Is the Papaya in your permaculture garden male or female?

Sometimes you have a papaya plant filled with flowers, but it doesn't give any fruit. Why?
Because it probably has male flowers, which are important for pollination but it will not translate into fruit. Watch this video to know more!

You need to keep just one or two male papaya plants in your garden and remove the rest as soon as they start flowering and you can recognise them as male. The female plant should be retained and allowed to grow in girth so that it forms good fruit and has a long life. See this video to know how to differentiate between male and female papaya plants.
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[elyserva]

In the Philippines, farmers prefer the hermaphrodite papaya because its fruits are bigger and heavier. They plant 3 seedlings on each site and wait until they start flowering. They remove the male outright and choose the best among what's left and leave the healthiest one, preferably the hermaphrodite. That way, you're guaranteed a productive tree.

[cdrbhupeshrakhra]

Ms Gupta, your explanations and extent of detail is highly appreciable. Love you for that. Have seen all your videos. Thanks for updating fools like me.

[mukeshchauhan]

Great mem I am Student of botany
Great video for plants reproduction learning

[jadam]

Thank you for a good explanation. Are your papayas grown from seeds? I bought a papaya fruit (Philippines import) & harvested the seeds. I'm going to try growing it.

[vintageclassicscam]

Thank you very much for the nice information about the papaya plants. I have a papaya plant in my rooftop garden.

[starofthesea]

This is interesting and very useful. Ive heard about male and female plants, so showing the flowers really helped. And telling us the ratio too helped. Thank you!

[harisshswaminathan]

Nice to know this. I have only one papaya tree and that's already fruiting. How is that possible without a male tree ?

[GHSTQUEEN]

thank you so much! just bought myself a tree and i’m excited to see what i get!

[ManojMjm]

Thank you for this usefull information.
I have three papaya plants at my home. One of them is the male plant(which I got to know from this video now).
I and my mother were wondering why would one among the three doesn't produce any fruits but it has lot of flowers. And my mother was telling me to remove it as it is occupying lot of space (Space contraints in urban cities). But I insisted on not removing it. The other two papaya plants even though they are little compared to this one, has been producing a lot of papaya fruits on daily basis.
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And is there any specific scientific name or common name for male and female papaya plants? Cause in the past I tried to search in google about the "papaya plant with vine fruits" or something.. to find out more about that kinda plant, I couldn't get enough/proper information about them.

[zdrashdi]

Good explained video. I have pappaya plants of about one foot height bearing male plant flowers . Can I arrange n graft them with female branch to convert them as lady pappaya plant to make them bear fruits. I shall wait for early reply please.

[sharafsimla]

Male Pappaya plants not at all required at Pappaya garden to get fruits /pollination
This is the knowledge from home garden.
Video very good n very informative
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[CordsOfHusbandry]

Thank you for this explanation. I didn't know papaya need two trees male & female to produce fruit unless it's a hermerdite plant.

[srikanthshivanna]

No scope for questions!!! Appreciate as ever. 😊

[treddym]

If you end up with too many male papaya plants and that’s what is the potential outcome with heirloom seeds don’t get upset, you can try taking the below approaches to induce fruit bearing flowers on same plant based on tried and tested practices . Important : Leave 1 Male to 10 to 12 female plants. OptionA: Remaining Male plants can be given shock treatment by driving a finger thick Bamboo stick into the stem at 1' above the ground. The plant naturally converts to Hermaphrodite/female. Option B:
You can give toping ( cutting of terminal portion 3 feet from top or 4 feet from the bottom which ever makes sense),
Stop irrigation for ten days ( strictly).
Allow the side branches to grow a bit, keep two or three good branches. You can get good percent of female flowers from the male plant. Try this and share the results. The second approach had more success rate but you can try both.

[anubhutijain]

This is so interesting! And so well explained! Thank you!!

[fortune.]

I had this question in my mind yesterday nd today I am watching it nd enjoying.keep goin

[NILESH]

Which one is good quality of papaya seed please suggest.

[YoshanDilsara]

very important video. (i'm Sri lankan)

[sachinshapure]

If I plant new female plant near old male papaya plant one will it give fruits or I need to cut down the plant.

[nityarao]

Is growing single papaya plant in large pot advisable?
I was told it is hybrid, and nothing else. And how to make do if it turns out to be a female plant!