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I haven’t done this with pawpaws but I would do an air-prune setup, maybe a deep pot with a screen bottom, but pawpaws want lots of water, so maybe they need their Taproot to get down deep into the ground water.
You could try planting them in some kind of tubes and uncurl the Taproot and put it down a hole you make, at the bottom of your hole you’re going to plant it in, with a digging bar.
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https://youtu.be/DDlGt9k1TWU?si=w-5aSOL62wJrAVN9
Check out what this guy does.
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Hey heads up our Peaceful Heritage pawpaw scions are now available: https://peacefulheritage.com/products/pawpaw-scion-wood-naturally-grown
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Thanks Blake! I will look. Would also love references from thread on places that sell scion.
Nice weather today, transplanting a sucker that popped up summer 24, and severed this spring.
No idea if this will work well or not. Thats part of the fun of having extra rootsuckers. I think it’ll be fine, but I am not worried about it wither way.
If you could buy a cultivar on its own roots, would you pay more vs a grafted tree?
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Yes. Not having to worry about a grafted tree dying would be a nice perk.
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I’d pull all those leaves off and give it some kelp extract if you have any, mulch heavily, and stake it so it doesn’t move around.
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Any Northern growers have experience with varieties that just will NOT ripen fruit due to late ripening?
You could ask mr. Jerzy Oreszczuk about this topic.
He tested a lot of clones in short season conditions (eastern Poland).
No. With pawpaw’s tendency to form deep roots, I would just bury the graft below ground with pawpaws every time, at least until there’s an incredible rootstock that I really respect.
I planted (and replanted until I had) 27 pawpaws, most of them were suckers saving as much root on the away from the tree side as possible, often more than a meter, and I curved those downward, spiraled them down the hole or made a hole with a digging bar for them to go as deep as possible since the suckers won’t ever grow taproots, right?
Sadly I have shockingly few photos of my pawpaws for how interesting of a tree they are, thesa are all from suckers of semi-wild unnamed varieties of seedlings from “good” local trees from the Fingerlakes Region of NY State.
And PS, I didn’t trim those trees heavily enough, I thought that I lost the big one for a while, but it just barely survived, I should have cut 2/3 of those branches or more. Breaking off buds is an alternative for those of you who would like to save more branches down low especially, just leave the last few buds on the ends of each branch, and a few on or close to the trunk down low, just in case.
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Poughkeepsie NY 6A…a question for all…typically, what % of grafted trees fail at the graft in the first two years?..my only experience to date is one fail in six grafted trees…is this typical?..thanks
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I wouldn’t say that is typical. But there are so many variables - how well it was grafted, health of the rootstock, local climate, health of the trees, etc.
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https://www.etsy.com/listing/1839979414/pawpaw-tree-scions-for-grafting
Petrichor selling a good amount of scion for reasonable prices. Interested but suspicious of their releases. It seems odd to me that they grew all these from seed and so many were worth releasing, but they do interest me
If those prices are considered reasonable, then I’d hate to see what’s unreasonable. $12 per scion on the lower end for the most common cultivars…
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maybe being in the fig world has blinded me to cutting prices LOL, though scions are smaller.
Dont worry I bought my cherry adn apple for 4 dollars each a cutting 
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haha yeah, figs can do that! The prices can get pretty crazy with fig cuttings. There are plenty of people on here willing to trade or sell cuttings at much more reasonable values, so I prefer to do that when I can.
$32 is a bit crazy for 1 scion, but he seems passionate about pawpaws so I give him a pass (but like if its was like rare, i’d prob pay that like the fig people do).
It seems like he just got some seeds from good/named varieties from a NC Farmers Market and named the varieties he planted (not like a real breeding program planting hundreds of fruit or do custom crosses on a smaller scale… but still much better than seedlings of wild fruit… maybe he got lucky, would be nice if someone from NC can go taste his stuff and report back this year).
I did crack up that he is also passionate about glass art, and at least a few years ago was selling his custom glass art (and glass-blown dildos) on the same account he sells his pawpaws 
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No shame, just made me giggle. Might want to separate the glass art and plant brands :).
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Pawpaw scions seem to be more expensive than apple in general. Here’s a cheaper place I just bumped into that has things in stock, Olivia’s Orchard – $6 each including shipping. There is a minimum of 5 scions. I’ve ordered from Red Fern Farm several times and they also have good prices.
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