I was out finishing my deer stand this afternoon and seen these green things in a tree. I picked one and one knows what it is. I am 70, I thought back to my childhood and remembered my grand parents saying they should go back to the woods and get some paw paws. I never got to taste one, but I thought that is what I found. So I found your site and that is what I found, Paw Paws. They are not ripe yet. So i will keep an eye on them. thank you very much for your site.
I planted 2 of them 2 years ago and another 4 this year. They are 3 different kinds. The first 2 actually flowered last and this year. No fruit however, but that’s because they are still under 2 feet. I’m looking forward to trying them in the next few years 😃
These grow in several parks in my area. They let you harvest them and even have signs up telling you when to harvest them which is September through October. The aroma in the woods where they grow always smells so good. Like mix of oranges and peaches maybe. I tasted one once and actually liked it. But I wasn't 100% sure if it was ripe or not yet. It was kind of soft like the sign says they should be. Im like your husband. A green banana i dont like. It has to start getting brown spots or almost getting some.
I found a pawpaw patch and just missed the season for them. I will be there next year to try them. I'm excited and can't wait. It's a rather large patch so I assume they produce fruit.
Pennsylvania (and a few other states) have Paw Paw festivals. you can sample different varieties, and usually buy seedling trees. York County Pennsylvania has a very famous one, but there are others.
If you do this go EARLY. At our festivals, the paws paws sell out early and there's never enough samples. There usually are tree vendors though. I'd suggest the most mature tree that you can afford.
Thank you for sharing the taste test on the paw paw fruit. And it was great to see the girls'on what they thought about the taste of this interesting tropical fruit.
I planted two mango paw-paw and one Allegheny paw paw several years ago and finally had fruit on one of them. 14 in total. I am hooked! Can't wait for the next season!
This was an interesting and educational video from a mom and her daughter. I’m from the north western part of the US and have never heard of these trees or the fruit they produce. I first learned of them on a southern food group where a gentleman had added paw paw seeds to some moonshine. I’d never even heard of such a tree or fruit. They seem almost tropical, and it makes one wonder that if they produce fruit so prolifically why aren’t they selling them commercially? Would love to try one some day.
There’s a couple factors to this but, most likely is the lack of shelf life of the fruit. I’m sure they go bad quite quicker than many other fruits. Another factor is that they are inconsistent when it comes to fruit and flavor. Now 50 years from now, who knows but there are few consistent flavors of fruits. They might grow where you are!!
They are native where I live in Missouri. I have cousins that grew up in London. They tell me the winters are colder here and the summers are hotter here than London. I have paw paws growing at my home. The problem with them is that in the early years they are prone to drying out and dying in the summer heat. They have a deep taproot that takes several years to develop, once it does they are much more hardy. Your maritime climate should make that less of a problem.
You can absolutely eat that semi brown one, and its delicious. You can absolutely eat them pitch black. It has a more caramel vanilla flavor at that stage, which is just as delicious as a green ripe pawpaw.
My opinion is if you get these just right they are wonderful. Little to ripe to me it gets medicine flavor. There are a woods around my area that has these trees. I suggest people to try it.
I was considering the pawpaw for my orchard, but was a bit hesitant because of the short shelf life. The interesting flavors you talked about put me back on board. Off to buy some.
Pawpaw bread is rly good. If i ever get the chance I need to try these fruits, cuz theyre native out here in some places. I just got a cherimoya today and it's not quite ripe...I'm impatient so I'm watching vids like this. U guys do a great job at describing the flavor of a pawpaw. The first time i tried one a few years ago, I wasnt a fan.i suppose i tend to prefer more acidic fruits, and the sweetness of the pawpaw turned me off at the time. Its been a few years since then and I would love to try them again!
So, you have two varieties, I'm interested to know what the other taste like, too. I've seen others do a taste test, they say it was banana / pineapple and since she had it shipped I'm sure she didn't know the variety grown. .. It's great that your daughter Ruth has a foodie ability to share the after effects of the far taro root. 😉 fun to share though.
I have three : Susquehanna, Rappahannock, and Allegheny. This is an Allegheny. I don't find a lot of difference in flavor between the three. It's more shape of the fruit (oblong v round), a slight difference in the color of the flesh (more yellow or more cream colored), and they ripen at different times. Any of the Peterson improved varieties are going to be quite good.
