I’ve read that Allegheny is an early ripening one of the Peterson varieties. Brady
Mick
You can get an earlier variety like Summer Delight and any one of those on your list plus adding Halvin to the list. England Orchard carries Summer Delight and Halvin.
Tony
If I went with Shenandoah which variety would ripen a month before or after this variety?
Edible Landscaping lists Sunflower as the latest ripening… good for extending the season. They list Mango, NC-1, and Allegheny as early. I may recall that @Matt_in_Maryland really likes Allegheny??
Yes. Allegheny is far and away my favorite pawpaw. Indeed, it is one of the earliest to ripen.
I like Shenandoah too. It is my 2nd favorite pawpaw behind Allegheny. Shenandoah has a lighter color flesh with a mild banana-pudding texture/flavor. It is a good late-season pawpaw.
I don’t care much for Susquehanna. The fruits are enormous, but they have so much true pawpaw flavor that I find them funky and overpowering.
I have heard many reports that Overleese is a good one. It seems to be an older variety utilized quite a bit for breeding purposes. I’ve not yet had the opportunity to taste Overleese.
Allegheny is my favorite. I’ve written about it extensively in other threads that can be searched for and found on this forum:
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@Mickster Mango variety of pawpaw grows like a weed compared to every other pawpaw variety I’ve tried and I love its taste. If I were starting from scratch I would phone up Edible Landscape in Afton, Va and ask them if they have three Mango seedlings, not grafted. Pawpaws come pretty true to seed so you’d most likely get the great Mango taste, fast growth and the three seedlings would pollinate each other. You might knock one or two years off time to first fruit. Then after they start producing graft the extra early and extra late varieties.
Edible I believe sells Mango both grafted and Mango seedlings- be sure to specify seedling. Some people believe seedlings survive better than grafted pawpaws too. That’s my best advice from a rank amateur.
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Here is some information about vitamin content and varieties of pawpaw I thought was interesting http://www.pawpaw.kysu.edu/pawpaw/cooking.htm . At a first glance at varieties Sunflower would be one of my first choices since it’s origin was Kansas.
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Pawpaw Leather. Don’t try except if you wish to experiment on yourself. Over at least 10 years I have received reports from different individuals doing it. In every case they became violently ill followed by vomiting. Of course we don’t know why. That is expensive laboratory research. And if some people did not become ill, they did not write me. … Neal Peterson
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Neal,
I got a total of 7 paw paw trees and three of them from your collection. One is from Tyler Halvin, a Mango, a Sunflower, and a Lehman. They are fairly large fruits. I skinned the fruits and wrapped each one with plastic food wrap and freezed them for later use. They still taste good like pawpaw popcicles.
Tony
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Tony,
That is absolutely the easiest way to store them. Good going, good growing.
Neal
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I know this is an old post and you may have heard about this since 2015, but this place in Warwick grows excellent pawpaws.
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Thanks Joe! I’ve never had a pawpaw
If you go to Warwick I recommend getting there 15 to 30 minutes before they open to make sure you get some. Last year I was a little “late” and got there about 5 minutes early on the day that I was able to make the trip. A few people before me got the last of the fresh fruit, the person right before me got the last of the frozen pulp. Thanks to @Barkslip I know of a place to order them online, the web site is below. My order from Red Fern Farm ships out on Monday. I’ll find out how good it is next week. You have to call to place an order for paw paws. Price is $5/pound plus $15 for shipping up to 15 pounds.
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Unfortunately, the pawpaws I got from Red Fern Farm didn’t arrive in good shape. I’ve ordered from Integration Acres before and they actually did a good job with packing and with selecting fruits suitable for shipping. At least one of the fruits that I got is rancid. Not overripe, I know enough about paw paws to know the difference. Overripe pawpaws have their own unique flavor, which I don’t prefer but I can see how some do. At least one of these is just spoiled. It’s too bad. I’m sure they have great paw paws, and they seem very nice, but I don’t think that they have this part of the business down to a science yet.
Below is a picture of them, alongside a Kieffer Keitt mango that I bought today. All of the pawpaws including a few good ones (not pictured) weighed in at exactly 5 pounds. Integration Acres gave me a bit extra when I ordered from them.
I mentioned these guys to @mrsg47, so I need to post this here. She’d be better off trying Rocky Point Farm in Warwick this October. That’s a surer thing, as long as she gets there in time to be able to buy it.
Edit: They’re issuing a full refund. It’s a shame, but these are hard fruits to ship. This is a big part of why you don’t see the fruit in the supermarket.
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Real sorry to see that, Joe. I’ve emailed Tom.
Thanks,
Dax
I’ve been working with Kathy and emailed her about it. I’ve had 4 of them, 2 overripe and 2 about how I like it. I just opened up a 5th for my kid that’s perfect (a little under how I like it) and advised the wife who is feeding the kid to only give a little bit just to be safe with regards to the toxins that are found in the pawpaw.
The ones that were opened up/smashed in the mail all wound up getting tossed. Even the ones that looked like they are probably OK had off flavors to them. The others on that plate are fine. I know it’s a hard fruit to ship. Part of this is probably on the post office, but part of it has to be how they’re doing this. Integration Acres proves that you can successfully ship pawpaw. They both used Priority Mail.
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Well darnit. That’s all I can say.
All the best,
Dax
It was worth a shot. I’m sure they’ll figure it out if they don’t quit doing this. Part of it is how you pack it, and they did seem to put some good effort into protecting the fruit, and part of it is selecting fruit that’s a little under-ripe. I think they probably put some fully ripe fruit in there and then the post office smashed the box around some.