I gave them a good misting and watered the chip all around them a bit too so it would evaporate up at em. I’ll water deep tonight too. it’s been real dry for sure.
I might do a half-shade with burlap and wet it down in the day to get more humidity near them. rather than put up a real shade cloth. it seems like a lowbrow solution for both possible problems
I went and got a local seedling tree this evening. Wanted to have a wild cultivar from our local climate. On my way home i see that peaceful heritage added a couple more ksu chappell so i can replace the one that died on me from another vendor. No friggin clue where im going to put another tree. Lol.
I have seen damage from dry heat here in the summer. My sunflower died but a new sprout came out from the soil and it looks healthy. It is aiming more toward the sun. The sunflower got pretty shaded.
Broadway: Jeg kan skrive bara litte Norsk.
Norway is a very different climate than Kentucky!
Pawpaws do pretty well here. Just watch out for the dry heat in the summer.
John S
PDX OR
That’s another alternative. I live in a humid place too (Po valley), but it’ the constant sunny days with no rain and high temp, even for a month or more that keep them too stressed.
I’ve misted each day and have a soak hose on the mulch around them which makes that part of the yard uncomfortable humid, so I’m hoping that helps. I feel like putting them in full shade will be a last resort. bigger plant looked better today already
Greetings to all participants!
I wanted to show a pawpaw tree (seedling), which grew at my friend’s near the city of Nikolaev in Ukraine (climate zone 6a or 6b). To be honest, I was amazed by such intensive development of this pawpaw tree in our region, since we have a very hot and dry region, especially in the summer, in recent years in the Nikolaev region it has been very hot in the summer and there is practically no precipitation. True, my friend waters this pawpaw tree well. Usually pawpaw trees develop very poorly here and almost always the leaves on the pawpaw burn in the summer and autumn due to the active influence of the sun.
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Гарне дерево.
Sun question:
I see everyone talking about shading seedlings. My family has finally come to an agreement to remove the 4 thujas planted 4 years ago and put in paw paws and part shade garden. The area gets 3-4 hours of morning sun. Seems to me to be equivalent to the sun I see paw paws growing in naturally around paths and forest edges. But, this thread makes me think it’s too much. Will they need shade cloth? How much morning sun in the mid Atlantic is OK? Until what age/height?
I planted my pawpaws which got sun from around 8 until 4. This was way too much without shade cloth and caused some burning before I put up shade cloth. If you get sun from 8 until noon, it’ll probably still be on the upper end of acceptable.
My suggestion is to let some tall weeds grow nearby if you can. It seems to have helped out a lot compared to just mulch.
mine are in full sun but im in a much cooler northern enviroment. that said, we also get longer days here compared to the south so if its u.v people are worried about, that would make damage more prevalent here. im thinking heat and water availability would be more of a issue?
Pawpaws in Seattle area are very fast growing. Initially (first 3-4 years) they sit around doing nothing. Then they accelerate growing about 2 feet every year. And produce hundreds of fruit each year. Almost too many!
Flies have now discovered them so I expect pollination won’t be an issue in the future. So far I was hand pollinating them.
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Дякую, привіт вам з Миколаєва!
Це у знайомого такий красень вимагав у нашому посушливому кліматі, але в минулому сезоні він обрізав основний стовбур цієї азіміни щоб перещепити сортовими живцями.
The issue with sun for most locations is a concern only when establishing new trees.
They can and should, for fruit production, be given full sun once established.
I say “most locations” because harsh/non-native environments (e.g. Arizona) may be too much for full sun at any life stage.
At my 4k feet elevation in the high desert, afternoon shade has been essential for survival. That being said, all of my trees are still very small, the tallest maybe 24” high or so.
Yeah it basically comes down to evapotranspiration demands. The stronger the sun, heat, dry air, and wind you have the more moisture they’re going to have to uptake. I have fairly consistently moist soil so they are fine with all sun all the time. Everyone’s mileage will vary though. I’m on the north side of a hill, but people on the southern sides around here can bake during dry stretches.
Graft blew off in a storm so I took it as an opportunity to try green on green grafting with pawpaw, hoping to have some decent luck since the rootstocks are rootsuckers.
Please tell me that’s not Big Ben! 
But sorry that happened. Grrrr
I’ve also wondered why green grafting would NOT work if you do it the way you’ve shown- remove leaves and wrap it. There are buds there just like on dormant scion so…. 
No its 1-4
let us know the progress!
It’s always a good idea to stake and protect those field topworks
