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["Alan Haigh" <alandhaigh@gmail.com>]

David wrote  "I once walked with fellow fruit-nut friend Stuart Wilson through a paw paw
experimental seedling orchard at the Wye Station on the eastern shore of
Maryland.  We sampled fallen fruit.  We couldn't tell ANY difference in taste/quality
of the flesh from tree to tree.  I admit though, that our taste buds were saturated
quickly, and we didn't use anything to "clear our palates" between trees."

That contradicts my own limited experience with paw paws.  I have 2 grafted varieties, I think Sunflower and Overlease and the one I assume to be Sunflower (much later ripening) tastes better to me but these 2 contrast minimally compared to the huge improvement both show over 2 seedling trees I had planted several years prior that were mostly seed and little fruit.

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