I wish my papaya tree was doing good. They're very susceptible to root rot, which my tree has :(.
Papayas do grow in arid climates. They grow and fruit in Phoenix Az in front yards all over the place. They dont need alot of humidity either or special care. 55 degrees is not their cold tolerance level. We get down the 30's and papayas survive.
You are right , taste so yucky. I grew up eating ripe papayas , rambutans from the tree. Delicious. Those stores taste bitter and medicinal ,funny taste. I don't eat them for a long time. The certified organic is ok but so expensive. I hope I can succeed growing them in my 10" diameter pot in my flat. A challenge is direct sunlight.
You forgot to mention about gender of the plants, while there are some that are both genders most papaya have separate male and female plants and require at least 1 of each to produce fruit.
Just a comment on humidity if you live up north and need to have your papayas indoors. You can always use a humidifier like one you use for babies when they’re sick.
I have two papayas a few inches high that popped up in one 1 gallon container. Do I need to separate them? Are they sensitive if you pull them apart like that ? I don’t want it to die.
We once grew a Papaya tree in our compost heap a couple years ago here in Johannesburg, South Africa. It grew about 1.5m tall until we decided to move because it received very few hours of sunshine. Unfortunately, it didn't survive the transplant shock and died a month later😢😢
Hey Thanks for the video. I live in south Alabama, we do get freezing temperatures a couple of times a year. It never stays below 32 more than a day. Will a papaya grow in the ground outside if I keep it from the north wind? If not, if I plant in a container, will it do better if I move it outside in the spring?
Hi, I Was hoping you might be able to help me. I have a beautiful papaya tree growing in a container just recently it's started to have some leaf issues. So far only affecting about 4 leaves the tree is about 3 feet tall. And has been thriving, The leaves have me worried that whatever it is may be spreading. Is there any way that you could see pictures and possibly offer some advice? Thank you in advance for your kindness.
I am from Puerto Rico, i live in the country,I grow papayas in my land,The reason one papaya smell like dirty socks and one is sweet and juicy ,is because is TWO TYPE OF THEM,it have nothing to do if they grow at home or they are from the supermarket,,I bye them at Walmart too and they sell the type that are ver sweet and orange inside .The reason one have flowers and give you a fruit and others dont,,is because one is female and one is male,,The male plant will never produce a papaya..There is no way of knowing is the seed is male or female,,What do i do? I plant like 50 or 60 seeeds
Hi. I am having trouble with the papaya leaves curling and turning yellow. New leaves are still coming, but the mature leaves are curling up, yellowing and some browing at the tips. Is this a water, nutrition or too bright of light issue? Thanks.
I live in a area with hot summers (in June July and August it's between 35 and 40°c) And cold winters ( few nights its below 0°C and days are about 10°C) 13 hrs sunlight in summer and 9 hrs in winters. We have orange trees, fig trees, olive trees, mulberry trees, pomegranate trees and grape. All these plants produce well. I wanna have papaya, avocado, banana, coffee trees in containers but outside. Is it possible to have these plants in my location?
There's no way I'm going out in the freezing weather we have here to prune fruit trees, especially with my back yard being an ice skating rink! However, when we do get a thaw so that my hands won't freeze within the 1st 30 seconds, would you say that paw paw trees are like pears in that they prefer to grow straight up? I pruned my bare root saplings as soon as I planted them to get side growth, and those branches that came off the side went straight up.
BIG Question 🤔 why do papaya trees or seedlings keep dropping their leaves? I’ve had one before that kept dropping a lot of leaves and it doesn’t hold a lot of leaves
Papaya trees CAN be pruned, and if you want to keep your tree short, they SHOULD be pruned. I have several trees around my property in various configurations. After the 1st year, you'll get suckers growing on the trunk. You can keep your tree short by chopping the trunk at ~3-4ft from the ground. when there's no more chance of frost in early spring. The first time you do this, you won't get fruit that season, but new suckers will grow into multiple trunks. It's like managing an indeterminate tomato plant. Keep one stem/trunk if you want big fruit, or keep multiple stems/trunks if you want higher quantities of smaller sized fruit. I usually keep a single sucker that is growing in whatever direction looks nicest, and use the other suckers as clones via airlayering.
Big ole facts.