I remember having a mango for the first time. My cousin said she got a new fruit from the store and was going to cut it up so all of us kids could try it. There were about a dozen of us and I was the only one who liked it. They were all put off by the funky pine-like flavor that mangoes can have - I LOVED it! Like a herby peach. I think if the rest of them had more open expectations, they would have enjoyed it too. Mangoes are still one of my favorite fruits. I haven't tried pawpaws, but I'm sure I'll like them - funky flavors and all :)
Oh, wait, you had an oops at about 6:15 in. You said, "We don't eat banana peels." In America, no, but in much of the rest of the tropics, the peels are used as meat substitutes and extenders, when diced and fried. They are rich in vitamins and fibre.
@@klauskarpfen9039 We routinely scrub fruits, like apples, peaches, pears, and citrus fruits before using peel shavings, so what is your point? Soap exists.
I get hundreds of paw paws from my two trees, because I hand pollinate them. I give away a lot of them, often to people who’ve never tasted them. I don’t know what varieties I’m growing, but when perfectly ripe, they taste a bit like cream soda.
Custard apple is very low in toxins, and doesn't routinely make people ill. Pawpaw can't ever be popular due to extremely common cases of painful nausea, that seem to effect large numbers of people, and especially when cooked. Gobble them up? No hun, a couple slices of banana bread isn't going buck wild on a fruit. If you enjoy a small bite, by all means, but don't bury the lede.
The taste sounds intriguing and good. However, I am very sensitive to texture and it seems rather "mushy" and soft which is not my preference. Cheers from Sweden.
Yes, there is a similarity in the funkiness, but not nearly as pronounced as durian. Now an overripe pawpaw (multiple other youtubers who aren't gardeners have reviewed them and eaten what I would consider overripe and unpleasant pawpaws: very brown) has MUCH stronger funk and is more like a durian. Not quite the same, but the same idea.
Nobody here talks about the most prominent aroma that I could taste from my paw paws (first harvest from "Prima 1216" auto-pollinating variety) - caramel! I found them mostly like a mixture of caramel and banana. Mango? Difficult, cannot remember any of that.
There are paw paws trees about 12-18” in tall for 10.00 on Etsy I just bought two they are not the name brand I just thing if your gonna give it a try it’s better not to learn and fail on a big expensive ones.
Only (to my knowledge) "Prima 1216" and "Sunflower" are self-pollinating varieties. With other varieties (seedlings) you need two different ones and if you are in Europe, where we do not have the kind of flies, that pollinate paw paw, you need to (cross-) pollinate by hand.
The graft is essentially a clone. That’s how you get consistent fruit quality. The seed expresses the genetic diversity of the parents and won’t be just like that parents. It’ll be a surprise.
@@ParkrosePermaculture My comment was more about whether or not the tree is grafted in that case (since scion genetics don't care about rootstock) is a moot point 😅
@@nmnate Most paw paw varieties are not auto-pollinating, so your seedlings most likely won't be. You either need two different varieties / seedling and if you are in Europe, you need to pollinate by hand with a brush, or you plant autopollinating varieties Prima 1216 and Sunflower.
The reason the pawpaw is called the Indiana banana because it has so many characteristics. 😆 And yet I’ve never heard of an Indiana banana. I didn’t know they grew bananas in Indiana.
I want to plant a pawpaw and I was reading up about the Peterson varieties. On their website they mention that you shouldn't cook with pawpaws. Is this true? Specifically he says "Beware however that baking with pawpaws may make you sick. Use caution when baking, try a little bit first and see how you feel before serving the goods to others." Do you think this is true in your experience or are they just being unnecessarily cautious?
I bought pawpaw bread (like a banana bread) at the Ohio Pawpaw Festival last year, and had no problems. However, the bread was quite moist and went moldy in 2 days. No digestion issues, however.
I have gotten only ONE sucker off one tree. Perhaps bc my soil is not ideal (clay) for pawpaws, they don’t sucker hardly at all for me. But YES they do sucker and in the wild can form a clonal patch.
