My Dwarf Papaya is Giving Fruits
By Thelma
@thelme55 (76476)
Germany
October 8, 2017 7:11am CST
Yay! Another fruit seeds that I have planted last April in my tropical garden is giving fruits. My papaya plant is giving delicious fruits. That is a good news.
The bad news is, I am not there to eat my papaya fruits.
Actually, I didn't plant the papaya seeds because we already have papayas in my garden. I threw the seeds in my selfmade compost bin last March. One day when I was digging my compost bin, I saw a small papaya plant in the side of the compost. I didn't want it to grow big in the compost and so I transfered this to the side path in going to my house, near my guava tree.
When I left home for Germany, the tree was still small. I didn't know that it was a dwarf one. Well, I remember that I bought a small ripe papaya for my fruit salad in an open market and threw the seeds in the compost bin.
Today, I asked my cousin if the newly planted papaya is growing well. She said, "yes, it has and we have eaten the first ripe fruits. Auntie, they were so delicious. How I wish you are here to devour them." BTW, my cousin always calls me Auntie since she was a child.
The photo is my dwarf papaya bearing fruits. It was taken by my cousin this afternoon.
Thanks for reading. How about you? Have you planted a fruit tree? Enjoy your Sunday fellow Mylotters. God bless us All!
The bad news is, I am not there to eat my papaya fruits.
Actually, I didn't plant the papaya seeds because we already have papayas in my garden. I threw the seeds in my selfmade compost bin last March. One day when I was digging my compost bin, I saw a small papaya plant in the side of the compost. I didn't want it to grow big in the compost and so I transfered this to the side path in going to my house, near my guava tree.
When I left home for Germany, the tree was still small. I didn't know that it was a dwarf one. Well, I remember that I bought a small ripe papaya for my fruit salad in an open market and threw the seeds in the compost bin.
Today, I asked my cousin if the newly planted papaya is growing well. She said, "yes, it has and we have eaten the first ripe fruits. Auntie, they were so delicious. How I wish you are here to devour them." BTW, my cousin always calls me Auntie since she was a child.
The photo is my dwarf papaya bearing fruits. It was taken by my cousin this afternoon.
Thanks for reading. How about you? Have you planted a fruit tree? Enjoy your Sunday fellow Mylotters. God bless us All!18 people like this
19 responses
@prashu228 (37526)
• India
9 Oct 17
Wow that's really good. The fruits are really big. Last we planted papaya plants they did not bear any fruits..
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@epiffanie (11326)
• Australia
9 Oct 17
Oh! I can't wait to go home to taste some of my papaya fruits as well.. I must plant dwarf papayas .. ours are tall ones ..
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@cahaya1983 (11121)
• Malaysia
8 Oct 17
I don't have a yard since I live in an apartment now but my parents planted fruit trees in their orchard, and they are producing quite well! I hope you get to taste the papayas one day. 
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@ilocosboy (45157)
• Philippines
8 Oct 17
Look at that, the two fruits are getting orange and that is the best time to harvest and eat the papaya with the vinegar and a little bit salt on it.
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@ilocosboy (45157)
• Philippines
9 Oct 17
Well your photo just shows how craveful it is
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@thelme55 (76476)
• Germany
9 Oct 17
@ilocosboy so true. When my cousin sent me this photo, I was craving.
@thelme55 (76476)
• Germany
8 Oct 17
OMG! You make me drool mentioning the vinegar and salt for eating the not so ripe papaya @ilocosboy
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@allen0187 (58444)
• Philippines
9 Oct 17
Those fruits look great.
Care to share what you put in your compost bin?
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@hereandthere (45651)
• Philippines
9 Oct 17
certified organic, too! i didn't know there are dwarf papayas.
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@hereandthere (45651)
• Philippines
10 Oct 17
@thelme55 it's also good you noticed the plant inside the compost bin and took it out to replant elsewhere and now it's bearing fruit.
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@thelme55 (76476)
• Germany
9 Oct 17
Yes, it is organic @hereandthere. Me either until I saw the papaya in the open market and bought it. That was where I got the seeds.
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@Letranknight2015 (51523)
• Philippines
18 Oct 17
Wow you are so lucky, I envy you for having such a good grown small papayas. We always have papaya plant but they always failed to bear fruits.
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@thelme55 (76476)
• Germany
19 Oct 17
Yes, I am indeed so lucky @Letranknight2015. Maybe your papaya is a male one that is why it doesn't give fruits.
@Srbageldog (7716)
• United States
9 Oct 17
Too bad you aren't there to enjoy them! I have never planted a fruit tree that I can recall, although we had many fruit trees in our yard when I was a child. I enjoyed picking oranges or pomegranates right off the tree and enjoying them as a snack. My grandparents had peach trees, plum trees, and cherry trees, so we could always pluck our snack as we played outside at their house as well.
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@RasmaSandra (73407)
• Daytona Beach, Florida
8 Oct 17
Looks like delicious fruit. Too bad you cannot enjoy but at least your relatives can. Here in northern Europe no much fruit grows well mostly apples and pears.
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@thelme55 (76476)
• Germany
8 Oct 17
Yes, my relatives have harvested the fruits that I have planted when I was not there and that is good @RasmaSandra. So true that is why apples and pears are cheap to buy here in Europe compared to Asia.
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@hereandthere (45651)
• Philippines
9 Oct 17
@JustBhem my mother believes the orange papaya is more effective than the yellow one.
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@TiarasOceanView (70035)
• United States
8 Oct 17
That sounds so nice..I had only ever had a papaya once in my life Thelma.
Yes God bless us all
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@ridingbet (66857)
• Philippines
16 Oct 17
i like ripe papayas. there was a papaya tree right outside my room and i can even see the fruits. however, the elders said that is bad luck, so the tree was cut off.
the unripe papayas are also good to munch especially if dipped in vinegar.
@Behindtheguitarbar (2831)
• Guangdong, China
8 Oct 17
They grew very well! But aren't they tropical fruits?
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