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[Douglas Woodard <dwoodard@becon.org>]

I have no experience with cultivars, but about a year ago Ernie Grimo 
who is pretty knowledgeable, told me that the best tasting  pawpaws he 
knew of were Shenandoah and one of Doug Campbell's; I think he said 
NC-10 but I am not absolutely sure of that.

My limited experience of pawpaws says that they do not like dry soil, 
and I have the impression that they very much like shelter from wind.
From reading I think they prefer soil a little acid (ours is).

Our (naturalized park) best-looking seedling is in high organic fairly 
moist soil just north of a Manitoba maple.

Doug Woodard
St. Catharines, Ontario, Canada


Jay Cutts wrote:
> I see a number of selected varieties of pawpaw offered.  Anyone have 
> experience with which taste best?  Sunflower is supposed to be self-fertile.
>
> Best,
>
> Jay
>
> Jay Cutts
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