Asimina triloba

Hubby helped me put up some #treeprotection last weekend so this doesn't happen again. 3 Oct 2024 #pawpaw #asiminatriloba 🚫🦌

The deer ripped off a 2-foot stick of scion wood from the Susquehanna pawpaw, so in an attempt to make lemonade from lemons, I grafted a piece of it into a #seedling #pawpaw I had in a pot. I'm keeping it indoors now to try and trick it into making some new growth, thereby preserving this variety for the future. It's an #experiment. 29 Sep 2024 #alwayslearning #hopehopehope

The deer 🦌 have been the bane of my existence this year! 2 are definitely going in my freezer! Good luck with your experiment

Hope you have success with this project 🤞🤞

Look at him just sitting there. He's not one bit sorry! 29 Sep 2024 #deer #buck #pawpaw

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Darn deer. 😩

We have a pawtastrophe 😭 -- a stupid, stupid buck broke them all! And I can't actually blame him because this is a thing that bucks do, and this is why people put barriers around their trees. The trees were FINE all last fall and unbothered all year and I forgot about the danger. 26 Sep 2024 #pawpaw #asiminatriloba #deer #damage #grafted

@columbiariver I agree about bears and deers. I raised a female and they might even be able to jump 8 feet. Not a bear though. I might look at that fence as a red flag. Hi sushi! I sure wish I could learn how to graft to propagate. You two have a great day!!! I’m limited on gardening I fell and broke my knee cap😩

Me too @terrimclaughlin

This #graft is Lynn's Favorite, another that I field-grafted two weeks ago. I used a whip and tongue graft and it looks promising. 24 Aug 2024 #pawpaw #grafted #graftyourown

My Dr. Chill #pawpaw #graft is peeking out a tiny green point. We've had unseasonably cool (delightful!) weather these past two weeks, which isn't great for #grafting. Grafts need temperatures in the 80's to heal, so I wasn't holding out much hope. And when I went to check on them today, ta daaaaaaaa! 24 Aug 2024 #grafted #graftyourown

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A deer got into the fenced backyard last night because the gate was left open. It munched off most of my #purslane. I was MAD. Then tonight when I was watering, I looked at the pot again and noticed some new baby #pawpaw #seedlings tucked in there among the purslane. This makes me so happy because I put about a hundred pawpaw seeds in this pot and then they didn't make it through the winter so I felt like a failure and a waster of precious pawpaw seeds. But some have LIVED! yaaaaaaaaay!

And i never would have known they were there unless the deer came along and uncovered them for me. 23 Aug 2024 #grownfromseed #treesfromseeds #fromseed #asiminatriloba #native #nativeplant #edible #ediblelandscaping #bethankful #begrateful #silverlining #brightside #happyaccident

A silver lining 😀

(In a French accent) One day létair.... actual leaf emergence! Left is Kentucky Legend-Titan and the right is Overleese. Yesterday I checked the other three I grafted last weekend and saw zero evidence of growth. The ones in this picture got more water though, so I'm not giving up on those others yet. 18 Aug 2024 #pawpaw #asiminatriloba #graftyourown #native #grafted #graft #graftyourown #edible #ediblelandscaping

First #pawpaw #fruits about the size of small Italian prune plums. About 4-6 weeks to go until they're ready. 17 Aug 2024 #native #edible #ediblelandscaping #nativeplant #asiminatriloba

Wow. Is the netting to deter squirrels or whatever your equivalent fruit thieves are. ?

@charlotte yes exactly! I've heard raccoons are the main culprits. This is the mesh bag from some grocery store onions. So far it's worked great.

Are they nice to eat, I’ve never had one.

VERY delicious. Like dessert from a tree. They have the consistency of flan or pudding and the flavors of banana-pineapple-mango and then sometimes caramel as ripening progresses.

Late summer #graft of Overleese is starting to push out some leaves... 16 Aug 2024 #pawpaw #asiminatriloba #native #edible #ediblelandscaping #nativeplant #closeup #graftingtape #grafting

I've never heard of this variety ("Dr. Chill") but when someone hands you #pawpaw scion at the #backyardfruitgrowers annual grafting workshop and scion swap, you don't say no! 10 Aug 2024

This is Rigel, a heavy-bearing variety from #redfernfarm. 10 Aug 2024

Tried some field grafting again today, and this time I was extra careful about sterilizing my clippers and grafting knife. The piece of scion I used for this one had a little smaller diameter than the rootstock, so this is an experiment that might fail. 10 Aug 2024

Time will tell whether this was a good decision or not. The two trunks branch off at such an acute angle that water could collect there and rot the wood. With a heavy load of fruit, it's possible that the two trunks will split apart someday. Hopefully they'll stay long enough that I can collect more scion before that happens. 10 Aug 2024

Some late-season grafting today. This tree's graft died the year before last, so I decided to give it another shot. After the graft died, it sprouted two new shoots from the roots, so I grafted both. The variety on the right is Kentucky Legend-Titan (there's a typo in the label) 🙊 and the left is Overleese 10 Aug 2024

At this year's #backyardfruitgrowers grafting workshop one of the experienced growers told me that he always tries to keep the tip of a piece of scion intact whenever possible, because the terminal bud has a lot of growth hormone in it and will make the plant do well. I decided to try it, but the tip of the stick was too thin for the rootstock, so I grafted further down and ended up with 7 or 8 buds above the graft.

