John- I had to read this if only for the title! The whole thing kinda rolls off the tongue. LOL This is the 2nd time I've fallen off my computer chair laughing in this forum, which only confirms I am in good company.

-Nan

You just wants to put some pasnizzle in its pafizzle...
Snoop Jeffy Jeff
:)

Oh heavens, this had both me and my DH rolling laughing. I can't help you with your pimping project but you did make our evening.

So Snoop when's the first hit gonna hit the charts??? LOL

Cindy

Oh jeeze lol .. thanks too for the chuckles .. will the provider of the male get the pick of the litter?

X

Wish I could help, well not personally that would be just too bizarre.

I do have three papayas though that had flowers on them until July then nothing since. Trees look healthy enough, if they decide to flower again you can bring the pink caddy over and load up.

Bring your own hoe though!!

I thought your papaya was the ho, John...

Sally ;-0

I'm a lonely little papaya in an onion patch, an onion patch, an onion patch.... sing along now!

The flowers don't last all that long so this experiment may not be worth the effort.

I start tropical seeds in the summer when mother nature helps with the temps and humidity. With papayas I keep them in pots the first winter inside the house and then plant them outside once it gets reliably warm. In one summer they become monster tropical trees. This year I have a bumper crop of seedlings and hopefully I won't drown them this time. My plan is to chop down the present tree and pot up the root ball, and store it inside over the winter (they did this where I used to work long ago). It should recover and sprout new growth next spring. Only next year I will have plenty of trees to satisfy my,, er,,, um... needs.

Now you reveal the problem John- you've planted this poor female in an ONION PATCH? Imagine her breath! No wonder you can't find a suitable donor.

-Nan

You people are too cool...who wooda thunk...carolina gardening???!!!

2 years later... I want to know what happened?????

Was the Papaya pimped???? LOL

I have to use this line for SOMETHING.. I don't know what.. maybe a card for a gardener!

I don't remember!!!

I think that was the year I only had the one tree which never got fertilized and the rootball never survived the torture. Last year I had many papaya trees and I used a few of them as display plants out at the state fair flower and garden show. They bloomed and set fruit but were not fertilized so they failed to ripen.

What I learned last year was that even if you have plants that are 'bisexual' (male and female flowers on the same plant) the first 6-10 flowers that develop will be only female. The female/male flowers combined won't show up til later when the tree is just about done blooming. So you have to have trees at different ages or a frost free fall/early winter or a greenhouse.

When you see papaya fruit for sale at the grocery store- the really large long fruit are what are known as Mexican style even though they may come from any tropical country. The short pear shaped fruit are called Hawaiian style even though they can come from other countries besides Hawaii. Its the Hawaiian style that has a 66% chance of having both male and female flowers on the same tree.

Dammm, thought our Jeff was back til I noticed the date on the subject.
I did email him a couple months ago urging him to come post amongst friends. He'll find his way back eventually, I hope.

Thanks for speaking up, Dottie - I've been meaning to ask about Jeff's absence. I lurked for a long time before I joined and started posting and he was one of my favorite posters here. Hope he'll come back!

As for this thread - this is just sooooo rich! Kudos to everybody for the smiles !

He posted a while back saying that he wasn't gone for good, just busy with other things.

Thanks John for the update... If & When I make the card w/this saying.. I will be sure to post it for you to see! LOL