The Pawpaw Tree - A Complete Profile
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- This video is a comprehensive, exhaustive profile on the Pawpaw Tree (Asimina triloba), a native deciduous tropical fruit-bearing tree found in Eastern North America.
This video is quite long, so I am including the following digital table of contents below. If you are only interested in one specific aspect of this tree, then please click on the jump link below:
01:48 What is a Pawpaw tree
02:40 How to Identify a Pawpaw tree
05:51 Pawpaw Tree growing conditions
06:18 How to find Pawpaw trees in the Wild
07:07 Native Range of Pawpaw Tree
07:50 Companion Trees
08:38 How to spot Pawpaw Trees from far away
09:41 Examples of Pawpaw Trees in the woods
12:23 Pawpaw lookalikes
13:00 Opposite vs Alternate leaves
15:37 When to harvest Pawpaws
17:05 Shelf life of Pawpaws
17:20 How to eat Pawpaws
20:07 How to save Pawpaw seeds
21:07 How to grow Pawpaw trees from seed
24:25 Landscaping with Pawpaw trees
26:07 Where to buy Pawpaws online
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I have a paw paw Farm. I viewed this video with a critical eye.
I found no errors
I don't know if there is any better compliment I could receive. Thank you very much for your honest opinion and critical eye.
Good evening...are you able to sell paw paw seeds and courier to South africa.i really need these
@@growitbuildit I really like videos man you explain very well👍
@@growitbuildit I dont remember if you said or not can I get non ripe ones and just let them riping on own or do they have to stay on tree until rip?thanks
@@lessummers5738 It depends how close it is to being ripe. If it is a month before natural ripening, then probably not. If it is a couple weeks - then yes, you can pick early.
Attention: You failed to mention that dehydrating ripe pawpaw fruit turns them into a fast-acting emetic, and eating a small piece of dried pawpaw flesh will result in profuse vomiting and diarrhea within 15-20 minutes. Because they tend to ripen all at once, I dried about 20 lbs of ripe flesh in my dehydrator, thinking they would be like dried mango slices. The result tasted great, but both my wife and I were stuck in the bathroom for a few hours afterward. The dried fruit is very toxic, so don't make my mistake.
Wow - that is the first I've heard of that happening. I had never tried, or heard of anyone dehydrating pawpaws, and hence never heard of that effect from eating them. Thank you for getting the word out.
Hi there. First Nations peoples have been documented as drying Paw Paw for food storage and there is also documented evidence from European colonists that it was included in stews among other dishes. Unfortunately how it was done has been lost due to forced migration etc. It is assumed that it was treated in some way to leech out the toxins. There is a really great book "PawPaw: In Search of America's Forgotten Fruit"by Andrew Moore that discusses the history of use in North America. It is a fantastic read!
I have two pawpaw trees I planted on my property and hope to get fruit from them in a few years. Thank you for posting this, we have a dehydrator and probably would've attempted it, you just made sure we won't.
I’ll have some this year on my trees I’ll try it anyway
Oh wow I've never heard of that but that's good to know now!
Great video! Thanks so much for taking the time!
You are very welcome Kassi! Glad you enjoyed it.
You may have alluded to my answer in Minute 26 of the video? But will two seedlings grown from fruit from the SAME tree be able to cross pollinate each other (and thus produce fruit) as they get mature? Or do you need the FRUIT FROM SEPARATE trees to propagate new trees that will thus be able to pollinate each other to produce fruit?
Hi - each seed germinated is genetically unique. So you should be good to go! Two seeds from the same fruit will yield different genes, so they can cross pollinate each other.
Maybe good for jelly or jam or bakery. I thing MRI can copy any fruit and reproduce on entire forest may reproduce large number of fruits without need growing 😅
That would be awesome - it's a great fruit.
I HEARD THAT
Meant to post a comment to appease the algorithm, anyway 😅
Lol. Thank you!
These are delicious
100% agree
I have hundreds of Paw Paw trees on my 3 acre Loudoun County, Virginia property. I’ve only found about a half dozen that produce fruit, though. Picked one just the other day and ate it. The fruit was very sweet and the aroma was quite strong. The fruit was pale yellow inside and very creamy. The taste was a combo of mango, vanilla, and banana. The aroma was similar to trim or fruit loops cereal.
