Tropical Zone Gardening: Papaya 101 "My Experiences", 0 by rjuddharrison

rjuddharrison wrote:
Yes, in fact the tree/plant is hollow inside. If it should freeze, I've read that cutting the top of the tree off and then stopping up the trunk with something (since it is hollow) and the tree has better chances of coming back. I've tried this a couple of times without success. I think it might be definition of "cutting off the top" as I've cut some of them in half, and they came back. I decided not to do that on the oldest tree for which I'm glad as it came back on it's own. The very tip top of it rotted, but grew 3 other tops instead.

Actually the picture is posted in this thread
http://davesgarden.com/community/forums/p.php?pid=4025221

Here is what it looks like now...actually looked like there were 4 tops to it..