I had a papaya tree that went 10 feet straight up, grew a cluster of very large papayas, and fell over breaking in half due to the weight of the fruit. In passing a television in a store window I noticed a segment on a farm where they had modified the papaya tree to where it only grew around waist high with the large papayas almost touching the ground. Anyone know how to accomplish this engineering marvel?
There is /was a fellow growing just such short trees in Valencia a couple of years ago when we used to live up that way. There is a street that heads out of town west towards the mountain. I don't know the name of the street. Up in or near barangay Jawa. He was on the left about maybe 1.5 kilometers from town. That's my best recollection as we haven't been up that way in about 2-3 years. He worked for the DENR is all we remember and was renting the house. He had quite a number of those trees at the time, probably 20-30 anyhow. So they do exist.
Ohhhhh... I get it now. The short papaya is actually a dwarf papaya. Figures...anyway thanks for the response Charlie.
