This was least expected / myLot

India

January 3, 2017 4:45am CST

This papaya tree was not doing well at all and I did not expect it to survive. But instead it has produced a healthy papaya which will soon be ready for plucking. I am not sure it will yield again. I will now give it extra attention. Any surprises in your garden?

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Judy Evans

@JudyEv (325594)

• Rockingham, Australia

3 Jan 17

It looks a very big fruit. You will have to be kind to it now. They say you should talk to your plants. :)

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@allknowing (130066)

• India

4 Jan 17

I have heard that about talkng to plants and I do it often. .

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Judy Evans

@JudyEv (325594)

• Rockingham, Australia

4 Jan 17

@allknowing Do you think it helps?

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M.-L.

@MALUSE (69413)

• Germany

3 Jan 17

Yes, the first snow of the winter season! :-)

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@allknowing (130066)

• India

3 Jan 17

The tree is so weak and yet it has yielded a healthy looking papaya

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Sreekala

@Sreekala (34312)

• India

3 Jan 17

I think papaya tree can survive this way and I had seen it many times. In Kerala plenty of papaya trees around and no one has any interest on it so the ripened fruits become food for squirrels and birds.

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Sreekala

@Sreekala (34312)

• India

3 Jan 17

@allknowing Yes, I understood, I meant, I had seen many papaya trees destroyed in the middle and it got a regrowth from the middle and got fruits too.

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@allknowing (130066)

• India

3 Jan 17

If you look at the picture you will see the tree is skinny. I have robust trees and yes papayas do not need much attention.

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aubrey

@averygirl72 (37716)

• Philippines

3 Jan 17

The papaya looks healthy. We also have a papaya tree like that. It's not doing well but it survive and is bearing fruits now

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Resky Yandi

@reskyyandi (3616)

• Indonesia

3 Jan 17

Enjo your papaya

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Xavier Bage

@franxav (13601)

• India

3 Jan 17

Healthy child of the sickly mother! Perhaps the mother has given all her nutrients to the baby.

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@allknowing (130066)

• India

3 Jan 17

I thought of that. The tree has its all to the baby

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Resky Yandi

@reskyyandi (3616)

• Indonesia

3 Jan 17

At my garden. I have mango tree and Papaya tree too. How about you??

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@allknowing (130066)

• India

3 Jan 17

I have several fruit trees - mangoes, jack fruit, cherries, figs, hog plum sapota, star fruit, star goose berry, papaya, egg fruit.

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@allknowing (130066)

• India

3 Jan 17

@reskyyandi They yield at different times.

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Resky Yandi

@reskyyandi (3616)

• Indonesia

3 Jan 17

@allknowing Wow. You have a lot of fruit trees.

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Marlina

@marlina (154166)

• Canada

3 Jan 17

First time ever I see a papaya tree and a fruit in it

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@allknowing (130066)

• India

4 Jan 17

Papayas grow abundantly in this region.

Carol Brown

@blitzfrick (2890)

• United States

3 Jan 17

It's winter, so no surprises. No, wait, some bulbs I planted last year are pushing through the straw mulch. What are they thinking? Baby, it's cold outside!

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@allknowing (130066)

• India

4 Jan 17

That must be a pretty sight a sight that gardeners just wait to see. Poor bulbs. Hope they wont get back seeing how cold it is around