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Lilape152:

Those are some beautiful big papayas. Did you find and bring back any seeds? Many of the Thai varieties of papaya grow very well in Southern California.

I tired but I called the thai and American customs and could not get a straight answer from either if I could get thru with the seeds, so I decided to clean them and then just try it, they randomly check my bags and would not let them through but I did get 2 cannonball seeds thru and started to grow them!!! They were sprouting and great until a little neighborhood squariel decided the seeds looks good and dig them up and killed them
both :(

Lilape152:

I'm very sorry to hear about the papaya seeds and Cannonball tree seedling!

It would have been very interesting to see if the Cannonball tree would grow here. I would assume they may be a bit of a challenge since they are native to the very hot, humid rain forest of Northern South America. However, you never know until you try it.