Edit: Wow, I didn't expect so many messages so fast! All my spare seeds are accounted for, but feel free to message anyway in case any become available again.

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Hi all, I have an abundance of pawpaw seeds and want to spread the love.

Seeds were collected in Maryland (wild, but legally), have been kept moist, and been stratified for 100+ days. They're ready for planting whenever you want, indoor or out.

Not looking to make money, just cover my expenses of mailing them. The thickness of pawpaw seeds means they have to be mailed as a package rather than a letter, so in the past it's come to around $6.50 with USPS. I'd be willing to ship 10 seeds for a flat $7.50 rate (estimated $6.5 shipping + $1 materials), to any state where pawpaws are considered native.

I'm happy to provide a planting guide as well if you need. Just message/comment if you're interested.

It seems like the Ohio Festival Sept 12-14 would be an amazing introduction to this fascinating fruit and its followers :-) Is this the classic fest to go to? I'm in Madison, WI, and I don't think anything is closer.

I am studying how to best approach an organic Pawpaw orchard on farmland in Alabama and Georgia. Does anyone have experience in developing the economic case for this on a light commercial scale? Trying to map out timelines / yields / practicality of a local market vs need to process and freeze pulp.

Hey folks I work at an arboretum and we have only one paw paw tree yet it bore fruit this past year. we have 17 acres of arboretum and there is NOT another pawpaw on property. Is it possible there was male scion wood grafted in? the tree is roughly 15-20 years old and i was unable to notice a visible graft point. I’m in the PNW so it is unlikely one of our neighbors has one (never even heard of pawpaw before starting work here, nor have most in oregon). We are also in farm land so the neighbors are far away, leaving less likelihood of an off property tree being responsible for pollination

I see a lot of parroted statements about Fall and Spring are ideal pawpaw planting times but why not Winter? It also seems like planting time could be a function of the hardiness zone.

The statements about middle Fall plating describe root growth as the plants are loosing their leaves but would the pawpaw really grow roots while dropping leaves? I understand the pawpaw seeds grow roots before leaves but seems unexpected that stored energy in first season seedling would invest in roots instead of spring leaves.

The statements about Spring planting seem to be around roots will start growing also but what if roots don't have good contact with the soil yet because it hasn't settled around them with water and temperature changes over time?

Does the seedling need to grow immediately after transplanting to enhance survival?

I planted about 50 seedlings at the beginning of calendar Winter in central NC. Half were bare root and half were in pots. What should I expect for transplant success based on the time of transplanting and zone?

I'm looking to graft and would like at least 5-10 rootstock. The cheaper the better!

Hi, ive got 3 pawpaws about 1yr old in pots in my basement overwintering as I got them after i could plant them. The leaves had gone yellow and all fell. Im keeping them in a cool unfinished basement that gets a little daytime light. 1 are they dead? 2 do i water while wintering?

Has anyone successfully grafted scion from common pawpaw (Asimina triloba) onto a rootstock from a scrub pawpaw species such as wooly pawpaw (Asimina incana)? If successful, what size characteristics did the resulting union plant express? Did the plant remain diminutive like the scrub pawpaws normal growth? Did the triloba scion try to outgrow the rootstock and express its own size genes? Thank you.

So for a couple of years now, I've been under the impression that getting fruit from a pawpaw requires pollen from a different species of pawpaw, but after skimming through some posts here after I recently stumbled upon this subreddit, it seems like all you need to two separate trees?

For example, I'm growing A. parviflora in central florida. I also found A. obovata that I've been trying to grow to eventually get fruit from one another, but A. obovata is proving to be more difficult for me to establish.

However, with this new (to me) information, I'm under the impression that if I find some more A. parviloras and plant them in the garden, they can pollinate the A. parviflora that I already have; is this correct?

I made some DIY deep planters for my pawpaws out of some clear plastic bottles. I understand it may take months for any greenery to sprout above the surface, but does anyone have any clue as to how long it might be before I see roots through the clear walls of my containers?

Hi there,

I live in MN and am a huge lover of fruits. The past few years the paw paw has become something I really want to try but am unable (as far as I can tell) to get them here in MN. Internet searches aren’t yielding many results to help me figure out how I get my hands on some. I’m willing to do a fun road trip to get them myself, but I don’t know how far south I need to go to do so. Any idea where the closest paw paws to MN reside?

Thank you!

Hello - just kinda looking to source some thoughts.

I called a nursery early this year and asked if they had any grafted pawpaw and they mentioned they had some Shenandoah - which I was good with so I went over and checked and I'm 95% sure I looked at tags and saw shenandoah - so I was like perfect, so I grabbed the tallest one in excitement(even though I know pawpaws don't like to be in containers that long so tap root was ruined etc.)

Planted the tree as soon as I got home and didn't think much about it.

Walking around checking all trees/mulch etc the other day due to cold temps and I noticed that one, the tag only said pawpaw, and two, it didn't have a noticeable graft. So I'm pretty sure in my excitement I grabbed a wild pawpaw amongst a few grafted(that or it was mislabeled).

So My options are pulling it(as I want to have good fruit), leaving it for now and seeing how the genetic lottery went, and grafting either the whole thing or a branch with a named variety.

It's actually grown really well as I put it in a spot where it gets full sun in summer and is shaded when the sun drops lower in the year so it doesn't get southern exposure.

I'm tempted to see how the fruit tastes first but I know the longer I do that, the less straight forward grafting a small scion on it will be.

It is about 8 ft tall now, started about 6 ft tall. Not a ton of branching(mostly short branches). If it is wild I assume I need to start restricting height too as I don't want a super tall tree.