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RE: Our Papaya tree just about fell over it's so full of fruit - Drinking papaya Smoothies tonight - Life is Good
I have heard that you can damage the top of the tree while it is short and it will branch rather than growing so tall and as a bonus it will have two or more fruiting heads!
When I lived in a papaya growing locale I was too afraid to kill the ones we had to try it but maybe start a few from seed and experiment.
Yes I'll play around with a few configurations maybe. I have a small Moringa tree plantation and want to try with them, as they grow fast and tall too.
Old nodes where Papaya grew are starting sprouts now, If you zoom in on the second picture its visible. I have seen some just cut off at a few feet high and several branches grow out from the cut, but some just die. I'll probably let these grow till they fall over, break or get too high to reach. We have 2 more growing now and producing. 1 sprouted from the roots of this tree, got about 12 feet high then broke off at ground level.
My first Papaya blog had a link to another persons uses for the seeds that sounded interesting, but this papaya had 1 seed, go figure hehe.