How to enhance Papaya seed germination?

Answer 1

I'm assuming you have fresh seeds from a fruit. Prior to letting them dry, there is one surefire way to speed up germination. Each seed is covered in a gelatinous aril. By pinching the seeds slightly, they should pop out of the aril. It's a laborious process if you have a lot of seedlings you want to obtain but it's worth the extra time spent for the time saved. By just drying them without going through this process, a watertight seal is formed around the seed and it can take upwards of a month for germination to occur. After completing this process the germination should take no more than 3-4 days.

Answer 2

That should not be a problem at all. I have papaya trees in my yard (live in FL) and we have those things sprout up all the time. When the fruit falls to the ground it is way too rotten to eat so we just let it sit there. (set there? not an English major) The squirrels and other critters will eat the fruit over the next few days and then there is this mass of seeds left over. They just stay on top of the dirt and every stinkin one will sprout into a new little plant before long. That's how we find the places where the fruits fell and we didn't clean them up--we see the papaya plants growing in this cluster.

Also, if we manage to pick the fruits before they ripen and fall off the tree so WE can eat them instead of the squirrels, we dump the seeds, skin, etc into our compost pile. My husband uses the compost soil for potting other plants (he has a small nursery). As the new potted plants grow they almost always have a baby papaya or two growing out of the dirt. Like I said, almost all of these stinkin things sprout.

So from our observance, you do not need hot soil like compost to enhance anything. They also grow right where the fruit falls to the ground and is forgotten. These are probably one of the easiest fruit seeds to grow, and the most low maintenance.

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