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  • From: mIEKAL aND <QAZINGULAZA@gmail.com>
  • To: North American Fruit Explorers <nafex@lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [NAFEX] Paw paws suckering
  • Date: Sun, 29 Aug 2010 08:57:28 -0500

Just noticing that any of the branches that have fruit more than halfway out on the limbs are slowly splitting from the tree at the crotch. Is this common or perhaps a nutrient deficiency or perhaps the the trees are getting too much nitrogen & growing too fast?

~mIEKAL


On Aug 26, 2010, at 2:36 PM, Dr. Lucky Pittman wrote:

Yep. It's the norm. That's how you get a pawpaw patch - and one of the
reasons some 'patches' in the wild are not particularly productive - they're
all clones of the same original seedling; unless there's another seedling or
patch in the vicinity, potential for adequate cross-pollenation is low.
I've seen suckers pop up 20-30 ft or more away from solitary pawpaws in
residential landscapes.

LLP

-----Original Message-----
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[mailto:nafex-bounces@lists.ibiblio.org] On Behalf Of mIEKAL aND
Sent: Thursday, August 26, 2010 2:24 PM
To: North American Fruit Explorers
Subject: [NAFEX] Paw paws suckering

Just noticed after I mowed a bunch of them that my older pawpaws are
starting to sucker after many years. Is this common? I've never seen
a paw paw grove in the wild so I'm in the dark here.

~mIEKAL







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