Wasn't sure if that many buds above a graft is a good thing or not -- I was taught to use only 2 or 3 -- but it was already pushing leaves before I had a chance to ask anyone about it. 28 June 2024 #native #nativeplant #edible #ediblelandscaping #grafted #graftyourown #backyardfruitgrowers #byfg #tedweeden

It's awesome that you have workshops to help you! But you always really learn more just by trying different things, trial and error so to speak. Love your informative posts!

Aww thank you Theresa @treefrog44

The third of four #tedweeden varieties is showing signs of life: this one is called Hanna 28 June 2024 #native #nativeplant #edible #pawpaw #asiminatriloba #graftyourown #grafted #backyardfruitgrowers #byfg

Grafts coming along. It's hard to see here, but the third of my three Canopus grafts pushed out its first leaf, and so did the third of four Ted Weeden varieties. 28 June 2024 #grafted #graftyourown #native #asiminatriloba #redfernfarm #tedweeden #backyardfruitgrowers #byfg

The low #meadow that will become the #pawpaw grove one day. 22 June 2024 #asiminatriloba #mygarden #myview

I'm loving your pawpaw journey.

One of the Valley East 21 #pawpaw grafts is showing signs of life 22 June 2024 #grafted #graftyourown #native #asiminatriloba #nativeplant

Reinforced the #pawpaw #protection -- tied the mesh bag to the branch in case some critter gets creative and tries to take the whole thing. 22 June 2024 #mesh #reuse #reused #recycle-renew-reuse #reuse-repurpose #asiminatriloba #native #nativeplant #edible #ediblelandscaping #handpollinated

I was one of the lucky few who ordered scion wood from #redfernfarm in January before it all sold out (in 2 hours). I got two sticks of Canopus, a sought-after and extremely heavy-bearing variety. One stick I traded and the remaining one I used for 3 grafts, and today I noticed that TWO of them already had baby leaves, only 6 days after grafting!! 21 June 2024 #graftyourown #grafted #graft #native #nativeplant #edible #ediblelandscaping

The #tedweeden Annasun and Beausun #pawpaw varieties are starting to push out a couple leaves too, #grafted only 6 days ago. 21 June 2024 #heatwave #native #nativeplant #edible #ediblelandscaping #graftyourown #asiminatriloba #plantsfromfriends #backyardfruitgrowers #byfg

So how do you graft?

What do you use to wrap the cutting with??

I use the whip-and-tongue graft. I have a really sharp knife, and clippers that I wipe with alcohol between cuts. I match up the diameter of the rootstock and scion and then wrap the graft union with buddy tape. The tape is a biodegradable stretchable film, kinda waxy and breathable and soft enough that new leaves can push their way through. @terrimclaughlin

Woooooo #grafting day! Actually these were done over two days this weekend. Bunch of new #pawpaw varieties 🤩 and two #mulberry cultivars. 16 June 2024 #graftyourown #treesurgery #native #nativeplant #edible #ediblelandscaping #redfernfarm #tedweeden #backyardfruitgrowers #byfg

Ted Weeden Varieties: Annasun, Beausun, Winsun and Hanna. Ted also gave me Tollgate. Red Fern Farm variety: Canopus. Backyard Fruit Growers friend gave me Valley East 21 (VE 21). Also got Illinois Everbearing mulberry and Wellington mulberry from #byfg.

This #whipandtonguegraft is ugly as heck, but it's the only one that took. Betria from #redfernfarm 14 June 2024 #pawpaw #asiminatriloba #graftyourown #grafted #graft

Of all the #pawpaw root suckers I #grafted last year (8 I think?) only one survived. This is Betria, a variety from #redfernfarm 14 June 2024 #asiminatriloba #graftyourown

Left: A sense of scale for the baby #pawpaw fruits; Right: some improvised #protection from pawpaw-munching critters. I reused an onion bag. 13 July 2024 #gyo-fruits #asiminatriloba #native #nativeplant #handpollination #firstfruit #soexcited #recycle-renew-reuse

We have FOUR BABY PAWPAW FRUITS! From a flower I #handpollinated!! They're about the size of a small plum. Here's hoping they survive the June drop. SO EXCITED 🤩 10 June 2024 #asiminatriloba #pawpaw #pawpaw-fruit

#anticipation

Oh wow 😀

What is June drop?

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@KariSamuel @brightcolours pawpaws drop immature fruits in June if the tree can't support them all.

Susquehanna #grafted #pawpaw took a while to wake up and get going, and now it's popping up out of the #plantra #treetube 10 June 2024 #asiminatriloba #native #nativeplant #edible #ediblelandscaping #grafted #graftyourown #gyo

KSU Atwood is climbing out of its #plantra #treetube and something has tried to chew on the aluminum plant tag. 10 June 2024 #pawpaw #asiminatriloba #graftyourown #native #grafted #edible #ediblelandscaping

This is the little #pawpaw #seedling that popped up by the canal -- it's a little bit taller. 5 June 2024 #grownfromseed #fromseed #treesfromseeds #treetube #plantra

I planted this tree in a spot that gets constant water (good idea!) however it also gets too much shade (bad idea). The largest leaves are the #pawpaw. The smaller leafed branches above have got to go. Need to get more sun in there so it can flower. 5 June 2024 #asiminatriloba #native #nativeplant #edible #ediblelandscaping #grafted #graftyourown #gyo

