How to Grow Papayas in Containers Indoors – Complete Growing Guide
Ever want to grow your own papaya fruit indoors? You totally can and it isn’t hard at all! With the help of this complete growing guide you will be well on your way …
how important is airflow cause i figure no matter what i do regarding everything else the bastards just go soft at the base and fall over.. its got me obsessed! its the only thing i cant grow! except i have one next to me in straight compost that just defies everything ive ever seem lol
Just curious, how do you know the taste of ‘dirty docks’?
Great video.vi have learned a great deal regarding Papaya. Thank you 😉 More videos please.
I want to grow some to see what they are supposed to taste like
Many years 🤣
can you please make one for growing date palm? it's quite a popular fruit to consume in my region, especially for iftar~ thank you for all your videos, they are very structural and easy to munch.
Can you show how to graft a papaya please?
Thanks
Papaya trees CAN be pruned, and if you want to keep your tree short, they SHOULD be pruned. I have several trees around my property in various configurations. After the 1st year, you'll get suckers growing on the trunk. You can keep your tree short by chopping the trunk at ~3-4ft from the ground. when there's no more chance of frost in early spring. The first time you do this, you won't get fruit that season, but new suckers will grow into multiple trunks. It's like managing an indeterminate tomato plant. Keep one stem/trunk if you want big fruit, or keep multiple stems/trunks if you want higher quantities of smaller sized fruit. I usually keep a single sucker that is growing in whatever direction looks nicest, and use the other suckers as clones via airlayering.
Yep, yep and yep some more…. love papaya… Yummm add lemon and salt😉❤💕
Where can one purchase this plant
They grow great in central and south florida
@MIgarderner. Thank you very much for an informative video.
I had tried and failed multiple time trying to grow papayas from seeds from store brought fruit. I live in the northeast, colder than MI. Two questions:
1) Where do you recommend that we buy the grafted and non-grafted trees, online or brick and mortar? 2) What growing light do you recommend that is not too expensive and where to buy it on sale?
Looking forward to eating REAL papayas in a year or so.
You forgot to mention about gender of the plants, while there are some that are both genders most papaya have separate male and female plants and require at least 1 of each to produce fruit.
I have 4 papayas growing in my back yard and last year they got hit super hard with red spider mites. Lost all the leaves and the tops died. Didn’t even have to cut them back and they shot out new branches from the trunks which currently have fruit so even without cutting them back it is possible to get fruiting branches on papayas. I’m in CA. Low humidity doesn’t seem to bother them much either but strong sun and good drainage is a must. And give them as much heat as you can.
you dont seem to know much about papaya..we get fruit in 9 month,not 18 months!!!and I top them to promote lateral growth..if you tape plastic bag peat moss on the trunk to promote roots,you can cut the tops off and replant them..two plants!
Luke forgot to say grow big or go home
There's no way I'm going out in the freezing weather we have here to prune fruit trees, especially with my back yard being an ice skating rink! However, when we do get a thaw so that my hands won't freeze within the 1st 30 seconds, would you say that paw paw trees are like pears in that they prefer to grow straight up? I pruned my bare root saplings as soon as I planted them to get side growth, and those branches that came off the side went straight up.
Where can I buy a grafted papaya tree like yours?
Pruning depends on the variety. The top of my died off, but produced side shoots.
On my to do list…great video Luke…Cara in Indiana
Hello Luke! So I'm planning my garden for this year and a doubt came up….you say peppers like to be planted together but I want to save seeds from my fruits this year, so the question is..will they cross pollinate ? should i plant them together or separately? same with squash and tomatoes?? thanks!!
Where do you get the stick to graft it and where do you get the Dorf root? Love papaya, I lived in Brazil for 2 years. ..they grow like crazy. We threw the seeds in the back of the house and we got a forest. …so cool. Papaya de Amazon is the best has a redish flesh….yummy. I miss Brazil, best fruits ever!
Papaya? In MI? Crazy. Watching and learning.
Great video Luke but you made one massive mistake and that is papayas grow lateral branches as well but it just takes a while. Being from Jamaica I've seen more papaya trees in one week than most will in a life growing everywhere and they send out lateral branches eventually. The original stem can be cut if strong lateral growth is present to keep the tree shorter. this was also correctly noted by another youtube gardener Rob from Australia.
Omg I love papaya so much!! But yes, the ones at the store taste very bland. Great video!
I don't know Luke. Where I live, papayas grow like weeds and I'm often offered fresh papayas during the summers and I've never encountered one that didn't smell like vomit. I never much liked papayas because, freshly just picked off the plant or not, they are stinky and not the best tasting fruit. Look pretty though and very healthy.
TWO corrections.. you can top a papaya if it gets to tall and it will grow a new flowering stem. #2 if you grow ungrafted papayas you will need MANY plants to grow either male, female, or hermaphrodite trees for pollination. You dont know what your growing until well into its life so you need to grow several if you want one to fruit. Awesome, super easy tree to grow, but definitely not easy to fruit with just one.
Actually I've heard that the papaya plant, once topped, will branch out another or multiple trunks and each trunk will have fruit.
We have 6 Papaya trees in our backyard here in the Philippines and they sometimes fruit at the same time and we end up getting overwhelmed with so many ripe papayas at once.
