Turning my bedroom into a tropical jungle I've always been drawn to tropical plants, with their lush foliage, exotic fruits, and large sizes. Only one problem: I live in Portland Oregon. We get roughly eight months of overcast skies and cold, wet weather every year. Most of the amazing tropical plants I love could never survive an Oregon winter outdoors. So...what to do? Create the jungle indoors of course! It all started innocently enough. I've always loved papayas. The papayas we get at local grocery stores are pretty pathetic looking, and extremely over priced. For the last few years, I've been daydreaming about how cool it would be to grow my own papayas here in Oregon. Obviously certain challenges stand in my way. If it were easy, we'd have local papaya farmers selling their bounties at farmers markets. We don't. So I finally got off my ass, bought one of those pathetic papayas, and dried out some seeds for planting. I planted a bunch of those seeds in...