Nice - maybe try hand-pollinating the fruits next Spring,. You might get more yield.
A pawpaw tree has to be pollenated with pollen from a different unrelated pawpaw tree. For short term results, you could try self pollination on a couple specific trees and see what happens. Long term, if you plan on living on that property for a long time, you could go get seeds from pawpaws somewhere away from your property, sprout them and plant those trees throughout your property. That way you’ll have a diversity of trees for better pollination rates in the long run. Down here in SE Virginia we have a lot of paw paws. You have to go out and look for spots where there’s a bunch of trees. I’ve got some spots I’ve found in the Dismal Swamp that I go to every year and there’s always a lot of fruits. Some years are better than others depending on the weather. The bears like them as much as I do.
Naahhh cap
Mine are nowhere ready yet
I'm in Wood County and they are across the street from me at the edge of the forest.
@77thTrombone paw paw sed up shoots from the roots. If the patch is large, it could be genetically one tree.
Growing up my dad would sing a little jingle every once in a while. It would end with "Way down yonder in the paw paw patch." I never knew they were an actual tree that produced paw paws until a year after he passed away. I was in my early 30s. I had visited a friend and one of his sons came walking up from the creek with a bag. He started eating this fruit and asked if id like a paw paw. All i could think was REALLY!!!! THIS WHOLE TIME DAD!!!!....... Great video
Thank you Benjamin - that is a great story
A note about the pawpaws you have that are about 2 years old - you have them surrounded by Japanese stilt grass, which employs toxins that targets surrounding trees from growing well. It may be affecting the growth rate of your pawpaws.
Hi - I actually pull all of that stilt grass every year. Hopefully it will be gone in another 3 years or so....
But the stilt grass is only around those two shown, and one of those was the 4' tall one. But I take your point. Japanese Stilt Grass is a never ending battle in PA, and everywhere else too.
Thank you for that, I will have to look up some research on them as it is my primary weed here in Central Pa.
Another fabulous, thorough resource. Appreciate your content!
WOW - Thank you SO MUCH Tara! That was very generous of you!
@@growitbuilditI think so but w you have to
This long video kept my wife and me hooked for its entirety. We learned of Asimina Triloba about 4 years ago and are hooked and hooking others. We've germinated very many from seed and share the seedlings. We've also had success this year with cross pollinating wild pawpaws with a domesticated cultivar. We check on the 33 fruits progression biweekly.
That is cool - I'm really glad you enjoyed it. That is cool you are trying to breed new varieties too.
where do you live?
@@av1421 Zone 6b.
Hey, I really want to say, thank you for all of the content you've put out and continue to put out. I've learned a lot from you all and I appreciate you sharing your time and experience with me so I don't have to go through the same trials you went through 😅
Seriously! Thank you both for the information you share so freely.
Thank you so much Yhoshua - I'm very happy to hear that you find them helpful!
Here in southern Ontario, pawpaw trees are very rare to find growing in the wild, but they are around. I just planted some bare root grafted trees this year and I'm looking forward to seeing how they do! If they survive long enough to produce fruit, I'm hoping to "accidentally" spread the seeds to some local park spaces, hehehe.
Awesome Kimberly. I hope you can spread some
I'm going to do that, too up here in Ottawa😀
I have a bunch of them in southern ontario. I don't know anyone else who has some. This year the fruit is so heavy I need to prop up the trees.
@@archur111 Fantastic. Any chance you can harvest some seeds and send them to me? I would really appreciate that. Of course I will pay any expenses. I live in Stouffville, Ontario
Love the content Joe! Great resource for anyone interested in ecological landscaping. I'm in northeast Ohio so it's great to see someone who is also in zone 6. Native food webs are critical for my small organic no till farm structure. Appreciate the work on your channel and mission for education about native ecology.
Thank you! I'm glad I can help you out. Good luck!
