The Papaya Tree After the Freeze

This year, we have a very mild winter, I have a big hope that some of my papayas fruits will ripen before freeze and I'm right, 2 papayas has been have orange blush at their skin, so I picked them and wrap it with paper bag. a week later while I check it, they all covering with some kind of white fungus, yuck.

3 days after I picked them, freeze kill those trees ! 

Here's the Trees before freeze

And here's the Tress few days later after freeze

I planting the trees too close to the wall, and only get the sun from morning until midday, seem like they tried looking for more sunlight, until they are facing that way. My niece said I have a lazy papaya tree :-)

Today, while I planning to pull all of them, I saw a new sprouting at the bottom, yeaaa... they are coming back ! Each tree have more than one stem, aaahmazing.

Wishing I will have a better luck with them this year, crossing my finger ;-)

Another tropical plants who's surprisingly back to life after I'm forgot to save them from freeze last winter are :
1. Two years old avocado seedling
2. Bougainvillea
3. One year old Angel Trumpet cutting
4. Paper flower vine
5. Kangkong (asian vegetable)

The other's who's not survive:
1. Double Layer Pink Hibiscus
2. Red  and Pink Mandeville vine

Still keep watering them with hope they'll be back to me

Papaya Flowers

I grew up where papaya trees growing every where and never know before that papaya have 3 type of flowers: female, male and bisex/hermaphrodite.
Female n Male flowers will not in the same tree, so it's means that you should planting more than 1 tree with hope you will have a couple trees for fruiting.

So, on August last year, I'm start my papaya seedling, the fruit came from our local grocery, I planted 3 seeds and save the rest of them.
Right now the trees in bloom, I'm so excited to found out that 3 of them have hermaphrodite and few male flowers. They have a 2-4 babies each and the biggest one about 5x3", yeaah !

Hermaphrodite Flower

Bisex Flower

Male Flower

Papaya fruit all year long, as long as the temperature warm enough, they'll keep flowering and fruiting. If the temperature drop too much, they'll stop flowering and will start flowering again soon after the temperature back warm again.

From my own experience with my others tropical fruit (like mango and wax apple, ), if the temperature drop or too much watering (lots of rain), before the fruits ripen, the fruits will get bigger but tasteless. I hope my papaya fruits will have enough warm weather until they're ripen...

I'll start new seedling soon for next year crop.

Tips from my parents, if your trees only have male flowers, a long thin stalk with several small flowers in cluster, don't pull them off, instead cut of the top, in most case the new grow will have bisex flowers and few male flowers.