Once they are established and beyond the very young age, when snails can ruin them, there is just about no need for any maintenance at all. A complete no-spray fruit tree, no pests, no diseases. Bind them to a strong post, maybe fertilize them with enough nitrogen in the first couple of years as they have a tendency to grow very slowly in the beginning. Oh yeah - and plant auto-pollinating varieties such as Prima and Sunflower, unless you want to mop around with a brush, at least if you grow here in Europe, where we do not have insects that can bring pollen form one variety to a different one.
After having my paw paw trees for 4 years, one sent out 2 suckers. Broke my heart but my yard wasn't big enough so I dug them up and gave them to a very happy friend. That tree only has half the usual amount of paw paws on it this year so maybe it's unhappy with me for digging up it's suckers.
They said in one source I read that they can pollinate from their own suckers, so there is that. Mine aren't too old (5 years I think) and have never had suckers yet. Clay soil here too but they are growing fast but very compact and pyramid shaped in mostly sun.
Difference varieties of paw paws taste different. @Emmymade also did a video where she taste tested them. The first paw paw I tried tasted like a tropical pumpkin. The paw paws I grow on my trees taste completely different. Very tropical but not like a mango. Texture is smooth like banana but softer almost to the point of being pudding-like. Mild flavor, sweet, and just slightly tart. I always save my paw paw seeds for friends who want them. I put them in slightly moist coffee grounds and store in the fridge. After 3 months in the fridge, they can go into dirt to be sprouted. It takes 5-7 years to grow a paw paw tree from seed to maturity when it will fruit.
So she had a goat baby… this is my kid. 😂 corny I know. That funky is why they recommend yellow on the tree before picking and eating right away or use a net to catch them. That short shelf life is why you won’t find them in grocery stores- they don’t store, ship or then sit in the store.
Probably another over rated fruit like the Dragon Fruit. I finally paid the big dollar for a dragon fruit, what a waste of ten bucks that was. Nearly flavorless mush is what it was. Looks like inside and out but didn't taste anything like what people describe.
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Both your girls have the gentlest spirits. Thank you for sharing this sweet moment with us. Oh yeah. And the pawpaws!!! 😊
I was out finishing my deer stand this afternoon and seen these green things in a tree. I picked one and one knows what it is. I am 70, I thought back to my childhood and remembered my grand parents saying they should go back to the woods and get some paw paws. I never got to taste one, but I thought that is what I found. So I found your site and that is what I found, Paw Paws. They are not ripe yet. So i will keep an eye on them. thank you very much for your site.
I planted 2 of them 2 years ago and another 4 this year. They are 3 different kinds. The first 2 actually flowered last and this year. No fruit however, but that’s because they are still under 2 feet.
I’m looking forward to trying them in the next few years 😃
These grow in several parks in my area. They let you harvest them and even have signs up telling you when to harvest them which is September through October. The aroma in the woods where they grow always smells so good. Like mix of oranges and peaches maybe. I tasted one once and actually liked it. But I wasn't 100% sure if it was ripe or not yet. It was kind of soft like the sign says they should be. Im like your husband. A green banana i dont like. It has to start getting brown spots or almost getting some.
I tried two yesterday, they tasted like a mango to me, loved them. I am hooked.
Hi Ruth! Your makeup looks really cute. 😊
Also get grafted trees and the two separate varieties. Grafted will fruit in about 4-5 years and seedlings will take 10, maybe more years to fruit.
I found a pawpaw patch and just missed the season for them. I will be there next year to try them. I'm excited and can't wait. It's a rather large patch so I assume they produce fruit.
Pennsylvania (and a few other states) have Paw Paw festivals. you can sample different varieties, and usually buy seedling trees.
York County Pennsylvania has a very famous one, but there are others.
If you do this go EARLY. At our festivals, the paws paws sell out early and there's never enough samples. There usually are tree vendors though. I'd suggest the most mature tree that you can afford.
Thank you for sharing the taste test on the paw paw fruit. And it was great to see the girls'on what they thought about the taste of this interesting tropical fruit.
I planted two mango paw-paw and one Allegheny paw paw several years ago and finally had fruit on one of them. 14 in total. I am hooked! Can't wait for the next season!
Bonjour celui ci est un Mango ?
You made this comment about your paw paw tree two years ago. Are you getting paw paws from all your trees now?
