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[mIEKAL aND <qazingulaza@gmail.com>]

Anyone know where there are wild patches along the Mississippi at the
northern MOST range?  I'd love to see an older grove in fruit.

re: germination

I stratify my seed in the fridge until March, plant up in pots & put
in the greenhouse & get pretty close to 100% germination by end of
May, beginning of June except for a few stragglers that I tend to
discard.

I was reading one account of someone who kept their pawpaws in the
greenhouse the whole first year, potted up in compost in very deep
over sized pots & they were getting 3-5 feet of growth by fall.  The
most I've been able to attain in the first year is 9" to 14"....

~mIEKAL


On Mon, Jan 24, 2011 at 10:12 AM, Matt Demmon <mdemmon@gmail.com> wrote:
> That sounds about right. I know of 3 wild populations, 2 are near Ann
> Arbor, and another west of Grand Rapids in a beautiful floodplain.
> Never seen fruit or flowers on any of them, they are all growing in
> quite a bit of shade. Of course I haven't always been there at the
> right time.
>
> -matt
> z5 se MI