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["Lon J. Rombough" <lonrom@hevanet.com>]

Pawpaws need more heat than you would get in the open on the Oregon coast. 
You might be able to get them going more if you put something like a mulch
of black rocks under the tree, and put a white background on the north side
of the tree to reflect more light/heat back at the tree, as well as keeping
wind off it more.
-Lon Rombough
Grapes, writing, consulting, more, plus word on my grape book at
http://www.bunchgrapes.com

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>From: Sam Franc <franc@oregonfast.net>
>To: nafex@yahoogroups.com
>Subject: Re: [nafex] Pawpaw
>Date: Mon, Jan 7, 2002, 10:14 AM
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>FWIW:
>Here on the Oregon coast in zone 8a, pawpaws are a waste of space.
>The trees grow so slowly it will be 40 years before they are big enough to 
>bear, I guess.
>Mine were planted as 2 year old pots in 1991 and they are about 6 feet tall.
>I have never seen a blossom on any of them.
>The leaves are pretty but they turn yellow in the fall and fall off quickly 
>so they do not present a fall show.
>The trunks are about one inch in diameter.
>The limbs grow upright and are quite small in diameter.
>So they have the appearance of a bush rather than a tree.
>I have never seen them anywhere else so I don't know if this is par for the 
>course or not.
>Sam
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