Anyone know where Persimmons/PawPaws are growing wild in NJ?
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Comments (36)Paw Paw Questions (3): SUNFLOWER CULTIVAR SELF-FERTILE? *The ÂSunflower Paw-Paw cultivar is often commercially listed online as self-fertile; however, some websites which seem somewhat Âscholarly seem to indicate that this cultivar has never been actually proven to be self-fertile. IÂve even seen is said that they are "partially" self-fertile  whatever that means (maybe it means unreliably, but occasionally; or maybe it means only a few of the flowers will be able to be self-compatibly fertile. Has anyone grown a single specimen and yet received fruit and/or knows the answer to this question? NATURAL POLINATION OF PAW-PAWS *I was considering, if the ÂSunflower cultivar is not really self-fertile, planting 2 separate Paw-Paw cultivars. Since they are mostly only pollinated by flies and Âscavenging beatlesÂ, how far is the most I should keep them apart? FORCED POLINATION OF PAW-PAWS Can I detach the flowers of one Paw-Paw and then bring it over to the (attached) flowers of another Paw-Paw and fertilize the flower which is not detached in this way? Thanks, Steve...See MoreWhere to place paw paw trees
Comments (17)I don't really know if it's all that necessary to have a lot of heat to ripen paw paws. Mine had no problems ripening in the summer of 2008, which was very cool, nor in the summer of 2009, which was record-setting cool here. I didn't notice any difference in flavor or sweetness in them in 2008 or 2009 versus other years. Here, they generally bloom in early to mid May, and the fruit ripens over about a 3 week period in very late Sept. into October. All of mine that are fruiting are seedlings. I did plant some grafted varieties in the past couple of seasons, but none of them are close to bearing size yet. RE: the second picture Frank posted, I would say that tree is more like 10 to 12 years old, IMO. It wouldn't be nearly that large nor that big of a trunk caliper at 5 years, at least, none of mine were. Oh, yeah, one more thing, while I'm thinking of it. File this tidbit of information away for future reference -- paw paws are fly pollinated. You will get FAR more fruit to set if you put something really foul-smelling and rotten in the trees a few days before the first blossoms open, and keep it there during the 7-10 days the trees are in bloom. I learned this a few years ago from an article in Michigan Gardener magazine -- there is a guy near Jackson, MI who grows and breeds paw paws, and he hangs either roadkill or dead carp in each of his trees. Too gruesome for me, I use the bait out of Ortho fly traps, I put it in a little plastic cup taped onto the trunk. Works like a charm. Makes me gag when I have to dump it out, but it's a small price to pay for all of the extra fruit....See Morewild paw paw
Comments (10)Paw paw tree's are abundon here on beaver lake and surrounding area's. I will be grafting some of my own varieties to some wild ones next spring to get better fruiting among the wild ones. This particular area were the fruits were picked has a lot of seedlings(water sprouts) and the leaves on these tree's are very large,some are 13"long x3.5 wide. I don,t know if this normal, but all my own tree's are not that long. This cluster of 4 fruits has the biggest one at 4"long X 3.5 wide and the next one a little smaller.I have taking some of these small watersprouts and planted on my property and they all survived.I dug a small hole and then ran a piece of pipe in the middle of the dugged hole. This hole is for the piece of root that comes with the tree, fill with dirt, straightened the tree, water and you are good to go. Here is another picture....See MoreRE: The Paw Paw Fruit
Comments (1)My pawpaw is ripening now. if you're willing to go to pennsylvania there are wild pawpaw patch in state parks around the Susquehanna river, in south central pa....See MoreAnna Piekarewicz
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