This was an interesting and educational video from a mom and her daughter. I’m from the north western part of the US and have never heard of these trees or the fruit they produce. I first learned of them on a southern food group where a gentleman had added paw paw seeds to some moonshine. I’d never even heard of such a tree or fruit. They seem almost tropical, and it makes one wonder that if they produce fruit so prolifically why aren’t they selling them commercially? Would love to try one some day.
There’s a couple factors to this but, most likely is the lack of shelf life of the fruit. I’m sure they go bad quite quicker than many other fruits. Another factor is that they are inconsistent when it comes to fruit and flavor. Now 50 years from now, who knows but there are few consistent flavors of fruits. They might grow where you are!!
So the gentlemen poisoned you with annonacin?
They grow in West Africa
Yay!!! I just got 3 pawpaw trees! I’m so excited for them!
I hope they get popular over here in the UK! The Southeast's climate should be perfect for them.
They are native where I live in Missouri. I have cousins that grew up in London. They tell me the winters are colder here and the summers are hotter here than London. I have paw paws growing at my home. The problem with them is that in the early years they are prone to drying out and dying in the summer heat. They have a deep taproot that takes several years to develop, once it does they are much more hardy. Your maritime climate should make that less of a problem.
You can absolutely eat that semi brown one, and its delicious. You can absolutely eat them pitch black. It has a more caramel vanilla flavor at that stage, which is just as delicious as a green ripe pawpaw.
My opinion is if you get these just right they are wonderful. Little to ripe to me it gets medicine flavor. There are a woods around my area that has these trees. I suggest people to try it.
I was considering the pawpaw for my orchard, but was a bit hesitant because of the short shelf life. The interesting flavors you talked about put me back on board. Off to buy some.
You can freeze them.
I love the ephemeral nature of a seasonal treat.
Like morel mushrooms, or fried sucker.
Fun video with your family’s reactions!
Pawpaw bread is rly good. If i ever get the chance I need to try these fruits, cuz theyre native out here in some places. I just got a cherimoya today and it's not quite ripe...I'm impatient so I'm watching vids like this. U guys do a great job at describing the flavor of a pawpaw. The first time i tried one a few years ago, I wasnt a fan.i suppose i tend to prefer more acidic fruits, and the sweetness of the pawpaw turned me off at the time. Its been a few years since then and I would love to try them again!
So, you have two varieties, I'm interested to know what the other taste like, too. I've seen others do a taste test, they say it was banana / pineapple and since she had it shipped I'm sure she didn't know the variety grown. .. It's great that your daughter Ruth has a foodie ability to share the after effects of the far taro root. 😉 fun to share though.
I have three : Susquehanna, Rappahannock, and Allegheny. This is an Allegheny. I don't find a lot of difference in flavor between the three. It's more shape of the fruit (oblong v round), a slight difference in the color of the flesh (more yellow or more cream colored), and they ripen at different times.
Any of the Peterson improved varieties are going to be quite good.
@@ParkrosePermaculture thanks for your response.
Thanks for posting this video! Wonderful overview of pawpaws. Your daughters are beautiful. 😊
I would love to try one, unfortunately they don't grow in Arizona and are not available for sale.
Great video! I just received my 5 trees😂. I hope I like them!
Thanks for this video. I was about to ask which varieties you grow which you answered later in the video. 🥭🍌🍍
Thanks!
Thank you!
Brown spotted bananas are the best bananas
Could you put the fruit in ice cube trays and then use fresh mango or some other fresh seasonal fruit to brighten it and make smoothies?
I remember having a mango for the first time. My cousin said she got a new fruit from the store and was going to cut it up so all of us kids could try it. There were about a dozen of us and I was the only one who liked it. They were all put off by the funky pine-like flavor that mangoes can have - I LOVED it! Like a herby peach. I think if the rest of them had more open expectations, they would have enjoyed it too. Mangoes are still one of my favorite fruits. I haven't tried pawpaws, but I'm sure I'll like them - funky flavors and all :)
Well ripened mangos and Ataulfo mangos shouldn’t have a super strong pine taste
Oh, wait, you had an oops at about 6:15 in. You said, "We don't eat banana peels." In America, no, but in much of the rest of the tropics, the peels are used as meat substitutes and extenders, when diced and fried. They are rich in vitamins and fibre.
