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Sept 26, 2011 11:11:09 GMT -5
Post by coppice on Sept 26, 2011 11:11:09 GMT -5
Now this is an understorey tree that the recollection of eating them from my youth, and their non-existence on my own home range. made me learn how to grow this tree.
It is another dandy tree that can be planted on woodlot edge. In fact prefers a bit of afternoon shade. (as in needs it)
What'cha cannot do with pawpaw is fiddle with the roots. Once planted, they is where you planted them, or they is dead.
Except You can fool pawpaws reluctance to have their feet messed with once.
I start pawpaw in deep 36 count cells. They stay in those cells till the tree is dormant, IE late fall or early spring. I slide the root mass out gently and place them in their prepared hole and gently replace soil. So if you planted seed tomorrow, the seed will not germinate till spring 2012, and seedling will not be big enough to transplant till fall of 2012.
Stake them well, this is a tiny tree at yearling size.
Yea, seeds, what about them seeds ? My best luck has been from fresh moist seed, spit from the fruit and planted to cells, in very fast draining soil. (more on that later). Let them over winter in cells, in your cold frame, or just with a plank over pots in garden.
*If* this thread heats up for folks who do not have access to fresh moist seed I will send out a few (like 2 or 3) offers. if you start reading this much later than October 2011, your gonna have to wait, or rustle your own fresh seed.
Tree dirt trees don't eat like your tomato does. its dirt should be 1/2 coarse sand, and 1/2 bagged (fine sized) bark mulch. *If* your growing in pots or cells. Pawpaw grows to field in a wide variety of soils. Just not ledge or boggy bottom land. You have about a celluloid dogs chance in hell of starting a field planted sapling and moving it.
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Pawpaw
Aug 9, 2014 9:44:24 GMT -5
Post by coppice on Aug 9, 2014 9:44:24 GMT -5
What Little Suzy didn't know when she followed her nose.
The other intersecting part of this thread is in nature the best yielding paw paw patches have been maintained. Immature trees, brush, all need to be cleaned out of the patch.
I suspect the hand of long past native harvesters in all of this.
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elliemater
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Aug 9, 2014 10:31:41 GMT -5
Post by elliemater on Aug 9, 2014 10:31:41 GMT -5
What Little Suzy didn't know when she followed her nose. The other intersecting part of this thread is in nature the best yielding paw paw patches have been maintained. Immature trees, brush, all need to be cleaned out of the patch. I suspect the hand of long past native harvesters in all of this. I bought what I was told were a male and female paw paw tree (babies) and planted them in my asparagus bed, planning to move them later. But they like it so much in that spot (more shade than any other place in my yard, neighbor's trees overhanging the fence) that I will leave them there. They are about 10 ft tall now. I read that each tree has male/female blossoms though, there is not a male and a female tree. I guess what I have are two trees of the same variety then. I wonder if I will get any fruit.
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Post by coppice on Aug 9, 2014 21:58:37 GMT -5
Ellie your paw paw will make fruit with two trees.
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Post by redneckplanter on Apr 28, 2015 19:21:36 GMT -5
any pawpaw updates?
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Apr 27, 2017 0:03:59 GMT -5
Post by reubent on Apr 27, 2017 0:03:59 GMT -5
have them all over the woods, I eat them when I find good ones. One seed found it's way into the garbage and grew in a garden plot that was a bit too shaded in afternoon for gardening anyway. It's now a very large tree by paw paw standards, but too far from others so it hasn't made fruit. It's blooming now.
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