A humongous #leaf on my oldest #pawpaw 5 June 2024 #ilikebigleavesandicannotlie

KSU Atwood loving the sun and growing out of its #treetube. The other two #pawpaw trees I planted last fall are putting out a couple leaves but aren't as far along as this guy. 25 May 2024 #asiminatriloba #native #nativeplant #edible #ediblelandscaping #grafted #graftyourown #plantra

Got a #plantra #treetube around my little #seedling #pawpaw to keep the bunnies off. 16 May 2024 #asiminatriloba #native #nativeplant #edible #ediblelandscaping

This is my #grafted root sucker #pawpaw that my neighbor gave me back in 2021, the first one I put in the ground. Leafing out and living life. 13 May 2024 #growbabygrow #graftyourown #asiminatriloba #native #nativeplant #hostplant #edible #ediblelandscaping

Eeeeeeeeeeeeeee I think the #handpollination might have worked!!!!! 1 May 2024 #pawpaw #asiminatriloba #pawpaw-flowerbud #native #nativeplant #edible #ediblelandscaping #handpollinated

#brown

Yaay 👏🏻

Awesome!!! And beautiful!! 🥰🥰🥰

That is fantastic 👍

#pawpaw-flowerbud #pawpaw #asiminatriloba #native #nativeplant #edible #ediblelandscaping #handpollinated 26 Apr 2024

#pawpaw-flowerbud ripening and getting their maroon coloring 26 Apr 2024

Kind of hard to see in this shot, but I might have actually gotten a grain of pollen into this #pawpaw-flowerbud. This was taken after one of two late April frosts.... 26 Apr 2024 #hopehopehope #asiminatriloba #handpollinated

So unusual Ruth but lovely at the same time…

I pursued a #pawpaw pollination pilgrimage today. I went to #hundredfruitfarm to collect pollen and collected waaaay more than I needed in 10 minutes. I was lucky that there were a bunch of flowers with ripe pollen. I suspect that only the yellow pollen is useful but that's just a guess. Praying for potential (pawpaw tree) pregnancies. 23 Apr 2024 #asiminatriloba #native #nativeplant #handpollination #hopehopehope #handpollinated

@gardenerette oooo tell me more! How big? How long have you had them? Wild or cultivars? What zone? (Why yes, I am indeed obsessed.)

Peeking inside the #pawpaw-flowerbud to see whether it's still capable of receiving pollen (it is!). 21 Apr 2024

And a little higher up on the same tree, FOUR MORE FLOWERS -- on some strangely short branches. 16 Apr 2024 #asiminatriloba #native #nativeplant #edible #ediblelandscaping #pawpaw #todaysreward

Two more #pawpaw #flowers !! Now I have to go find some pollen! 16 Apr 2024 #asiminatriloba #native #nativeplant #edible #ediblelandscaping #todaysreward

Don't forget #hostplant !

The #pawpaw #flowerbuds I saw before vacation are still hanging on. I really need to rip them off. The tree is too small to handle them..... sigh.... had to take some photos first. 13 Apr 2024 #asiminatriloba #graftyourown #native

I went to unwrap the plastic I'd put around the pawpaw buds before I went on vacation and found this. A carolina wren was very upset at me getting so close. I peeked to see if the nest had any occupants and glimpsed an egg. I wrapped it all back up as well as I could. Sacrificing a couple pawpaw flowers for a baby bird seems like the right thing to do. 11 Apr 2024 #wildlifewednesday #wildlife-wednesday #birdsnest #nest

This other #pawpaw #flowerbud on the top right is starting to open too, but the wild blackberry is trying to encroach on its sunlight. 11 Apr 2024

Eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee my VERY FIRST #PAWPAW #FLOWER! I came home from vacation to find this flower has opened. Hopefully I can get some pollen from the guy a couple streets over. 11 Apr 2024 #asiminatriloba #pawpaw-flowerbud

Exciting

After nearly a week with highs in the 60's and 70's, this week our lows are going back below freezing. Luckily I've been keeping an eye on my three precious pawpaw buds, so decided to cover them. Overkill? Maybe. But last year there was a late frost that wiped out the pawpaw crop in Ohio and pawpaws went for $30/lb that year at the Ohio Pawpaw Festival. 😱 18 Mar 2024.

#geniushacks

These are actual real #pawpaw-flowerbud on trees that volunteered in my yard (they're clonal root suckers from my neighbor's trees). I'll have to go reintroduce myself in a few weeks to the guy who lives a few miles down the road and humbly ask if I can collect some pollen in his yard. I'm SO EXCITED -- my first pawpaw flowers observed with my own eyes. 🤩17 Mar 2024

Today I found #flowerbuds on my #grafted #pawpaw trees! They're still in pots and are only two years old, so way too early to be making flowers, but it's still cool to see. 17 Mar 2024

I replaced the wire cage around the driveway #pawpaw with a wider one. This is Wabash and maybe NC-1 or PAG-4. 3 Mar 2024

The fallen #pawpaw has also put out a bunch of vigorous root suckers that I will surely graft next year. 11 Nov 2023 #objectlesson #providence #godlovesus #hopeforthefuture #hope

A #collage of 7 #pawpaw #flowerbuds on a tree that should be dead instead of thriving. 11 Nov 2023 #objectlesson #hope #hopeforthefuture #godlovesus

I was livid when this #pawpaw tree got crushed earlier this year. I kept waiting for it to dry up and die, but it never did. Even now it still has leaves. It turns out that its moment of near-catastrophic injury resulted in it being better off than before: falling over got its leaves out into more sunshine -- and not only has it not died, it set 7 flower buds. 11 Nov 2023 #objectlesson #asiminatriloba #native #ifitwantstoliveitllfight #hope #hopeforthefuture #godlovesus

#survivalofthefittest

Bit of a harsh pruning

This is the area we call "the meadow" where we planted the first pawpaw trees. This was taken at 12:47 pm on 23 Oct 2023 and two of the trees are already in shade. It's partly from the time of year and partly because of a huge bittersweet vine behind me that's helping to cast such a huge shadow. I'm going to cut it down next weekend, and hopefully next summer there will be more sunlight for the pawpaws.

