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[Richard Harrison <rharrison922@yahoo.com>]

At 220' of elevation in NW FL I never tried to shade my pawpaws. They grow fine. They get some morning shade where they are, though--from pecan trees. They are bearing now.

                                                                        Richard

--- On Wed, 2/3/10, Jwlehman@aol.com <Jwlehman@aol.com> wrote:

From: Jwlehman@aol.com <Jwlehman@aol.com>
Subject: Re: [NAFEX] pawpaw shading
To: nafex@lists.ibiblio.org
Date: Wednesday, February 3, 2010, 1:45 PM

In a message dated 2/3/2010 1:23:39 PM Eastern Standard Time, orders@cuttsreviews.com writes:

Here
in NM at 5 to 7 thousand feet, I have encased them in multiple layers of
shade cloth so that they are nearly in the dark and am leaving them that
way for several years,

Hello Jay,

What has worked well for me are 2 foot tree shelters.  I've used more than one kind and they all work.  It is my experience that once they are tall enough to come out of the top of the 2 foot shelter the direct sunlight doesn't hurt them even if it is the first year.  But I'm only 600 feet of elevation you are over 5000 feet consequently nearer the sun, less filtration by the air of UV.  I would think open shade would be sufficient protection and you wouldn't need to have them nearly in the dark.

Jerry

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