Pawpaw fruit tree Pollinator Companion Plants! Don’t use roadkill, dummy ;)
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 30 ก.ค. 2024
- Pawpaw Pollinator Companion Plants flower at the same time that Pawpaw trees flower! Loose the roadkill and plant some cool blooming plants that support pollinators like the Eastern Redbud, Sweet Scarlet Goumi, American Plum, Oregon Grape, Pear, and Peach (bloom times vary) trees!
Why Pawpaw Pollinator Companion Plants?
You’ll read comments about placing roadkill around pawpaw trees - in the spring - to attact flies to pollinate the pawpaw’s flowers. Roadkill has a hygine and ‘yuk” factor. This vid shows the wonderful plants that flower at the same time as the Pawpaw - those are the ideal Companion Pollinator Plants!
What’s a Pawpaw tree?
Pawpaw (Asimina triloba) produces the largest fruit native to North America. The fruit’s texture is like custard, and has a tropical fruit flavor (like banana, pineapple, mango, or citrisy - depending on the variety). It produces a BIG fruit. Once established it needs virtuallty NO care. The proof is that it grows wild in over 26 U.S. States.
Pawpaw fruit contains all essential amino acids; is high in minerals and provides many vitamins; it has anti-cancer properties. The tree is completely deer resistant; is disease free; needs very little pruning; and is a visually attractive tree that grows in a pyramid-like shape and is draped with large dark green leaves. It has strong commercial qualities (sell the fruit, scion, seeds, trees) and VIRTUALLY NO ONE KNOWS ABOUT THE PAWPAW! It’s truly a forgotten fruit.
00:00 - bla bla bla intro
01:29 - April 11, Pawpaw tree flowers
02:01 - Eastern Redbud
03:14 - Sweet Scarlet Goumi
04:29 - American Plum
05:43 - Oregon Grape
06:15 - Pear
06:31 - Peach (bloom times vary)
06:46 - What’s a Pawpaw tree?
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Pawpaw Pollinator Companion Plants:
Eastern Redbud, Cercis canadensis
Sweet Scarlet Goumi, Elaeagnus multiflora
American Plum, Prunus americana
Oregon Grape, Mahonia aquifolium or Berberis aquifolium
Pear, Pyrus communis
Peach (bloom times vary), Prunus persica
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Pawpaw fruit tree growers are too rare!
Don't know what a Pawpaw trees is? Then plz check-out, 06:46 - What’s a Pawpaw tree?
Know what a Pawpaw tree is? Then check-out these 5 fruiting plants, and a flowering tree that bloom when the Pawpaw blooms! Loose the roadkill man! ;) 🌻
Learn more about the Pawpaw tree and its extraordinarily wonderful fruit at, heppy.org/pawpaw
Can i get away with growing these is zone 4?
@@truefact4439 hey True Fact -- i'm seeing zone 5 as the (safe) upper limit.
if you want to do a deeper dive, i placed references at the bottom of my webpage, heppy.org/pawpaw
thanks for stopping by & plz sub!
Hi, paw paw tree can be pollinated by sweet scarlet bud? and a what distance maximum mast be each other?
@@Fernandoperez-gs9xx hola Fernando! well, what i'm saying is that plants like the Sweet Scarlet Goumi and native America plum trees (Chickasaw, Mexican, America) will attract pollinators. these other plants' flowers do not pollinate Pawpaw; they simulate the number of pollinators in and around Pawpaw trees.
this year, our Chickasaw, Mexican, America and Creek Plums (heppy.org/wildplum) are LOADED with flying bugs (pollinators). I hypothesize that some pollinators will find the Pawpaw flowers and pollinate them too! ;). hope that helps, and thanks for stopping by! plz subscribe ;)
Although the companion plants are blooming simultaneously, they are pollinated by completely different insects. Not sure how this will increase the likelihood of paw-paw pollination success.
The pawpaw relies on Beetles and flies specializing in decomposition
i totally get ur point gobucksjb and techically, ur correct!
*** the ~5 flies that pollinate Pawpaw are Syrphidae, Sarcophagidae, Calliphoridae, Anthomyiidae, Scathophagidae (according to Illinois Wildflowers).
*** this year, our Chickasaw, Mexican, America and Creek Plums (heppy.org/wildplum) are LOADED with flying bugs (pollinators). anything that flies is on our native plums. so the argument is that pollinators teaming to the native plums (& Sweet Scarlet Goumi and Eastern Redbud) probably don't fly to one and only one plant. I hypothesize that some pollinators will find the Pawpaw flowers and pollinate them too! ;).
*** flying insects have a similar effect on all flowering plants and a healthy, diverse flowering environment stimulates that ;).
hope that helps, and thanks for stopping by! plz subscribe ;)
29 degrees out and he’s making a video! Dedication at its finest :)
Thank you Merin! Great profile pic, btw!
Thanks for watching! 😃
It's so great! I just search for Pawpaw tree and found your channel! I just bought a farm and only live a couple hours away. The gears in my head are turning...
Don't hang your roadkill...I had raccoons and opossums tearing up my trees. I use a cage trap with the dead inside of it - set it up tripped and they have a hard time getting to the yucky stuff.