Excellent reply. Your name was aptly chosen. It's obvious Luke is new to papayas. I'm growing mine from seed and they're MUCH thicker than his plant. They just started to flower at 18" and they're hermaphrodites so pollination won't be an issue. Papayas grow true to type so why both with grafting? And you can definitely top and prune them. I'm growing them in a very similar climate to Luke's so my results are not attributable to my region's climate, especially being in Canada lol.
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This is absolutely true. I m from Indonesia and I know exactly how to grow papaya. Papaya tree CAN be pruned. I've been living in Canada for almost 10 years. I love papaya and I've been trying to germinate papaya seeds from store bought papaya but unsuccessful . Noone sells papaya trees over here as far as I m concerned.
@@Free_Falastin2024 How do you know your seeds are hermaphrodites? Where did you buy your seeds? I tried from seeds of fruits bought in store it grew to 1 ft and slowly died. I live in Canada as well. Thanks for your knowledge
Great vid. Have you fruited papaya indoors?
I will add that you can top papaya if they get too tall and they will shoot and form multiple trunks that will go on to produce fruit. Might help those with a ceiling, They grow and produce fruit so quickly in warmer climates that it is easy to just cut it down and grow a replacement.
Ripe papaya drizzled with lime juice and a little honey is such a healthy and refreshing breakfast! the seeds also have antiparasitic/antiviral properties I believe, and have a peppery taste similar to nasturtium leaves.
TWO corrections.. you can top a papaya if it gets to tall and it will grow a new flowering stem. #2 if you grow ungrafted papayas you will need MANY plants to grow either male, female, or hermaphrodite trees for pollination. You dont know what your growing until well into its life so you need to grow several if you want one to fruit. Awesome, super easy tree to grow, but definitely not easy to fruit with just one.
i grow mine just to look tropical. I don't like papaya fruit so I don't care if it actually fruits.
topping or stressing it in other ways can force a male to fruit. I've done it via topping and have seen others literally driving stakes thru the trunk.
So papayas can be grafted? It gets more interesting the more I learn about it
As someone who has been eating them since I was 6 months old I can say that I like papaya, even the ones at the grocery store. No bad rap with me haha
When I lived in Papua New Guinea, I found that the BEST papaya were a deep pink . . . they're better than the orange fleshed ones. I don't know the names - but they were huge fruits and so GOOD! Thanks for this video about papaya - they're worth it! (I now live in Illinois - not the best natural environment for papaya! )
What do they taste like?? I'm very curious.
James Fra like clean socks
I'm in the tropics. One of my Papaya trees is planted alongside running water in partial shade. In 5 months it has grown 5 1/2 feet and already producing fruit.
I have 4 papayas growing in my back yard and last year they got hit super hard with red spider mites. Lost all the leaves and the tops died. Didn’t even have to cut them back and they shot out new branches from the trunks which currently have fruit so even without cutting them back it is possible to get fruiting branches on papayas. I’m in CA. Low humidity doesn’t seem to bother them much either but strong sun and good drainage is a must. And give them as much heat as you can.
You can absolutely cut the top of a papaya off. It has AMAZING results and can be done multiple times. You will end up with bushy plants that have multiple trunks. I had some that were only male and looked into if you can make them fruit. Found out you can stress the plant out by cutting the top off and it worked. So then I started thinking about using this to grow a bushier plant that's not as tall. Took a new papaya and cut the top off at about 2ft tall, then it bushed out with multiple trunks. I've also seen people sticking wooden stakes thru the trunk to stress a male into fruiting.
I've also seen people take a small papaya out of the soil to expose the roots. Then you snip the main root and put it back to make into a female.
Hello, thanks for your video. I'm from El Salvador in Central America, but living in Argentina. I have 2 papaya's plant growing and they need to be transplanted. As I always have them in my garden in my tropical native land, I did not know what the pot size need to be safe. I heard they need 50 or 60 liters and I thought please, I need to know who have papayas in pots and say the true with a real experience. Now, you safe my life :D cause I live in a little department with a terrace, I cant' put a tone of soil as you said :) Thanks a lot!!! Of course you are my new best channel info (I don't have to think always in spanish, even if papaya is a tree from latin america countries - The sunrise solo type s from Hawaii, USA).
Thank Luke! I found your channel looking for info on why my leaves die but new babies are present. To hear it's normal made me happy. Very helpful video. New follower for sure!!
When the papaya’s terminal bud is cut they will produce multiple side shoots. The new shoots will transform the plant from male to female leading to positive fruit production.
