I have been growing Pawpaws from seed for a few years now. The seedlings are doing okay, but they have been very slow growing. Last year I ordered and planted three seedling trees from a nursery that were between three and four feet tall. This spring, to my amazement, one of them actually flowered. I fully expected that nothing would come of it, knowing that Pawpaws need proper cross-pollination. With that said, it has been a couple weeks since petal-fall, and I have a dozen fruitlets still hanging, and more importantly so far, growing on the tree. I hope that they keep going! Anyone ever have a single Pawpaw flower and still produce fruit?
That is good news. You may have a self-fruitful pawpaw just like Sunflower. It could be a Sunflower seedling.
Tony
I really hope so!
That looks like a pretty good fruit set if they stick. My neighbor has a couple that are close 15+ feet high and he doesn’t get a whole lot more fruit setting per tree. Congratulations.
Hope it/they turn out delicious.
Best of luck.
Dax
Great news! Awesome to see. From what nursery did you order them from?
Grimo Nut Nursery in Niagara On The Lake, Ontario, Canada. I’m in Toronto.
Congrats. One of my two pawpaws flowers but nothing to cross pollinated it with. After 3 years, they still about 2 ft tall.
What ever came of this? Did you end up getting any fruit? I planted some paw paw seedlings that were specially grown in root maker pots this year. It had 5 blooms on it. They all opened and dropped, but one. I took a picture of it today:
They are small fruitlets, congratulations!
Praying they don’t fall…
You welcome…
Anything can happen but that cluster has the right-angle to the trunk/branch which typically means pollination was successful!