Really?? I didn’t know this. Thank you! (But also don’t eat Pawpaw peels, they’ll upset your tummy).
... and all the pesticides on banana peel, one of the most sprayed fruits on earth.
@@klauskarpfen9039 We routinely scrub fruits, like apples, peaches, pears, and citrus fruits before using peel shavings, so what is your point? Soap exists.
@@injunsun No idea that pesticides migrate INTO the skin?
How interesting!
Thank you, good info!
I get hundreds of paw paws from my two trees, because I hand pollinate them. I give away a lot of them, often to people who’ve never tasted them. I don’t know what varieties I’m growing, but when perfectly ripe, they taste a bit like cream soda.
The good ol' custard apple! It's like a really smooth banana, mango. I've made a dessert custard out of pawpaws and it was simply amazing!
Custard apple is very low in toxins, and doesn't routinely make people ill. Pawpaw can't ever be popular due to extremely common cases of painful nausea, that seem to effect large numbers of people, and especially when cooked. Gobble them up? No hun, a couple slices of banana bread isn't going buck wild on a fruit. If you enjoy a small bite, by all means, but don't bury the lede.
I grow PawPaw as the host plants for the butterfly...
Which species?
I make pawpaw smoothies, delicious!😋
I love this video! I have room for a few more fruit trees. What are your must have fruit trees if you could only pick 2-4?
ones that you like and are well suited to your climate (consider self fertility also)
Where are you located?
This video might be helpful: What Should I Plant in My Food Forest? 3 Questions to Guide Plant Selection
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The taste sounds intriguing and good. However, I am very sensitive to texture and it seems rather "mushy" and soft which is not my preference. Cheers from Sweden.
Merci de France 😊
Bonjour de quelle variété s'agit il svp ?
I love the video I want to grow pawpaw so this is cool
We have six or so paw paws. Planted two in 2014, took til 2021 to bear fruit. I laughed at " honking" size.
Excellent video - thanks!
Looks like a custardy texture
Anytrees IN calif?
I don't know if PawPaw is sold here in IL. I would love to try them.
I think they may grow wild where you are. They certainly do in Indiana and Missouri.
How does the taste/texture compare to a cherimoya?
Similar in texture. They two trees are related.
I wonder if they're like durian with the funkiness. Do you have any experience eating them to compare?
Yes, there is a similarity in the funkiness, but not nearly as pronounced as durian. Now an overripe pawpaw (multiple other youtubers who aren't gardeners have reviewed them and eaten what I would consider overripe and unpleasant pawpaws: very brown) has MUCH stronger funk and is more like a durian. Not quite the same, but the same idea.
i cannot wait for my pawpaw to fruit
Nobody here talks about the most prominent aroma that I could taste from my paw paws (first harvest from "Prima 1216" auto-pollinating variety) - caramel! I found them mostly like a mixture of caramel and banana. Mango? Difficult, cannot remember any of that.
There are paw paws trees about 12-18” in tall for 10.00 on Etsy I just bought two they are not the name brand I just thing if your gonna give it a try it’s better not to learn and fail on a big expensive ones.
You want the real breed. None of that rando stuff.
Only (to my knowledge) "Prima 1216" and "Sunflower" are self-pollinating varieties. With other varieties (seedlings) you need two different ones and if you are in Europe, where we do not have the kind of flies, that pollinate paw paw, you need to (cross-) pollinate by hand.
What does being grafted have to do with the seedling genetics?
The graft is essentially a clone. That’s how you get consistent fruit quality. The seed expresses the genetic diversity of the parents and won’t be just like that parents. It’ll be a surprise.
@@ParkrosePermaculture My comment was more about whether or not the tree is grafted in that case (since scion genetics don't care about rootstock) is a moot point 😅
@@nmnate Most paw paw varieties are not auto-pollinating, so your seedlings most likely won't be. You either need two different varieties / seedling and if you are in Europe, you need to pollinate by hand with a brush, or you plant autopollinating varieties Prima 1216 and Sunflower.
How do you freeze them? Cut up, whole?
Remove skin and seeds and freeze pulp in plastic bags.