Papaya leaf extract is great for low blood platelets. Very beneficial.
A home made infused oil would be much more reasonable to do. Since you don't need absurd equipment. Even "hobbyist" ones can be easily $150 and not that easy to use.
papayas really do "branch out" when the top is beeing cut off although the trees trunk size i saw was the size of my fist and not a pencil
Yah they generate two main trunks after being topped.
Where can I buy a grafted papaya tree like yours?
I just bought a papaya tree ❤❤ it’s flowering. I can’t wait for it to fruit!!!!
Did i hear God willing. Awesome!
Great video Luke but you made one massive mistake and that is papayas grow lateral branches as well but it just takes a while. Being from Jamaica I've seen more papaya trees in one week than most will in a life growing everywhere and they send out lateral branches eventually. The original stem can be cut if strong lateral growth is present to keep the tree shorter. this was also correctly noted by another youtube gardener Rob from Australia.
Paul21691 in Jamaica I have seen 50 foot papaya trees. They grow huge there
I totally agree, store-bought papayas are rubbish. I'm even not sure how a fresh fruit tastes, as I'm from Eastern Europe, but have a plan for changing it!
Papayas can be pruned, we prune ours every year to keep them short, they are always loaded with fruit.
Yours is indoor? which country do you live in?
Yep, yep and yep some more.... love papaya... Yummm add lemon and salt😉❤💕
"Taste like dirty socks" that got me good. I used to live in a tropical area when I was little and loved papayas, then I moved to the desert and didn't taste papayas for years. When I finally tried papaya again I was surprised and disgusted that at some point in my life I liked "that" flavor. That was until my mom told me that wasn't the flavor I grew up with.
Topping a papaya tree can give you two main trunks. You might have to wait till the trunk is generating sprouting s on the sides of it's trunk while growing but the tree does make two main trunks when topped.
Hello Luke! So I'm planning my garden for this year and a doubt came up....you say peppers like to be planted together but I want to save seeds from my fruits this year, so the question is..will they cross pollinate ? should i plant them together or separately? same with squash and tomatoes?? thanks!!
Thank you for this video. I love papaya. I am originally from Brasil and I miss the juicy and sweet papaya from my home town. Found a big papaya in the supermarket, which wasn't that bad. Now I got many seeds ahaha.
Same here! I grow my own papayas in my back yard.....they taste delicious!👍
Puerto Rico have the best papayas
Thank you for sharing Amazing helpfull videu
You said not to top papaya, IV watches other videos that say to top papaya to keep it short. You generally have very good info, I just wanted to clarify because I have my papaya seeds growing!
I need to up-pot my papaya... grew from 8 inches to 3 feet in a couple months, I'll be bringing it in over the winter with some select tomato and pepper plants. :P
Cant wait for fruit... so I planted figs... 2 months in and I have fruits growing on a 1ft stick.
I started some on in seed tray greenhouse this year while it’s cold out
Omg I love papaya so much!! But yes, the ones at the store taste very bland. Great video!
I never seen a plant that loves water as much as Papaya.
can you please make one for growing date palm? it's quite a popular fruit to consume in my region, especially for iftar~ thank you for all your videos, they are very structural and easy to munch.
Great video.vi have learned a great deal regarding Papaya.
Thank you ;)
More videos please.
There's varieties that grow shoots so when they get too tall, cut the main stem when just above the shoots. The main roots can go years.
Green papaya recipes rock! Try thai curry green papaya WOW
Papayas in Brasil are big and juicy and sweet .. So good
Last year i actually found a nice flavored papaya. It was dk green and dk red. Was a bit citrusy, tutifruity. I saved all the seeds. Ive got 5 or 8 about a foot now. My last papayas were in a poly tunnel, didnt make it after a freeze. But they had produced 4 fruit. Not knowing what to do, i cut fruits hoping they would still ripen. But they molded. So i try again with trees i actually like flavor of. Take care.
"Taste like dirty socks", you made me laugh because it's so true!
sad but true!
I have cut my trunks in order to be able to get the fruit and they do branch out. U have to make sure that water doesn’t go into the trunk. So cover the hole in order to keep it dry. Otherwise it’ll prob rot.
@MIgarderner. Thank you very much for an informative video.
I had tried and failed multiple time trying to grow papayas from seeds from store brought fruit.
I live in the northeast, colder than MI.
