I grow pawpaws here in Wisconsin, it's nice to see the fruit get some attention! My 8 to 10 year old trees have been producing fruit for 5 years now, and they are delicious! I have two different varieties that extend the season to almost 4 weeks. The beautiful trees really stand out with that tropical look, and are easy to grow!
It's really sad. There's over 30,000 different fruits. But most people only know about 30, and only eat 10-15 of them. And half of the fruits they're eating, they're mistaking them as vegetables. Like Tomatoes, cucumbers, peppers, beans, eggplants, peas, etc.
I have two trees here in Maryland. Do you hand pollinate? I’ve been doing that, and get hundreds of fruits. If not, I would only get a few fruits per season.
It just so happens i just planted 2 pawpaws today. I already got a taste of them earlier this year and loved them. They taste really like mango but much more smooth. I am growing varieties from ksu and peterson as well as some others. The leaves are so beautiful too!
So you know, different varieties have very different tastes from one another. Banana, vanilla, and mango are the most common I've heard of and/or tasted. Best, JJ
Just planted four more paw paw trees. One tree I planted from. Seeds that came from one patch in September Ohio I found as a child. It has a strong lemon/ vanilla flavor and firm fruit uncommon for paw paw. My favorite. Hope it breeds true.
They don't breed true. If I may suggest: learn how to graft branches from your unique tree to other trees. And, you can grow new trees from cuttings of the original. These are the only ways you'll be able to procreate your specimen. Thanks for sharing. And, if you have cuttings available for sale, I would buy some. Best, JJ
It grow in CT and RI, too. The beautiful giant paw paw near the Harriet Beecher Stowe house was hit by lightning 4 years ago....but the caretakers transplanted her. We truly enjoyed the Athens paw paw festival!
I have two trees in my Surburban IL backyard, and this year had my first fruit. Just one, but that it survived to maturity to me was a small, minor miracle, since the tree is only about knee high, and I didn't see any flowers on the other tree. Supposedly the Pawpaw needs to be cross pollinated, but not sure how the flower was for this fruit. I could certainly taste the banana in it and look forward to more in the future. Seeds from the fruit are currently undergoing chilling in the refrigerator to be planted later. Love this ode to a fine native fruit!
Check out videos on hand pollinating paw paws. I have two trees, and if I didn’t hand pollinate them, I would get only a couple of fruits per season, instead of the hundreds my trees yield.
@@deanevangelista6359 Sounds great. My little tree lost it's two flower buds in a recent frost. So no Paw Paw for me this year. But I did plant the seeds from last year, so we'll see what happens.
Paw Paw is the only plant that Zebra Swallowtail Butterflies will lay their eggs on for the caterpillars to eat. No Paw Paw, no beautiful Zebra Swallowtail Butterflies.
There are many varieties of butterflies that mimic the appearance of the Zebra Swallowtail. This leads birds to leave said species alone. But, if there are no Zebra Swallowtails to "teach" creatures that this look is poisonous, the mimic species just get eaten. This brings the numbers of all the species below what a healthy ecosystem needs.
Working on my own orchard of em... bought a bunch of plants from the local conservation district and the darn things turned out to be black gum tupelo😆 looks like I'll plant some seeds next year.
I just discovered PawPaws this year in AR and MS. I blended the pulp with some fresh cherries and made some popsicles. Very tasty. They also are a good substitute for bananas in banana nut bread. I prefer to pick them just as they are starting to soften and let them ripen on the countertop. Only takes a day or two to get the ripeness I like.
We used to pick them here in Southwest Va. every year when i was a kid ( im now near 60). They seem to ne much harder to find now and havent had any in several years now. Might try some of the old spots i used to know this year and try and pick some.
We were so sad when our pawpaw tree fell in the storm last summer. My uncle has tried putting deer heads under to attract flies for pollination. Eventually, my grandma hung a fly trap on it and blocked where the flies go in to get trapped- all to attract those pollinators.
@cosmokramer3081 I think they planted other ones further away from the farmhouse, but this one was nearly 7 years old and bearing fruit. I think it takes a few years for them to bear fruit, because it's always an event whenever it gets even a couple off of it, so the others are much further behind.
You should put out sugar water to attract bees. It helps them to make more honey too, if they're coming from a bee keeper's box somewhere in the area. Bee keepers feed them sugar water in the fall, anyway, to help them prepare for winter.
