That’s a beautiful fruit for a seedling. Do you know the parents?
Do deer eat the leaves is allowed access?
Mine have never been touched. I think they have something in them that makes them sick. Probably the only trees I can leave unprotected.
Once, but only a few leaves/stems. I’m sure the taste made it steer clear from those again.
I have a lot of branches poking through the fencing now and they’ve gone untouched. But the fencing is more for protection from mowing.
They’re one of very few things I grow that deer leave entirely alone. If someone wants to make their millions: invent deer repellent with pawpaw leaf goo as the base. You can call it “World’s First Working Deer Repellent.”
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Like others have said, pawpaws are the only trees that I can leave unprotected in North Georgia. They don’t touch them, not even a nibble.
However, I have read reports from others that deer will nibble or even consume pawpaw trees elsewhere. My suspicion is that deer that regularly encounter pawpaws know to leave them alone, so if you are in an area (like North Georgia) where they grow commonly in the wild, they might be safe. But if you are planting pawpaws in Oregon, they are probably at a bigger risk of getting gobbled by the local cervids.
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That makes good sense.
Never even a nibble from deer here. And my pawpaws are in a field with tall grasses where deer herds bed down at night all around the pawpaws. No fencing needed here, southern Indiana zone 6B.
I’m out of fences, maybe I’ll steal the one from my wimpier pawpaw.
What about rabbits though? A few of my young trees got girdled this year in early spring so I caged the rest
No rabbits here, but we definitely have voles. I had one girdle a galarina apple last winter. My 2”x4” welded wire fencing won’t stop them, but I’ve definitely been thinking about protecting the bottoms with 1/2” or 1/4” hardware cloth.
I would advise against mixing it into potting mix where the granules would be in the root zone. Top dress only. and yes, it’s potent - 46% nitrogen.
Has anyone done late season chip budding with dormant wood? This would be to just heal them and then top the seedlings next spring to push the buds. I know this can work with green wood, but wasn’t sure if it is viable with dormant scions or if dormant scions will just wake up this season. I have the same question for persimmons as well if anyone also has experience with those.
I have a few sticks of dormant wood left and seedling rootstocks I didn’t get to, but I can see the seedlings are starting to move toward dormancy so I don’t want to just top graft.
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I’ll take them seeds. I’ve got a few long pots I want to try new pawpaw to sprout in! it looks like the flesh is pretty solid in that one
@zendog have wondered myself when I have sticks left this time of year
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Does anyone here have experience growing Prima 1216 in the EU?
Based on my photos and descriptions of the fruit a few folks have suggested I might not have the “true” Prima. They suspect that there could be a false Prima circulating the US. Fresh from the tree the flesh has a slightly off putting odor and the flavor is not very good. It improves after refrigeration, but still not excellent. Fruit is nice and round with about 6% seed, and the tree is very vigorous and productive. Flavor has just been dissapointing.
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This is hardly earth-shaking news, but evidently one of the two pawpaws that I planted in 2018 has a single fruit. I think this is Allegheny.
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I’m not letting no varmint get my very first pawpaw. I constructed a chicken-wire basket to protect it.
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This is my favorite pawpaw by far. Very nice vanilla marshmellow taste. One of my seedling experiments. Oddly all of my seedling experiments ripen way before all of my named varieties.
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My most productive tree overset, and then didn’t drop many fruit during “June drop.” The result is a lot of small fruit mixed in with the single serving size I like, about 8oz, and a few larger fruit. Harvesting about 4 pounds a day over the past few days from this tree. Gave a good bit of fruit away, here’s what remains from the past three days harvest. The fruit in the picture weighed a little over 10 pounds.
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