Has Anyone Tried Air Layering Paw Paw's
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Anyone with Paw Paw trees????
Comments (9)Ditto what Chills said. Check back in mid-September. It looks like I'm going to have a really good crop on my 3 larger maturing trees this year, but of course I also have a bold deer that stares at me and eats when I'm 25 feet from it and about a million squirrels this year. Deer love paw paws. Bunnies do too, but can't climb trees! But yes, I would be willing to send you whatever I could put into a USPS flat rate priority mail box if you'd reimburse my postage. Plus I have a killer recipe for Paw Paw Blondies that I adapted from Martha Stewart's butterscoth blondies recipe that I would share. OK, I know this is a hard one, but pawpaws have the texture of ripe mango. The flavor is sort of like banana, sort of a tiny hint of a pineappleish quality. Well, yeah, I guess you just have to taste them for yourself! They are like some other foods (olives, anchovies, certain cheeses) in that they are an acquired taste. The first time I tried one, and I was very excited by the way because it was my first ripe fruit off my first tree, I thought "disgusting." But as I tried them more I came to love them. One final note -- the skin and a layer of green cells just under it have sort of a medicinal flavor, sort of reminds me of original flavor of Listerine. It can be very weak or kind of overwhelming, depending upon the individual fruit. If you remove all of this with a paring knife before you eat the fruit it will be a lot better....See MoreAnybody grown Paw Paw's,Pakistan Mulberry or italian prune in AZ?
Comments (28)As long as I stay on top of the watering, they do pretty well--but by being stingy & careless with the irrigation I nearly killed my biggest one last year, and when I went out this morning to take photos I saw that another one has dried out and is really suffering. So, due to my own neglect, I've only got two decent ones left. This one is now my best hope. It's 6 feet high and even made a few flowers this year. This had been the biggest until last summer when the main trunk died due to water stress. At first I thought the missing leaves were due to leafcutter ant, but no such luck. It's now trying to come back from the base, so I'll keep my fingers crossed that it will succeed as a multi-trunked tree (which would make a good base for grafting on a few named varieties). This one has been slow but is hanging in there; it put out a few flowers this year as well. Your request for photos may have saved this one--time will tell. I went out to take pictures and saw it was on its last legs, so I gave it a soak. Hopefully it's not too late. This 10" runt came from the same batch of seeds as the others, and was planted at the same time. Aside from being tiny, it seems healthy enough, so I just leave it alone to do its thing under a white sapote. I include it with the other shots just to make the point that, if you're starting them from seeds (and you have enough to waste some), you might as well plant several in each location and then cull the least vigorous. I kind of got sidetracked by avocados last year, and haven't been paying enough attention to the pawpaws. In Arizona they clearly need frequent, deep irrigation, and one hot day with a water deficit is enough undo several years of progress. They also need deep mulch, which I also haven't gotten around to adding yet. I'll try to do a better job of taking care of them this summer, in hopes of being able to give a better report next year. In the meantime, if you haven't already done so, you might want to join the Pawpaw Fanatics Facebook group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/927257504078942/...See MoreAnyone know where Persimmons/PawPaws are growing wild in NJ?
Comments (302)Hi Ano, I have some very small (American) persimmon seedlings. You are welcome to some; bear in mind that most persimmons require both a male and a female closeby for pollination and fruit production. So about 50% chance of that with 3 seedlings, sex unknown. However: the cultivar 'Meader' is unusual in that it is parthenocarpic -- it sets large fruit, with a few sterile seeds generally, *without* a pollinator. So that might be worth the additional time and expense to procure? Also note that many opinions exist as to the best-tasting American persimmon; I considered putting in a 'Prok' also but decided to use the space for Chinese mulberries instead. Another cheap possible source: state university nurseries generally raise and sell a variety of trees, once-a year, bareroot, in the late autumn. These sales are usually not well publicized. -- Stan in Hamilton, NJ 609.731.3882...See MorePawPaw, cherimoya... In New Orleans?
Comments (5)Help!! Have been looking for PawPaw trees! Does anyone have a source, what are the growing conditions! I know I will need two trees, but dn't know the size of this tree or its growing conditions. Can anyone tell me something about this tree? Have heard about it since I was a child, but no one coudl tell me much about it!!! Thank you!!!!!!!...See Morealcedo 4/5 W Europe
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