I may want scions in the future cuz those will be some pretty bad A pawpaws I would imagine.
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For those interested, a few cancelled orders have freed up some grafted pawpaws. Won’t last long. Grafted Pawpaw Trees For Sale (Asimina triloba) | Peaceful Heritage Nursery
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Perry Paw Paws is local to me. I picked up some grafted trees last year to plant in the fall and they all survived their first winter. Purchased a couple more earlier this month. Overall, I’d recommend but I can’t speak for the shipping experience.
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Yea I had Florence white in my cart and when I placed my order it was sold out 
but I’ll just get scions from you next year and just graft myself I suppose… you got a good thing going there Blake! This all just means you gotta get MORE TREES GRAFTED! 
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Thanks for the heads up! Just grabbed a ksu Chappell!
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How does 1-4 compare to Chappelle?
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1-4 has a firmer texture, chappell has a slightly firm but somehow creaminess to it. Both are delicious.
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Hello, Blake. I am in Oregon and saw you only ship bare root trees here. Will you be shipping this way in the fall? I prefer splitting planting between fall and spring when I can. Also, I am on page 49 of your book and haven’t come across whether pawpaws really ARE juglone tolerant yet. I have 2 places I want to put trees and they both have nearby walnut relatives. Thank you in advance for your answe.
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I’ve finally figured out where to add that paw paw tree I’ve dreamed of for 4 years thanks to cutting down my invasive Japanese maple. I’ve tried to read this thread and look into varieties, but I would still love any input for which variety to purchase as my base tree that I will then graft. Ideally, a slightly more vigorous grower with more fruity/tropical flavor. Do benson, avatar or Chappell have tropical flavors? Susquehannah, rappahanock or potomac?
I’m in MD where wild paw paws abound and my county native sale usually has 20+ varieties, so hoping to get a top 3 list or so and choose from whats available in the fall and graft the rest. I would say avoiding anything over sweet/mushy/marshmallowy.
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I’ve seen wild pawpaw trees growing underneath and amongst black walnuts, so I assume they are pretty tolerant.
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Thank you. I keep reading they are tolerant, but I have had so many”tolerant” trees do poorly until I move them further away. Since pawpaws take so long to bear fruit, I didn’t want to set them back by having to relocate them.
I have 2 pawpaws now that are about 25’ away from one, with a seasonal creek between. Those two seem fine, albeit slow growing.
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I’d recommend trying a pawpaw if you can find someone growing them nearby. You might be surprised what your favorite is. That being said, there are some varieties which supposedly grow faster than others (but im not sold on that idea) like Chappel.
If your plan is to graft there’s also the option of just planting a wild seedling and then grafting over that instead of a named variety (most names varieties will be grafted on a wild rootstock anyway)
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Could you share where and when does the county native plant take place? I’m in St Mary’s county.
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Cuttings? Dog park, you say?
I do not graft onto ‘wild’ seedlings. Rootstock influence is of significant consideration.
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Well, I hate to be the bearer of bad news, but there’s no clonally propagated or tissue culture pawpaw rootstocks that I’ve ever heard of.
The only study I’ve seen testing seedlings from known pollen recipients parents only tested four cultivars, and unless you have the same soil and climate as Kentucky in ~2010 provides even more limited useful information.
So unless you’ve got a treasure trove of secret pawpaw rootstock research applicable to your soil and climate, then rootstock influence is more a significant mystery than significant consideration.
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I’ve seen the debate over Chappell here. In general, we don’t like overly sweet things and love tropical flavors, so trying to pick based on that.
You’d be amazed at how hard it is to forage paw paw here. They are EVERYWHERE. they line the canal, parks, random woods…I’ll see fruit growing but before it is ripe it all just poofs away. I’ve been trying for 5 years. The people I know who have managed to try one, found it off the beaten path camping. Either they’re quickly eaten by wildlife or there are people foraging before ripe.
Speaking of them being everywhere, they really don’t look that slow growing, so it’s been interesting to read that as a theme. Maybe just for a fruit tree? There are places I would be 3-4 times a week and it seemed everythjng gradually got bigger with its surrounding plants each year. The county planted a ton at a new park 4-5 years ago along with redbuds, serviceberries and oaks and they all seem to have grown at the same rate and are decent sized now. Just observations.
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I was going to ask about this. Last year, Buzz reluctantly sold me a seedling. I don’t think he knew the parentage… It had grown to roughly the size of a two year tree in one summer.
I planted it in poor soil in Central NH last fall. All of the other trees I got from him died, but this one is already aggressively, pushing several inches of new top growth with no fertilizer or irrigation installed yet.
I have no idea how it will do this summer in the suboptimal conditions, and if it does make it to fruiting, I have no idea how the fruit will be. But it certainly seems vigorous and resilient, so if there is a way to use it for rootstock, that could be very cool, but I don’t know anything about how to even try that.
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Agree. This is an emerging area.
Using local wild seedlings as rootstock may actually be superior since theoretically they are adapted to your environment.
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