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🍊 The truth about Papaya:

1. it is grass, and
2. it can go transgender!

The secret facts of Papaya's private life.
• 📌 Did you know that Papaya technically is not a tree? It is a large herbaceous plant, usually with a single, straight trunk that can reach 30 feet!
• 📌 Many dwarf varieties available in selection, reaching only 6-8 ft tall, but producing large crops of full size fruit - they are easy to harvest.
• 📌 Papaya trees have very complex gender mechanism, but the bottom line is - the tree can chance its sex based on conditions! Many varieties are self-fertile, but it always recommended to plant a few trees for cross-pollination and better yield.
• 📌 The sweetest Papaya is from so called "Solo" cultivars: the fruit is usually round or oval, on a smaller side, but super sweet.
• 📌 Fruit from Solo cultivars are not susceptible to fruit flies.
• 📌 Being officially a tropical plant, Papaya is pretty cold resistant and can withstand light freeze without significant damage.
• 📌 Surprisingly, Papayas are also hurricane-resistant plants and can take strong winds without damage. They still stand when other trees are down!
• 📌 Papaya is one of the Super-Foods thanks to papain - a natural enzyme containing in this fruit. Papaya fruit offers the best digestive aid! Eat some papaya after each meal to maintain healthy digestion.
• 📌 Try papaya leaf wraps for cooking meats - you won't need a meat tenderizer!
• 📌 Easy to grow trees, Papayas don't take any space in the garden, but bring so much goodness into your life!


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🏆 Tropical Fruit Tree Contest: enter to win the Jaboticaba Tree!

Post a picture of your own container grown tropical fruit tree and win this Jaboticaba!

🫐 Jaboticaba (Myrciaria cauliflora) is one of the most popular native fruit of Brazil and is used to produce their famous Jaboticaba Vine. Grape-like purple fruit with a thick skin and delicious melting pulp somewhat resembling Northern Black Currant in flavor. They grow right on the trunk! The tree is very slow growing, so large specimens are very expensive and hard to find.

💰$69.95 Value + FREE shipping 🚚
yes, delivered to your door absolutely FREE! Large, developed plant.

❗️ How to become a winner? It's very simple!
Post a picture of your own tropical fruit tree grown in CONTAINER in comments to this post and start receiving likes and hearts!
The entry that receives more likes (hearts, thumbs up, etc.) will be the winner!

👨�‍👧 Invite your friends and family to vote: to put their likes and hearts and support your work!

📋 RULES AND TERMS:

1. Must be our Channel Subscriber (click JOIN 👇)
2. Only 1 post per participant. The post should contain 1-3 pictures and a plant name.
3. A plant must be:

a) tropical fruit tree grown in a container. No temperate apples and no in-ground trees at this time.
b) must be a perennial tree or a shrub (annual garden veggies will have their chance in our future contests)
c) your own plant, not in a nursery or botanical garden
d) fruit on the plant is a plus (more likes), but not a must.
4. Delivery - USA addresses only. To receive the prize, the winner will be requested to provide shipping info.
5. Unclaimed prizes will be canceled after 2 weeks.
6. Deadline - July 1, 2024 at 3 pm, then we will count the hearts and pick the winner.
7. No purchase necessary to enter or win (see full rules PDF)

‼️ We need at least 20 participants to select the winner.

🏅 Good luck!

Post your entries in comments to this post👇

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🥭 Top 5 recommended vigorous Mango tree varieties, reliable producers.

• 🟠 1. Glenn - Excellent eating quality, consistent production, and effortless to grow.
• 🟠 2. Pim Seng Mun - extremely productive mango.
• 🟠 3. Sweet Tart - New patented variety - exclusive offer.
• 🟠 4. Fruit Punch - Multi fruit flavor, delicious!
• 🟠 5. Orange Sherbet - One of the best new varieties for backyard growing. Flavor is sweet citrus-orange and less lemony than Lemon Meringue mango. The tree is moderately vigorous.

❓What is your favorite Mango variety? Share in comments 👇

📝 See also earlier posts:
5 most Favorite Mango Varieties
Top 10 Dwarf "Condo" Mango

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🌈 This is not a Photoshop! It is a true color of Plumeria. Such multi-color varieties are called Rainbow Plumeria.

The season started and we have lots of fragrant and colorful blooms on our Plumerias that we introduced earlier.

Some of the colors are just beyond description!

Plumeria, or Frangipani - is a symbol of Hawaiian Tropics and the most favorite perfume flower.

🛒 Choose from fantastic colors of Plumeria

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🌸 2 most favorite flowering trees for small yards

❓ What tree to plant when you have a limited space? Two winners under 20 ft will fit any garden setting:

💛 Tabebuia chrysotricha - Dwarf Golden Tabebuia

💗 Tabebuia impetiginosa - Dwarf Pink Tabebuia

• ✔️ These two small trees are spectacular bloomers in late winter to spring. The leafless trees are covered with bright flowers - yellow and pink. The flowers cover these trees completely, before new leaves appear.
• ✔️ They both are great or container culture. Perfect for small yard or patio.
• ✔️ Hardy and easy to grow.

🎥 Video of spectacular Tabebuia bloom in earlier post

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How to grow Noni tree for fruit?

💊 The medicinal Noni tree (see our earlier post) is one of the most suitable fruit trees for potting culture. A 1-3 gallon size plant will flower and fruit for you within a year.

Noni's special features:

• ✅ flowers and fruits at young age, nearly year around.
• ✅ tolerates shade and grows large ornamental leaves in filtered light.
• ✅ suitable for indoor culture

- easy in cultivation, drought and water tolerant, not susceptible to insects.
• ✅ medicinal properties are endless and cannot be under-appreciated.
• ✅ This plant can be grown in any climate indoors, and will produce fruit for you under minimal care. Just provide warm frost-free conditions, as this tropical tree is very cold sensitive.

📚 Learn more: Morinda citrifolia - Noni. Life Sustaining Plant

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🌳 What is the best shade tree that is fast growing and beautiful?

• 🌸 Orchid trees that we mentioned earlier are one of the most popular shade trees in Southern gardens.
• 🌸 Bauhinia blakeana - Hong Kong Orchid Tree - is the most beautiful of all orchid trees.
• 🌸 It has the largest flowers, brightly colored.
• 🌸 Winter bloomer.
• 🌸 Starts flowering in very small size, when only 2-3 ft tall.
• 🌸 Very fast growing.

📚 Learn more: Bauhinias - trees with Orchid Flowers and Butterfly Wings
🎥 YouTube Video: Hong Kong Orchid Tree

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🌳 When is the best time to plant a tree? 🌳

• 
  🌴 "A society grows great when old men plant trees whose shade they know they shall never sit in." - Greek proverb
• 
  🌴 "The best time to plant a tree was 20 years ago. And the second best time is now." - Chinese Proverb.
• 
  🌴 "Someone is sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago." - Warren Buffett
• 
  🌴 "Regardless of which wisdom you follow, plant a tree today to make the difference. You have a chance to see the shade very soon." - TopTropicals.

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