Paw paws for Central Florida?
zenfruitlover
15 years ago
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Comments (3)I ordered mine from One Green World. Just got them a few weeks ago. So far so good. All are in the ground and seem to be doing fine. Here is a link that might be useful: Pawpaw...See MorePaw paw in NE Florida?
Comments (12)I've eaten lots of pawpaws from trees growing in 10-25-45 gallon containers. I have wondered about the trimming of the taproot but have not yet experimented with it, though I have done it accidentally when the root grew out of the pot into the ground and got cut off. I just haven't kept track of which plants and haven't looked later at the cleaned rootball to see how they responded. Maybe next spring. One problem with growing it pots though is they can eventually seem to "run out of steam." There just seems to be something nutritional I can't figure out for quite a few of them, despite a lot of experimenting there. The leaves can get chlorotic, or generally yellowish, or thin (though full sized) and a bit limp, or shrunken in size and usually yellowed. Alternatively, sometimes grafts seem so happy on the new rootstock that they have huge leaves for a year. BTW: Just Fruits and Exotics has seedling pawpaws from maybe 100 miles due west of you....See Morelesser-known paw paws
Comments (9)I have tons of dwarf pawpaw growing naturally on my property and that is one of the main reasons, extreme diversity and abundance of Lepidoptera host plants, that I selected it. I have planted two Asimina triloba, one is still alive, barely active, and I think the other is dead or at least dormant. I have another A. triloba in a 35 gallon container that I had to move deep into the shade to keep alive. My main source of water is rain water, and after that it has to be hauled in. I have two 1100 gallon tanks for rainwater collection. A. parviflora is much better in arid and drought conditions. They all look healthy as a horse, especially the ones in full sun, despite the drought conditions. I've seen a fair amount of Zebra Swallowtail cats on the A. parviflora, and I believe, I saw one once, on the A. triloba. I'm not sure, but I do think one day there was an early instar cat on the triloba, but it wasn't there the times I went back to look for it....See MorePaw Paw hybrids or not?
Comments (62)Dear moontraveler, When you used the word "hybrid" it is hard to know what you mean exactly, a hybrid normally referring to a cross between two separate species, but I have a hunch that you are referring to SEEDLING paw paws, as opposed to named cultivars. In answer to WHERE folk get or buy their trees, we'll I've just had shipped to me (in L.A. Calif.) 7 highly touted cultivars from a wonderful nursery in Oregon called One Green World... They came in by fedex in special packing boxes, ALL perfectly secured by ingenious methods, all without the slightest damage. These were the varieties Mango, KSU-Atwood, five Peterson-Paw Paws (Susquehanna, Shenandoah, Wabash, Potomac, Allegeny). I have three 3 ten year olds I bought at a local nursery that don't offer these any longer -- Sunflower, Rebecca's Gold, Wells) I happen to live in citrus country, very, very hot and dry in the Summer which is NOT a Paw Paw friendly venue, but I babied these trees like noting else I've ever grown -- shade cloth all summer for five years, six inch mulch, misting stands, AND letting my hose run at very low pressure just about all day when the temperatures reached 110 degrees plus...they are ten feet tall now and need no sun protection, the leaves not even burning, and a pretty impressive crop of delicious fruit...which I have a hard time getting others to taste. The Peterson cultivars are supposed to be highly superior, much bigger than what my fruit I get now, these ready to fall of or e picked with first week of September. I simply LOVE this fruit and have ten all inter spread amongst their more tropical cousins, cherimoyas and Atemoyas, which thrice here if you water them enough. Hope I have been of some help, Guy...See Moredghays
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