Tropicals & Tender Perennials: Papaya trees, 0 by wallaby1

wallaby1 wrote:
Oh no Rj, if you are 'everboard' then you are not IN the boat, but swimming like heck in the water trying to keep afloat!

Australia is now a long ago memory for me, tried going back in 1989, but that's a long story, life takes over. My parents had an extra abode right up top in Queensland near Cairns, my Dad like it, but at 30C (86F) in winter at times maybe a teensy bit warm, like Tx! A lot of jungle there, big country, I never did get there, only to Brisbane as a stop off on the boat. Funny though, the internet keeps me so busy in winter I don't mind it so much now, talk about air conditioning cost? Try over £100 for 4 weeks coal, and that's cheap. We use 6 bags a fortnight, £8.45 a bag. About $1.75 to £1, thats $175 in 4 wks. I suppose parts of America must cost more, the very low temps they get.

Yes I did notice how crowded your back garden was, that's what tropical effects are about, and where there is another plant wanting a home then there is ALWAYS a space somewhere. I DO envy your papayas, NOT FAIR, but I WILL attempt to grow some!

Now who's lucky then, put your order in hey? OK for some who ALREADY have an Iochroma cyaneum, I STILL haven't heard from them, might have a look to see if it's fixed.

I have visions of that juicy papaya trickling down your chin, No fair.

raggins, you just have to watch those sneaky papaya seeds, they are secretly encoded to trick you! Not too sure about other fruits either, just be careful. If you buy a plant that is on it's way out, yes tempting, but REMEMBER it WAS on its way out. I learnt that lesson. they are kept in ideal conditions and force fed like ducks for pate de foie, so a change isn't going to help them either. I have grown lots from seed, some will take a year to germinate, but it IS fun, I SAY so, and they are more likely to survive. Just think of that little baby seedling you can nurture, and you brought it into the world. There are hardy palms, Trachycarpus fortuneii to -20C (-4F) when bigger, I grew one from a plug seedling, put in the ground last Autumn, it is really thickening up now, and they say can grow 1' a year when gets going. I bought it in spring 1999, and her she is this December in the freezing cold