The KSU Atwood #pawpaw is kind of an optical illusion. The top of the tree tube is 22 inches, but the tip of the branch is pointing to 23.5 inches, even though it actually only gets to two inches below the edge of the tube. 21 Oct 2023

#curiouscases

Shenandoah #pawpaw with its own 6 inch deep ring of wood chips. (The yardstick started to fall over at the moment I took the picture.) This tree is the tallest, with leaves peeking out the top of the tube. 21 Oct 2023

I dumped a wheelbarrow full of wood chips in a ring around the Susquehanna #pawpaw tree on Saturday. The chips are about 6 inches deep. There's a yardstick next to it to see what we're starting from. The top of the tube is 22 inches tall. 21 Oct 2023

My #grafted root sucker #pawpaw is now taller than my 1.5 meter stick. Grafted in May 2022 with Wabash scion. Can't believe how much growth it put on in a year. 17 Oct 2023 #asiminatriloba #native #gyo #edible #ediblelandscaping

Planted 3 of my #pawpaw trees this afternoon with my hubby, sisters in law, and niece. We encountered a bunch of big rocks about 6" down and the ground was really soggy and mushy from yesterday's rain. In the next few days I'll cover the landscape fabric with wood chips. 15 Oct 2023

#asiminatriloba #grownfromseed #treesfromseeds #grafted #graftyourown #native #ediblelandscaping #plantra #treetube

Background: KSU Atwood; mid: Shenandoah; foreground: Susquehanna

My Wabash grafted rootsucker pawpaw's trunk is as thick as my thumb now. The one next to it is another one whose graft failed, but it'll do fine as a pollinator for the Wabash, or maybe I'll attempt to graft it again in the future. 7 Oct 2023 #pawpaw #asiminatriloba #graftyourown #native #nativeplant #grafted

Grafts that didn't take. I just now realized there's one more tag I forgot to collect (Kentucky Champion), so that's 7 failures and 6 successes for the 2023 grafting season. Lesson learned: field grafting is hard. 2 Sep 2023 #pawpaw #asiminatriloba #alwayslearning

Really not a bad percentage!

There are now five big branches growing out of the trunk of the wild pawpaw that the bucks rubbed to bits last fall. The graft I tried last year never worked, but still it has recovered amazingly well. It's fenced now to prevent this year's bucks from being tempted. 2 Sep 2023 #asiminatriloba #pawpaw

A big fat gorgeous #pawpaw-flowerbud formed on one of the wild backyard trees. Buds also formed on it last year, but they never opened -- guessing because of the drought last summer. Hoping for a first fruit in fall 2024. 2 Sep 2023 #pawpaw #asiminatriloba

The big leaves are a hefty #pawpaw root sucker popping up under the low branches of an evergreen and fighting for light. I'm thinking of cutting back the evergreen after all the leaves have fallen and the pawpaw is dormant so it can get more sun next season. I'll have to put up some deer deterrent though to replace what the evergreen is doing. 2 Sep 2023 #plans #observation

I'm super excited about this one -- Tallahatchie, a Peterson variety. One of the best. Hopefully the critters will stay away from this one. 2 Sep 2023 #pawpaw #asiminatriloba #grafted

😭 some critter munched on my Jerry's Big Girl #grafted root sucker! Boo! 2 Sep 2023 #pawpaw #asiminatriloba

Betria #grafted #pawpaw from #redfernfarm scion. Took off the grafting tape today so the union can expand. 2 Sep 2023

Halvin bending toward the sunlight. 2 Sep 2023 #pawpaw #asiminatriloba #graftyourown #native #redfernfarm

Atria #pawpaw #graft is still going strong. I paid a visit to my rootstock nursery patch to cut the grafting tape so the trunks don't get pinched. 2 Sep 2023 #grafted #graftyourown #asiminatriloba #redfernfarm

This is labeled as RLG4, but I think it might be growth off the rootstock and not the graft. 2 Sep 2023 #pawpaw #asiminatriloba #graftyourown #native

I have many, many #pawpaws to untangle this fall... 27 Aug 2023 #seedlings #grownfromseed #treesfromseeds

So much #growth on my root-sucker #pawpaw this year. We've mercifully had so much more rain than last year. It's about 4 feet tall now! 19 Aug 2023 #graftyourown #grafted

Kentucky Champion #pawpaw #graft has no growth above the union. I don't expect any improvement on this because it appears that the stem near the ground has been nibbled or damaged somehow (see the dark area between the orange lines). Some of the grafting tape is a bit shredded too. 9 Aug 2023 #grafted #graftyourown 13 of 13 #tedweeden

Too low to retry?

@novicegardenlover yeah, this one was really close to the ground. But there are lottttttts more where these came from, so I can try again. I went WAY way overboard with the collecting this season, so it's a blessing in disguise if a few don't make it.

