Do you have Prima, or Potomac? KSU Chappell is also really good and mid/late
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I think tropical treat is supposed to be pretty late too.
Cliff used to sell a VE-9 and winter delight that were supposedly late ripening as well, but you don’t see people growing them much.
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275-17 October Moon is another late season one.
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Thanks, will look for scions on a couple of these this winter.
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Sunflower is the latest in my orchard every year. I will still have sunflower to harvest when all others are gone, sometimes by as much as 2 weeks. I am located in NC zone 7b. And I have many cultivars growing.
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Neal patented 3 varieties which all expired in 2022.
Levfiv aka Susquehanna
Wansevwan aka Shenandoah
Aidfievate aka Rappahanock
Note that the name we all use is trademarked…the patent for them was granted in 04, but it starts from the file date of 2001…
But not sure if you could sell scionwood under the trademarked name…
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I think a lot of people have been sending Neal small royalties anyway just to help him out.
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Sunflower is widely discussed as an early-ripening variety. So I’m confused. Do you mean that it ripens throughout the season and a few fruits are still hanging at the end?
I grew it for maybe ten years, it may have been later but I don’t think it was two weeks later for me.
I found a few late Rebecca’s Gold pawpaws that I finished off the last of today. It’s also not a favorite of mine for taste but it is plenty good. No more pawpaws until next year for me.
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I don’t think pawpaws are universally early or late, since their ripening is mainly based on heat units. Whats early in the southern or mid range might not always be earliest in the northern part of the range. To make it more complicated the harvest window is really long. I would put Sunflower as more mid/late but you might get a few early fruits if you’re in an area where you get more heat early in the season. At home this year my fruits were almost a month early since we got so much early heat and no late frost events. My last Susquehanna’s dropped yesterday, but last year they didnt start dropping till mid September.
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I would never consider sunflower an early ripening cultivar. A few of its fruits will start ripening about mid season but the majority ripen later than my others including susquehanna and potomac. For instance most of my cultivars like allegheny, NC-1, shenandoah, rappahannock, greenriver belle, to name a few have all been gone for 1-2 weeks. Sunflower still has a few hard fruit hanging and these will likely ripen over the next week or so. I have been growing pawpaw for many years and this is always the case, at least in my climate.
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OK so NRVT3-10 is the one I have a few seedlings from. Interesting that it was low brix, but highly recommended by Blake. I’ll have to catch the “live” event on FB later.
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Awesome stuff! Any more info from the event or word on when/how these varieties will be released??
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No word yet on when they’ll be released. In a NAFEX talk they said they would be releasing Hi 1-4 and HI 7-1 next year. The A trees have just started producing so theyre going to need evaluation and trialing before they get released.
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I watched most of the presentation. I couldn’t help but notice that they didn’t mention the cracking issue with Chappell or the ripening issue with Atwood even though they mentioned that Wabash and Potomac have issues with cracking.
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LOL i took a screenshot of that too from the live stream 
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I really think most of the cracking issues come from a combination of stressed trees and phyllosticta susceptability. Trees that are stressed are going to be impacted the most by phyllosticta as well. I had barely any on the fruit this year since it was so dry, but I have seen it on the leaves. I also didnt irrigate or fertilize my trees. Next year I’ll have them irrigated, azomite, and foliar fed. I am hoping that if the trees are pampered they will make nicer quality fruit, the fruit this year was decent overall but tallahatchie was really small and skinny even though I thinned.
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I don’t have phyllosticta here since I’m pretty far away from any wild patches of pawpaw. You’re right that it can cause cracking though. Scabby patches that develop on the skin from rubbing against branches in windy conditions can develop minor cracks as well.
It’s definitely the variety and susceptibility to infrequent or heavy watering, in absence of phyllosticta. Wabash and Potomac are known to crack sometimes with a lot of rain or getting rain after a prolonged dry spell. Chappell seems to be the same way. I haven’t noticed much, if any, cracking on Shenandoah, Allegheny, PA Golden, or Mango.
It’s hard to say just how susceptible Chappell is when it comes to cracking as I’ve only had it fruiting for 2 years now. Thus far, I can only say that it seems at least as susceptible as Wabash.
How was the taste on Tallahatchie? I’m looking forward to trying that one. Hopefully next year mine will produce. I’ve read that it can overproduce and have small fruits. I think it needs to be aggressively thinned like Allegheny. Limiting clusters to only 1 or 2 fruits each should help as well.
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No wild pawpaws here in NH, but I had plenty of phyllosticta on the leaves of some trees late this summer. I think Al Horn was looking the worst. I’m going to clean up all of the leaf litter this year and dispose of it to keep it out of the soil.
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