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[sherwin <sherwindu@att.net>]

  Jerry,

  You are correct in that one would have to do a controlled
   experiment to determine what is going on here.  In my
   case, I obtained my trees from someone else's yard and
   did not have the opportunity to let the trees get established
   before moving them.  Like I said earlier, I was able to move them
   immediately with about a 50 percent success rate.   I still feel
   the more critical factor is when the sucker's connection to
   the mother tree is broken.  If I had the opportunity, I would
   not even break this connection until the sucker is well
   established, possibly in a season or two.

                      Sherwin

On 7/4/2013 9:49 PM, Jwlehman@aol.com wrote:
> In a message dated 7/2/2013 6:41:12 PM Eastern Daylight Time,
> sherwindu@att.net writes:
>
> > Not to belabor this point too much, I feel a comment is due here.
> >     Jerry's method insures that the sucker plant can survive on it's own.
> >     One can achieve the same effect by moving the plant to a pot or
> >     into the ground, being careful to keep as much soil on the roots,
> >     as possible.  The only advantage of a pot vs. in the ground, is that
> >     the pot can be placed in a protective environment.  Otherwise, the
> >     root development would seem to be the same leaving it next to
> >     the mother tree or moving it
> .
>
> Hi Sherwin,
>
> Sorry, I can't agree with the underlined sentance. Typically the sucker
> plant has few of it's own roots. What few there are can break off even trying
> to keep as much soil as possible. The chances of successfully transplanting a
> sucker pawpaw is greatly increased by not disturbing what few hair roots
> they typically have for one growing season.
>
> We can theorize all we want but what someone needs do is locate a pawpaw
> cluster with 20 nearly same sized suckers. Then dig and pot 10 and the other
> 10 root prune then water and fertilize the same as the potted 10.
>
>
> I don't have any scientific data to back me. But I have dug a few pawpaw
> suckers and transplanted w/o success.
>
> Jerry
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