tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1660561043857404056.post2769706900908036045..comments2012-01-19T10:22:47.691+08:00Autumn Bellehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00818422090556602092noreply@blogger.comBlogger32125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1660561043857404056.post-50868241076713974312012-01-18T21:35:31.539+08:002012-01-18T21:35:31.539+08:00A very Happy New Year to you!Indranihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13097788106899971708noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1660561043857404056.post-18803505151750667632012-01-14T22:54:37.953+08:002012-01-14T22:54:37.953+08:00No surprises, your shots are beautiful! Hope you get the google thing worked out or it works for you rather.kackyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10632954199885871025noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1660561043857404056.post-48581120582350337642012-01-13T18:54:19.278+08:002012-01-13T18:54:19.278+08:00Beautiful images for not having a DSLR camera. I would not have guessed because you take such beautiful photos.gardenwalkgardentalk.comhttp://gardenwalkgardentalk.com/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1660561043857404056.post-10674727477926831512012-01-12T20:06:52.083+08:002012-01-12T20:06:52.083+08:00Very informative post.I wish your computer will be ok soon. I experience login issues, too. Have a nice gardening weekend ahead of you.hardinarshttp://simplegardenthoughts.blogspot.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1660561043857404056.post-73078351581056418072012-01-10T23:04:11.752+08:002012-01-10T23:04:11.752+08:00Asha, Tanntoot, My computer is still with the geeks in ICU, may need some organ transplant before it can be discharged home for further testing. <br /><br />Sean, thanks for the suggestion. Actually I had secretly hoped for a male papaya plant with many dangling flowers, now that I don&#39;t have to worry about increasing the population of the household. As I suspect my papaya plant is either a female and/or heterosexual, I&#39;ve been keeping a close watch on the plant. Well, maybe too closely because I saw some flowers and white embryonic fruits dropped off! <br /><br />About the threat on the papaya, you bet I may just do that. When my orchids don&#39;t bloom after my patience has worn off, I&#39;ll have a &#39;heart to heart talk&#39; with them, especially my cattleya.Autumn Bellehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00818422090556602092noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1660561043857404056.post-2957802616512747982012-01-10T21:05:15.757+08:002012-01-10T21:05:15.757+08:00Your garden is blooming beautifully in time for the coming Chinese New Year! That ong lai, golden lime &amp; red roses are just the thing too! I hope your computer problems will be solved soonest. That bit on papaya sex was interesting :Dtanntoothttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09207909339685879387noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1660561043857404056.post-27149274329688118382012-01-10T18:58:39.295+08:002012-01-10T18:58:39.295+08:00It&#39;s a delight to visit your blog site. Such lovely photos of your garden!Asha Ramhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08497991305532837318noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1660561043857404056.post-87486435866109882682012-01-10T16:22:37.958+08:002012-01-10T16:22:37.958+08:00@Andrea: I think that male papaya trees are beautiful, with the spray of flowers as I had never gotten any male papaya tress whenever I plant them (always hermaphrodite). I have seen males tree that continually produce the hermaphrodite flower at the tip of the flower stalk, so all the fruits are hanging in there at the end of the stalk (and usually of a shape that is commercially unacceptable). <br /><br />@Autumn Belle: Hope your computer issues get settled and so does your chores. Its good to let the tree be and see if any of it sets fruit. Maybe direct your stress at the papaya tree and threaten to chop it off to see if it sets fruit.Sean Lhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13400996355742861145noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1660561043857404056.post-66601249653605322682012-01-10T13:27:15.122+08:002012-01-10T13:27:15.122+08:00Hi, everyone. Thank you very much for visiting and commenting here. I&#39;m sorry I am doing some disappearing act because my desktop has crashed on me.<br /><br />Thanks to Mom on Blog, Sean, Andrea for starting the interesting discussion about papaya sex changes, and for helping to answer some of the questions posed. I didn&#39;t know such an ordinary plant can be so complicated. Now I know why many plants are unisexed or heterosexual, I mean male and female in same flower or self polinating. If there are separated like the papaya, things get complicated, just like human beings!