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["Martha L. Davis" <martha_davis@earthlink.net>]

What I have done as far as grafting was to do either whip or whip and tongue 
grafts just as the buds start pushing out.  Pawpaw wood is much softer than 
apple or pear wood so you need much less pressure to make the cuts.  I 
haven't tried much with pawpaw where the scion and the rootstock re really 
different diameters.  I had small seedlings or rsuckers available.

Martha

-----Original Message-----
>From: Karen Tillou <arboretum@homeorchardsociety.org>
>Sent: Apr 20, 2008 11:08 PM
>To: "Martha L. Davis" <martha_davis@earthlink.net>, North American Fruit 
>Explorers <nafex@lists.ibiblio.org>
>Subject: Re: [NAFEX] Pawpaw Pollination
>
>yes - we have great access to the corvallis repository - joseph  
>postman, their curator, has a great relationship with the Home Orchard  
>Society, so we pick fruit in the fall there for our tasting shows.  i  
>have several seedling pawpaws and one grafted 'sunflower' cultivar,  
>all of which ripen nicely in oregon city.  i don't have any space for  
>more pawpaw now at the HOS arboretum, but i do have a new seedling  
>patch at my house that i am waiting to sprout this summer.
>oh - any special grafting advice for grafting pawpaw? dormant season  
>cleft grafts or summer budding?
>thanks for the advice,
>karen
>
>
>On Apr 20, 2008, at 8:47 PM, Martha L. Davis wrote:
>
>> When I had pawpaws in Illinois I grafted 1-2 additional varieties on  
>> the tree.  Partly for space saving and partly for pollination.  For  
>> awhile I hand pollinated, eventually the flowers were out of reach  
>> but by then there were enough flowers to attract some flies and they  
>> pollinated OK.
>> Karen if you are in Oregon in the Willamette Valley you might want  
>> to concentrate on earlier varieties.  Are you aware of the pawpaw at  
>> the Germplasm repository at Corvallis?
>>
>> Martha
>>
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