Two questions:
1) Where do you recommend that we buy the grafted and non-grafted trees, online or brick and mortar?
2) What growing light do you recommend that is not too expensive and where to buy it on sale?
Looking forward to eating REAL papayas in a year or so.
Depending on where the fruit comes from, they might have "radiated it" to sterilize the fruit, which kills the viability of the seeds.
Your video is very interesting.
Make a papaya update please
Agreed
Papaya? In MI? Crazy. Watching and learning.
Actually I've heard that the papaya plant, once topped, will branch out another or multiple trunks and each trunk will have fruit.
Currently have a papaya growing and topped it at around 1.5 ft. Will see how it responds.
I don't think it's a good idea to chop it down too short. Maybe around 3 and 1/2 feet from the ground approximately. Else they just die. They do send out multiple "branches" when topped off and each branch does fruit. But I believe the tree needs to be mature enough for this to happen. I have them growing in my yard and they usually suffer some kind of fungus or bacterial infection at the heads and sometimes I just chop them halfway down instead of fighting up to pull them out and they do send out 3 to four heads after a while.
@@alcatelkey so far it has started sending out like 3 new trunks. I was only doing an experiment to see if it would work. Now to see if it'll fruit and when.
True
Thanks HOmie...I just got a plant given to me...i have no idea if its grafted or whatever...., but thanks for the tips.
We have 6 Papaya trees in our backyard here in the Philippines and they sometimes fruit at the same time and we end up getting overwhelmed with so many ripe papayas at once.
Good problem to have!
Hi, Nice and short tutorial! Can you give us an update on that plant? It's more than 2 years...so hopefully you have the fruit ready.
Where do you get the stick to graft it and where do you get the Dorf root? Love papaya, I lived in Brazil for 2 years. ..they grow like crazy. We threw the seeds in the back of the house and we got a forest. ...so cool. Papaya de Amazon is the best has a redish flesh....yummy. I miss Brazil, best fruits ever!
I love papayas will a little lime and tajin
The opening scene of this video I can't wait till I can have a harvest like that.
Thank you for this. It is so helpful. God bless
Great video
I just got eight out of twelves papaya seeds to sprout and just planted them. I put them on a damp napkin in a bag.
My family loves papaya!! ❤ its smells like feet lol but it has an interesting tropical 🌿 taste! 😋
Are you sure that if you prune the top it won't fruit?
I saw a lot of videos on youtube that recommend to cut the top in order to get a shorter tree...
If you've seen a mature Papaya tree you'll see that there are no lateral branches, so don't prune them
It won't keep growing, and if you prune it too low that means it will never fruit. Papaya do not form lateral growth like normal trees. They form latteral growth more like tomatoes do. They are essentially suckers that grow fully mature trees before fruiting again and these suto branches can be 3-4 feet in length before they fruit again.
I think it depends on the tree & your luck. I've seen some cut trees that have grown a couple shoots where they cut the tree and have continued to grow & have fruit on each of the shoots. However, I haven't seen it often and those papaya trees were tall (20-40 ft) so I don't know how long it took for it to start fruiting again. I live in Hawaii and see Papaya trees everywhere. I wish my papaya tree was doing good. They're very susceptible to root rot, which my tree has :(.
Every one I top shoots multiple trunks from just below the cut which all fruit as soon as they are thick enough.
Practical Primate I have the same experience
When I lived in The Tropics I noticed that they grow better in sidewalk cracks in in an open field, so yeah the root bound thing makes sense.
Thanks so much for the tips!🙏
They grow great in central and south florida
Thanks
Papaya n seeds great for curing fatty liver
Papayas do grow in arid climates. They grow and fruit in Phoenix Az in front yards all over the place. They dont need alot of humidity either or special care. 55 degrees is not their cold tolerance level. We get down the 30's and papayas survive.
I get mine from a Mexican store. They dont refrigerate them during shipping so they ripen on the way
You can eat them raw.
i love how you just roasted the store papayas
You are right , taste so yucky. I grew up eating ripe papayas , rambutans from the tree. Delicious. Those stores taste bitter and medicinal ,funny taste. I don't eat them for a long time. The certified organic is ok but so expensive. I hope I can succeed growing them in my 10" diameter pot in my flat. A challenge is direct sunlight.
Papayas can definitely grow out to the sides
How do you graft a papaya tree?
On my to do list...great video Luke...Cara in Indiana
You forgot to mention about gender of the plants, while there are some that are both genders most papaya have separate male and female plants and require at least 1 of each to produce fruit.
