Re: subtropical papayas?
BTW, hello everyone! I haven't visited this site in a while but I do grow pineapples and now my papayas are producing. I traced a google of sweet sue papayas to this site and like some of you, I am looking for some seeds for those wonderful trees. Anyone know if those sweet sue's have very few seeds? I'm wondering why the shortage and rareness.
Everything seems to grow very well here in zone 9 but I want the sweet sues (Tolerates down to 25 F) because our frosts put a "wet blanket" on the otherwise amazing climate that turns an ordinary compost pile into a virtual seedling farm, with no effort required.
I also have about 20 pineapple plants here and though I've been told numerous times that you can't grow them here, I say just tell it to my 20 pineapples (actually, I have an unusually well-protected area, so it takes a very hard frost to really get 'em--like last winter--but strangely, they seem to have been stimulated to produce fruit, although their leaves were turned into mush. They still survived and produced fruit.
I am working on getting the bananas going...
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