The guy who worked is the only guy I’ve heard of getting fruit as well. I wonder if thats the same person, hes someone whos apart of the RFC in Tampa now.
Hope your seeds work out! I tried some other asimina seeds and didn’t get any of them to sprout. Let us know how they go.
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Not sure if it’s a problem, but Benson seems to WAY over set.
Here the deer seemed to have taken a real liking to fig leaves and green stems. Never heard of that. That sap is so sticky it has to be gluing their mouths shut.
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Possibly the same guy!
I planted about 10 seeds in some pots and at least three of them are sprouting. I’ll plant some and I may give some to a friend if I have enough and see how he does with them as well.
I have a few soursop planted and a couple sweetsop that I will plant at some point this summer. I see it as hedging my bets so that if we have a cold winter maybe I’ll get some pawpaws and if it’s a warm winter maybe I’ll get some soursop and sweetsop. 
I’m pretty close to the 9b/10a border so it could go either way. I could be in a slightly warmer microclimate though too. I have not been in this spot or paying attention to the lows for long enough yet to be confident.
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here is the june update.
the 3 way(susquehanna/potomac/shenandoah) is looking solid:
the 5 way(jerrys big girl/potomac/mammoth x/susquehanna/chappell) has been slow on the left side, the side opposite of the damage to its trunk, but the last scion(jerrys big girl) pushed a little green from a bud so hopefully it will make it 
i accidentally broke the top shoot off the center scion(mammoth x) and it grew another from the node very quickly. most of my pawpaw grafts have been with 2 buds.
so ya it seems that all grafts have taken. ill report back towards the end of summer/fall.
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Looks good!
One challenge with multi-graft trees can be the most vigorous cultivar essentially taking it over. So may require extra pruning.
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Forget the pawpaws, your bottle grafts are lookin’ great 
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Is it not probable that ‘Florence White’ is a seedling of improved cultivars and therefore a domesticated paw and not a ‘Wild’ one?
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Bravo!
It could be possible, although it originated in a wood line in a small park in Florence, KY and so it most likely is just a good wild seedling tree.
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Curious if anyone has any experience. One of my small (12") grafted ksu trees got too much sun and i lost all of the leaves. I assume this is a goner and isnt worth trying to see if it comes back next season? I read somewhere that people have had the trees try again next year so i wasnt sure.
Provide shade and water and it could possibly come back
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Could any of our friends in the EU or UK provide names / descriptions of superior pawpaws available in your country (and likely not here in the USA)
I’ve used this UK website for pawpaw descriptions in the past. They have the British Bulldog Pawpaw and if you dig in the website I think there is more varieties.
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I found that a number of years ago and I don’t know if that is a real nursery website or not. I think it may be a scam. Some of their content was ripped from USA nursery’s websites.
There’s nothing like that. Pawpaw is higly uncommon in whole Europe, before recent introductions from early 2000’s I was able to track only a minor number of trees in botanical collections which are closly related to old population from Padua Botanical Garden.
The only different population which I found was established in Romania from Ohio germplasm. https://www.researchgate.net/publication/328811585_Asimina_triloba_Pawpaw_germplasm_in_Romania
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Thank you for the info. I know of a few Euro cultivars such as Ghent 2 Blom, Prima 1216, Hoberg, Ithaca, Georgia. Any info is appreciated. The purpose of my inquiry is for the new International Pawpaw Repository which I am currently compiling.
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I know them, but all of them look like Sochi-7/-11 or Yuri’s Russian. Just a curiosity for collectors with similar characteristics to older american selections like Davis or Taytwoo, eg. a friend of mine called ‘Prima 1216’ a worse self-ing offsprong of Sunflower. Hoberg and Ghent 2 Blom are even hard to find, you can try to ask about them on EFNEX group on Facebook.
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There was a tough storm in my area. I went outside to find a huge pine branch had crushed my pawpaw sapling. I removed it and found the small cage a put around the pawpaw was crushed, but miraculously the pawpaw seems ok! I feel like when most people put cages around their trees it’s for deer pressure but now I’m considering if there are good options to prevent this! Tomorrow I plan to fully assess the damage and maybe apply a splint or something
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I had 2 large pine branches fall in philly burbs… it avoided hitting my pawpaws n persimmon but i think once it hit the ground, it springloaded a smaller branch to fly in and hit the living room glass door. It was maybe craziest winds i remember in philly. Heard maybe 70mph
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