South African pawpaws are completely different. The leaves are palmate, the trunks are hollow and rot if the top of the tree is lopped off. The fruit is like a large papaya and very yellow when ripe. The birds love them, so it's quite a feat to harvest a ripe one unscathed. It is the only tropical fruit I know which is low in sugar, thus ideal for diabetics. The seeds are very small and one only has to grab a spoonful from the centre of the fruit and plant them very close to the surface to be able to choose between plants within weeks and keep the strongest only. We used to liquidise the fruit with the pulp and juice of two oranges and have wonderful smoothies.
You are referring to a different species of plant c. papaya. PawPaw are in the anona family. There are anona family of fruits that grow in South Africa referred to as African Custard Apple.
papaya is also called pawpaw in some places
I'm convinced there's several near me in north Georgia. I purchased a small tree but it hasn't done very well. Hard for me to find any flowers & I never see fruit. My forbe ID is much better than my tree ID skills. Thanks for this! Edit: the homeowner practices of removing understory trees to "decrease the competition with canopy trees" has done tons of damage IMO. The purpose of understory trees isn't taught, it should be!
You need at least two genetically different pawpaw trees to produce fruit. Seems like they need to be in the ground for 5 years to begin fruiting.
Maybe go take a hike and see if you can positively ID the trees. If not, go drive backroads and keep your eyes peeled. Most people don't even know what they are.
I'm a big fan of understory shrubs and trees. They never grow thick enough to make an area impassable - it is the Buckthorn/Bush Honeysuckle that does that.
I love the Spicebush, native brambles, and viburnums. I've been trying to get an easy, repeatable method for growing Virburnums for a couple years now - very difficult in containers.
On my property in North GA,there are a couple of smaller bush pawpaw varieties that grow wild.The pawpaws on them are about a whole peanut to thumb size and mostly seeds.Early Spring is a good time to spot their flowers to locate them in the woods.The leaves are smaller than other varieties.I started growing pawpaws from 2 seedlings about 1996 and started new patches by transplanting the suckers when they are dormant,the end of Winter.I started grafting other varieties onto my trees to get better pollination and better sized fruit a few years ago.The fruit on my Mango variety grafted tree started getting ripe about 3 days ago.
There are wild Viburnam trees, Carolina Buckthorn,Carolina Spicebush(that I transplanted from my homeplace about 30 miles away),and plenty of wild blackberries.
I was gifted a dozen or so small saplings and some just started to flower after about 5 years. I'm hoping next year is the year for fruit!
You are getting close! I would try hand pollinating them if you get flowers on multiple trees. I've done it with Squash plants plenty of times, but never tried it on Pawpaws yet.
@@growitbuildit I will definitely try that next year!
Quality video as always, thank you. I have 3 pawpaw that we bought and planted 2 years ago. I saw a talk by one of the University of Kentucky growers that said they are fine in full sun once they get to the size of a sapling that the nurserys sell. So we planted ours in full sun, but I grew beans round their base to give them a little shade as insurance. One is struggling due to being ran over by a landscaper :/ but the other 2 have grown quickly. I understand it can be 7 years before you get any fruit, but we got our first flower this year which was magical to see!
Thank you! Congrats on getting your first flower. It is exciting. I will probably be trying to hand-pollinate my trees once I have the opportunity.
Nobody cares jack
Loved this video.I went with my grandpa every year to pick paw paws.He knew the woods and where they grew.I wish I had paid more attention to all he tried to teach my sister and I.I haven’t tasted one in 60 years but have wonderful memories of them.Loved the big seeds .
That is awesome Sue - thank you for sharing. I feel like I missed out on learning from my grandparents too.
Me And My Grandpa Did That To, I Was Just Young Little Feller. It Was So Exciting To Me And I Loved The Paw Paw. That Why I’ve Planted Them On My Property,And There Finally Fruiting YA!
If you like curd jam, especially lemon curd, adding pawpaw pulp makes it taste so nice and tropical. In our area, there's pawpaws all over the place, at just about every stream bank. It's like a local tradition to go out and hunt during pawpaw season.
Thanks for the tip - I've not tried curd jam. I mainly just eat them plain, as I like the taste. I have heard of people using them in bread and have seen Pawpaw salsa too.
