Grow a tropical plant at home is very real, if it comes to papaya. But a prerequisite for this will be high air temperature, and a high humidity in the room. Also regular irrigation is also important, especially in the summer months.
Growing papaya from seeds at home is a very exciting business. After all, you can see the fruits of your labors literally in 10-11 months. This is just how long it takes for the melon papaya tree grown from seeds to bear fruit.
What do you need to grow papaya at home?
Planting papaya is easy enough - you just need to buy a ripe fruit in a supermarket and take several seeds from it. This is necessary in order to understand during the cultivation which of the plants are female, fruit-bearing, and which males are necessary for pollination. After that unnecessary seedlings are discarded.
Seeds are placed in fertile soil and after two weeks sprouts appear. The period of flowering reaches the plant at the age of 10 months, provided that the soil composition is very nutritious (organic, nitrogen fertilizers), and the corresponding requirements for temperature and humidity are observed.
As already mentioned, the reproduction of a tropical tree requires a fairly high temperature. In summer, the pot with the plant can be taken out to the street and recorded when it gets cold in August-September. It is important that the air temperature does not fall below 20-24 ° C, otherwise, fruit can not wait.
It is important that the soil in the pot is permanently moistened, but not so that water stagnates in it. After all, the root cause of plant death at home is root rot. Air around the plant, too, must be regularly moistened from the spray.
The higher the temperature and the more sun, the quicker the juicy and fragrant fruits will ripen. It is certainly worth planting this amazing plant to create a corner of eternal summer in the house.