Papaya Improved - Desi Fruit Seeds

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.

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