@blake- What are your top three pawpaws for taste/texture only?
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Blake
Are you saying that after waiting for 6 years for my Mango pawpaw to fruit, it will produce only mediocre fruit!! Thatâs cruel, man 
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Remember your zone only references the lowest temperature! I have a friend in Melbourne Australia 9b that is growing stone fruit, apple, pears ,pawpaw,gauva, mango ,apricot, lychee ,longan and many other tropicals and temperate fruits. Even though heâs in 9b he gets months of weather below 45f but never below 32f, where me in a 8b north Florida barely get enough chill hours for most fruit. Lake city fl= 8b, las vegas=8b ,Spokane Washington = 8b and yet the only thing in common is they never get below 15f or 20f other than that completely different environments. So as long as you get 400 chill hours you should be good to go! Pawpaws love humidity!
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(sorry for yet another OT post!)
I think you mean Seattle â Spokane is in zone 6. Also, growing zones donât mean it never gets below that number, it means if you take the lowest temperatures for each of the 30 years ending in 2011 (latest USDA zone update was 2012), and average those 30 measurements, the average falls between 15 and 20. Many places in zone 8b have occasional lows below 15°F, but just not often enough to pull the average lowest temperature below that.
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Hey some people like it. Compared to others, itâs just a goopy mess in my book. It does get fairly big. Nice name though.
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Well, I have to admit I have not tried them all - who has? But top 3 currently would be Susquehanna, KSU Benson and KSU Chappell. Nyomiâs Delicious and Sunflower are high on the list too. NC-1 is pretty darn good too. And some of the other Peterson are outstanding but I canât distinctly remember them. By this fall I should have more taste tests under my belt as many of our trees and some rare cultivars are fruiting.
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I am starting a new thread on pawpaws so we donât get too off topic here.
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You are correct!
canât wait to hear about them!
No yeah i hear yaâŠi know at least 2 people who say itâs their favorite. I was surprised by the good flavor on the couple i tried last year, but they were indeed soft, which I donât care as much for.
But like you said itâs an old-school variety that has mostly been surpassed.
And thanks for starting a new thread LOL but hey all pawpaw conversation is a good thing
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Thanks for the info - i had read it was selected in Georgia but wasnât sure if the seed (or mother tree) actually originated there or was part of a generalized trial using seed from who-knows-where.
Even so, if it did well enough in Georgia trials to be named and released, that should mean itâs suited well for the South regardless, I guess.
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Thanks to you both for the info. 
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FYI: Asimina triloba cultivar âSweet Potatoâ, chance seedling from Blandy Experimental Farm. I have purchased this variety from âJust Fruits and Exotics nurseryâ, 30 St. Frances st. in Crawford Florida. 850-926-5644. Nice destination nursery. Wakulla springs nearby. I am of the opinion that the âMangoâ
variety when properly cultivated produces large, tasty fruit, simply Superb for making smoothies. Perhaps it should only be cultivated in the deep South. KSU recommended that I use Mango rootstock (due to its inherent Vigor), for the "Pina Coladaâ scion they so graciously donated to me. Another consideration would be the old cultivar âSweet Aliceâ, ( circa 1945), I like the flavor of this one, mine have demonstrated Phyllosticta resistance.
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Okefenokee wetlands Georgia.
Mango is controversial 
Some love it, others bemoan it. I tasted one small fruit sent thru the mail and it was very tasty. So much that I thought I should acquire it.
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Quick update - the piña colada seedling tree produced. Few very small fruit. The weather here was horrible for pawpaws this year.
But, the fruit tasted very good but unfortunately no durian flavor 
TBD
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Mango is controversial, LOL! Yes I would agree. Here in NC 7b it was the fastest growing and one of the most productive in my home orchard for 20-25 years. And at least in my climate most of the fruits were on the large size. I only had one tree of mango, eventually it declined from age and was never replaced. I do not like mango as its fruits are too mushy in texture. If they drop to the ground, many times they would almost fall apart or be like a mushy water filled balloon. You could hardly pick one up without it falling apart. To me, the flavor is hit or miss but if they age much at all (which they quickly do) they have a bitter aftertaste which I do not care for in the least. But I do know a few pawpaw people who seem to really like it. To each his own. I rank it low quality along with wilson, mitchell, wells, rebeccaâs gold, taylor, and prolific among the cultivars I have tried. I cannot imagine mango having any commercial use, other than possibly for processing - but even that would have to be carried out in a timely manner.
I am not certain about the history of mango as info seems a little cloudy. Old literature states a major Collins selected from the wild in GA, however I was once told by a reliable source that mango was indeed selected in GA (and maybe by Major Collins?) but that it was likely selected from a seedling of a Corwin Davis selection. I am not sure if anyone knows with certainty.
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Massive as in over a pound? Do you happen to have any photos? How does it compare with HI 1-4?
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Agree, have not had a âMangoâ that I enjoyed. Just seems like theres so many better selections available. KSU Chappell is probably just as vigorous, and a much tastier fruit.
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