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My Honey Jar went dormant, but is now vigorously pushing new growth, too, like it was Spring. Unlike your Sugarcane, mine is currently staying dormant.
Last night I put the Rat Zapper next to the papaya plant and this morning found a zapped rat. I'll keep putting it out at night to see if there are more.
Strange because this is the first time that any of the backyard critters have gone after the papayas.
Exotica nursery in vista will have lemon zest and sweet tart. I got the last coconut cream from them two months a go. I know they can order more.
I experienced some cracking of my fruit as well, especially during the heat wave. I try to keep the moisture level consistent in order to eliminate one of the many possible causes of the cracking.
Simon
Very nice Sam. I love dr white too.
It can be from uneven moisture levels, lack of Calcium or other minerals, changes in weather such as going from heat waves to cold weather and also from fertilizing at improper times. If you randomly fertilize, the fertilizers can cause rapid expansion of the fruit which can split the Fruit.
You may also notice splitting of fruit when trees go from fruiting to vegetative growth. Do you have a picture of your tree?
Simon
Probably extra watering along with the heat we got a few weeks ago.
All of my longans turned out fine, I really haven't watered them much.
I bought three varieties of K-1, C.Charlie and Bruni, and it was free shipping.
It was delivered to me for free. The cutting is quite large and looks healthy. I bought it in August.
I have. My favorite from what I have is American Beauty. Nice big fruit
I bought many different types of cutting here http://www.spicyexotics.com
Keep both of them, in my experience, the strongest is the clone, and if the seeds come up mono, it may be because the nucellar seedling outcompeted all the other ones. Although occasionally you'll get a strong zygote.
Warren is correct. I have planted many coconut cream seeds and they are poly
Is your papaya in the picture called tainung 1? Is it sweet ?
For 9b zone from my trials (I am in zone 7b-8a), Thai papaya is the strongest (the strongest is Babaco, but it's not real papaya). I say this because I collected some seeds from northern Thailand where temperatures in the winter drop to 6-10C (40-50F). It will not die when is cold. BUT it needs to be dry. No wet feet. (actually there in 3 months it rains twice). They grow very fast, and make flowers around 1m (3 ft) tall. Hawaii papayas are very sensitive to cold, they root rot fast.
I have another method, I grow them outside in land during the summer then I cut the top off, root it and pot it. New flowers start close to the ground like 30cm (1ft), the root system is very shallow, and no more tap root, it's a method they use in Thailand.
Sure you can use mountain papaya as a rootstock for normal papaya ( I am going to make this soon and on other Vasconcellea speacies, I already successfully grafted papaya on babaco).
This is the papaya in Thailand, they weight 2-3kg, no virus present (should you want some seeds let me know, I carefully collected them and removed the sarcotesta individually, germination is 90%) :
and here is in my greenhouse, this is only 5 months old from seed:
Nice! My babaco roots rotted out. Papaya, like my previous Red Lady works great here. Right now the 'Linda' variety I have is the most vigorous. I am not really working for cold or PRSV tolerance here, just something with vigor. I planted some Vasconcellea pubescens X quercifolia and a couple Jacaratia mexicana that haven't come up yet. I lost my seed tray of the Vasconcellea palandensis but that would be a good candidate.
I'm late to the game. wait for me guys. mine are coming in the mail. Hope soon.....
