Michele,
There is still time, if you act now, to collect a few scion sticks from other
pawpaw patches, and store them in a ziploc bag in the fridge for a month.
Then in mid-late April graft them onto any of the trees in your patch that
are at least 5 feet all. In 2013 they will bloom and cross pollinate your
native stand.
Jim
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I have a small colony of wild pawpaws in my back yard--they were there at>from non-related trees, so although I don't know of other trees in the area,
the edge of the woods when we bought the house. For over ten years, they
bloomed but never set fruit. So the last couple of years I started to
fertilize them along with my other fruiting plants. They started setting
fruit, and last summer I was able to keep the fruit away from the critters.
It was quite tasty--The fruit is worth the fuss. Pawpaws need pollination
I guess they're around.__________________
Michele in SW Ohio
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