🔖 Certification : Customers please keep order records for verification by the organic certification company.
Organic Farmers Association Hong Kong's first organic farmer organisation which was established in 2011 by Hong Kong agricultural veteran Mr. Wong Ling and several farmers. It once launched the Corn Festival and launched a large-scale corn donation activity. Order first, then Plant and corns' sponsor can harvest themselves when the corn is harvested. Later, the farmers' association gradually developed into a farmers' cooperative association, helping farmers gain the voice of the industry, contacting farmers to order saplings and seeds, organising farmers to visit different farms, thereby promoting exchanges among farmers, and assisting in contacting the Agriculture, Fisheries and Conservation Department and provide professional advice.
Due to unstable weather and freezing conditions, it takes about 40 days to cultivate seedlings. We can only accept reservations. When the seedlings mature, we will arrange a notification.
Plant characteristics
The plant is stout and dwarf, grows vigorously, is particularly resistant to mosaic disease, has particularly strong fertility, early maturity, low node position, strong fruit setting, and can start flowering and fruiting at about 50 cm above the ground. , each plant can bear 30 to 50 fruits. The fruit size is large, generally 1 to 1.5 kilograms per fruit, the largest can reach 4 kilograms, and the yield per mu is 3500 to 5000 kilograms.
fruit traits
There are two types of fruit shapes. The fruit of the female plant (accounting for more than 80% of the total number of plants) is oblong to oval, and the fruit of the bisexual plant (accounting for less than 20% of the total number of plants) is long rod-shaped. The peel is smooth and beautiful, the flesh is thick, the flesh is red and beautiful (the flesh color is lighter in the low temperature period), the flesh is tender, the smell is fragrant, the total sugar content is usually about 13%, the flavor is good, the juice is juicy and sweet, and the quality is excellent. Rich in sugar, protein, fat, multivitamins (A, B1, B2, C, D, E), organic acids, carotene, papain, papain, it has the functions of helping digestion, lowering blood pressure, promoting lactation in puerperium and solving constipation in the elderly and other health and beauty effects.
Main points of cultivation technology
Use live reproduction. Seeds are collected from fully mature fruits, washed and dried in the shade. They are sown in spring (February to March) or autumn (August to October). Seedlings are raised in nutrient bags. After the seedlings are grown, they are transplanted with soil.
Dig a 15m wide platform on the hillside according to the mountain terrain, and then dig holes according to the spacing between plants of 2m. In the pastoral field, the spacing between plants is 2m×25m, and the planting holes are 50cm×50cm×30cm. After digging, return the topsoil and mix it with chemical fertilizers.
The optimum temperature for growth is 22-26°C. Sunlight does not affect flowering, and plants like sunlight and high temperatures
The first 6 months of planting are the early stage of field management, and top dressing will focus on nitrogen fertilizer. During the high temperature period, flowering and fruiting will begin around 4-5 months after planting.
After 6 months of planting, or after flowering, top dressing should focus on potassium fertilizer, preferably every 20-30 days. Foliar fertilizer can be added during this period
Papaya is a shallow-rooted plant. Please note that the soil needs to be well drained and the plants are not drought tolerant.
During typhoon season, tree trunks are easily broken. Yili pole windproof
Hongfei papaya is a variety resistant to rotunda virus disease, but care must be taken to prevent red spider mites from hiding under the leaves. Watch out for snails and ants during hot and rainy seasons
Red Princess papaya harvest
Each plant can bear 35-50 fruits
Long-shaped bisexual fruit, fruit weight is about 1.3-2 kg, and can reach 3 kg during the prolific period.
Flesh color is orange-red during the moderate temperature period (turns light red at low temperatures)
It can be harvested if there are 3-4 yellow stripes on the fruit surface, or if the fruit surface is completely yellow, and the sweetness can reach 13%. Green papaya can be harvested after the fruit has become enlarged