<br /><br />Now I am confused about the sex of my papaya plant. I think it has female and heterosexual flowers. Maybe I need to study this plant further and post again later. Anyway, this papaya is just begining to bear flowers.<br /><br />Meanwhile, my sincere apologies if what I am saying here doesn&#39;t make sense, because currently I am under a lot of stress - computer malfunction, Google Chrome automatically switching to Facebook asking me to play games (which I never ever did before), and so many unfinished chores before the big day - my Lunar New Year :(Autumn Bellehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00818422090556602092noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1660561043857404056.post-15775460064619464972012-01-10T10:28:22.001+08:002012-01-10T10:28:22.001+08:00I love this exchanges of comments and info on papaya sexuality, maybe sex change is really exciting to talk about. Sean gave us the proportionate expectations from our papaya. We have one volunteer papaya plant in the property, which i know is fully male, however it produced a very small fruit at the beginning of fruiting. My sister is about to chop it, but i stopped her so i can observe if it will produce another hermaphrodite fruit. <br /><br />@Mom on Blog - stress inflicted on plants can be a way of producing a hormone which favored femaleness. Ethylene and its precursor (ACC) are known hormones which induced femaleness in contrast with Gibberellins which produced maleness. These are mostly done in cucurbits but i don&#39;t know any research on papaya, but i think that follows the principle of stress ethylene too.Andreahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06044386271018560595noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1660561043857404056.post-39725495065179883162012-01-09T18:55:16.846+08:002012-01-09T18:55:16.846+08:00Congrats on the coming 300,000 mark... you rightly deserve it... very good rendition of pictures of flowers in garden...Lronghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16071380270069499888noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1660561043857404056.post-82582343594076483492012-01-07T10:45:21.989+08:002012-01-07T10:45:21.989+08:00The orchids and roses are so pretty!Bethhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09792341123595520130noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1660561043857404056.post-7574482357505572302012-01-07T08:16:58.368+08:002012-01-07T08:16:58.368+08:00Everything is lovely, Autumn Belle. I kept Blogger when I opened a Wordpress blog. I still like Blogger better. I post to both. I keep thinking Wordpress will get easier if I get more familiar with it.NellJeanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09000315400392984647noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1660561043857404056.post-41224269570429448692012-01-07T03:41:28.773+08:002012-01-07T03:41:28.773+08:00Happy 2012! It looks like your garden is off to a great start - so beautiful and lush! And productive, to boot!<br /><br />I hear you on the pictures. Between my husband and I, we take thousands of pictures, and storage is a never-ending problem!Indiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08120631846270350947noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1660561043857404056.post-58802853072184449992012-01-07T01:34:15.712+08:002012-01-07T01:34:15.712+08:00@Mom on Blog: Hmmm, perhaps that counts as doing a Bobbitt on the male tree??? Yeah, some stick iron nails, stress the poor thing to make it change sex.<br /><br />@Andrea: Papayas can be dioecious or gynodioecious<br /><br />@Autumn Belle: Sekaki is cross pollinated, but most plants in plantation are hermaphrodite, so chances approximate 2B:1F. So if you get a female plant, akin to striking 4D. If you get male plant...Someone must have planted a male tree nearby - strike toto top prize lolSean Lhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13400996355742861145noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1660561043857404056.post-38183839085380039092012-01-07T00:38:41.812+08:002012-01-07T00:38:41.812+08:00Autumn Belle and Andrea - LOL! I do remember the beheading of a number of papaya plants- poor male. But I believe they sometimes change sex?? I remember my grandma hammering a nail into the truck to &quot;persuade&quot; it to flower and fruit .I remember one fabulous tree with large fruits that we had to dig a hole in the ground for the fruit to keep growing bigger!!