Some may be growing the Chappell in less than favorable conditions, many factors involved as you know Mr. Cothron, including possible rootstock influence, poor soil, lack of fertilization and water. Pawpaw are heavy feeders and drinkers, deny the young pawpaw’s ample amounts and they will not grow to their full potential
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Haha that is funny. One big male will guard his turf viciously if pizza is involved.
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Are you referring to yourself or the racoons? Please clarify
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Both, Sir. 
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You wrote that Tropical Treat is an early variety. But other sources indicate that it is a very late variety. What is it really?
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I just contacted Woody Walker and he informed me Tropical Treat is very late ripening. That must have been my typo. On my website I have it listed as Very late season ripening
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Thank you
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Do you find that late-ripening varieties get eaten less by animals (since the animals like raccoons have gone more dormant during fall/winter)
or eaten more if they are more aggressively trying to eat more things before late fall/winter and they stand out more as other leaves from other surrounding trees are falling (harder to see pawpaws’s green fruit w/ green leaves surrounding them in the summer)? or about the same.
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If you don’t have food like acorns then the late fall is the worst for my area
Squirrels in the day
Deer anytime
Raccoons at night
There’s a mad rush to eat and not a lot of options
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Gibberelic acid is available from https://www.jlhudsonseeds.net/. It comes as a powder with instructions for making a solution for treating seeds. Also sold as a kit.
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See reply on this thread to @ KS_razerback
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I only heard about Dowingtown as his location. I remember his nursery provide trees via mail order so this distance should’t be a problem at that time ? Another issue is the age of the tree. From what I’ve read he started offering seedlings in early 40’s.
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Have you noticed simillar vigor in squehanna x shenandoah crosses (Regulus, Rigel, Asterion, Atria, Betria, Gatria, and Canopus) ? I suspect that both of them are selfings of BEF-53. So technically if it’s true, they offspring should had a low growth habit compare to eg. KSU Chappell.
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I have 2 pawpaw growing like this, if I attach them to a small stake straight up, will they start growing more vertical, or should I leave them be/alternate solution?
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I would stake them to get a strong, vertical trunk. Once the kink has straightened out I’d let the leader wobble a couple inches in the wind- helps build strength/girth.
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I would say predation might be worse on late ripening cultivars as by that point raccoons are on the hunt for pawpaws. Here in zone 6 Kentucky, ‘late season’ is late September to mid October. So nothing is really dormant at that point. May be different up north
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Where did you see the Hidden Springs Nursery description that the ‘Cawood’ cultivar was a wild seedling from Bristol, Tennessee?
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My name is William Osteen. I am curious why so many ‘Pawpaws in 2025’ members are incognito.
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