Dutchess County NY Z6A…………25F for almost 3 hours here early this morning…32F or less for about 8 hours……..sure 90+% of the pears / cherries gone…..have not gone down to the patch yet to check the pawpaws……I think the buds were just starting to show some green……can anyone give me an estimate of % blossom loss??…….no frost tonight…….Beemster
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Dutchess County Airport….3 miles away
When we got a 25 degree frost and lost most peaches probably lost about 50% of pawpaw flowers, but it pushed out a few more after that.
I’m trialing adding grafted pawpaws to my nursery lineup. Just got my order from MO Dept of Conservation, and I’m overall pretty impressed. Roots are incredible , I may even have to do some light root pruning to fit in the containers. It seems there are a higher percentage of skinny twigs than I usually get with the persimmons, but there are enough of a good grafting size. Even a handful that are a true 1/4”.
We’ll see how the grafting goes, if it ever warms up here!
I heard hot callous pipe works great with dormant bareroot pawpaws, if you have ever tried that.
It is a good method, but unnecessary at my scale. I’ve had no trouble grafting pawpaws at ambient late spring temps in the past.
We found a pawpaw grove and saw some really small young plants (less than 1-2’ tall) that has flowers. Those are located near a larger tree. Many small pawpaw plants farther away don’t have any. I suspect the one bearing flowers are root suckers where as others are seedlings.
Keen observation, probably right. Its pretty cool to see small trees making flowers even though they won’t hold fruit. One of the rootsuckers I dug from my yard had a flower bud this spring.
Also my Pomper’s choice seems ro have an orange underside on the leaves
Maybe an indicator of hybrid lineage?
Trees look thirsty, and the leaves seem to adjust to growing conditions. Younger trees getting established might look a little different.
Agree - tree looks either in shock or just dry. It is a little over-pubescent but I seriously doubt Pomper’s Choice is anything but 100% triloba.
I just got my bundle of 25 in from MO as well. Very impressed — some of these look very graftable already with insane root systems.
Do you wait for new bare root pawpaws to start showing signs of life themselves before you graft them, just to make sure they aren’t dead twigs?
Indeed I took this while watering them but they’ve looked like this even with water.(if you can tell by my other posts I look at everything in my yard daily). I have been trying to gauge how long they take to need water, they’re in an interesting spot on a hill crest, I have everything else on drip so wanted to gauge what gph to place on them.
I’ll wait till they start growing so that I know they’re growing fast enough to heal the graft and push growth. It’s usually pretty easy to tell if they’re alive or not. When in doubt, scrape the park with a sharp knife. You should see bright green cambium underneath.
2 months in to stratified seeds in wet spaghum peat on heating pads and no seed activity yet…
This is BSD
This is a stressed out pawpaw tree