@@Melissa0774 I live on a lavender farm, so we actually already have beehives out on the property. The guy who set the boxes up and takes care of them actually goes to the makerspace I go to. I never heard that about bees being a good pollinater for them, I'm actually about to go into the farmhouse now, so I'll mention it to my grandma to look further into. I feel like if bees were a sufficient pollinator for these, I feel like my grandma and uncle would have harped more on that; I imagine it's a little disconcerting for lavender farm customers to see a rotting deer head maybe 50 ft away from the stand with the lavender products, even if said stand is inside a proper building while the tree is outside a bit offset to everything. 😅
@@gracemakeslaceI just learned recently that flies are actually great pollinators. I hate seeing them on my veggies, fruits, and flowers because they are so disgusting but I guess they can be helpful.
I just use a brush.. 5-10 minutes job every year... We do not have the butterfly here in europe which is the natural pollinator in the US! So you have to do the hand job or have to attract flies in masses to get the job done, the few ants and bugs who crawl into the blossoms, wont do the job properly!
Did you have them in pots before putting them in the ground? That could be the issue because they have a very long tap root that can get stunted in a pot because it doesn't have enough room to grow.
As with all the other fruit and plants in the Annonaceae family, like custard apples and soursops, the pawpaw contains annonacin. It's a neurotoxin that some studies link to Parkinson's and other neurological conditions.
@somerandomperson1503 Well annone are eaten all over the world, and the only area where they really have a problem with this disease is in the carribean where they use soursap leafs for tea.. the leafs are highly toxic. You should eat them ripe and not the peel or the seeds, thats all there is to it and of course as always in moderation!
@somerandomperson1503 100% correct, and what's worse is that the amount of poison is variable across strains. That means some are completely safe, and others are damn near unfit for human consumption.
Ate them where I lived a while as a kid. Don't commercialize them. If they do they'll probably breed it into some unrecognizable monstrosity like those hard tasteless apples they'll be selling.
Unfortunately, I think I'll always associate the paw paw fruit with quackery. When my father was dying of cancer, one of the many shady homeopathic "remedies" he and my mother added to his care routine was consumption of paw paw; dried, pulverized and in capsule form of course. According to the seller, paw paw fruit isn't widely available in stores because of a conspiracy by the medical institution, because of its natural healing properties. 😡😩
bs... annonacin is used in cancer medicines, however wrongly consumed it also is toxic, normal pawpas do not have this problem as long as you eat them ripe and not the leafs and seeds, the annonacine in there can cause neurogenetic diseases in higher dosages, so choose your poison! There is no conspiracy behind it!
I grow pawpaws here in Wisconsin, it's nice to see the fruit get some attention! My 8 to 10 year old trees have been producing fruit for 5 years now, and they are delicious! I have two different varieties that extend the season to almost 4 weeks. The beautiful trees really stand out with that tropical look, and are easy to grow!
It's really sad. There's over 30,000 different fruits. But most people only know about 30, and only eat 10-15 of them. And half of the fruits they're eating, they're mistaking them as vegetables. Like Tomatoes, cucumbers, peppers, beans, eggplants, peas, etc.
Where are you located? I'd love to come check them out! We are up by sauk city.
@kfrench5760 I'm in west Madison, you're welcome to see them. Soon they will be in full bloom!
@johnwilcox4078 I planted 4 paw paw seedlings last fall. Not sure how to get ahold of you, but I'd love to come check them out!
I have two trees here in Maryland. Do you hand pollinate? I’ve been doing that, and get hundreds of fruits. If not, I would only get a few fruits per season.
It just so happens i just planted 2 pawpaws today. I already got a taste of them earlier this year and loved them. They taste really like mango but much more smooth.
I am growing varieties from ksu and peterson as well as some others.
The leaves are so beautiful too!
So you know, different varieties have very different tastes from one another.
Banana, vanilla, and mango are the most common I've heard of and/or tasted.
Best,
JJ
The bear on Disney’s Jungle Book sung about the paw paw 😁
Just planted four more paw paw trees. One tree I planted from. Seeds that came from one patch in September Ohio I found as a child. It has a strong lemon/ vanilla flavor and firm fruit uncommon for paw paw. My favorite. Hope it breeds true.
you might contact research breeders, they might be interested into your tree!
They don't breed true. If I may suggest: learn how to graft branches from your unique tree to other trees. And, you can grow new trees from cuttings of the original. These are the only ways you'll be able to procreate your specimen.
Thanks for sharing.
And, if you have cuttings available for sale, I would buy some.
Best,
JJ
Un paw paw plantado por semillas llega a dar frutos????
Many of us rural folks grew up with access to paws paws.
🎶Way down yonder in the pawpaw patch.🎶
A horticulturist named Crabtree. You can't get more happily ironic as that.
