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[Alexander Brands <abb7@Lehigh.EDU>]

> Date: Sat, 8 Sep 2012 04:04:15 -0400
> From: Robert Bruns <r.fred.bruns@gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: [nafex] Paw Paw GOOD!
>
> Named varieties are propagated by grafting.  What you get from
> seedlings is unpredictable, so they are mainly used as rootstock.
>
> I tried making cuttings and couldn't get them to root.  Maybe someone
> else will have better luck.

No one has had better luck.  There is a research program at Kentucky  
State University, and in one of their publications, they tried rooting  
seveal thousand cuttings.  One made a single root, but it died.  They  
have had luck rooting cuttings from first year seedlings, but that  
doesn't help much.  Another page at their website from a few years ago  
said they were trying mound layering, but there was no follow up, so I  
assume it failed.

Alex

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