What is the happiest thing about the news of a birth that we have been waiting for a long time, as well as when we plant something, what is happier when we see that what we have been waiting for has reached its harvest time with the perfect results that we hoped for. Enjoying its life cycle while being anxious because it's not only planthoppers that want to eat my papaya plants but also the birds that roam around my yard.
When I counted my papayas, starting from the time I planted this papaya, I counted approximately 10 months until I could actually harvest my papaya fruit, and when you see my papaya fruit. maybe some of you will ask why it's not completely yellow until my papaya is ripe just harvested Why when it's still half cooked like that? the answer is because my wife and I are very afraid that my first papaya fruit will be stolen by animals that have been stalking it and I have seen these animals passing near my yard several times so I don't want it to steal my first fruit harvest, that animal is a squirrel. there are still many around my house.
And you have to see the moment where I will share this papaya growing starting from the seeds that I bought then the maintenance process where I am very diligent and routine in cleaning the area of my papaya tree to avoid weeds then the watering process that I do every day using rice washing water. who is always accommodated by my wife when she cooks every day, seeing with her own eyes process after process every day with a pounding heart.
After my papaya tree produced flowers which would become fruit, my heart started to get restless again, because every day there were lots of healthy and healthy flowers which kept falling off so they didn't become fruit, then after that it passed and the next stage the flower had grown into a baby fruit. The papaya is cute and adorable and then my heart starts pounding again, because after the flower becomes a fruit it falls off again and reduces the number of fruit, I feel disappointed and annoyed why I didn't get the medicine, I really want to give pest poison or whatever to my papaya plant, but everything I prevented it because the fruit was only for my own consumption.
Everyone should be grateful, even though not all of my papayas are big fruit, they are enough to cure my disappointment and look at their growth with trees that are still considered fertile in my personal opinion, and look at my fruit collection, I think there is enough for me to consume together. my wife and I share it with my parents and neighbors.
I also cut some of the papaya trees because the papaya fruit that I cut was a male type, this tree does not produce fruit but only flowers. so I cut it to be my wife's vegetables.
My conclusion when planting papaya was that it was more than 50 percent successful and this was a very proud result for myself because this was my perfect papaya plant that I could harvest the fruit from. In the future, I hope my papaya can bear more fruit, and I will continue to learn how to care for the fruit so it doesn't fall off, and I ask all of you, how do you deal with falling fruit without using poison and pesticides?
I'm waiting for all your answers, friends, I hope you have more experience in papaya gardening. leave your comments. Greetings from Tomi Diwirja, Indonesia