Have you seen pictures of X-42?
I grafted it this year and one if the grafts flowered and it was white in the middle.
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I picked the fruit off of the tree @ Lehman’s to get the seed, but I haven’t seen any pictures of it.
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Did you take any photos? What were your impressions of it?
This is the only one I can find, think I posted it in “22.
I’ve slept since then and had several to try at that time that were closer the right amount of ripe.
Sorry I couldn’t be more help.
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I was debating planting JBGirl vs giving away… do u have to thin to 1 per cluster cause the fruit is [too] big on these larger varieties?
It’s a phenomenal pawpaw. I don’t do anything special to mine.
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Picked them up at Lehman’s. No thinning going on there. Tree’s were loaded .
People were getting paid by the pound to pick them at that time.
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Want to try to get to some pawpaw festivals this year.
Here are the dates for Ohio: https://ohiopawpawfest.com/
What others?
e: found this https://www.pawpawfestivals.com/
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Theres going to be a festival in Indiana on Saturday September 7th and a Festival in Louisville KY on the 7th as well.
KSUs Pawpaw day is September 19th in Frankfort KY.
The Ohio fest draws a huge crowd but seems to have gotten kind of expensive imo for what you get.
I plan on being at the Louisville fest and at KSU pawpaw day
Guess I should have checked your link first! 
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https://hornfarmcenter.org/pawpawfest/
I’ve been to this one twice. Growing out some seedlings of a couple fruit I bought last year. Got mostly rained out last year, so I ended up just buying fruit and running back to my car in the last ten minutes of the last day.
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I agree, spray could harm plants, fabric & mulch is the best way to go, it is cheap for what you get back.
Drip tape could not hurt.
Some places else Pawpaw almost ready to ripe. Our areas the fruits are still tiny. Fortunately be ready by the end of October every year.
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@Vincent_8B, how are your trees doing this year?
I have fruit on Shenandoah, Danaes creekside and Prince Caspian. My trees have grown fast and are now over 10 feet tall.
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I started some pawpaw seed a few months ago. Yesterday I potted them up with 3 seedlings in each 5 gallon container. The largest were 6 to 8 inches tall. I placed the containers on the north side of my house where they are in shade most of the day with direct sun late in the evening.
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I have planted 100’s of pawpaw seeds here in the north woods. Including a pound from oikos tree crops. I have 1 seedling to show for it currently. It’s parents were wild trees from New London, Ontario area. It is vigorous, and has put on about a 1’ of growth this spring. In all fairness, the oikos seeds may have dried out. I planted them in the raspberry patch so they’d have some shade. Mulched and watered them a few times, but we got a mini drought. Currently have about 20 germinated seeds in 12 in deep tree pots that I got from buzzfever. But none of them have come up yet. Don’t expect them to rear up their heads till later this month, or beginning of August . My grafted trees are doing well. The only grafted variety I’ve really lost is PA golden. I had two of them but they both fizzled. They seem a little more frost sensitive than the other varieties, and that’s a game changer here. I don’t know if they were #1, #2, or #3.
Did this on persimmon thread the other day:
Here is success/fail ratio of grafts of pawpaws.
Mostly on Cold Stream Farms 1-2ft tall pawpaws (~60 of those at about $3.50-$4 each including shipping, and 5 Conservation Seedlings ebay ones which had very nice root system (around $8.50 each including shipping), similar to how Blue Hill nursery had more expensive but very strong-rooted persimmon to graft on).
Anything grafted in ground was pretty much 100% success (unless the shoveling around the root runner last fall to separate it’s roots from parent tree killed the entire top part of plant in the spring so I didn’t list those 5 or so ones). Also listed some multi-grafts into large root-runners i did.
Also grafted onto small+large trees at a couple acquaintance’s places. They said those 25 or so grafts are mostly successful, but i haven’t visited them to check. Funny story about those trees, they are seedlings from a local guy who i didn’t know about but 10-20years ago had an 800 pawpaw orchard. and it was on rented land, so supposedly they are all cut down when new owners moved in (when he passed away). Those people have some large good pawpaws, but wanted me to graft onto the other smaller fruited seedlings.
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Some persimmon and pawpaw grafts on various rootstocks (Maryland State Nursery, Porky’s, Blue Hill, Northridge, TheFarmConnectionMadCo, Pikes Peak, ColdStreamFarms):
PS label ‘Chupa’ is me shortening ‘Chuchupaka’.
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To answer your question in the video about removing growth below the graft on Persimmon.
Take it all off, they will divert the vigor away from the graft.
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Wow, good news Ram. Maybe you gave them good fertilizer. My trees didn’t grow much yet and having only a few fruits this year. Some of my friends bought from me 7 big trees they took away in winter time. So I have only some of my seedling trees. Now I had a trellis for hardy kiwi I need some kiwi recommendation. Do you have any fruiting hardy kiwi Ram? Below my Pawpaw trees.
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