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Michele,
There is still time, if you act now, to collect a few scion sticks from other 
pawpaw patches, and store them in a ziploc bag in the fridge for a month.  
Then in mid-late April graft them onto any of the trees in your patch that 
are at least 5 feet all.  In 2013 they will bloom and cross pollinate your 
native stand.
Jim
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>I have a small colony of wild pawpaws in my back yard--they were there at
>the edge of the woods when we bought the house. For over ten years, they
>bloomed but never set fruit.  So the last couple of years I started to
>fertilize them along with my other fruiting plants. They started setting
>fruit, and last summer I was able to keep the fruit away from the critters.
>It was quite tasty--The fruit is worth the fuss.  Pawpaws need pollination
>from non-related trees, so although I don't know of other trees in the area,
>I guess they're around.
>
>Michele in SW Ohio