Kate from Chiefland writes :
“ I have grown huge papaya trees , this year the yield came very early and now I have at least two 12 yield , the heavy almost 10 inches . My fear is ( like many time before ) the yield will not ripen on the tree diagram before the first icing . One class I had boatload of vast immature papaya that I picked due to frost and they just rotted . My question is are there any tricks I can habituate to get the yield to mature on the tree in the next month / before the first frost ? ”
fruit melon tree trees getting attain by frost at just the faulty time ? Yeah , I ’ve been there .
Note the Christmas lights . That ’s an old geographical zone - pushing trick , but even that AND the trees being planted by a in the south - facing wall was not enough to save the fruit .
Papaya really ca n’t take the cold . And though they ’re tight - originate “ trees ” and will initiate fruiting within a year of planting , they often start bearing in the summertime and the fruit are still light-green as the gloaming occur .
And because they care warm weather and refuse to grow on coolheaded days , their growing and the maturement of yield slows and even stops in the fall .
And then comes wintertime – and frosts – and you lose the fruit . The trees will sometimes freeze back and regrow the next year but unless you have a meek wintertime the next season , you get the same problem again . The trees start to set fruit in summer , then fall comes and they slow down , then they miss their fruit in the wintertime .
It ’s terrible !
I have pluck the green papaya and eaten them ( andshared some formula here ) but I like the ripe yield better . Getting that fruit requires some planning , though , and so far as I have it away you ca n’t get the Sir Herbert Beerbohm Tree to ripen their fruit any earlier without keep them quick in the fall .
There are some trick that will shape for getting papaya to bear out of their range – as you may record here – but you might have to get used to eating green papaya if a frost is on its way and the tree are loaded .
One opening : if the trees are short enough , put 55 - gallon drums of piss at their bases before hoar events , then cover the tree and the barrel with blankets through the night to trap in the heat . This is a trick I used on delicate trees in the past times and got them to gestate yield through outside of their range . If it stays below for freezing for too long it wo n’t act upon , but for nightlong freezes it work quite well .
serious luck .
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