SoCal Papaya sources?

[greenbean88]

So I am in the middle of planting out a section of my yard with a lot of Banana's and Papaya's but I am having some trouble finding local sources that carry different types of Papaya. Currently I have Mexican and Solo. Does anyone have any for sale or trade, or know of any Nursery that carries some good types of Papaya.

Thank's
Erik

[wslau]

You can buy seeds and grow yourself. 

http://www.shop.alohaseed.com/main.sc;jsessionid=291F74DE4CF6173133741E715BA2D241.p3plqscsfapp003

[marklee]

If you get down to San Diego go to Ong's Nursery, he has some nice Thai varieties. I think Exotica in Vista has other varieties also.

[RodneyS]

I grew my healthy Sunrise papaya from seed obtained via home garden packet from the University of Hawaii at Manoa seed bank.
Packets are $1 and shipping is $1

https://www.ctahr.hawaii.edu/seed/seeds.asp

[CA Hockey]

Papaya tree nursery has dwarf Brazilian

[pineislander]

You can buy seeds and grow yourself. 

http://www.shop.alohaseed.com/main.sc;jsessionid=291F74DE4CF6173133741E715BA2D241.p3plqscsfapp003

I second that suggestion and the vendor. Seed is very well packaged in foil. Germination in 2 weeks, a month or so to transplanting.
Every tree of Red Lady was either female or hermaphrodite. I saved 1/2 of the seeds for 9 months and got the same germination, even in cool weather. I'll be potting up the seedlings today.

[Brebarian]

I have also had good luck germinating seeds from Aloha Seed. They will have the biggest selection by far.

I'd also check with Alex from Papaya Tree Nursery. It's a drive but he usually has a pretty good, albeit small, selection of papaya plants.

[Pasca]

I second recommendation to grow from seeds.  I too have ordered from Aloha Seeds.  You get more variety and the seeds germinate and grow well in Southern California.

[joehewitt]

The farm store nursery at Cal Poly Pomona always has a lot of good sized Papayas for sale whenever I've been there:

https://www.cpp.edu/~farmstore/nursery-specials.shtml

[greenbean88]

Thanks for all the good suggestions I will have to due some research on germinating Papaya seeds and order some. I was at Alex's place a few weeks ago and the only Papaya plants he had for sale was that Dwarf Brazilian for $140 that is more than I wanted to spend on  a single plant. I have not been to ONG Nursery in a while I will give them a call soon.

[swapnil.tailor]

Can we order seeds from cal poly to ship it to North California?

[pineislander]

You can buy seeds and grow yourself. 

http://www.shop.alohaseed.com/main.sc;jsessionid=291F74DE4CF6173133741E715BA2D241.p3plqscsfapp003

I second that suggestion and the vendor. Seed is very well packaged in foil. Germination in 2 weeks, a month or so to transplanting.
Every tree of Red Lady was either female or hermaphrodite. I saved 1/2 of the seeds for 9 months and got the same germination, even in cool weather. I'll be potting up the seedlings today.

Thanks for all the good suggestions I will have to due some research on germinating Papaya seeds and order some. I was at Alex's place a few weeks ago and the only Papaya plants he had for sale was that Dwarf Brazilian for $140 that is more than I wanted to spend on  a single plant. I have not been to ONG Nursery in a while I will give them a call soon.

Whoa, that is a price rape for a non-grafted seed grown plant no harder to grow than a tomato plant. 2 weeks ago I planted seeds into a tray and today I up-potted 50 plants into 2 x 2 inch pots. We even had a cold front with temps down to 39 during germination.
I would have said those Red Lady's in 1 gallons in a few weeks should be worth $5.00 ea.

[simon_grow]

Anyone know what varieties are the sweetest when grown in SoCal?

Simon

[RodneyS]

Sunrise is pretty sweet