Iowa Golden #pawpaw #graft has lots of #newgrowth above the union. The most growth of all the grafts this year. 9 Aug 2023 #graftyourown #grafted #redfernfarm 12 of 13

2-10 x Mammoth #pawpaw #graft has no growth above the union. 9 Aug 2023 #graftyourown #grafted 11 of 13 www.nuttrees.net

Al Horn White #pawpaw #graft has no growth above the union. Check again next month 9 Aug 2023 #graftyourown #grafted www.nuttrees.net 10 of 13

Beausun #pawpaw #graft has no growth above the union. Will check again next month. 9 Aug 2023 #graftyourown #grafted 9 of 13 #tedweeden

Jerry's Big Girl #pawpaw #graft has #newgrowth above the union yaaaaaaay even though I grafted it 6 weeks late! 9 Aug 2023 #graftyourown #grafted 8 of 13 www.nuttrees.net

Jerry's Chiffon #pawpaw #graft has no growth above the union. I'll check again in a couple weeks, but this one might not have worked. 9 Aug 2023 #graftyourown #grafted 7 of 13 www.nuttrees.net

Betria #pawpaw #graft has #newgrowth above the union yaaaaaaay even though I grafted it 6 weeks late! 9 Aug 2023 #redfernfarm #graftyourown #grafted 6 of 13

Halvin #pawpaw #graft has #newgrowth above the union yaaaaaaay even though I grafted it 6 weeks late! 9 Aug 2023 #redfernfarm #graftyourown #grafted 5 of 13

Atria #pawpaw #graft has #newgrowth above the union yaaaaaaay even though I grafted it 6 weeks late! 9 Aug 2023 #redfernfarm #graftyourown #grafted 4 of 13

RLG4 #pawpaw root sucker is showing some new growth, but I can't tell if it's above the union or not. I dug around it to sever it from the parent tree so it will grow some roots before I transplant it next spring. It got too dark so I was only able to check 3 of my 13 grafts tonight. Will take a closer look in better light. 8 Aug 2023 #asiminatriloba #graftyourown #native 3 of 13 #redfernfarm

Tallahatchie #pawpaw has #newgrowth above the #graft! There was also a below-graft sprout that I removed. I dug around it to sever it from the parent tree so it will grow some roots before I transplant it next spring. 8 Aug 2023 #asiminatriloba #graftyourown #native #grafted 2 of 13 www.nuttrees.net

Annasun #pawpaw #graft progress check. No signs of new growth on this one yet, except a sprout below the graft which I removed. I dug around it to sever it from the parent tree so it will grow some roots before I transplant it next spring. 8 Aug 2023 #asiminatriloba #graftyourown 1 of 13 #tedweeden

A closer look at the broken #pawpaw trunk. It had almost a 90° curve and was probably weak for a long time. 8 Aug 2023 #asiminatriloba #damage #stormdamage

Left photo is from late Sept 2022. Right photo is from tonight. 😭😭😭 The big storm last night must have brought it down. The leaves aren't even wilting yet. This is one of the root sucker trees that spread to my yard from my neighbor's; I didn't even know it existed at this point last year. It's already making root suckers of its own, so it's not gone completely. 8 Aug 2023 #pawpaw #asiminatriloba #native #damage #stormdamage

That's a shame. But fingers crossed it survives.

The Overleese #pawpaw is a little ragged after being chewed, but it's on its way back. 31 July 2023 #asiminatriloba #graftyourown #grafted

A #pawpaw #seedling is coming up next to the foundation. It definitely can't stay there. 28 July 2023

Remember that box of #pawpaw seeds I planted last summer that never sprouted? I was so mad. I felt like a failure. Well, they have finally made their grand emergence. Pretty much every one of the 40 pots has a sprout. 😂🤣😅 28 July 2023 #betterlatethannever #seedlings #grownfromseed

Yay. ... Never give up

Maybe they wanted stratification and a long vacation? 🤔

@charlotte @emch I've heard people say that you have to be patient with pawpaws, and nowwwww I see what they mean. I thought I'd stored the seeds wrong and let them get dried out, but I guess they just needed another snooze.

Sounds a bit like me 🤣

The surprise #pawpaw trees I discovered in the backyard last summer are doing great, even after being damaged by buck rubbing last year. There are tons of new root suckers that will be ready to graft next spring. The hot weather and torrential rains are making these guys *very happy.* 25 July 2023 #asiminatriloba

17 days after grafting #pawpaw root suckers WAY later than I should have, 6 out of 13 grafts show new growth! The hot weather and torrential rains this month have helped tremendously. 25 July 2023 #grafted #graftyourown #graft #asiminatriloba

This variety is Tallahatchie, and it looks like there's a green spot developing since I grafted it 17 days ago. I'm posting this prematurely but I'm optimistic this one will work too. Scion acquired from Cliff England's nursery www.nuttrees.net 25 July 2023 #grafted #graft #graftyourown #asiminatriloba

Checked on my 8 July #pawpaw grafts, and I'm super excited to see #newgrowth above the graft union 17 days later. 🎉✨️🎈🎊 🎆 This variety is Betria; scion acquired from #redfernfarm 25 July 2023 #grafted #graft #graftyourown #asiminatriloba

Checked on my 8 July #pawpaw grafts, and I'm super excited to see #newgrowth above the graft union 17 days later. 🎉✨️🎈🎊 🎆 This variety is Halvin; scion acquired from #redfernfarm 25 July 2023 #grafted #graft #graftyourown #asiminatriloba

