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papaya starting to rot?
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Posted by marin2003 z9 (My Page) on Sun, Feb 7, 10 at 12:19
| Please, experienced growers give me an advice.
I have a relatively mature papaya tree (6 feet tall, waimanalo variety planted during winter a year ago), overwintering in a pot inside in a room with no heating and no regular daylight. It has no leaves, just a stem, but firm and healthy looking with many pups at bases of former leaves. The top started to rot slowly a week ago, I would say upper few inches or so.
Obviously it will not regrow from the original top, and I wonder should I cut it at approproiate height and leave to grow from a pup below the cut or shoud I leave it as it is. I believe some 30-45 days remain before natural spring grow begins and I take the plant outside...
Thanks
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RE: papaya starting to rot?
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| My experience with Papayas is that when rot starts-its hard to stop. I know,bad news here. Prune it off-stop watering. Hopefully you only lose a foot or less off the top. |
RE: papaya starting to rot?
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Not bad news, reality. Unfortunately I'm experienced with papaya rot, but always with plants in the ground where its difficult to eliminate moisture and rot happens throughout the complete stem at the same time.
This papaya is in a pot and with no water since november, and I hope this is the key cause 90 percent of stem is firm and healthy.
Well, like I said, only one more month....
I'll cut the upper part and hopefully 5 feet will remain to
recover in the spring. |
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