Skip to Content.
Sympa Menu

nafex - [NAFEX] Seeking advice about paw paws

nafex@lists.ibiblio.org

Subject: North American Fruit Explorers mailing list at ibiblio

List archive

Chronological Thread  
  • From: Diane Porter <dporter@lisco.com>
  • To: North American Fruit Explorers <nafex@lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: [NAFEX] Seeking advice about paw paws
  • Date: Sat, 15 Apr 2006 23:24:34 -0500

I live in southeast Iowa and want to try paw paws. I understand they do nicely here, but I've never seen, let alone tasted, a paw paw fruit, but they sound wonderful.

A couple of years ago, a NAFEX subscriber kindly sent me some paw paw seeds. Unfortunately, only the deer got to taste the paw paws, but they by no means waited for the fruit. They yanked the seedlings right out of the ground, wiping out my entire crop in one night.

I now have a serious deer fence on its way to me, and I want to try again. Is there a reasonable expectation of getting tasty fruits from seedlings? Or do I need to purchase grafted trees (about $25 each from Raintree)? Being optimistic about the quality of seedlings, I would like to try raising the trees from seed, bu I'm getting too old to wait years for fruit and then be disappointed in the taste. So I'd appreciate the expert advice of fellow NAFEXers. I also wonder if anyone can suggest somewhere that I can obtain some seeds.

Diane Porter, Fairfield, Iowa





Archive powered by MHonArc 2.6.24.

Top of Page