Congrats that's awesome🤗

Checked on my 8 July #pawpaw grafts, and I'm super excited to see #newgrowth above the graft union 17 days later. 🎉✨️🎈🎊 🎆 This variety is Atria; scion acquired from #redfernfarm 25 July 2023 #grafted #graft #graftyourown #asiminatriloba

Checked on my 8 July #pawpaw grafts, and I'm super excited to see #newgrowth above the graft union 17 days later. 🎉✨️🎈🎊 🎆 This variety is Jerry's BigGirl; scion acquired from Cliff England's nursery www.nuttrees.net 25 July 2023 #grafted #graft #graftyourown #asiminatriloba

Checked on my 8 July #pawpaw grafts, and I'm super excited to see #newgrowth above the graft union 17 days later. 🎉✨️🎈🎊 🎆 This variety is Iowa Golden; scion acquired from #redfernfarm. Grafting this late in the season wasn't supposed to be very promising, but with the high heat and torrential rains, the pawpaw patch is growing like crazy. July 2023 #grafted #graft #graftyourown #asiminatriloba

The Overleese #grafted #pawpaw is putting out a teeny weeny bit of new growth after it got chomped on. Whew! 23 July 2023 #itsalive

I collected about 200-300 #pawpaw seeds last fall from various tasting events and fruit purchases because I'm an obsessed pawpaw hoarder. Only about 14 sprouted this spring, and I'd basically given up on the rest. And then they all decided to sprout after all. 🙊🙈 Yay and uh oh. 23 July 2023

Yay! Never too many 😃 @sushiwaitress

Last two, both from Red Fern Farm. Left: Iowa Golden; Right: Betria. 13 total varieties #grafted today because you can NEVER have too many pawpaws. 8 July 2023 #pawpaw #asiminatriloba #graftyourown #obsessed

10 out of 10 Zebra Swallowtails agree!

You're so clever! Good one Eileen 😉👍@emch

#thisisme

#grafted #pawpaw root suckers, clockwise from bottom left: Al Horn White (scion from Cliff England), Halvin (scion from Red Fern Farm), RLG4 (also RFF), 2-10 x Mammoth (Cliff), Atria (RFF). The leafy canopy above me is all pawpaw. 🤩 8 July 2023 #graftyourown #asiminatriloba

I went WAY OVERBOARD ordering #pawpaw scion this past winter. Clockwise from top left: Kentucky Champion, Tallahatchie, Annasun (a seedling from Ted Weeden's orchard), Jerry's Chiffon, Beausun (another of Ted's), and Jerry's Big Girl. 8 July 2023 #asiminatriloba #grafted #graftyourown

I spent four hours this morning #grafting #pawpaw root suckers in a patch of #woods in my neighbor's back yard. It's way late in the season, but (who knows?) some might work. The knee pads and hazmat suit foiled most of the mosquitoes and made a unique fashion statement. 8 July 2023 #asiminatriloba #graftyourown #hubbyphoto

It's fascinating watching what you do 🙂

Such a sweet thing to say @charlotte ❤️

Isn't that hazmat suit awfully hot? I am considering the mosquito suits on Amazon...

#hazmatsuit #mosquitosuit

I have a head veil mosquito net! Looks ridiculous, but works! @emch @sushiwaitress

@emch I remember now you told me about the mosquito suit. Yeah, the hazmat suit is hot, but I started around 9 am while the temp was still in the 70's and I was in the shade. I sweat a lot and it wasn't comfortable, but it was sturdy enough for crawling around on my knees or sitting down on the forest floor. I'd already worn it 3-4 times and it was finally starting to rip, so I tossed it. (It came in a two pack)

@KariSamuel whatever works! I have zero qualms about being the eccentric neighbor.

I find a head veil mosquito net is far too hot here in the subtropics. @KariSamuel @sushiwaitress

The babyfats are cute but this means war. Overleese #pawpaw new growth is all munched off. Luckily they realized how bad pawpaw leaves taste. This tree is the only one molested. Time to put the pots on a table. 7 July 2023 #asiminatriloba #damage #grownfromseed

A table surrounded by angry dogs!

@emch YES!!!

@columbiariver my hubby named our resident groundhog Fatfat. Said hog has recently produced two ridiculously cute Babyfats. Which are regularly observed in my fenced backyard. The fence also has holes.

@columbiariver Laura your comment was comic genius. I'm still giggling 😍

My #grafted root sucker #pawpaw has put on a lot of growth this season. It's about 3 feet tall now! This is the 2nd season since grafting it in spring 2022. 5 Jul 2023 #asiminatriloba #graftyourown #plantsfromfriends #edible #ediblelandscaping #native

A tiny bit of green on this hackjob of a #graft where I did pretty much everything wrong. We'll see how it goes. 10 June 2023 #pawpaw #grafted #graftyourown

Looks promising

My root sucker #pawpaw #transplant that I #grafted last year is pushing up a ton of #newgrowth 🤓 new stems 5 or 6 inches long already, and it's only May! It's taller than its cage now, and finally getting some height after spending the last two years as a short stick. 20 May 2023 #asiminatriloba #pawpaw-wabash #graftyourown

I wish I had room for some of these!

