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["loneroc" <loneroc@countryspeed.com>]

Hi Sarah,

I live in a zone 3 pocket in SW Wisconsin USA.   I've grown seedlings from 
several "hardy" sources including eastern Iowa, northern Illinois, southern 
Michigan and Pennsylvania.  Three seed sources were from plants growing and 
fruiting within 100 miles of here.  They die to the ground many 
inters.  -40F/C nearly killed them all even w/ snow cover and it took 4 
years for the survivors to reach head height again.  I've eaten fruit from 
plants growing at the U of WI Arboretum--seedier than selected cones, but 
delicious---and planted the seeds.  They die back like the others.

I wouldn't waste my money on named varieties.  They're almost always grafted 
and you'd lose the cultivars during cold winters and end up with the 
seedling rootstocks anyway.  I've not taken the survivors out since they're 
in an out-of-the-way, sheltered spot.  Fortunately I grew up in the 
pre-video game/i-pod era.  My relatively long attention span allows me to 
get pleasure watching trees grow.  Maybe I'll get a paw-paw someday.

Steve Herje,  SW WI USA USDA zone 3 (most years;-)

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Sarah Kehler Ewing" <skkewing@yahoo.com>
To: "NAFEX" <nafex@lists.ibiblio.org>
Sent: Friday, March 25, 2011 3:07 PM
Subject: [NAFEX] Pawpaws for cold zones


> Sorry to ask you to rehash things for me, but I've been deleting pawpaw 
> messages thinking that they couldn't be grown anywhere near here... and 
> now I see that Dominion carries a zone 4 rated paw-paw called "pawpaw 
> Taywo asimina triloba".  Ever heard of it/any comments?
>
> Are Pawpaws usually grafted or seedlings?
>
> What do you need pollination?
>
> Any recommendations of other varieties?
>
> Sarah
> zone 3
> Edmonton, AB
>
>
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