Pawpaw varieties from "Just Peachy" Cherimowest and Camelo about to be graft

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I dug up 4 large 3 years pawpaw suckers and about to graft them. They will be Cherimowest, Camelo, Mango, and another of Just Peachy seedlings for the new acre home next March.

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Never heard of any of those varieties.

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Mango pawpaw is from Georgia. The rest of them are the seedlings of Shenandoah from a friend of Just Peachy a member on this forum.

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Thought I’d do some detective work. I actually asked this question on another thread and found the quote saying its different varieties but looking at other comments over made me a bit confused so thought I’d clarify.

Question to @tonyOmahaz5 / @JustPeachy : Someone was asking on FB on Timothy Lane’s FB thread (Ockoo Farm) if CherimoWest and GarageWest are the same…
Tony mentions they are:

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Think he renamed it personally since it had a more Cherimoya flavor:

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But @JustPeachy says they are different maybe here:

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Are there 3 different distinctive varieties (think someone also asked about ‘West’ on the FB comment thread)?
“GarageWest” (more coconutty one), and “CherimoWest” (more cherimoya one), and “West” (???)?

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@JustPeachy any update on above question? i was going to start asking people for scionwood of those CherimoWest/GarageWest varieties but wasn’t sure if they are actually same.

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@tonyOmahaz5 or anyone else, if i wanted to clarify if CherimoWest/GarageWest/West are different varieties, can I email JustPeachy … what’s his email if anyone can send over (or email him yourselves and send a link to this thread for them to clarify to you which you can then paste their answer here). I thought he was the original source of ‘West’ pawpaws (but i could be wrong) and just thought I’d give it one last shot with an email before nursery folk start selling the scionwood/plants of it next year or 2.

Recently a trusted person said “Further digging reveals that there is only one, and that is Cherimo West. Tony Omaha chose the name.”
and another said:
“I have Cherimo West which is different from “West” or so I found out a few months back.”.
Both people are highly respected names in the pawpaw circles/groups/scion-sellers (but at least one said they don’t want to officially say that yet since they only pieced together that info secondhand).

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I’ve been out of the country for about 10 months. It’s kind of crazy how many of you guys are asking about me about pawpaws.

Tony made a boo boo.

Cherimowest was formerly known as West. Garage West is a different pawpaw. GW tastes more like coconut according to Darren.

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Cool!, Thanks for clarifying.
Will try to get scionwood of these two in the next few years.