Just a comment on humidity if you live up north and need to have your papayas indoors. You can always use a humidifier like one you use for babies when they’re sick.
Another cart before the horse video
Where did you get a grafted papaya tree I am in Texas I want to be able to grow one in a pot can you plz tell me where you got that dwarf papaya tree
Can you show how to graft a papaya please?
The papayas at the store are good where I live . I live in Southern California and there about a dollar a pound at the Mexican stores
Papayas CAN have branches shoot off the trunk! If you cut off the top, eventually a branch WILL grow out.
Guess I'm watching the Playlist backwards....lol
Thank you. Can you please teach a bit about pollination?
Don't forget, male papayas don't bear papayas.
Some are self fruitful Most of the cultivated varieties are now which is nice.
how to know which is male and which one is female I got one growing now
Thank you so much bro...
I have two papayas a few inches high that popped up in one 1 gallon container. Do I need to separate them? Are they sensitive if you pull them apart like that ? I don’t want it to die.
I germinated a papaya plant from seeds obtained from the store, but I live in colorado
what are the chances of it surviving and growing?
My papaya plant leaves burn with direct South Florida sun. So I keep it away from direct sun.
We once grew a Papaya tree in our compost heap a couple years ago here in Johannesburg, South Africa. It grew about 1.5m tall until we decided to move because it received very few hours of sunshine. Unfortunately, it didn't survive the transplant shock and died a month later😢😢
We have 2 mango trees indoors, they're from seed
Well Done. Congratulations.
Where do you get your grafted tree?
I want to grow some to see what they are supposed to taste like
Is there any update on this papaya tree?
Just want to know whether it bare any fruits
Thanks
Hey Thanks for the video. I live in south Alabama, we do get freezing temperatures a couple of times a year. It never stays below 32 more than a day. Will a papaya grow in the ground outside if I keep it from the north wind?
If not, if I plant in a container, will it do better if I move it outside in the spring?
Hi, I Was hoping you might be able to help me. I have a beautiful papaya tree growing in a container just recently it's started to have some leaf issues. So far only affecting about 4 leaves the tree is about 3 feet tall. And has been thriving, The leaves have me worried that whatever it is may be spreading. Is there any way that you could see pictures and possibly offer some advice? Thank you in advance for your kindness.
I am from Puerto Rico, i live in the country,I grow papayas in my land,The reason one papaya smell like dirty socks and one is sweet and juicy ,is because is TWO TYPE OF THEM,it have nothing to do if they grow at home or they are from the supermarket,,I bye them at Walmart too and they sell the type that are ver sweet and orange inside .The reason one have flowers and give you a fruit and others dont,,is because one is female and one is male,,The male plant will never produce a papaya..There is no way of knowing is the seed is male or female,,What do i do? I plant like 50 or 60 seeeds
Wepa!
Hi. I am having trouble with the papaya leaves curling and turning yellow. New leaves are still coming, but the mature leaves are curling up, yellowing and some browing at the tips. Is this a water, nutrition or too bright of light issue? Thanks.
Papaya leaves are good for dengue
How did it turn out?
Do you have a website that we can actually buy the little papaya graphic plant
Thanks for another great growing guide! I see some older videos where you had a greenhouse but it doesn’t seem like you have one now?
I live in a area with hot summers (in June July and August it's between 35 and 40°c) And cold winters ( few nights its below 0°C and days are about 10°C)
13 hrs sunlight in summer and 9 hrs in winters. We have orange trees, fig trees, olive trees, mulberry trees, pomegranate trees and grape. All these plants produce well. I wanna have papaya, avocado, banana, coffee trees in containers but outside. Is it possible to have these plants in my location?
Can grow in backyard in Dallas
There's no way I'm going out in the freezing weather we have here to prune fruit trees, especially with my back yard being an ice skating rink! However, when we do get a thaw so that my hands won't freeze within the 1st 30 seconds, would you say that paw paw trees are like pears in that they prefer to grow straight up? I pruned my bare root saplings as soon as I planted them to get side growth, and those branches that came off the side went straight up.
The
"Taste like dirty socks" comment still makes people laugh in 2020
BIG Question 🤔 why do papaya trees or seedlings keep dropping their leaves? I’ve had one before that kept dropping a lot of leaves and it doesn’t hold a lot of leaves