I was planting pomegranate seeds and in the batch 6 of these grew. The soil was all from the same compost brand, so i am assuming it was something isolated to one of the bags hence the 4-6 plants that grew. I kept a few, I would really like to know what I am growing. Please Help!!
Did you possibly also plant papaya seed? I am not very familiar with the plant, but the leaves look like that.
Actually now that you mention it I may have planted a few, since I was trying a few fruits and I do belive I tried a papaya, but I thought I only planted one or two...lol I am still new to Botany and growing, but I seem to have a real green thumb then I guess. How ever, I have another question then......there seem to be small egg looking objects all on the trunk and underside of leaves and branches, and I did have friggin aphids this year in my greenhouse, are those eggs or is this a property of the plant. If they are eggs,I live in Germany, whats a safe way to get rid of them? All help is greatly appreciated!!
Also if I grow it indoors and keep it warm and under a sunny window whats the chance of fruit production? Also should I keep trimming leaves to promote upward growth like I have been in the picture?
Papaya won't branch until they're cut at the stem (ie if you wanted to double your papayas, you'd cut the top off, plant it, and the base would branch) - I'd leave the leaves on it until they naturally fall off. The more access to chlorophyll the plant has, the healthier it will be. Your chances of fruit are at this point 50-50. Once the plants flower, you'll be able to narrow it down to females and hermaphroditic plants (there's no way of telling until flowers appear), and those will be the ones to keep and pollinate. The hermaphrodites will set fruit naturally, and the females will require contact with a hermaphroditic or male flower for pollination. Here's the breakdown on how to tell the difference: male only flowers will be pale green and borne on quite long petioles. Hermaphrodites are greenish and borne on short petioles. Females are cream to white and borne almost directly on the stem. A picture of the egg-like things would go a long way to helping us ID them and give you a solution.
