Red Flesh Papaya

Just cut this open,sweet tasting at first,similar to cantalope,then taste buds start rejecting it!
Texture like pumpkin maybe.
Anyway I think I'll start some seeds!
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The pictured Papaya is only partially mature.

YEAAA Let me know how it goes..
Gina *BabyBlue*

Well some are planted,waiting game now!

That kinda looks like what we would call a "Sunrise" papaya around here. If it didn't taste right, it may not have been fully ripe. Folks around here use the unripe papaya for different recipes, but not usually just eaten either plain or with a bit of lemon added. The seeds are real spicy and are sometimes used to make salad dressings.

Well lets see,been about 3 1/2 weeks,since I planted the seeds,here are those seeds today![IMG][/IMG]

Those are some good looking seedlings!!
how do you transplant them? I read that Papaya don't like to have their roots messed with??
Gina *BabyBlue*

I have just finished transplanting them in those little cups,looks like it went very well.
I germinated them in a meat tray,just scattered seeds everywhere,in one of those black plastic meat trays,and I thought well there are 3 leaves now,time to transplant,before the roots become all tangled together,in which they weren't bad at all,very nice roots too!
A few were very close together will finish cutting down to one to a pot.
I read somewhere it is possible in south florida,to plant seeds in January and pick fruit in Late November,now that is preety fast,but I could never get them past the foot tall mark before they die on me!!!
Cross my fingers and toes this time!LOL

I use plastic cups to they work great gives the plants so much more root dept.I takes more dirt but seems to really make better plants.