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  • From: Rosholdt <rosholdt@erols.com>
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  • Subject: [NAFEX] Best Pawpaw varietiews
  • Date: Thu, 04 Feb 2010 11:16:00 -0500

I'd like to put my two cents in. Shenandoah is a great tasting Paw Paw, but I'd give the higher flavor marks to Susquehanna, another of Neal Peterson's. Prolific is nice, too.

There are reasons other than taste why Prolific and Shenandoah are my favorite Paw Paws, and it has to do with precocity, reliability, and abundance. Both of these bear early, often and reliably, and are quite good trees! While the Susquehanna flavor is superb, I can't keep the tree alive in my orchard, though others can. Shenandoah has big fruit!

I don't have NC-10 or Sunflower, but have heard they are nice. My next questions: do they bear every year and how big is the fruit and how abundant?

No point in having a nice tree with no fruit (when you wanted fruit).

Barb

Subject:Re: [NAFEX] Any opinions on best pawpaw varieties?
From:"Ron Powell, PhD" <Botrytis@fuse.net>
Date:Wed, 3 Feb 2010 11:27:41 -0500
To:"North American Fruit Explorers" <nafex@lists.ibiblio.org>

Hi,
I'll muddy the waters a little bit more regarding pawpaw selection. My Rebecca's Gold produced the largest fruit that I have harvested - over 17 ounces! I seldom find a fruit on the ground from Rebecca's Gold that has not been chewed on by animals as well as the SAA Zimmerman, at lest the animals like the fruit. I think that we also need to identify which PA Golden that we are growing. I have PA Golden 1, 2, 3, and 4. I believe that most of the PA Golden are number 1. My best performing pawpaw trees in Zone 6 are NC-1, Sunflower, Sue (quite mild), KYSU 8-2, Shenandoah and Overleese. I have not been impressed with Davis, Sweet Alice or Prolific. In northern Alabama, Dale Brooks' favorite pawpaw is Sweet Alice.

I also have a Wells that produces large, excellent tasting fruit. I have seen reports where Wells does not produce good fruit or has vigor. An interesting research project for some one would be to see if the varieties being sold are true to name! I don't know whether or not all of the variation can be explained by the root stock and growing conditions.

Ron

----- Original Message -----
From: Jwlehman@aol.com
To: nafex@lists.ibiblio.org
Sent: Wednesday, February 03, 2010 9:45 AM
Subject: Re: [NAFEX] Any opinions on best pawpaw varieties?

In a message dated 2/3/2010 9:27:43 AM Eastern Standard Time, .fred.bruns@gmail.com writes:

> Two good tasting varieties are Rebecca's Gold and Pennsylvania Golden. RG is larger, but PG is earlier. I bought both from Raintree.


I don't write this to disagree with Fred, but rather bring out a point in my previous e-mail concerning this subject. My Rebecca's gold produces small fruit, compared to most others, and the taste is only average. I don't have Pennsylvania Golden.

My Rebecca's Gold, Davis, Prolific, Sweet Alice, Sunflower, and two other sessions sent to me for comparative testing are in the same 10 x 10 foot area. Sunflower and Prolific are the two best

Jerry




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