It grow in CT and RI, too. The beautiful giant paw paw near the Harriet Beecher Stowe house was hit by lightning 4 years ago....but the caretakers transplanted her. We truly enjoyed the Athens paw paw festival!
As a toddler teacher I sang "In The Pawpaw Patch" more times than I care to admit. Now I know what a pawpaw is.
I knew it as a kid. I’m 81.
Yes!
The farm I grew up on in Missouri had many PawPaw trees in the woods. We didn't harvest them so the wildlife got all the fruit.
I have two trees in my Surburban IL backyard, and this year had my first fruit. Just one, but that it survived to maturity to me was a small, minor miracle, since the tree is only about knee high, and I didn't see any flowers on the other tree. Supposedly the Pawpaw needs to be cross pollinated, but not sure how the flower was for this fruit. I could certainly taste the banana in it and look forward to more in the future. Seeds from the fruit are currently undergoing chilling in the refrigerator to be planted later. Love this ode to a fine native fruit!
Did you plant them or were they already there?
@@Melissa0774. I planted them.
Check out videos on hand pollinating paw paws. I have two trees, and if I didn’t hand pollinate them, I would get only a couple of fruits per season, instead of the hundreds my trees yield.
@@deanevangelista6359 Sounds great. My little tree lost it's two flower buds in a recent frost. So no Paw Paw for me this year. But I did plant the seeds from last year, so we'll see what happens.
Paw Paw is the only plant that Zebra Swallowtail Butterflies will lay their eggs on for the caterpillars to eat. No Paw Paw, no beautiful Zebra Swallowtail Butterflies.
I don't like caterpillars, nor do I like the zebra swallowtail. I like the adonis, morpho, and the monarch.
@@I_WANT_MY_SLAW And, this matters, because...?
There are many varieties of butterflies that mimic the appearance of the Zebra Swallowtail. This leads birds to leave said species alone. But, if there are no Zebra Swallowtails to "teach" creatures that this look is poisonous, the mimic species just get eaten. This brings the numbers of all the species below what a healthy ecosystem needs.
Pumkin Pie and Pawpaw cakes. Damn the seasons are getting better and better.
Paw Paw, Michigan was named after the Paw Paw trees that once grew in abundance along the Paw Paw River.
I live near Paw Paw, WV. Named for the Paw Paw.l
Working on my own orchard of em... bought a bunch of plants from the local conservation district and the darn things turned out to be black gum tupelo😆 looks like I'll plant some seeds next year.
I just discovered PawPaws this year in AR and MS. I blended the pulp with some fresh cherries and made some popsicles. Very tasty. They also are a good substitute for bananas in banana nut bread.
I prefer to pick them just as they are starting to soften and let them ripen on the countertop. Only takes a day or two to get the ripeness I like.
We used to pick them here in Southwest Va. every year when i was a kid ( im now near 60). They seem to ne much harder to find now and havent had any in several years now. Might try some of the old spots i used to know this year and try and pick some.
My brother has a paw paw tree here in Connecticut, I tried it but I didn’t like the taste but my brother loves it.
okay im gonna go to papaw festival
If it wasn’t so far from South Alabama I would to
The best fruit ever. It’s so damn good.
I like fruits that are less neurotoxic, and that don't go bad the second they come off the tree.
@ that’s why you eat them directly off the tree and apples have more neurotoxins than a pawpaw. Great try though. 👍🏻
Athens baby!!!!
Just googled 2024 festival dates, eating a paw paw in my bucket list.
Athens is the best
I discovered eating them cold this past summer. It’s like eating vanilla pudding.
I really want to try one
I would love to grow some.
It's Jane "Pawpaw" Pauley!
I have big ones along my drive!
We were so sad when our pawpaw tree fell in the storm last summer.
My uncle has tried putting deer heads under to attract flies for pollination. Eventually, my grandma hung a fly trap on it and blocked where the flies go in to get trapped- all to attract those pollinators.
@cosmokramer3081 I think they planted other ones further away from the farmhouse, but this one was nearly 7 years old and bearing fruit. I think it takes a few years for them to bear fruit, because it's always an event whenever it gets even a couple off of it, so the others are much further behind.
You should put out sugar water to attract bees. It helps them to make more honey too, if they're coming from a bee keeper's box somewhere in the area. Bee keepers feed them sugar water in the fall, anyway, to help them prepare for winter.
