My edible skin cold hardy (kinda) Carica papaya sp.

[edric]

After 2 hours at 29.8 degrees F. it was defoliated completely, but kept all it's fruit, Ed

[Eric in Orlando]

Good to see it growing well. I never got any of those seeds to germinate.

 

 

 

 

 

[raimeiken]

been looking for seeds for this papaya. Do you have any seeds to spare?

[edric]

H Eric, send me an PM with your address, and I'll send you a bunch, Ed 

Hi raimeiken, you do the same, and I send you some as well, Ed

[OB Burt]

I got a few plants from your seed, but my plants are quite stunted compared to yours. One plant has fruited and some what defoliated over the winter. Fruit is still

 green, hoping they will ripen when it warms up. Looks like new leaves are starting to form. Afraid I might be too cool due to proximity to the coast. Can't say I've ever seen papayas in Ocean Beach, San Diego.

[raimeiken]

Thanks edric!

 

How old are your trees?

 

 

[RedRabbit]

They look good! I've been meaning to get a papaya, but surprisingly I haven't really seen them for sale. Where did you originally get yours?

[Bennz]

Looks very good!  I'm also very tempted to ask for seeds but alas my frost-free climate (even my USDA 11a microclimate) is probably still too cool to make this realistic. I have had papaya get up to almost mature fruit stage, but they always succumb to root rot in mid-spring after the wet winter. I must try them under plastic again.

 

Is there any reason to suspect this papaya type is cool-tolerant as well as light frost tolerant?  

[edric]

Hi guys, this plant is 34 months old, the birds dropped the seed to the mother plant, as far as I know, I have the only specimen (originally), I have shipped thousands of seeds to every country you can think of, and in New Zealand I sent a gentleman 1000 seeds, and he exclaimed how cold hardy they are, I have seeds for sale on e-bay, if anyone else want's to try there hand, http://www.ebay.com/itm/231912078560?ssPageName=STRK:MESELX:IT&_trksid=p3984.m1555.l2649 Ed

[raimeiken]

Wow, that tree in your ebay listing looks awesome! Was it trained to be multi branched like that? or was it frozen back and grew branches?

 

[edric]

Froze back, Ed