Hardiness: zone 4-9
North America’s largest native fruit. The flavor can range from mango pineapple custard, to avocado vanilla, to deep ripe banana. High fat content makes the fruit very perishable, so can really only be enjoyed fresh or frozen. Our seedlings come from very high quality large wild pawpaws, or from named varieties planted in orchards. The seedlings will make high quality fruit as per the parents, with some genetic variability. Pawpaws are naturally thicket forming and suckering, but need at least one other genetically distinct tree to pollinate and make fruit. Pawpaws are very resilient when established, but can benefit from a few things to help them reach a bearing age:
-be very careful not to damage the taproot when planting. Planting when active green growth is present can help with this. Potted trees make it easy
-provide some shade in the first year or two after planting. this can be as simple as planting them to the north of a nurse plant or tall growing herbaceous perennial. This is not strictly necessary; I have also grown them with no protection from the sun, but it’s worth it to give them that bit of help
-keep up with mulching and watering especially in the first couple of years
2 year seedlings are good caliper for grafting
Grafted Varieties:
Tropical Treat - A medium size late ripening pawpaw, delicious flavor, mango and tropical fruit notes. Some consider it the best tasting cultivar out there.
Susquehanna - Excellence in pawpaw fruit texture, size and flavor. Its firm flesh and punch-in-the-face of everything great about pawpaw makes it a winner with people who love deep, complex flavor. Very banana caramel pudding tropical fruit notes. Deep yellow flesh.
Sunflower - Self-fertile supposedly, and certainly comes very true from seed. Still probably best production planted with another variety. Used in a lot of breeding work as it is a knockout in terms of productivity, firm non watery flesh, and good flavor. More mild than the dark yellow fleshed pawpaws but many folks love it. Not super large fruit.
NC - 1 - early ripening good sized pawpaw. Can get quite large.
Hardiness: zone 4-9
North America’s largest native fruit. The flavor can range from mango pineapple custard, to avocado vanilla, to deep ripe banana. High fat content makes the fruit very perishable, so can really only be enjoyed fresh or frozen. Our seedlings come from very high quality large wild pawpaws, or from named varieties planted in orchards. The seedlings will make high quality fruit as per the parents, with some genetic variability. Pawpaws are naturally thicket forming and suckering, but need at least one other genetically distinct tree to pollinate and make fruit. Pawpaws are very resilient when established, but can benefit from a few things to help them reach a bearing age:
-be very careful not to damage the taproot when planting. Planting when active green growth is present can help with this. Potted trees make it easy
-provide some shade in the first year or two after planting. this can be as simple as planting them to the north of a nurse plant or tall growing herbaceous perennial. This is not strictly necessary; I have also grown them with no protection from the sun, but it’s worth it to give them that bit of help
-keep up with mulching and watering especially in the first couple of years
2 year seedlings are good caliper for grafting
Grafted Varieties:
Tropical Treat - A medium size late ripening pawpaw, delicious flavor, mango and tropical fruit notes. Some consider it the best tasting cultivar out there.
Susquehanna - Excellence in pawpaw fruit texture, size and flavor. Its firm flesh and punch-in-the-face of everything great about pawpaw makes it a winner with people who love deep, complex flavor. Very banana caramel pudding tropical fruit notes. Deep yellow flesh.
Sunflower - Self-fertile supposedly, and certainly comes very true from seed. Still probably best production planted with another variety. Used in a lot of breeding work as it is a knockout in terms of productivity, firm non watery flesh, and good flavor. More mild than the dark yellow fleshed pawpaws but many folks love it. Not super large fruit.
NC - 1 - early ripening good sized pawpaw. Can get quite large.
