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["David Consolvo" <fruitopia@firstva.com>]

Excellent reminder about differences from year to year and from location to 
location.  It's so obvious with apples, but hard to remember about other 
fruit.

And don't forget the huge difference a few days makes with timing of picking 
pawpaws.  Too early and they're much less pleasant; too late (when they get 
brown) 
and they taste off.  That's one reason they're not shipped commercially.
~David Consolvo

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From: nottke1 <nottke1@earthlink.net>
Reply-To: nottke1 <nottke1@earthlink.net>,North American Fruit Explorers 
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Date:  Wed, 16 Mar 2011 09:53:54 -0400 (GMT-04:00)

>mIEKAL,
>To me PA Golden is comparable to other top-ranked pawpaw cultivars in flavor 
and texture.  In a large taste test, a dozen named cultivars will be 
clustered at the 
top, based on participant's preference for 
sweetness/firmness/color/after-taste.
>See  http://www.pawpaw.kysu.edu/pawpaw/cvsrc98.htm
>As with other tree fruit, I find modest year-to-year differences between 
>cultivars, 
depending on the weather.
>Also, as with other fruit, a pawpaw cultivar's attributes depend somewhat on 
location.
>Jim
>
>>
>>Can anyone who has tasted a lot of varieties of pawpaw tell me how PA
>>Golden ranks for flavor & texture compared to some of the other
>>varieties that people are growing.  I ask because I've been thinking
>>for years that when these finally fruited for me they would be an
>>acquired taste, but they were way better than I was expecting.  Now
>>I'm curious if the potential flavors of other varieties exceed ...
>>
>>~mIEKAL
>
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