The two deer-ravaged #pawpaw trees just starting to leaf out. Probably time to graft them next weekend. 22 Apr 2023

@sushiwaitress 😂😂 thank you Ruth , for making my comment about Charlotte official , l love it, l hope she does too. 🤭

The buds on my #pawpaw tree didn't open. 😔 My hypothesis is that the tree is trying to recover from all the deer damage last fall so it spent its energy healing. 22 Apr 2023 #asiminatriloba

New babies brought out into the gazebo for some fresh air and shade. 4 Apr 2023 #pawpaw #asiminatriloba #seedlings #treesfromseeds

How I spent my Sunday afternoon: up-potting germinated #pawpaw seeds. 12 Mar 2023 #gyo #seedlings #treepots

The overachievers in my two pots of #pawpaw seeds have started peeking out. Time to spend some time separating these early birds into their own pots. 12 Mar 2023 #asiminatriloba #seedstarting #seedlings

Three little pink #pawpaw knuckles pushing up out of their big nursery pot. 26 Feb 2023 #seedlings

Always exciting

#repupose some old mesh and a small pet playpen to protect these thin #pawpaw trees from stupid stupid #deer -- I suppose it's a blessing in disguise because now I have a vigorous established rootstock that I can graft to info the spring. 30 Oct 2022 #asiminatriloba #pestcontrol-deer #notforgiven

SUPER MAD AT DEER today after finding ANOTHER #pawpaw damaged. This time the entire trunk is snapped! I guess all those thorny invasive roses were protecting it... and then I went and cut them back so the pawpaws would have less competition.... 😠🦌🚫 30 Oct 2022 #deer #treedamage #buck-rub #asiminatriloba

🤦🏼‍♂️

Ugh that’s super frustrating I’m sorry!

BAD BAD BUCK who rubbed his antlers on my #pawpaw tree and shredded a big branch! 😠 I guess clearing away all the prickly multiflora rose had some unintended consequences..... 🦌🚫 22 Oct 2022 #asiminatriloba #native #deer #damage

The big one has a FLOWER BUD on it for next spring! 27 Sep 2022 #asiminatriloba #pawpaw #pawpaw-flowerbud

ANOTHER ONE!!!!! 27 Sep 2022 #pawpaw #asiminatriloba #volunteer

See what happens when you go walkabout!

LOOK WHAT I JUST FOUND IN MY OWN BACKYARD!!! (a wild, ignored, and inconvenient-to-get-to part of the yard.) This year I learned how to recognize a #pawpaw tree 😱😱😱 27 Sep 2022 #asiminatriloba #native #volunteer

@gjones this has to be a root sucker (clone) of my neighbor's tree. I didn't plant it. It looks to be about 4-5 years old, which means it was there before we bought the house 😱

The #pawpaw root suckers planted in the ground did muuuuch better during the drought. 10 Sep 2022

Closer view of the worst-looking #grafted Overleese #pawpaw -- it lost almost all of its leaves. 😭😭😭😭😭😭 10 Sep 2022

These #grafted #pawpaw were not under the shade tent, but they were on the shadiest side of the gazebo. They did not appreciate the drought. The two at the back look a lot better than the two in front. 10 Sep 2022

Another look at the slightly mutant #pawpaw -- the leaves are about half the usual size, and it has put out multiple branches much closer together than pawpaws of this age usually do. It's kind of bushy. We'll see what happens. 9 Aug 2022 #asiminatriloba #native #freeplants #plantsfromfriends

This is a potted #pawpaw root sucker that my pawpaw buddy gave me yesterday (along with 12 other seedlings and a persimmon). This root sucker came up looking just like its mother tree (which is normal), but it has a strange leafing and branching pattern that is atypical. 9 Aug 2022 #asiminatriloba #native #freeplants #plantsfromfriends

That’s really interesting 🧐 @sushiwaitress

A fellow backyard fruit grower sprouted too many plants to fit in his backyard, so he offered some to me -- these are 12 #pawpaw #seedlings sprouted in 500 ml water bottles 8 Aug 2022 #native #asiminatriloba #freeplants #plantsfromfriends

@gjones I'll keep them in pots till the fall -- they do better when planted in fall. I plan to guerilla plant some of them in areas around town.

Good plan! Not everyone has room for 12 trees...

I read yesterday on a Facebook pawpaw group that #seedling #pawpaw need to be protected from rabbits. And I wake up to this. My biggest seedling with three leaves got munched! 😠 There's another baby sprouting up in the background, so that makes four so far. The munched one will grow back but I'm still mad. 7 Aug 2022 #asiminatriloba #native #treesfromseeds

That’s terrible 😞 but I’m sure it was a lesson learned

@Dragon_Warrior indeed it was!

I have a #tinybutstillscary guard for this #pawpaw #seedling ..... He works for cheap and keeps the riffraff away. 5 Aug 2022 #asiminatriloba #native #treesfromseeds #nativetree #spider #wolfspider #arachnid #ewwewweww

Behold, it is August and a #pawpaw #seedling emerges. Freaking finally. this is number 3 of 10. 5 Aug 2022 #asiminatriloba #native #treesfromseeds #nativetree #freeplants #plantsfromfriends

#pawpaw #seedling number one, standing tall. 1 Aug 2022 #asiminatriloba #native #treesfromseeds #nativetree #gyo #fromseed #native #nativeplant

In the third pot behind the American persimmons is this little tiny #pawpaw sprout making his first appearance. If you're counting like me, this is the second to peek above the surface out of 40 that I planted 😭 but hey two is more than just one. Last year's success definitely made me overconfident. 1 Aug 2022 #asiminatriloba #native #treesfromseeds #nativetree #gyo #alwayslearning

