Carica papaya 'Red Caribbean' Fruit

Yummy.....

It will be soon. lol! I just picked the two largest papayas yesterday.

Wow they are huge hope you enjoyed them.

Penny,

It'll be 3 to 5 days before they're ripe enough to eat.

Thats one way of rationing you ha ha lol
you can pick one a day then.

Well, unfortunately it doesn't ripen like that. lol!

Hopefully, I'll get much more fruit this coming summer!

So you will have to wait longer then . I am sure it will give more fruit later Andy you have the weather for it out there.

Yes, a little more of a wait. lol!

I just ate the Thai Dwarf papaya I picked last week. It so incredibly sweet and super juicy. It was probably the best Thai Dwarf papaya I've ever eaten.

It will produce more fruit this coming spring or summer. It just depends on weather and time the flowers are produced when the fruit will ripen. The fruit takes 3 - 6 months to ripen (depending on variety). In the tropics it usually takes 2 1/2 to 5 months to ripen.

Wow a long time to ripen then lol I am sure your trying to make me jealous being the best so incredibly sweet and super juicy.?

Yes, it's a long-time ripening, like: avocados, mangoes, bananas, oranges, lychee, tangerines and most citrus. Tropical and subtropical fruits mostly grow in those climates so they can take a long time ripen. Stone fruits (peaches, cherries, plums, walnuts) grow in colder climates so they don't have a long growing season to ripen their fruit before they go dormant.

Yes, home-grown mangoes, papayas, guavas, cherimoya, antemoya, avocaodos, citrus and wax apples are the best! Yummy! :>))

Ahrr so the ones for cold climates ripen quicker while the ones in warmer climates take longer I find that interesting.

What are wax apples I ve have never heard of those.

Yes, you have to remember in colder climates the growing season is much shorter than the all-year-around growing-season in tropical and subtropical climates.

Wax Apple (Syzygium samarangense) is a small tree native to Malaysia, Indonesia. It looks like a small apple (however, it's not related at all). It's a really sweet, refreshing fruit. I've posted pics on GoY in the past of this tree growing here in San Diego.

Yes of course climates and growing are shorter.

Thank you Andy I shall take a look on the net.

If you really want a fruit that takes a long time to ripen, try Mamey Sapote (Pouteria sapota) or Jackfruit (Artocarpus heterophyllus). LOL! Mamey Sapote takes almost two years to ripen (there can be more than one crop at a time on the tree) and Jackfruit takes 8 to 10 months to ripen. Both are very tropical. They grow here; however, are not too common.

Hahaha No chance it would be years for them to ripen here we dont have the weather nor sun long enough.

I was just being funny. :>))

Mamey Sapote is becoming more sought after here in Southern California (it's an extremely ornamental tree). It'll only grow into a small tree (15' or 4.6 m or so) here in San Diego. In the deep tropics it's a massive tree. Jackfruit is more widely grown here. It's a giant tree in the tropics, also. Here in San Diego, most likely 25 - 30' (7.6 - 10 m) would be the max height.

Here's a photo of Mamey Sapote at San Diego Botanical Gardens:

http://www.growsonyou.com/photo/slideshow/79819-pouteria-sapota-mamey-sapote-mammee-sapote

15' small that would be a bigish tree to me
It must taste good to become so popular. Thanks for the link I shall take a look.

Mamey Sapote is also called pumpkin pie tree, because the fruit taste like pumpkin pie.

I would pass on that one then yuk lol

You don't like pumpkin pie? lol!

I love pumpkin pie! Yummy! :>))

Nope don't like pumpkin at all.
You would nt get any pumpkin pie at my house unless you made it your self I bet you feel lucky now having the wife you have ?

LOL! :>)) There's always apple pie which is my favorite.

I love Apple crumble best my mum always made lovely apple pies I make apple and blackberry no pies as pastry no longer agrees with me . I also do peach or pineapple sponge put peaches or pineapples in the bottom of a Pyrex dish add a bit of juice add cake mix.

Sounds very yummy! I'll have to try to make one of those cakes.

I am sure you ll love it Andy mmmm lol

I'm sure I will. :>))

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