@Blake , what is your best preforming and tasting white pawpaw? Do they tend to have a different flavor compared to orange/yellow fleshed ones?
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My technique for protecting pawpaw fruit…
Just thought I’d share:
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Does anyone have 10-20+ pawpaw seedlings from good varieties willing to send (I’ll pay shipping)? I probably have planted 100 seedlings of my own with in local parks this month and need about 20 more to finish the areas I wanted to plant. I gave away 50 persimmon seedlings to someone this spring so maybe someone can pay it forward with some seedlings 
send me a message if you got some. I like to plant them now in the fall to let the roots get established.
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White taste very different to orange IMO. The whites break out of the standard pawpaw flavor and personally I think they are better. But everyone has different taste though.
100 years ago there was debate about whether white-fleshed pawpaws were/should be considered a different species or subspecies.
Back then there seemed to be a greater prevalence of wild white fleshed trees based on the commentary.
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Thanks for sharing that, finally managed to secure an order for Pomper’s Choice. It will make for a fun addition to the collection. Rather small size but if anything like the Shenandoah I bought from Edible Landscaping, it should adjust just fine. Plus I’m eager to see how fast I can get it going next year with generous compost application.
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was going to wait till april of next year to make the yearly update but i peeked at it again and boy has it come a long way:
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I do a similar thing sometimes but with chicken wire wraps.
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Florence White is absolutely luscious and is one of the best performing pawpaws in general. The flavor of white pawpaws in my experience tends to be more vanilla / marshmallow / mild and with less of the metallic / wild pawpaw nastiness.
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Is Florence nice and sweet too? Or are those flavors also weaker?
I picked that Mango cluster of seven or eight that was in my video around the one minute mark …
These were the sizes of the five that fell (in the ziplock, completely supported by the bag resting on the branch so it didn’t pull the other two off)…
And the two remaining I think are in the 160 range.
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I’ve been growing pawpaw trees for 3 years and still haven’t tasted the fruit. Could I buy pawpaws from someone in South Georgia/North Florida? Or is it too late down here?
Florence White is very sweet and delicious. It’s not mild or bland at all. The brix was tested and is around 18-20% making it very sweet.
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I have Tallahatchie and KSU Chappell ripening now.
Why does it seem like practically no one likes Tallahatchie? You never hear anyone talk about it like they do all the other Peterson varieties. Maybe most people have just never grown or tried it.
I tried it at KSU many moons ago and thought it wasn’t great. But this year I have my own homegrown fruit and look forward to evaluating it.
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Im looking forward to it. I grafted some twigs from you this past spring. Those branches are already loaded up with fruit buds.
It’s an elite wild selection.
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very happy that my in-ground trees have actually put on a little upward growth this past summer. will fertilize a bit when spring is on the way. I’ve got 4 or 5 popping as seedlings now, will get them in ground later this month i think.
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When you try these varieties, please show a photo of the fruits in cross-section and describe the taste in comparison to others.
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I could send you some seeds sometime this fall or winter, unfortunately don’t have any seedlings. Sorry.