As a long time paw paw owner (3 trees are more than enough fruit for us) I always throw my overripe fruit in my mulch bin and each spring pull handful of saplings out as they sprout.
Sounds like a great way to germinate seeds!
Did you mean compost bin?
@@sqwrrl yes but I use my compost as my mulch so I often interchange them....sure incorrectly but I'm ok with that.
Soursops are said to have cancer curing properties. Do pawpaw's also have this property?
@@tanyadekowski336 I'd highlight your question, right mouse click it and go to the third selection that says "Search Google for....."
This is the best pawpaw tree video on youtube.
Thank you Jimmy. I appreciate that
I've found that damp sand is great for cold stratification in the refrigerator without mold.
Sand works well too. I find that a good sterilization pretty much keeps everything away. But good tip nonetheless.
Green moss has tannins in it that keep mold from growing on seed when stratified in the fridge. Also scarifying the seed coat around the seed helps it start faster. You can sand or take a knife and trim the border around edge of seeds. The seed inside looks wrinkly like a grub worm
Thank you for including us CANCUCKS/Canadians in your video! Pawpaws have become popular throughout Canada! I live in Western Canada in zone 4b/5a, and they do great!
The scientific info (jargon) - I especislly appreciate - along with cautions and encouragement to delve further, and conduct a “personal” investigation into ANY plant/food you intend to eat or share with others - including your darling Fido!
Hope you are having a great summer! Currently, my homes province, British Columbia, and the Northwest Territories are in a State of Emergency due to forest fires burning down homes, towns, and now it’s trying to rip through the capital city of Yellowknife, as fire fighter and volunteers alike are doing their utmost to save the city! We sent many Canadian fire fighters and First Responders south to the US, to help with California, and other fires, floods, massive mudslides, etc. Hopefully, we will receive some American help in kind. Let’s HOPE and pray that you will NOT experience anything on the scale of what we are coping with! Just trying to find temporary homes for the animals/pets belonging to the TENS of THOUSANDS of evacuees is a challenge ! Then we hav3 all the wildlife running scared into communities. Bears, moose, cougars, deer, elk, every kind of creature is fleeing the fires and have to go somewhere!
Finallly, I feel for the farmers that tried to evacuate their animals, and those who had too many to relocate,, took turns as neighbours to feed, water, and provide shelter for every farm animal they could! I hope the majority made it, and somehow, this CRISIS and the others we have had in North America this year will wake up those who choose put their blinders on and pretend the world will be a much better place for the dear little ones, both human and animal! Not to be political, but I hope no one endures what we Canadians are enduring…AGAIN!
In the meantime, I wish you a fantastic summer - may You and your daughter get your fill of PawPaws!
Cheers🇨🇦😊🇺🇸
It has been a terrible year for wildfires everywhere. And I hope Canada gets some relief soon. And thank you - my daughter and I will be hunting pawpaws soon enough!
@@growitbuildit Thank you! I wish you and your daughter an enjoyable feast!
Cheers🇨🇦😊🇺🇸
The video alone was good enough for a sub. Your map with native tree nurseries is more than enough for a little cash on the side. I'll be tracking down and starting pawpaws myself, but it's always nice to know where a native focused nursery is and your map is an invaluable resource. Keep up the great work!!!
Thank you Taylor! I'm happy you are enjoying the resources/video. And thank you so much for the tip!
there is more than paw paw out there friend, learn to crossbreed a tree. then you have real power in your corner.
I'll have to research that - what have you crossed Pawpaws with?
@@growitbuildit havent really tried those, to be quite honest. but as long as it produces pollen, im sure i can find a way. i experiment more with peppers, hemp, and varieties of cherry trees. peppers, like trees can be grafted and grown into a pretty decent bush. and cherry trees flower, so they can be fairly simple. more interested in what you could do with that knowledge
I appreciate the quality and depth of your Papaw Pawpaw information! Thanks!
You are very welcome Eva!
I live in Portland, Oregon, and have 3 pawpaw trees. They are 5 years old and have not produced fruit yet. One tree is tiny and struggling but the other two are really big with lots of leaves and look healthy. When do they start producing fruit? I haven't seen any blossoms yet.
