Growing pawpaws from seed - questions

[jcguarneri]

Hello and welcome to the forum. There’s a lot of good info in this thread. Also a lot of others if you search for pawpaw seedling in the search bar.

Starting pawpaw seeds

Starting the slow crawl towards spring here in PA by starting my pawpaw seeds. I’m trying a new method this year that I hope works OK. I’ve taken various plastic containers with lids, filled them with potting soil and planted the seeds about 1" deep. The containers went into the utility closet, which is pretty warm this time of year with the furnace running. They should germinate in several weeks to a month, but no shoots for 2-3 months. Seeds have been in the fridge stratifying since Sept or O…