• Female fruits are globe shaped and hermaphrodite fruits have a pointed blossom end.
• With a softer outer shell than Tainung #1 it is suitable for local shipping only.
• Hybrid with 50/50 ratio of hermaphrodite to female trees.
• Flesh is orange-red, tender with good taste and quality.
• High yield producer setting fruit at average 70 cm.
• Outer husk ripens with a green, orange colouring.
• Fruit is sweeter than Tainung #1
• The plant has PRSV tolerance.
• Averages 1.1 kg in size.

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• Vigorous plant that is a high yield producer and has shown good field tolerance to PRSV (papaya ring spot Virus).
• Red fleshed fruit averaging 1.1 kg with a very sturdy outer shell for long distance shipping.
• High yield producer setting fruit at average 70 cm.
• Outer husk ripens with a green, orange colouring.

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• Has a yellowish green / orange skin, normally between 10 and 15 percent smaller than the Sunrise, and ripens earlier in the season.
• slightly less sweet than the Sunrise, but sweeter than the Mexican varieties.
• The flesh is salmon-pink to light red in colour and quite firm.
• The Sunset Solo papaya will usually be pear-shaped.

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• Fruiting – 4.5 months and 8 months to pluck the fruit from the plant. Production – 40 to 60 kilograms per
  plant.
• Red Lady is a vigorous and semi – early, productive cultivar and showed good tolerant to papaya ringspot virus.
• Plants begin to bear fruits at 80 cm height average 30 fruits per plant in first 15 to 18 months.
• The fruit of the Red Lady variety of papaya do no rotten up to 15 days after complete ripe.
• That in turn proves helpful in export of this fruits to any other state or country.
• About 15 to 20 cm tall seedlings are chosen for planting in 2 months.
• Papaya roots are very sensitive to water logging or standing water.
• Fruit weight about 1.5 to 2 kgs Fruit is very delicious in taste and fleshy.
• Optimum temp – 25 to 30 degrees Celsius.
• Do not grow any other crop with papaya.

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