Then I recommend not growing Pawpaws.
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i in fact, have not ever thought about growing pawpaws. Would rather grow mangos than pawpaws.
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I mean most of my citrus grafts have held fruit within a year or so, but yeah it’ll be a few years before they reach the size of a $200 tree.
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First pawpaw. Danaes creekside. Rats took a chunk out of this tiny one.
It smelled delicious!
Have a few dozen more.
I did eat a small bite. Very tasty
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My backyard smells heavenly right now. The strawberries finally recovered from the move here and are producing bowls every other day.
Bringing these to a friend 
Also have a mutant plant that creates pinkish white fruit that’s extremely sweet compared to all other strawberries I’m growing.
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Has that been consistent over more than one year? I had a seedling strawberry produce light pink fruit in its first year (which I thought was cool), but by the next year it only produced red fruit.
Not sure but it changed from being a normal strawberry to this mutant after the move over here.
Flavor went from just sweeter than most strawberries to extremely sweet. It’s growing in my pot with my dragonfruit. Let me see if i can find a photo of it with the dragonfruit
Nice. How do you know it was rats?
So this one was another fruit that was growing in a pot of dragonfruit as well that’s acted different. It made chimera strawberries for a little bit.
I’m wondering if planting them with dragonfruit changes them somehow.
I don’t have a photo of that specific plant that that berry came from but I’ll take one tomorrow.
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Domestic strawberries (Fragaria ×ananassa) are still so relatively new in the grand scheme of things. With their complicated, multiple duplicate genomes there is a lot going in in the genes of each plant so it would make sense if environmental variations could cause various genes to express which are normally overpowered by other genes on their duplicate genomes.
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Took the mutant strawberries out of their pot with Dragonfruit and separated them.
Half will stay outside to do the dormant thing, half will be in the greenhouse
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My pawpaws are all withering away basically, but I’ve learned recently that the neighbor on the other side of the fenceline where they are growing has been using herbicide against blackberries, so now I’m suspecting that’s why mine have been so small and sickly with unexpected dieback.
Here’s my healthiest one, Susquehanna, 3 years in the ground:
On what criteria did you judge them ready to pick?
Sorry to hear that swincher. Mine grew super slowly, I think mainly due to lack of nitrogen. That Susquehanna doesn’t look bad to me other than small.
When they are in the ground, they are ready to pick.
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Blast them with urea 46-0-0 or lawn fertilizer.
And watch them grow 4-6 feet in a single year.