Beginner Gardening: help to germinte papaya seed and red pepper seeds, 1 by

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Gotta chime in here a bit since I'm growing and harvesting papaya right now. I got the seeds from a store bought fruit and tried my luck. Out of 10 seedlings only one survived and grew to maturity, which is not rare with papaya.
While it's true that you need a female and a male tree to bear fruit, there's also a hermaphroditic tree, which is self fertile. That is mostly the hawaiian solo papaya, not the mexican large fruited one. You can see when the tree flowers what sex they have because the flowers have different shapes.
You can protect the fruit with a net, so the can't be attacked by insects, but me, having had not the time to do this and here I am eating my own papaya.
The climate here in South FL is great for growing papaya.
And Julie, I use seeds from the store bought papaya and put them in seed starter mix soil or other soil and they will sprout with a germination rate of 90%. If the seeds are older you'll have to wait longer and have way less germination rate.
Good luck with your seeds and don't give up if the first try doesn't work out, try again, you'll succeed!