Tropicals & Tender Perennials: Seedling Papayas bloom., 0 by raydio

raydio wrote:
This spring, I planted some papaya seeds that a friend gave me last year. I think it was very late May or (more likely) early June. I know I waited late to plant them because I wanted to start them when it was pretty warm. I also planted some Tithonia seeds (which never showed). But the ones I thought were the Tithonia turned out to be the papaya and I was thinking the papayas never showed. You got all that, right? ;-)))

Anywho, I had read that papaya can bloom in as little as 11 months, but here we are only *four* months later: bud set!!!

I know I won't be seeing any fruit and all the 3 dozen plants I have will perish this winter, save the one potted up, but here are the remarkably early papaya buds--