@@Melissa0774 I live on a lavender farm, so we actually already have beehives out on the property. The guy who set the boxes up and takes care of them actually goes to the makerspace I go to. I never heard that about bees being a good pollinater for them, I'm actually about to go into the farmhouse now, so I'll mention it to my grandma to look further into. I feel like if bees were a sufficient pollinator for these, I feel like my grandma and uncle would have harped more on that; I imagine it's a little disconcerting for lavender farm customers to see a rotting deer head maybe 50 ft away from the stand with the lavender products, even if said stand is inside a proper building while the tree is outside a bit offset to everything. 😅
@@gracemakeslaceI just learned recently that flies are actually great pollinators. I hate seeing them on my veggies, fruits, and flowers because they are so disgusting but I guess they can be helpful.
I just use a brush.. 5-10 minutes job every year... We do not have the butterfly here in europe which is the natural pollinator in the US! So you have to do the hand job or have to attract flies in masses to get the job done, the few ants and bugs who crawl into the blossoms, wont do the job properly!
I grew up in Indiana and know the song from grade school but have never eaten a pawpaw.
“Way down yonder in the PawPaw patch.”
Degen, they don't even grow in patches.
soursop 🙌
I searched for some this year but i couldn't find any 😢
I had gotten 2 paw paw tree saplings, my family tried really hard to get them to grow. They died.
Did you have them in pots before putting them in the ground? That could be the issue because they have a very long tap root that can get stunted in a pot because it doesn't have enough room to grow.
As with all the other fruit and plants in the Annonaceae family, like custard apples and soursops, the pawpaw contains annonacin. It's a neurotoxin that some studies link to Parkinson's and other neurological conditions.
paw paws rule!
I need everyone of em 😭 😂 appalchian here theyre the best thing u will ever eat like a banana mango coconut blend ❤
Like a rein cherry tree, you need two different pawpaw varieties to produce fruit...
pawpaw smoothie.
Fresh mangoes off the tree so ripe the cover your hands in juice FTW! Get to the subtropics.
🎶Now when you pick a pawpaw or a prickly pear and you pick a raw paw well next time beware.
There is a doctor if I remember in Lancaster Ohio that claims pawpaws help cure cancer.
@somerandomperson1503 Well annone are eaten all over the world, and the only area where they really have a problem with this disease is in the carribean where they use soursap leafs for tea.. the leafs are highly toxic. You should eat them ripe and not the peel or the seeds, thats all there is to it and of course as always in moderation!
@somerandomperson1503 100% correct, and what's worse is that the amount of poison is variable across strains. That means some are completely safe, and others are damn near unfit for human consumption.
what British English calls Pawpaw seems sth very different
What the rest of the world calls "pawpaw" is actually papayas...
But in the Caribbean the papaya is called pawpaw..does not look like this fruit
Yes. This is related to custard apple, also called sugar apple in the Caribbean.
You can probably extend the shelf life using technology from Apeel Biosciences
PLEASE don’t mess with it genetically! They’ve done that to the avocado and I hate the changes they’ve made!
I will love to try them and what do I have to do for you to send me some at my address in Lancaster pa just let me know
They spoil really quickly. You have to get them local. They might have local paw paw festivals around the area that you live
Ate them where I lived a while as a kid. Don't commercialize them. If they do they'll probably breed it into some unrecognizable monstrosity like those hard tasteless apples they'll be selling.
The slaves also ate these to stay alive while they ran and hid in the wilds, especially in the Carolinas and VA
In other wards they are going to change it by making, breeding a "hybrid" fruit?😮😢 That will be sad, party because it will not taste the same!!
How can you talk about pawpaws without mentioning Neal Peterson or Jerry Lehman😳 SMH
I should mention I have a 3 year old Lehman pawpaw, it's doing nicely 😉
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Now do morel mushrooms.
I despise pawpaws with every fiber of my being. I believe it is by far THE worst thing a man can put in his mouth. 🤕🤕🤕
Unfortunately, I think I'll always associate the paw paw fruit with quackery. When my father was dying of cancer, one of the many shady homeopathic "remedies" he and my mother added to his care routine was consumption of paw paw; dried, pulverized and in capsule form of course. According to the seller, paw paw fruit isn't widely available in stores because of a conspiracy by the medical institution, because of its natural healing properties. 😡😩
bs... annonacin is used in cancer medicines, however wrongly consumed it also is toxic, normal pawpas do not have this problem as long as you eat them ripe and not the leafs and seeds, the annonacine in there can cause neurogenetic diseases in higher dosages, so choose your poison!
There is no conspiracy behind it!
I was good until the singing started
Aww. They're gonna genetically modify it, like everything else. 🙄🤦
I don't think that means what you think it does.
@@VitaKet I don’t like GMO either but some of these kooks think breeding plants is bad now.
30 a pound for paws 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂 they are 5$a pound max