Dont know how but my pawpaw trees finallyproduced flowers,i have a wells,along with some ntive ones i dug up at lake,have some of the species from starks too,but finally got flowers this year,one species flowered befoee the others,the fflowrrs bloomed and dropped just before the others flowered,but somehow 2 of them were pollinated and have 4 pawpaws on them,i did see lots of flies and beetles on them,but ive also noticed the zebra swallow tails,i dont hve goumis,but i did have nankings and redbuds in bloom during the pawpaws,but we have autumn olives everywhere here in my part of tn,so they were in full bloom alongside the pawpaws too,def got good pollination this year on the pawpaws,and service berry tree was flowering then too,and my gooseberries around thay time,o yeah zone 7
Pawpaw, nankings, redbuds, gooseberries and more! Nice part of TN! Lots of life, lots of pollinators and that's all you need. The Wells will produce good fruit and the Native may take a few years. In any case, thanks for stopping by and have fun!
I Don't know about deer resistant, they might not eat the plant but they sure as heck will eat the fruits
😳. You have some hungry deer 🤣
Hi Heppy,
Hi, paw paw tree can be pollinated by sweet scarlet bud? and a what distance maximum mast be each other?
hola Fernando! well, what i'm saying is that plants like the Sweet Scarlet Goumi and native America plum trees (Chickasaw, Mexican, America) will attract pollinators. these other plants' flowers do not pollinate Pawpaw; they simulate the number of pollinators in and around Pawpaw.
this year, our Chickasaw, Mexican, America and Creek Plums (heppy.org/wildplum) are LOADED with flying bugs (pollinators). I hypothesize that some pollinators will find the Pawpaw flowers and pollinate them too! ;). hope that helps, and thanks for stopping by! plz subscribe ;)
If you were going to start with two paw paws, which two would be best? I live in Oklahoma.
GREAT question. I'd plant a
250-39 (aka, Jerry’s Big Girl) -- it's an overwhelmingly excellent tree.
Number 2 is the Susquehanna. It's a Neal Peterson variety.
That's my $0.02 and thanks for stopping by!
Where do you get your deer fencing from and how high is it?
hey Elisa -- thanks for stopping by! six to seven foot fencing; we found that the worst deer are the little ones that nudged UNDER the plastic netting ;) we have lazy deer -- the don't jump, or something ;)
plastic netting:
this is an example of a plastic type i purchased (amazon): Tenax 2A040006 Deer Net, Black, 7-Feet by 100-Feet. the price jumped to $65 but it's a lot of netting & durable; there's a MUCH cheaper (maybe $25-$30) version that's advertised as "deer netting" but it's very fine material, and totally like bird netting. at the base, we leave 10-12 inches and cover the netting with woodchips.
welded wire fence:
this is an example of a metal type i now prefer (Tractor Supply): Welded Wire Fence with 2 in. x 4 in. Mesh, 72 in. x 100 ft., 84068. i started to use metal fencing because it's just easier for me to install, especially if you have 1 helper; it's ridged so it needs ... support & stuff because it doesn't sag.
stakes/poles:
i use rebar because of our large area. buy 20' long pieces at nominal price, delivered, and i cut 20; pieces down to 5' to 7'.
as you know, you know ur level-of-patience, wallet, the space ur dealing with, etc. sorry for the small book, and take care!
@@heppylifestyle I appreciate the small book, lol!
where do you buy pawpaw trees that will fruit? I bought one at FB and what came was a really tiny seedling $30. FB is full of scam sellers
i won't give this post a 'heart' 'cause that $30 seedling is screwy. sorry to hear about that.
finding a large tree isn't easy. and if it's really big, the shipping cost will get u! of the 9 cultivars we have, the Prolific, Wells and Jerry Lehman "250-30" (aka, 'Jerry’s Big Girl') fruited the fastest after planting. the Prolific is the most ... prolific fruiter. some trees are yet to fruit & were planted 2-3 years ago :(. Pawpaw take time....
my trusted nursery sources are here: heppy.org/exotic#nurseries_that_sell_types_of_exotic_fruit_trees_and_other_edible_plants
England's Orchard & Nursery & Edible Landscaping got me the biggest trees but i drove to the nurseries.
hope that helped TINA!
You'd be better off just to take a dump under your tree . You draw tons of flies and fertilize your tree at the same time. Contrary to what people say, flies and beetles will devour your excrement and leave behind exactly what your trees need to thrive . Just saying .
Why not us something sweet
the Goumi (heppy.org/goumi) & Wild Plums (heppy.org/wild) are sweet ;). well, the wild plums are sorta sweet. i was just happy to see flowers & buds in Spring! thanks for stopping by!
Pawpaws don’t pollinated by bees.
the ~5 flies are Syrphidae, Sarcophagidae, Calliphoridae, Anthomyiidae, Scathophagidae (according to Illinois Wildflowers).
but my sense is that other visiting, flying insects have a similar effect and a healthy, diverse flowering environment stimulates that ;). plus, the Eastern Redbud and American Plum are hard to beat for flowering trees :)