You should see flowers within a year or two. Most references say they produce flowers at year seven. If you get flowers on both trees, I would suggest trying to hand pollinate to make sure you get some fruit. Good luck next year!
Whelp... Anyone want a well-cared-for hickory?
Oh no! Well, better to find out now.
There are a number of uses for pawoaws. I made pawpaw muffins this year & have made frozen custard & quickbread in the past.
I have some friends who make pie and breads from them, I just never have done so. And, since this video was already so long....But you are absolutely correct.
I've planted 7 pawpaw trees on my property in Western NY near the Niagara river. Hopefully ill have some fruit in a few years. I also managed to grow 21 from seeds using the winternsowong method this past winter. I'm sharing thr sapplings with local organizations and native plant stores. As always, great video and i really appreciate the work you put into them!
Thank you CJ - and nice work germinating them and for sharing them.
LOVE YOUR VIDEO!!?
I found a group of Paw Paws once in Louisiana. They are absolutely DELICIOUS!!! I am now in Missouri, where they SHOULD be ABUNDANT, however I have never been able to find any! I am still looking.....now I know a GREAT DEAL more, hopefully I will be able to identify some!!
Excellent - good luck Jeanie! Now is the time to find them too.
I taught my son what the look like and he went on a field trip and said there was a huge grove . Every year I can pick 30 lbs or more here in va. It is fairly popular hiking trail and most don’t know what they are. Probaly 300lbs or more rot every year when they fall to the ground
Wow - that sounds like an awesome patch!
Great profile, I purchase 2 bare root trees this spring and both are doing well. I live in the Niagara Region in Canada and we are the northern most region for the Paw Paw to grow naturally. With your information I hope to grow a few more from seed. Thanks Tara & Joe for the great work you both do!
Jeff
Thank you Jeff! Very happy you are enjoying our work. Good luck starting some from seed!
I'm north of you in line with Ottawa, and mine are surviving up here, got the seeds from around your area so they are the northern variety, looking forward to the fruit......
The last couple years I've been keeping an eye out for pawpaws, but the trees I've found havent had the fruits sadly
You could try hand pollinating them.
Where I am in Trinidad and Tobago we called papaya paw paw, but this fruit resembles a mango
Hi - this is a different fruit. It's botanical name is Asimina triloba. It is native to North America.
5:40 KSU has good info on pawpaws and I've heard them say that if you want a good chance at transplanting a sucker you should cut it in the ground with a shovel then leave it a whole year before digging it up. I have several pawpaws I transplanted as seedlings and I am suspicious that two were suckers because they had a really long, eventually severed tap root. They've both been very productive the one has put on nearly 4 foot in its first year.
That sounds like good advice if one were to transplant a sucker...cutting then leaving in the ground for a year.
I got a grafted pawpaw tree in April 20th from a nursery. 2 to 3 feet tall. I already planted in the ground, full sun. My question is: Should I give it some shade or leave it in the full sun ? Thanks in advance.
Hi - I would check with the nursery. If they were already growing it in full sun, then it is probably ok. Just ask them in what conditions it was grown, and then explain how many hours of sun it will get where you planted it.
I heard that comment. Thank you for this very detailed video. I learned a great deal.
Thank you - glad you found it informative. Happy Pawpaw hunting
If I grew 3 trees from seeds gathered from a single fruit or tree, will these be able to cross-pollinate or do you need to have different varieties?
Hi - yes, they should be able to cross pollinate. Each seed will produce a genetically different tree.
You're doing such a great job at showing everyone the way you see the world! Thank you for this!
Thank you so much Sarah - I really appreciate your kind words.
Very professional. Thank you very much. Please do one on persimmon native to the US😊
I can do that at some point. I actually located my first patch of trees last Fall. I was able to collect some fruit, and germinate the seed. They really do taste good once they get very soft!
I probably won't be making any video on Persimmon until next year at the earliest, as I just don't have that much footage. But I did write a thorough article on the tree. Hopefully you find it helpful. growitbuildit.com/american-persimmon-diospyros-virginiana-l/
Thanks you! You were super thorough. My husband can spot paw paws very easily but I always have a hard time
You're very welcome. Glad you enjoyed it. You'll get fast at spotting them in no time
I heard that! I have two paw paw trees and while I hope for fruit in a few years, I find they pretty unusual landscape trees as well.
