Male paw paw fruit (forum)

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My solitary male paw paw has produced some fruit at the end of elongated stems. Will these develop on to full sized/edible paw paws does anyone know?
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Time: 29th October 2013 5:51pm

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Anonymous says...
Yes Phil they will develop into edible paw paws but will be seedless. They won't taste as good a from a female or bisex plant.It is a pretty routine thing to happen with males.
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Time: 29th October 2013 8:44pm

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Anonymous says...
That explains why you occasionally get ones from the store with no seeds - they came from male plants!

Time: 30th October 2013 1:14pm

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Anonymous says...
Seedless ones are hermies and females mostly that have not been pollinated well.Male paw paws are less common and not usually sold.
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Time: 30th October 2013 3:52pm

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MaryT says...
Mike can you tell a male fruit from a female one from looking at it?

Time: 30th October 2013 3:54pm

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Anonymous says...
Mary you can see the difference in a second, including how hermaphrodites are different. Males have flowers on long stalks,females have one or just a few fat flowers in leaf culm bases and bisex have several small flowers in leaf stalk bases.With young ones you have to wait until flowers develop properly to know.

Time: 30th October 2013 8:34pm

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MaryT says...
Mike I was actually wanting to know about the fruit; if you can see the difference in the shop.

Time: 31st October 2013 6:18am

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BJ says...
All males ive observed have been long and thin with a bell end. Not round or torpedo shaped. there is a big old one next door that seems to have stopped producing fruit or flowers. males tend to have a more 'wild' taste. some hermies can be seedless, and some have a single, very large (20x regular papaya sized) ivory seed that looks and feels like plastic.

Time: 31st October 2013 7:58am

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MaryT says...
Thanks, BJ; that is so interesting and useful to know.

Time: 31st October 2013 8:23am

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Anonymous says...
bisex fruit are more elongate,females are footfall to round and males are elongate football often with a pearish thing going on.There are difference between varieties a bit.

Time: 31st October 2013 10:29am

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Anonymous says...
Mike,

when you get a chance could you drop me a message at LJO84 at hushmail dot com

thanks mate
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Time: 31st October 2013 10:47am

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