Monday, August 24, 2020

Papaya Tree

 

(8/24) I lost my last large Papaya Tree due to high winds in last night's tropical storm. It was a very productive tree, but I have another Papaya tree in the front of my house with tons on Papaya and I have a few others I started recently, so not all is lost. Now that this Papaya tree has fallen, perhaps my Banana and Avocado trees can grow. This Papaya tree was shading the area quite a bit since it was so large.

Snapped at the bottom.

You can see it was quite large.
It was laying across the road, so had to pull it onto my property.
Got the tree moved with the help of my neighbors. 
Going to have to clean up this mess after the wind and rain subside.

2 comments:

  1. Like loosing a member of the family, looks like it would take a ladder to harvest.

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  2. You are correct. I needed a ladder to get to the top, but there were four or five side branches that I could get to from the ground. I saved all the good Papaya and gave them away. They totaled around 100 pounds.

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