Landscaping "from scratch"

[leilaniguy]

When I lived in Hawaiian acres, I had great luck with asparagus beans, but have rust up here in Leilani. Yam vine leaves can be used just lke spinach, but are kind of blah.

[canhle]

Thanks Jerry, Allen, Carey and Leilani guy. Great info.

canhle

[Lew P]

I wonder how long it takes for a papya tree to produce fruit. Ever try growing one fron seed? Do they die after fruiting?

[Carey]

Lew, we have been getting fruit in less than 1 year on some of our baby papayas. They can bear for a number of years (we have one tree that has 4 fruiting branches and is ~30 ft in height, age ?) Most papaya bear fruit & blossoms just below the leaf line on a single trunk, but can branch (ours was accidentally headed in a storm years ago, but this is very traumatic for the plant.)There are male & female papyas, only the female fruits, male flowers are smaller & not as petally. You can grow from seeds of a papaya, just rinse the slime coat off & stick it in the ground, or wait until a random seed spouts (most of ours). The Rainbow variety has a great potential, on this island, to be a GMO plant (the genetic splice can be polinated into the seed of a non GMO female plant, or from a GMO female or fruit...)
We have a few trees that are growing where the seeds landed. The older Philipino lady we bought the house from said that it is hard to transplant the papaya, just leave them where they grow. That said, we have transplanted two this year, still to early to tell if she was right, they are still growing, but when you fool with old wisdom...
Aloha, Carey