I get mine from a Mexican store. They dont refrigerate them during shipping so they ripen on the way
with Lime, they taste like fruit loops
I germinated a papaya plant from seeds obtained from the store, but I live in colorado
what are the chances of it surviving and growing?
https://youtu.be/8d1IoPAS7AY how to layer papaya
how important is airflow cause i figure no matter what i do regarding everything else the bastards just go soft at the base and fall over.. its got me obsessed! its the only thing i cant grow! except i have one next to me in straight compost that just defies everything ive ever seem lol
Just curious, how do you know the taste of ‘dirty docks’?
Great video.vi have learned a great deal regarding Papaya.
Thank you 😉
More videos please.
I want to grow some to see what they are supposed to taste like
Many years 🤣
can you please make one for growing date palm? it's quite a popular fruit to consume in my region, especially for iftar~ thank you for all your videos, they are very structural and easy to munch.
Can you show how to graft a papaya please?
Thanks
Papaya trees CAN be pruned, and if you want to keep your tree short, they SHOULD be pruned. I have several trees around my property in various configurations. After the 1st year, you'll get suckers growing on the trunk. You can keep your tree short by chopping the trunk at ~3-4ft from the ground. when there's no more chance of frost in early spring. The first time you do this, you won't get fruit that season, but new suckers will grow into multiple trunks. It's like managing an indeterminate tomato plant. Keep one stem/trunk if you want big fruit, or keep multiple stems/trunks if you want higher quantities of smaller sized fruit. I usually keep a single sucker that is growing in whatever direction looks nicest, and use the other suckers as clones via airlayering.
Yep, yep and yep some more…. love papaya… Yummm add lemon and salt😉❤💕
Where can one purchase this plant
They grow great in central and south florida
@MIgarderner. Thank you very much for an informative video.
I had tried and failed multiple time trying to grow papayas from seeds from store brought fruit.
I live in the northeast, colder than MI.
Two questions:
1) Where do you recommend that we buy the grafted and non-grafted trees, online or brick and mortar?
2) What growing light do you recommend that is not too expensive and where to buy it on sale?
Looking forward to eating REAL papayas in a year or so.
You forgot to mention about gender of the plants, while there are some that are both genders most papaya have separate male and female plants and require at least 1 of each to produce fruit.
I have 4 papayas growing in my back yard and last year they got hit super hard with red spider mites. Lost all the leaves and the tops died. Didn’t even have to cut them back and they shot out new branches from the trunks which currently have fruit so even without cutting them back it is possible to get fruiting branches on papayas. I’m in CA. Low humidity doesn’t seem to bother them much either but strong sun and good drainage is a must. And give them as much heat as you can.
you dont seem to know much about papaya..we get fruit in 9 month,not 18 months!!!and I top them to promote lateral growth..if you tape plastic bag peat moss on the trunk to promote roots,you can cut the tops off and replant them..two plants!
Luke forgot to say grow big or go home
There's no way I'm going out in the freezing weather we have here to prune fruit trees, especially with my back yard being an ice skating rink! However, when we do get a thaw so that my hands won't freeze within the 1st 30 seconds, would you say that paw paw trees are like pears in that they prefer to grow straight up? I pruned my bare root saplings as soon as I planted them to get side growth, and those branches that came off the side went straight up.
Where can I buy a grafted papaya tree like yours?
Pruning depends on the variety. The top of my died off, but produced side shoots.
On my to do list…great video Luke…Cara in Indiana
Hello Luke! So I'm planning my garden for this year and a doubt came up….you say peppers like to be planted together but I want to save seeds from my fruits this year, so the question is..will they cross pollinate ? should i plant them together or separately? same with squash and tomatoes?? thanks!!
Where do you get the stick to graft it and where do you get the Dorf root? Love papaya, I lived in Brazil for 2 years. ..they grow like crazy. We threw the seeds in the back of the house and we got a forest. …so cool. Papaya de Amazon is the best has a redish flesh….yummy. I miss Brazil, best fruits ever!
Papaya? In MI? Crazy. Watching and learning.
Great video Luke but you made one massive mistake and that is papayas grow lateral branches as well but it just takes a while. Being from Jamaica I've seen more papaya trees in one week than most will in a life growing everywhere and they send out lateral branches eventually. The original stem can be cut if strong lateral growth is present to keep the tree shorter. this was also correctly noted by another youtube gardener Rob from Australia.
Omg I love papaya so much!! But yes, the ones at the store taste very bland. Great video!
I don't know Luke. Where I live, papayas grow like weeds and I'm often offered fresh papayas during the summers and I've never encountered one that didn't smell like vomit. I never much liked papayas because, freshly just picked off the plant or not, they are stinky and not the best tasting fruit. Look pretty though and very healthy.
TWO corrections.. you can top a papaya if it gets to tall and it will grow a new flowering stem. #2 if you grow ungrafted papayas you will need MANY plants to grow either male, female, or hermaphrodite trees for pollination. You dont know what your growing until well into its life so you need to grow several if you want one to fruit. Awesome, super easy tree to grow, but definitely not easy to fruit with just one.
Actually I've heard that the papaya plant, once topped, will branch out another or multiple trunks and each trunk will have fruit.
We have 6 Papaya trees in our backyard here in the Philippines and they sometimes fruit at the same time and we end up getting overwhelmed with so many ripe papayas at once.
I get mine from a Mexican store. They dont refrigerate them during shipping so they ripen on the way