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["Michele Stanton" <6ducks@gmail.com>]

Does anyone have a few pieces of pawpaw scionwood they'd like to share?
I've thought about grafting the trees to a specific cultivar, but haven't
gotten around to it.
Usually I've thought about it when the trees are in bloom :(

Which kind of grafts are getting the highest % of takes for you pawpaw
grafters out there?

Michele

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Sent: Thursday, March 17, 2011 11:25 AM
To: North American Fruit Explorers
Subject: Re: [NAFEX] Paw-paw taste, and why bother

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
============
>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

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