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  • From: mangodance <bmn@iglou.com>
  • To: North American Fruit Explorers <nafex@lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [NAFEX] Selling pawpaws
  • Date: Mon, 25 Sep 2006 10:42:22 -0400

Hal Love wrote:

Our pawpaw crop is probably the worst ever. Wild pawpaws are probably the most common understory plant around here, and usually start to drop abundant fruit about this time each year. This year, I have seen one single fruit among hundreds of trees along our road. Usually, the fruits drop onto the pavement and splat, often covering sections of road with pawpaw mush. I noticed large numbers of flowers on the trees this past spring, so there must have been a problem with pollinators. Anyone else notice a lack of pawpaws?

Pawpaws are notoriously poor pollinators. However, with a little help from growers, they will bear in good numbers. Siting of plants also will have an impact. Wild pawpaws are an understory tree and typically will not fruit as well as those grown out in the sunlight (like most orchard trees).





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