[NAFEX] Papaws

Gordon Nofs gc_nofs at hotmail.com
Mon Sep 16 12:06:55 EDT 2002


Bill
  They like a slightly acid soil. Work into the hole a bale of Canadian 
Spaghnum peat before planting.

Gordon C. Nofs
Flint, MI.

I live in a limestone soil region. Would pawpaws do well here?

Bill
   ----- Original Message -----
   From: Lucky Pittman
   To: nafex at lists.ibiblio.org
   Sent: Monday, September 16, 2002 11:32 AM
   Subject: Re: [NAFEX] Papaws


   At 09:41 PM 09/15/2002 -0500, J.Frisk wrote:

     I just had my first Papaws from my orchard.  I have had the trees for 
about 20 years.  They are about 20 feet high.  I believe that I have just 
one variety.  It suckered another large stem a number of years ago that is 
as tall as the original tree.  I planted two varieties but the other one 
died almost immediately.

   Judson,
   If these were grafted selections, the root sucker that came up is from 
the seedling rootstock, and is, indeed, a second 'variety', thus providing 
the opportunity for cross-pollination between the two.


   Lucky Pittman
   USDA Zone 6
   Hopkinsville, KY



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