The very first of my 40 #pawpaw seeds to break the surface this year. 27 July 2022 I thought I'd killed them all by letting them get too dry in the fridge during the winter. Jury's still out on the other 39, but it's so great to see this little baby. #asiminatriloba #seedling #native #nativeplant #treesfromseeds

Yay

Got some advice from the Pawpaw Fanatics facebook group that leaving the leaves and extra scion growth on my tree with the broken graft would actually dry out the scion, so I cut it back and wrapped it. 16 July 2022 #ifitwantstoliveitllfight #asiminatriloba #native #graftyourown #grafted #pawpaw

It's been about several weeks since it last rained, and also hot. Two days ago I took a couple gallons of water out to my in-ground rootsucker-grafted #pawpaws and then tonight I took another full jug -- and found NEW GROWTH on the teeny tiny mango #graft that I'd long given up on! 😱🌱 16 July 2022 #asiminatriloba #native #graftyourown #grafted

Update: the new growth is from the rootstock, not the graft, but no big deal. #betterlucknextyear

It's been about two weeks since it's last rained, so for the past two or three days I've been watering the plants in the evening. These guys are loving it -- all are putting out new leaves. 15 July 2022 #asiminatriloba #native #graftyourown #pawpaw

Womp womp. Looks like the Mango #pawpaw graft has bitten the dust. Better luck next year. The rootstock is already putting up little baby shoots so it's not a goner yet. 14 July 2022 #asiminatriloba #native #graftyourown #graft #experiment #alwayslearning

Bummer 🫤 keep trying @sushiwaitress

#trytryagain

Oh no better luck next time🤗

Not confident that either of these are actually #pawpaw but gonna wait and see and hope. 14 July 2022 #asiminatriloba #native #treesfromseeds #nativetree #gyo #hurryup

Moved my 40 potted #pawpaw seeds into the shade, in hopes they'll germinate better. Can't believe it's taking this long, but from what I've read this is kind of normal??? It didn't take this long last year but then again I started my seeds in February and this year it was like April. I suppose more patience is in order. 14 July 2022 #asiminatriloba #native #treesfromseeds #nativetree #gyo

Peeled off the grafting tape from my PAG-4 grafted #pawpaw this morning. Hopefully it'll be able to breathe a little better now. 10 July 2022 #asiminatriloba #native #graftyourown

I kept a splint around my lilac after bumping my pawpaw while watering and breaking it at the graft. Need to try again

Peeled off the grafting tape from my Wabash grafted #pawpaw this morning. Hopefully it'll be able to breathe a little better now. 10 July 2022 #asiminatriloba #native #graftyourown

The broken mango graft isn't happy today. Will give it a gush of water this evening when it cools off. 10 July 2022 #asiminatriloba #native #graftyourown

When I unwrapped the mango graft that had fallen over, I realized that I'd wrapped the grafting tape too tightly and strangled the tree, which is probably why it fell over. So I unwrapped the other ones and found several more with the same problem. This is "Overleese." 9 July 2022 #asiminatriloba #native #graftyourown #alwayslearning

Overleese?

It's a named cultivar of pawpaw @emch

OK, that totally confused me. I thought it was a grafted mango and without the quotation marks to show that "Overleese" was a cultivar name my brain went all 🤪

@emch thanks for pointing that out. I fixed it.

When I unwrapped the mango graft that had fallen over, I realized that I'd wrapped the grafting tape too tightly and strangled the tree, which is probably why it fell over. So I unwrapped the other ones and found several more with the same problem. This is NC-1. 9 July 2022 #asiminatriloba #native #graftyourown #alwayslearning

When I unwrapped the mango graft that had fallen over, I realized that I'd wrapped the grafting tape too tightly and strangled the tree, which is probably why it fell over. So I unwrapped the other ones and found several more with the same problem. This is sunflower. 9 July 2022 #asiminatriloba #native #graftyourown #alwayslearning

Came outside today to find that my grafted #pawpaw tree (mango variety) had broken or fallen over in the wind. I unwrapped the #graft and re-grafted it, this time trying a #whipandtonguegraft No idea if it will survive. My guess is that it won't, but I'm still gonna try. 9 July 2022 #asiminatriloba #native #graftyourown #alwayslearning

Good luck! 🤗

The first of 40 #pawpaw seeds to break the surface. 8 July 2022 #asiminatriloba #native #treesfromseeds #nativetree #gyo

Wabash #pawpaw #asiminatriloba #native #graftyourown #ediblelandscaping 29 June 2022 #shadecloth

Aside from the two American persimmon seedlings, the rest of these treepots each contain one sprouted #pawpaw seed. Their roots were between 2-3 inches long, so I'm curious to see how long it takes for them to peek up above the soil. 25 June 2022 #asiminatriloba #native #treesfromseeds #nativetree #gyo

I know, I know, I already have no idea where I'm going to put the 9 baby #pawpaw trees I already have, but but but this local guy on facebook was giving away sprouted seeds that he didn't need and none of mine have come up yet so just in case.... 25 June 2022 #asiminatriloba #native #treesfromseeds #nativetree

Field-grafted #pawpaw leaves are getting humongous! 24 June 2022 #asiminatriloba #native #graftyourown

Latest obsessive #pawpaw observation: Wabash (big guy) doing great, PA Golden-4 (little guy) putting out some respectable little leaves. Mango is still a brown twig and only puts out growth below the graft, so I'll try again with him next year. 16 June 2022 #asiminatriloba #native #graftyourown

KSU Atwood graft seems to be taking 14 June 2022 #asiminatriloba #native #graftyourown #pawpaw