I intend to transplant three or four natives (as far as I know, a neighbor up the road relatively near where I found them had grown many pawpaw trees, but sadly they all got removed). I was told in another thread that it was possible to transplant them during dormancy and even cut their tap root (not that I intend to). I had found them covered in briars and vines, and a tulip poplar cluster was invading their space, I cleaned out all the briars and the made sure they had as much sunlight as possible, which is still not much as they’re largely shaded out by a tree near them, I believe they’re at least around five years to six years old because the neighbor had moved by then and I don’t see how they could’ve gotten there other than from him. I have a spot picked out for the KSU Benson that gets a good bit of shade and in mid-April or somewhere thereabouts I will go up and dig as big a hole as I can and put three or four of the ones from the woods in a sunnier spot near the named one. I read online that pawpaw roots will rot before spring if they were transplanted during dormancy due to inability to callous any root loss, so I’d like to time it relatively close to warmer weather to ease concern about it. The source online is a bit unreliable; would you happen to have any knowledge on the subject?
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