I haven’t grafted this late in the year before so I’m not sure what the right answer is… I’m probably not going to leave much rootstock vegetation to limit possible rejection of grafts. Hopefully the trees go into overdrive and push decent growth to harden off before winter.
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Truly wish I could chime in with some useful advice, but I have 0 experience growing trees in the Arctic Tundra. 
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Yea that looks like a good size to me, you want pencil thick up to an inch and half thick. Too thick and you have too much exposed wood that will rot.
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Hopefully Buzz’s area came out okay after yesterday’s flooding. He’s right near MPV airport and there was quite a bit of flooding in town in Barre.
A little shout out to justpeachy from Buzz there too.
I think I have descriptions about all of the cultivars Buzz carries now except for Jumbo Lucky S.
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Wow! I cannot believe those were only planted in 2020. They look great!
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Wow, so many beautiful Pawpaw trees! 
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I’ve got one seedling from 2021, and 15 from 2022, all in some tall air-pots I’ve stacked together. Some of my seedlings have very pale green leaves (about 2-3 of 16 seedlings). They all get pretty much the same care - same temperature, same amount of sun, are watered at the same time. What could be the reason for some getting such pale leaves? Especially the one from 2021 is struggling. It looked good until recently, put on a lot of leaves, then lost it colours… could it be overwatering? I had my dad water the plants when I went away for vacation, and even though it was showing signs before our vacation, it has gone very bad very fast 
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I live in south-eastern Ontario and we definitely have a short growing season here. This spring I planted small grafted pawpaw trees, one Sunflower and one Atwood. It’s great to see that Atwood is on your list of early ripening varieties. Any info on sunflower? If I need to switch varieties it’s better to do it now then wait several years and find out 
Maybe give it a little bit or fertilizer or compost?
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Sunflower is mid to late season.
It also tends to be more starchy in most environments at 16°Brix, rather than 21°Brix to 27°Brix like many cultivars.
However, it did win the 2010 best pawpaw in the Ohio Pawpaw Festival.
So it has the potential of being sweet.
I would suspect that this might be due to it having difficulty assimilating Boron,
as Boron plays a major role in gibberellins, Auxin transport & the creation of Ethylene the fruit ripening hormone which turns starch back into sugar.
VE-21 & Summer Delight are both very early cultivars.
Tallahatchie is early to mid season & is 27°Brix.
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Thats interesting. My sunflower fruits are always very sweet and delicious. 
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I’ll try - it can’t hurt, considering the bad trend some of the plants have been having. Btw, attached images of my most sorry looking, Pawpaw - it’s from 2021, the only one I got to germinate that year. The others are from 2022. 
PS - it’s the one on the bottom right.
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That looks like my setup where I water them from below in those propagation airpots. That yellowing one has less soil so maybe it’s maximized its nutrients first. I had some from 2020 yellow like that and some fert had them greening back up within a week. I’ll get some pics of mine when I get home later.
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Great, thanks! …
Yeah, I’ve been watering by submersing in water last year. This year I’ve just done a mist nozzle 1-2 times a day, and it has been enough to get it moist all way through … btw, I’ve stacked 2 pcs of 1L 1air-pots on top of eachother.
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I like that. I was experimenting with stacking them this spring, but the curvature was too much for those 1L ones to fit one entirely inside another. Are yours held together in some way (wire ties?) or did you just stack and fill with soil?
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A few hundred KSU seedlings coming up in my 7x3.5 foot air pruning bed. I had to put the chicken wire across to keep squirrels from digging in it. So far they’re finding there way through. I believe I’ll be able to just left the wire off when they’re dormant, although I guess I may have to trim side branches if they have any.
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They are wrapped together 
… it is hard, but I start with the top one, and use a screw to hold the top one together. Then you have to have one hand inside that one, while wrapping the bottom one AND get the bottom in AND … Well, it’s hard, but doable. 
… did my first stack in 2021. I could try photographing one of the stacks, but I have no empty ones, so it’ll be hard to see.
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I’ve got a couple of seedlings with name brand parents. From what I see the genes carry pretty well. Mine are name brand quality fruit.
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