Hawaiian Papaya
I grow my papaya plants from seeds. They are mostly the small Solo papaya you get from grocery stores. After I opened the fruit and scooped the seeds out. I plants the plentiful seeds in the garden. Lot of seeds sprouted during the warmer months and grow rapidly reaching 1-2 feet by year end. Most of them succumb to the cold winter chills and died. But a few survived and bloomed. That’s when I found out papaya can have only male flowers, female flowers or both on the same plant. Unfortunately, the biggest papaya plant I have was female. So, although it started to flower in the second year, there was no fruit. Next year the male plant also flowered, but only when the weather really warmed up in July. Then I artificially pollinate the female flowers. The fruit started to grow until it turns cold. The fruit did not grow at all until nest May. Now the papaya plant is really tall (~10 feet tall) and it is a chore to pollinate and pick the fruit. I am considering top the femal