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The Maradol Papaya
Originally, papaya growing is from Southern Mexico and Central America. This growing has successfully acclimated to different tropical and subtropical zones in the world. The papaya is a large oval yellow-reddish fruit whose soft skin is thin. Its yellow-orange flesh is firm and sweet in all the different varieties available on the market.
The Maradol variety has had great success in few years and has become a prominent fruit in tropical zone harvests because of its characteristics such as its flavor and food value of interest to customers, but also because of growers can take advantage of its marketability and profitability
The most outstanding features of Maradol papaya are:
- This papaya variety is the earliest due to the fact that its flowering begins approximately in 3 months after planting out and its harvest, in 7 months. Nevertheless the latter can remain for 20 months. The fruition begins almost 50 centimeters above ground.
- At the beginning of the harvest, dwarf fruit trees are 1.20 or 1.70 meters from ground level to terminal bud. In the middle of the production, they can be over 2.30 meters.
- This growing has a high marketability because it has been possible to produce 200 tons per acre. In better conditions, it is possible to produce approximately 120 tons per acre.
- Papaya fruits are homogeneous in shape and size.
- Coming from hermaphrodite plants, 66% of papaya's fruits are extended, 33% of fruits are rounded and come from female plants. Finally, 1% of fruits come from hermaphrodite, intermediate, sterile and male plants.
- The fruit average weight is from 1.5 a 2.6 kilograms, extended fruits prevail over (hermaphrodite) due to the fact that their shape and size are appropriate for marketing
- The Papaya's skin is yellow, shiny orange, and its flesh is bright red, very attractive for consumers.
- The papaya has an adequate sugar nutritional value (approximately 12 brix degrees). Its flavor is delicious and its flesh has an excellent consistency. Undoubtedly this is a very distinctive characteristic of this papaya variety.
- Because of the papaya's thick epidermis, thick mesocarp, slow length and smooth skin, papaya growing has advantages for shipment and storage.
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