I believe I'm going to get the trees but I will go with the potting them up and storing them in my unheated garage until spring. I store my fig plants in there as well but I cover them up so I will wrap the paw paw trees with two layers of grafting tape (paraflim). Also I have two large thick foam like planting pots, which might help a little with the insulation factor on the root area. If needed I can wrap insulation around the whole pot. I won't fill the pot to the top so I can add about 2 inches of mulch over the soil. The pots are 14 inches across the top and taper down to 10 inches at the bottom. They are 13 inches deep (inside measurement). My only concern is getting these tree out of the pots come spring with out doing damage to the roots. The other trees I planted I just cut through the thin plastic pots they came in with shears and never bothered the root ball whatsoever. These being in a sort of thick foam container I won't be able nor do I want to cut them up because they belong to wifey. They are the decorative type. What type soil do you recommend I store these bare root trees in? Lou

Hi everyone! I've followed this thread with growing interest, and finally took the next step by posting hete :) . I am a professional gardener, and my interests lie heavily on pomology and dendrology (yup, a tree hugger!). I have a vision to introduce cultivars of mulberries, american persimmons, paw paws, nuts, and cornelian cherries to my country of Finland. Now to many it would seem that being as far north as alaska might impose some challenges, but thanks to gulf stream, our southern end is beginning to be the equivalent of USDA 5b/6 ..but of course that's regarding only the low temperatures. At Köppen-Geiger climate we at the south are at Dfb , for those who use that. I'd like to talk about all potential plants, but let's focuse on paw paws...now we have of course insane amounts of light at the peak of the summer, will that help or hinder paw paws, I'm not sure. Last two summers have been wet and cold, and I suspect that no paw paws would have ripened. But then again, I remember summers with +30 Celsius (86 F) , and some winters that went as low as -30C (-22F) . Most of the time however we stay near the -20 C (-4F) at winter, so the low temperatures really are not an issue. However the growing degree days might be...and so I am especially interested in trying the absolutely most earliest cultivars! I really don't care about the size right now, I just want to PROVE to me and to others here that you can actually grow paw paw in the open and outside :D The excel sheet that someone posted is most excellent tool and I thank for that. Now to questions: -Do you have any special recommedations to try? -Should I also focus on growing seedlings ( I have four one year old seeldings, and 50 seeds in the fridge, all from Oikos) to find special case that grows well here? -Do you think that root stock will make a real difference? -When do you think is the best time to graft paw paw, and how thick the trunk should be before I try that? I thank everyone for any help bringing paw paws (and others) to my country :) -Janne

vendor list: Table 3. Suppliers of pawpaw cultivars. J.S. Akin Sherwood's Greenhouses P.O. Box 6 Sibley, LA 71073 Phone: (318) 377-3653 Cultivars: Davis, Mango, Overleese, Rebecca's Gold, Sunflower, Sweet Alice, and Wilson Send Self-Addressed Stamped Envelope for price list Annie Black Hidden Springs Nursery Rt. 14, Box 159 Cookville, TN 38501 Phone (931) 268-9889 Cultivars: Sunflower and Taylor Catalog $0.40 Corwin and Letha Davis 20865 Junction Road Bellevue, MI 49021 Phone (616) 781-7402 Cultivars: Davis, Overleese, Prolific, Sunflower, Taylor, and Taytwo Include Self-Addressed Stamped Envelope. Michael Dolan Burnt Ridge Nursery and Orchards 432 Burnt Ridge Rd. Onalaska, WA 98570 Phone: (206) 985-2873 Cultivars: Sunflower and Ford Amend Send Self-Addressed Stamped Envelope for free catalog J.H. Gordon, Jr. 1385 Campbell Blvd. Amherst, NY 14228-1404 Phone (716) 691-9371 Cultivars: PA-Golden, SAA-Overleese, and SAA-Zimmerman Louisiana Nursery Rt. 7, Box 43 Opelousas, LA 70570 Phone: (318) 948-3696 Cultivars: Mitchell, Overleese, and Wilson. Catalog $5.00 Northwoods Nursery 28696 S. Cramer Rd. Molalla, OR 97038 Phone (503) 651-3737 Cultivars: Mary Foos Johnson, Prolific, Rebecca's Gold, Sunflower, and Wells Oregon Exotics Rare Fruit Nursery Jerry Black 1065 Messinger Rd. Grants Pass, OR 97527 Phone: (503) 846-7578 Cultivar: W.L.W. Mason Robert Seip Lennilea Farm Nursery R.D. 1, Box 683 Alburtis, PA 18011 Phone (215) 845-2077 Cultivars: Mango, Sunflower, and Sweet Alice see link below for info on seed propogation best, mindy www.cottonarboretum.com/ Here is a link that might be useful: good pawpaw info-purdue

I never received anything from him for a trade set up last year. I sent a box full of fruit tree cuttings and plants and he acknowledged he got them, even commented on plants and then....nothing. An email 8 months later with a partial excuse and still nothing. He gives trades a bad name.