Description
Papaya is a popular fruit famous for its high nutritive and medicinal properties.
Papaya plants can be male, female, or bisexual. Papaya is a perennial plant. Rarely, the seeds fail to germinate because seed viability is completely lost in about 50 days. The seed rate is 250 to 300 gm/hectare. It comes to fruit in a year.
A tree can produce 25 to 40 fruits weighing 30 to 60 kg in the first 20 months.Seeds Specifications
| Seeds per Packet | 20 |
| Common Name | Papaya |
| Height | Up to 30 feet |
| Flower Colour | Yellow, orange or cream |
| Bloom Time | All year round (Varies according to climate and other basic things) |
| Difficulty Level | Easy to grow |
Planting and care
- Avoid sandy and sticky or heavy clay soils
- Apply fertilizer twice a year, first at the beginning of monsoon and second in the later part
- For the attack of spider mites, aphids, grasshoppers use the prophylactic sprays
Papaya Farm Improved care
- It grows in tropical and subtropical climates
- Select a sunny and sheltered place in your garden
- You cant start them in pots as they prone to damage while transplanting
- You can start sowing in the spring, monsoon, and autumn
- Dig a hole half a meter across and fill it with a mixture of compost and soil
- The pits are filled with topsoil along with 20 kg of farmyard manure, 1 kg neem cake and 1 kg bone meal
- Sprinkle few seeds and cover lightly with potting mixture
- A spacing of 1
- 8 x 1
- 8 m is ideal
| Sunlight | Full sun |
| Watering | Low |
| Soil | Other than sandy and sticky or heavy clay soils, well-drained |
| Temperature | 25 to 35 degrees C |
| Fertilizer | NPK in the ratio of 10-6-10 |
| Harvest Season | All year round |
Papaya Farm Improved uses
Medicinal Use:
- High nutritive and medicinal properties
Culinary Use:
- Raw fruit can be used in cooking and ripen fruit is in the use of juices and salad