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Comments (20)Seriously, Murky, what you just suggested is brilliant! GREAT IDEA! For one, you are 100% right, I've already got fruit tree fever bad enough that I KNOW I'm going to learn how to graft this summer! I'll probably be doing silly things like taking scion from one tree and putting it on another and vice versa, even though I'll have both varieties in full, just so I can practice and learn to graft. Second, your plan would leave me with some good sized paw paws in a few years, at which time I can 1) do what you suggested and topwork them with better variety if I need to. Also, since I have plenty of space in my "orchard" I can still buy and plant some better varieties in the next few years if I want to. Then if the seedlings don't work out, I can either cut them down or rework them. In short, your suggestion would only cost me about $30 dollars now and would give me several options in a few years, whereas if I do nothing and/or just keep looking for the "right" pawpaw, I may easily let a year or two slip by with no progress. Can I please ask one related but slightly off topic question? I have a good looking mature, but healthy, crabtree that is probably 6-8 inch diameter trunk. I'd like to topwork it into a good fruiting apple, which I've read is very possible. But here is my question....which would be FASTER (in terms of getting a good fruit producing apple tree that is producing a good crop)....topworking my crabapple or cutting it down and just planting a new, potted, 5-6 foot apple tree? On one hand, the top worked tree obviously already has a large, well developed root system that could support a new top graft. But on the other hand, a 5-7 foot tall tree that already has SOME roots that are ready to start spreading/growing seems like it is at least 2 years ahead of the small scion I'd need to graft onto the 3-4 foot stump, and there graft would take some time to heal and start growing (I assume). I've wondered about this for a long time and for other situations I have. So, in short, is it faster to plant a good, tall, root balled tree or to cut down a decent tree and top work it with new scion. (This assumes I have both available, and that the topwork graft is successful). Thanks...See MoreOrdered bare-root paw paw. Are they doomed?
Comments (26)I think 70 feet would be OK. Do you know the trick about hanging something stinky and rotten in the trees just before the buds open? I've used chicken skins, fly bait out of a fly trap, and rotten eggs, and it really increases the fruit set. Mostly pollinated by flies attracted to carrion, and I wouldn't think 70 feet would be much of an issue for them. I don't think clay is an issue, either. My two original trees are planted in heavy clay that sometimes has a little standing water for 2-3 days at certain times of the year, and they thrive. By "heavy" clay, I mean the kind that is so thick and nasty it sticks in heavy, heavy clumps to your boots when wet....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 MoreWhere to find paw paws or american persimmons in Lehigh Valley?
Comments (8)My Pawpaw in the Pittsburgh suburbs finally is putting out abundant flowers these last two years. I drove into the city and accessed a large Pawpaw grove planted in a public park to find pollen. Since it's warmer in the city the flowers were more developed than mine so I clipped two short branches that had blossoms and brought them home and kept them in a water bucket. When their anthers turned brown and crumbly I used an artist's brush to transfer pollen to my tree in which the stigmas looked ripe and firm and the anthers were still packed tightly (unripe.) It's too early to claim success since my flowers are only now starting to dry up. In another week I think all the flowers will have fallen and I can look for fruit to start. My fingers are crossed....See Morebrandon7 TN_zone7
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