The reason the pawpaw is called the Indiana banana because it has so many characteristics.
😆
And yet I’ve never heard of an Indiana banana. I didn’t know they grew bananas in Indiana.
I want to plant a pawpaw and I was reading up about the Peterson varieties. On their website they mention that you shouldn't cook with pawpaws. Is this true? Specifically he says "Beware however that baking with pawpaws may make you sick. Use caution when baking, try a little bit first and see how you feel before serving the goods to others."
Do you think this is true in your experience or are they just being unnecessarily cautious?
I'd rather go with the self-fertile varieties Prima and Sunflower.
I bought pawpaw bread (like a banana bread) at the Ohio Pawpaw Festival last year, and had no problems. However, the bread was quite moist and went moldy in 2 days. No digestion issues, however.
I've read that they sucker pretty badly and need alot of maintenance. Has that been your experience?
I have gotten only ONE sucker off one tree. Perhaps bc my soil is not ideal (clay) for pawpaws, they don’t sucker hardly at all for me. But YES they do sucker and in the wild can form a clonal patch.
Once they are established and beyond the very young age, when snails can ruin them, there is just about no need for any maintenance at all. A complete no-spray fruit tree, no pests, no diseases. Bind them to a strong post, maybe fertilize them with enough nitrogen in the first couple of years as they have a tendency to grow very slowly in the beginning.
Oh yeah - and plant auto-pollinating varieties such as Prima and Sunflower, unless you want to mop around with a brush, at least if you grow here in Europe, where we do not have insects that can bring pollen form one variety to a different one.
After having my paw paw trees for 4 years, one sent out 2 suckers. Broke my heart but my yard wasn't big enough so I dug them up and gave them to a very happy friend. That tree only has half the usual amount of paw paws on it this year so maybe it's unhappy with me for digging up it's suckers.
They said in one source I read that they can pollinate from their own suckers, so there is that. Mine aren't too old (5 years I think) and have never had suckers yet. Clay soil here too but they are growing fast but very compact and pyramid shaped in mostly sun.
Is This the same fruit known as soursop or guanabana? Would be nice to see how you grow them.
Not the same but distantly related. I have lots of videos on growing them check out my growing pawpaws playlist. :)
Difference varieties of paw paws taste different. @Emmymade also did a video where she taste tested them. The first paw paw I tried tasted like a tropical pumpkin. The paw paws I grow on my trees taste completely different. Very tropical but not like a mango. Texture is smooth like banana but softer almost to the point of being pudding-like. Mild flavor, sweet, and just slightly tart.
I always save my paw paw seeds for friends who want them. I put them in slightly moist coffee grounds and store in the fridge. After 3 months in the fridge, they can go into dirt to be sprouted. It takes 5-7 years to grow a paw paw tree from seed to maturity when it will fruit.
05:15 Like socks? Used socks? Yummy - used socks!
Now I want them even more xD
Waiting on my pawpaw patch.
I'm offered a pawpaw sapling. I googled pawpaw and found it needsa second tree.
Yes you need 2 of two different varieties to get fruit!
So she had a goat baby… this is my kid. 😂 corny I know.
That funky is why they recommend yellow on the tree before picking and eating right away or use a net to catch them.
That short shelf life is why you won’t find them in grocery stores- they don’t store, ship or then sit in the store.
y'all are too cute
I am trying to imagine the funk. Is it like a musky mango? Or more like a durian?
More like durian. But not nearly so strong.
Just smell some old used socks!
Never dehydrate paw paws. In that state, they can cause a gastrointestinal “event” one will never forget.
I'm thinking it may make some excellent nice cream.
I love your daughter's eye makeup.
It taste like a sousop
You can eat banana peels
Probably another over rated fruit like the Dragon Fruit. I finally paid the big dollar for a dragon fruit, what a waste of ten bucks that was. Nearly flavorless mush is what it was. Looks like inside and out but didn't taste anything like what people describe.
What going on with ur daughters eyes shadow..
uuummmmm whats wrong with yourl's eyebrows?oh thats makeup lmao plz tell her,she dont need it!wow if she wants to have makeup on plz teach her how to use it.what ?wow
Son, you must be a very fragile person to attempt to insult the appearance of a stranger. That's so sad for you.