<br /><br />The nursery sold me the papaya with 3 plants in one pot. It seems growing it this way, helps with pollination and fruiting. I am a gambler when it comes to plants and their ability to survive. Growing tropicals in San Diego is one thing- for it to fruit is another. But ladies I am optimistic- today I passed by a house that had a papaya tree in the yard fruits and all!!!Mom on Bloghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11407405898569556771noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1660561043857404056.post-9753176382200231802012-01-06T23:30:36.198+08:002012-01-06T23:30:36.198+08:00Wah, very &#39;ONG&#39; year for you, with the pineapple. If the papaya is the &#39;sekaki&#39; or eksotika papaya (self fertile, inbred), most likely it will be hermaphrodite.<br /><br />The general rule is this:<br />Female(F) x male(M) = 1M : 1F : 0Bisexual<br />F x bisexual(B) = 1F : 0M : 1B<br />B x B = 1F : 0M : 2B<br />B x M = 1F : 1M : 1B<br />M x sex change M (M2F) = 1F : 2M : 0B<br /><br />Only female trees cannot change sex. Males and bisexuals can undergo sex change. Some people chop off the tops of male plants to change its sex.Sean Lhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13400996355742861145noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1660561043857404056.post-12099410947477124032012-01-06T23:21:57.033+08:002012-01-06T23:21:57.033+08:00Love your roses (of course) - they are beautiful. And like you, I shudder every time Blogger comes up with something new. I like the old! Loved seeing the Ylang-ylang - not something I&#39;d ever see here!HolleyGardenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14892421871044249940noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1660561043857404056.post-20949570056697232412012-01-06T22:51:25.085+08:002012-01-06T22:51:25.085+08:00Dear Autumn Belle, your garden is blooming beautifully!!! Hope to see more photos soon. Happy New Year to you too!!! Owh ya, another thing, if a person is looking for Chinese herbs in KL...where do you think is the best place to go? Tq :)Arfah Arifhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15409681761494851665noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1660561043857404056.post-21178309884601435822012-01-06T22:01:25.995+08:002012-01-06T22:01:25.995+08:00Navigating myself around all the features continues to be my biggest challenge in the blogging world. So far, I&#39;m storing my pictures on my hard drive. Will have to look into creating Picasa files.heather @ whats blooming this weekhttp://www.whatsbloomingthisweek.blogspot.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1660561043857404056.post-91386698486952623972012-01-06T17:31:28.433+08:002012-01-06T17:31:28.433+08:00Wow.... so glorious...so lovely...super quality and colors...<br />Greeting KarinKarin M.http://www.blogger.com/profile/13840381685278769749noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1660561043857404056.post-73841512084009245302012-01-06T11:43:24.752+08:002012-01-06T11:43:24.752+08:00I have chopped down my papaya tree because I suspected it was a male.<br /><br />Male is just too bad, in this case.<br /><br />By the way, you should be very busy preparing for coming CNY. Are you?rainfield61http://www.blogger.com/profile/01334864123466123667noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1660561043857404056.post-39563409873982412152012-01-06T11:26:08.436+08:002012-01-06T11:26:08.436+08:00I laughed at the lemon which produced lots of fruits, maybe it&#39;s afraid you will really do your threat of euthanasia. We have the white costus, spiral leaf arrangement but the flower stays only for a day. I still remember our previous dialogues on papaya, it is called a dioecious plant or the sexes are in separate plants. Do you already know that term, in contrast to monoecious plants like cucurbits.<br /><br />Your site is very famous, imagine those number of hits! Amazing! You have a very lovely blog title, which has other lovely meanings to some people, LOL. I hope you wont get the burn-out, keep the fire going!Andreahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06044386271018560595noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1660561043857404056.post-54733708028253307372012-01-06T11:21:00.633+08:002012-01-06T11:21:00.633+08:00You must have a really gorgeous garden! <br />may be you should post on Plants and Feng Shui! very interesting!<br />happy New Year!Malarhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18421349464010347804noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1660561043857404056.post-50623452486079337612012-01-06T10:33:37.408+08:002012-01-06T10:33:37.408+08:00I too shrudder the thought of all the new features the blogging system and all.<br />Always prefer the simple, easy and non-fuss factor.<br />But I&#39;m pretty sure we will survive it through - just like plants will rough it through whatever the weather &amp; climate throws at them.<br />Have a wonderful New Year ahead Belle!James Missierhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01423981835876393119noreply@blogger.com