Yep!
That was my immediate reaction the very first time I tasted pawpaw (ice cream).
YouTube’s Weird Explorer has an old video where he first tasted pawpaw and had same description.
However- in eating many many more pawpaws in subsequent years, I have rarely made the jackfruit connection.
Yes! Sri Gold has jackfruit like texture IMO
I’m a huge jackfruit fan so was quite pleased with this characteristic in my selection.
Male and female flower parts are present AT THE SAME TIME on any given pawpaw tree in bloom. Each flower starts off in the female stage and then proceeds to the male ‘pollen shed’ stage about 3-5 days later. ANY pawpaw tree that has been blooming for more than 4-5 days will have BOTH stages of bloom happening simultaneously. Just to clear that up.
So, technically… If we pollinate the stigma by hand in the first day and protect it from insects the chance of self-pollination is near 0% ?
yes this was what the redditor did not seem willing to understand lol.
…well, I’m going to try giving my friend on Long Island (7B) a couple of scions with multiple fruit buds (in March) from a few of my trees (6A) and let him try to force them into very early bloom to coincide with the bloom on his fruitless mature trees…(from root suckers from the same tree)…he can stagger the scions a few days apart to hopefully create a pollinating window…..so perhaps an actual data point……how about that….. stay tuned….Beemster
real good! springy right now, it’s been freezing so it’s dormant. it put on a few inches last summer, it’s been slow growing but it’s in shade so i expect it to be slow. just gave it its “spring feed” this past week, should give it a boost when the season changes.
picture from late July i think
Allegheny
Caspian
Ford Amend
Golden Moon
Halvin
Halvin’s Sidewinder
Kentucky Champion
KSU-Benson
Mango
PA-Golden 1
PA-Golden 2
PA-Golden 3
PA-Golden 4
Quaker Delight
Rappahannock
RLG4
Summer Delight
Sundog
VE-21 - see Pawpaw Variety Catalog
I saw red fern wasnt selling RLG4 this year. Anyone got scion of that ?
Much of the info in this catalog is fabricated and incorrect.
That is absolutely hilarious!
Haha yep that is one error I caught. I was trying to keep that one a secret. Finally I could no longer resist his charms. 
A hybrid between me and Cliff would be something though 
@Blake and any others who attended the recent KSU Pawpaw Conference: I’ve watched almost all the videos and see no mention of the annonacin/acetogenin content of any KSU cultivar, even though at least two speakers covered this topic. It appears this info is still a closely guarded secret and leads me to infer that the levels must be high in KSU cultivars. Or maybe I just haven’t seen the right video.
Blake, and anyone else for that matter. I live about 30 miles north of Houston, TX, and have over 100 Asimina triloba seedlings in 4” x 12” plastic “liners” outside (less than 1 year old ranging from 4” to about 14” in height). In the madness to protect my 100s of in-ground citrus trees and other semitropical plants from our brutal freeze (we have been below freezing for about 36 hours now), I left these pawpaw seedlings sitting outside. I checked them this morning and the ProMix in them (and even some in 1 gallon pots) are frozen solid. Do you think they are toast now? I am heartsick thinking about it. Is there any hope for them?
Have the seedlings completely shed all their leaves? If they have, I think they are ready, and there’s no need to worry.
They were fully dormant, but frozen roots seem like a deal breaker to me.
However, I recommend providing protection during the seedling stage, as it’s not as cold-hardy as a mature plant.
I’ve had roots completely freeze in pots and they’ve always woke up okay. There’s probably a threshold where the roots may be too cold for too long, but I wouldn’t stress too much over it. I’m sure there’s people in the Midwest that have had some nasty frigid airmasses with little or no snowpack that has allowed the ground to freeze pretty far down.
If you can thaw them out and remoisten them I think they would be okay.
