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  • From: Kieran <holycow@frontiernet.net>
  • To: nafex mailing list at ibiblio <nafex@lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [nafex] transplanting paw paws
  • Date: Thu, 04 Jul 2013 10:07:41 -0500

Well, mIEKAL's take is certainly different from mine. First of all, let me say that I have never moved pawpaws because I don't like them very much. However yesterday I told Annie Black that I'd
try to dig some from a patch that has really good, banana like texture instead of the usual pudding like texture. There was an article in Pomona years ago in which some guy said that he'd tried moving them dormant with very low success, so he stripped them of leaves in summer and moved them then, with 50% success. So I figured I'd try to do it in July or August. I figured that being tropicals, they'd act sort of like peppers. I have found that if I want to move pepper plants into a pot and bring them inside in the fall, I had to do it in August or early Sept, while the weather was still hot. If I wait till it's cooling down, I can't keep them hot enough to adjust and heal their roots. One year I did dig some sweet Habeneros (Southern Exposure still carries a variety like them) in a very cold blustery day, and sent them down to Florida with my mom, where they took off in the heat and lived for years.
I think maybe one question we should ask is whether mIEKAL was digging seedlings or suckers from an older tree. I'd probably be digging suckers. It might make a difference. Donna


On 7/2/2013 9:49 AM, mIEKAL aND wrote:
I've dug up the tiniest pawpaw transplants and not had an issue. For me
the thing that made the most difference is that they were fully dormant
when dug up.

~mIEKAL



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