Mike T and Adam thank you I was hoping it was a bi aussie Steven we are out of luck rooster dont lay eggs
Hi Mike,
I am actually quite happy with a male papaya...never had one in the orchard before 
At Least he will help to pollinate them ladies
But if you are planning on growing papaya seedlings you really should cull the males. Better to pollinate any females with hermaphrodites.
I agree, if you have hermaphrodites as pollinators and NO males around, the seeds from the fruit will NOT come up male. also elongated fruit come from hermaphrodite trees, and the rounder ones are from female trees. its best to use seeds from the elongated fruit.
hermaphrodites trees are more productive, giving more Kg per tree because the elongated fruit fit better up the trunk and hollow cavity is smaller.
you can assure good seeds, by bagging a hermaphrodite flower so that is self pollinates, and this way you will get seeds with the same characteristics of original tree from the fruit produced from that flower. of course all the above mentioned may not be true for some hybrid varieties, which may revert back to one of the parents, which doesn't necessarily mean it will be a bad fruit, only that it may not have exactly the same traits.
