Recently a local garden center here in Gilbert AZ (phoenix) I came across a
beautiful Papaya tree that was growing in a static garden within the center.
I asked about it and was told the following by the caretaker...
He propagated it from seed he got from a fruit he picked up at the grocery
store, it was about a year old. (3 trunks were 2-5 inches in diameter,
approx 4-6 height). He also told me that this was propagated indoors , but
if the entire process was done out side the plant would more than tolerate
the heat here in the summer as long as it began its life outside.
So, I promptly stopped by the local supermarket and picked up a very ripe
Mexican papaya( which looks from pictures to be pretty close to what I saw
in the garden center). I cut it open and removed the seeds from 3/4 of it,
and washed them, those I put in a open container and left them outside to
dry. The remaining 1/4 of the fruit with seeds(probably 50 give or take) I
planted in a spot in my backyard that has irrigation as a test about 10 days
ago, no signs of anything yet...

I did notice, later that the store bought papaya had been "irradiated". My
thought immediately was that these seeds were shot from the start.

Any other thoughts?
Thanks
Brandon

If the fruit was irradiated, most likely most of the seeds are sterile but a
few may still germinate. Irradiating seeds is one method used to induce
genetic mutation but it also induces a high percentage of sterility.


Brandon wrote in message
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Recently a local garden center here in Gilbert AZ (phoenix) I came across
a
beautiful Papaya tree that was growing in a static garden within the
center.
I asked about it and was told the following by the caretaker...
He propagated it from seed he got from a fruit he picked up at the grocery
store, it was about a year old. (3 trunks were 2-5 inches in diameter,
approx 4-6 height). He also told me that this was propagated indoors ,
but
if the entire process was done out side the plant would more than tolerate
the heat here in the summer as long as it began its life outside.
So, I promptly stopped by the local supermarket and picked up a very ripe
Mexican papaya( which looks from pictures to be pretty close to what I saw
in the garden center). I cut it open and removed the seeds from 3/4 of
it,
and washed them, those I put in a open container and left them outside to
dry. The remaining 1/4 of the fruit with seeds(probably 50 give or take) I
planted in a spot in my backyard that has irrigation as a test about 10
days
ago, no signs of anything yet...

I did notice, later that the store bought papaya had been "irradiated".
My
thought immediately was that these seeds were shot from the start.

Any other thoughts?
Thanks
Brandon

The irradiated part is a very low dose as it is ment to kill a virus that the
fruit carrys and can spread to other papays. Even the ones that come from Hawaii
are done that way. They also need a good amount of water. I grew a seedling in
Hawaii and it came up in a section that got about an inch of water every other
day. It also takes TWO of them to get fruit too.


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"Brandon" wrote in message
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Recently a local garden center here in Gilbert AZ (phoenix) I came across a
beautiful Papaya tree that was growing in a static garden within the center.
I asked about it and was told the following by the caretaker...
He propagated it from seed he got from a fruit he picked up at the grocery
store, it was about a year old. (3 trunks were 2-5 inches in diameter,
approx 4-6 height). He also told me that this was propagated indoors , but
if the entire process was done out side the plant would more than tolerate
the heat here in the summer as long as it began its life outside.
So, I promptly stopped by the local supermarket and picked up a very ripe
Mexican papaya( which looks from pictures to be pretty close to what I saw
in the garden center). I cut it open and removed the seeds from 3/4 of it,
and washed them, those I put in a open container and left them outside to
dry. The remaining 1/4 of the fruit with seeds(probably 50 give or take) I
planted in a spot in my backyard that has irrigation as a test about 10 days
ago, no signs of anything yet...

I did notice, later that the store bought papaya had been "irradiated". My
thought immediately was that these seeds were shot from the start.

Any other thoughts?
Thanks
Brandon




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