To: North American Fruit Explorers <nafex@lists.ibiblio.org>
Subject: Re: [NAFEX] paw paw
Date: Mon, 24 Jan 2011 10:18:47 -0600
Anyone know where there are wild patches along the Mississippi at the
northern MOST range? I'd love to see an older grove in fruit.
re: germination
I stratify my seed in the fridge until March, plant up in pots & put
in the greenhouse & get pretty close to 100% germination by end of
May, beginning of June except for a few stragglers that I tend to
discard.
I was reading one account of someone who kept their pawpaws in the
greenhouse the whole first year, potted up in compost in very deep
over sized pots & they were getting 3-5 feet of growth by fall. The
most I've been able to attain in the first year is 9" to 14"....
~mIEKAL
On Mon, Jan 24, 2011 at 10:12 AM, Matt Demmon <mdemmon@gmail.com> wrote:
> That sounds about right. I know of 3 wild populations, 2 are near Ann
> Arbor, and another west of Grand Rapids in a beautiful floodplain.
> Never seen fruit or flowers on any of them, they are all growing in
> quite a bit of shade. Of course I haven't always been there at the
> right time.
>
> -matt
> z5 se MI