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Joseph_humus wrote:
This papaya tree or plant whatever you like,,reached a heighth of over 15 feet in approximately one year and 3 months, as did the others. The others are pure female, bearing much larger fruit. This one has small fruit the size of a medium potato. There are over 40-70 fruits on it at any given time, with many seeds inside. It actually grew faster than the others and bigger. The trunk is very thick and hard for a papaya. It seems to like this SE location of morning and noon sunshine.
MY QUESTION IS: Is this a male plant with a recessive female gene? I have read extensively on the subject and understand that there are at least 3 sexes, male , female and hermaphrodite. I thought I read somewhere that there can be up to 5 different sexual variations. Each having significant male female ratio,,,(dominant female, recessive male), (dominant male recessive female), pure male, pure female, and hermaphrodite. This example of smaller fruits with small dark yellow flowers close to trunk,, I have never seen before. I started them all from seeds obtained from grocery store bought papayas.