Broken papaya!!! Can it still grow?!?!
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puglvr1
9 years agoIt is "possible" several years ago during a tropical storm it snapped one of the branches that was laden with papaya fruits... the strong winds and the weight made it break. I cut off the branch at an angle and several weeks later it regrew new leaves and looked like this a few months later...
Don't give up on it yet...NO guarantees but worth trying :o)
beto_borjas
9 years agoRelated Discussions
Broken neck stem tuber, fall aparted clump, do I still grow them?
Comments (3)If you look carefully at the tuber, you should see some tiny hair-like roots coming out of one end. That is the bottom. Sure, plant them in a pot and see whether they grow. I am just now potting some up, as they are just now starting to break dormancy. I agree, it is hard to tell the top and bottom of some. I also purchased some which fell apart. Actually when I started looking at them, I realized fairly quickly that there were several tubers wrapped around each other. I actually slowly twisted them apart, and got potentially more plants for the price of one. Now that is a good thing. Not all tubers will produce plants as some are there merely to store food. There needs to be an eye, and some eyes are very hard to see at first. I examined one just yesterday, and thought that there would probably be no plant coming from this particularly huge tuber (10" long). This morning, I can see the eye has swollen, and I know that I will have a beautiful red cactus style dahlia this summer which will grow to about 4 feet. Yahoo ! That is one I really wanted to save and multiply. Here is a small tuber, somewhat similar on both ends, but there are roots on one. These have developed over the past few weeks in a moist mixture. Originally, one could hardly tell the difference. That is why I lay it horizontally to help me determine where the roots are. Once planted the top end will definitely be up. Here is what a typical dahlia from the package looks like. Notice the stem. As you can see, there are many eyes on this one. Some folks like to cut off all but one eye. I like to get my exacto knife out and split them, making more plants. Read up about that first though. Here is a long tuber. One can hardly see the difference. If one looks VERY closely at the right hand side, one sees the eye starting to develop. Here is a closeup of the developing eye....starting to leaf. Isn't Mother Nature wonderful?...See MoreGrowing Papaya Tree in Socal...3rd year
Comments (21)i see one flower, bottom left arrow the rest look like leaves to me. its real hard to tell until they are large enough to see the difference. Male usually hangs down from a stem. females have a wider bud. Herm's look like females, but , sometimes a bit more narrow Mangodog is on spot about them hating cold-wet feet too. will quickly kill them. I use chicken poo. its high in nitrogen sometimes i use a high N fertilizer with micronutes they respond real good to both. - Mangodog are you sure that is a TR Hovey ? The fruit is hanging down on stems which means it was a male flower. (supposedly) and now a male fruit. I looked at other pics of TR hoveys they are only supposed to get 6-8 ft tall. mine is only 4ft (but still young) you might have something different there. https://logeesblog.wordpress.com/category/carica-papaya-t-r-hovey/ Here is a link that might be useful: TR hovey...See MoreNeed help with my papaya trees both growing and fruiting
Comments (2)So I should move them back into full sun? Also, is the chicken manure + wood chips a reasonable fertilizer? This is actually the first time I really fertilized them, since I kept adding compost soil from my compost bin when the soil level dropped. I did mix the soil with lava rocks to help with drainage and what not. So full sun and maybe a little less water? We actually had about three weeks of rain here, I wonder if that is part of the problem?...See MoreWho grows papaya in Houston area?
Comments (10)I love growing papayas, not to fond of the taste, but I still enjoy their nutrient enriched fruit, not to mention their beauty. I live up here in New Caney and have a garden of the following: edible red banana (Musa zebrina), red banana (Ensete maurelil), jackfruit, lemon meringue mango, pineapple, papaya, pride of barbados, tamarinds, purple passionfruit, and trying yellow passionfruit from the snippets of the wild vine growing at my college, and a couple others but those are my favorites. The papaya will be fine, I have maradol papaya trees. Personally, if they're about 1-2 1/2ft. tall then they're only about 5-8 months old. If they're still in that range then keep them in a pot until about February when any questionable frost might be done and over with. Then plant them in the ground, I'd say against some building on the sunniest side of the building. The wind will seriously mess these plants up. Once planted, come, roughly, April they'll start producing fruit all the way through, again roughly, September-mid October. I'd use a ladder unless you're a ten foot tall giant haha. Don't wait till they fall to the ground, they ripen pretty fast, especially during our summers. You have to remember our summers do they get hotter than in tropical climates because those climates have the coastal winds to keep it decent, not 115 degrees like us. Not always, but sometimes it doesn't matter if you chop these guys down. They have a tendency to act like bananas, just grow back, then again, not always. I broke one by accident once and popped its' top half in the ground and it winded up growing back and the other half grew a new tree. Then I tried it again and they both died, so it's a gamble. Good luck to you, and I strongly recommend growing a jackfruit or mango, the mango is slow but beautiful; not to mention, they both taste amazing! -Don't forget to cover during a freeze!...See Moretropicbreezent
9 years agomyamberdog
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9 years agogreenman62
9 years agoi actually "top" my papaya plants sometimes. i cut off the top 3-4 inches on a plant , usually wait till it is 4-5 ft tall.
it can help keep them dwarf/short.
it can also make them sprout more than one shoot that produce flowers/fruit.
you really dont want too many "branches" or shoots producing fruit though. for one they fruit are heavy and can make the tree bend or topple when it gets bigger.
also, the roots have to be able to supply enough minerals and water to the new fruits.as far as the top part.
i agree give it a shot, but ive tried 4-5 times and failed each time.
ive heard others trying and failing,
even though i have heard it is possible.But, i also agree that they grow so fast from seed that i dont even fool with cuttings, i just always keep 10-15 seedlings around, and have several plants between 2 and 5 ft in pots
MohammadLawati
9 years agogreenman62
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8 years agomaryf123abc
8 years agoThis is amazing! I'm hoping somebody could help me with the issue I'm having with my papaya trees it's been so difficult relearning how to grow particular plants since I moved from Southern California to Sacramento I need help with my papaya trees I brought them in because it can get a little chilly up here but by looking at these leaves can you help?
maryf123abc
8 years agoThe second tree I obviously took the side branches off because they were wilted really bad. I'm just trying to keep my babies a live
greenman62
8 years agomaryf123abc
8 years agostanofh 10a Hayward,Ca S.F. bay area
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