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  • From: sherwin <sherwindu@att.net>
  • To: nafex mailing list at ibiblio <nafex@lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [nafex] transplanting paw paws
  • Date: Fri, 05 Jul 2013 00:39:44 -0500

Jerry,

You are correct in that one would have to do a controlled
experiment to determine what is going on here. In my
case, I obtained my trees from someone else's yard and
did not have the opportunity to let the trees get established
before moving them. Like I said earlier, I was able to move them
immediately with about a 50 percent success rate. I still feel
the more critical factor is when the sucker's connection to
the mother tree is broken. If I had the opportunity, I would
not even break this connection until the sucker is well
established, possibly in a season or two.

Sherwin

On 7/4/2013 9:49 PM, Jwlehman@aol.com wrote:
In a message dated 7/2/2013 6:41:12 PM Eastern Daylight Time,
sherwindu@att.net writes:

Not to belabor this point too much, I feel a comment is due here.
Jerry's method insures that the sucker plant can survive on it's own.
One can achieve the same effect by moving the plant to a pot or
into the ground, being careful to keep as much soil on the roots,
as possible. The only advantage of a pot vs. in the ground, is that
the pot can be placed in a protective environment. Otherwise, the
root development would seem to be the same leaving it next to
the mother tree or moving it
.

Hi Sherwin,

Sorry, I can't agree with the underlined sentance. Typically the sucker
plant has few of it's own roots. What few there are can break off even trying
to keep as much soil as possible. The chances of successfully transplanting a
sucker pawpaw is greatly increased by not disturbing what few hair roots
they typically have for one growing season.

We can theorize all we want but what someone needs do is locate a pawpaw
cluster with 20 nearly same sized suckers. Then dig and pot 10 and the other
10 root prune then water and fertilize the same as the potted 10.


I don't have any scientific data to back me. But I have dug a few pawpaw
suckers and transplanted w/o success.

Jerry
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