Patience is a virtue when waiting for trees to grow
Love them. Planted some & have several now; enjoyed fruit last year. This year the squirrels ate ALL of them. 😭
Arrrrgh - that would drive me insane.
You’ve done it again Joe. If I had a channel it would have all of the EXACT content you produce. Thanks
Thank you Kyle!
I hang a zipper bag with an empty tuna or sardine can to encourage pollinators.
That sounds like a good idea. I'll remember that for when mine start flowering.
The Nashville 2 River Park right in the Tennessee River has a spot with these next to a water fall, right before the bridge go down the trail on the right
That is awesome - but now you've given away the location!
I grow mangoes in South Florida and I would love to swap mangoes for pow pow
Why not both?
I think you should do American Persimmon.
Some day! I just grew a bunch from seed this year. I only have found one colony of them though, so a bit more challenging.
Thank you for this info. I was recently given some Pawpaw seeds but didn’t know anything about growing them. Your video is very detailed and will help me.
You are very welcome - good luck starting your seeds
The insecticide inside pawpaw has no affect on these Texas grasshopper’s. They devour my pawpaw. These triple digit temps (35 days so far) are baking my leaves and they’ve dropped most of them. I water them about every 4 or 5 days. I wonder which state has the most pawpaws per acres? It’s too dry in Texas for them to survive without care. I haven’t had over a 1/4” of rain in the last 3 months.
We get a lot of rainfall in Virginia, and I can spot Pawpaws in almost every park where there's a stream.
I haven't seen huge damage from insects on any Pawpaw trees. But towards the end of the season, and really even now you can see plenty of holes in the leaves. But nothing like defoliation though.
I would bet KY/TN/VA/WV have the most Pawpaws per Acre. All Appalachian mountains filled with streams.
As a child my Dad worked putting in pipelines in Southern Michigan. On a visit with him ,he brought home Michigan Bananas, I later learned these were Pawpaws. And yes it was in Pawpaw, Michigan. :)
That is awesome - I've heard them called Appalachian bananas before, but not Michigan Bananas.
I hear that! lol Thank you for all this great knowledge about Pawpaws.
You are very welcome - glad you enjoyed it!
Great video! We are getting two of these trees next week!
Congrats and good luck! And thank you for the kind words.
Moving to North Carolina on 5 acres. Looking into types of edible tree I can grow. This popped up on a google search. Thank for this informational stream. I found it very helpful.
Excellent - I'm very happy you found it helpful. Congrats and good luck!
I found a wild patch below our cabin near the river. Sadly I couldn't find any pawpaw fruit this season. Good video full of interesting details.
Your wild patch could be the same tree - just clonal offsets! But if you found one patch, they are most likely more in the area.
When I saw the thumbnail, and the word "paw-paw", I thought ,"Here is another of those fraud Far East videos where they perform miracles with grafting, propagating, and Krazy-glue causing plants to bear unbelievable amounts of fruits in a few days !
But I decided to watch.
Here where I live we call Paw-paw, the fruit Americans know as Papaya !
This was a very detailed comprehensive video on this North American fruit.
I know lots of work went into making this video, and I want to say "Thank You".
This is invaluable material for the ones who are interested in cultivating paw-paw.
Well Done !
Regards.
Trinidad & Tobago.
West Indies.
Hello - thank you so much for the kind words. I did put much effort into making this video, as I have a true love for the tree and the fruit. Hello from the snow covered lands of Pennsylvania!
Excellent video to watch! I’d recommend to anyone who wants to know everything about paw paw. A lot of times and efforts spent to produce this video, I could imagine. Most of all the knowledge about the topic. Thank you for the video ❤🙏
Thank you so much for the kind words! Glad you enjoyed it!
I heard that. Longtime gardener but new subscriber, always learning and your topics hit close to home (being just South of you). Going back through your catalog and looking forward to new videos. Best!
Thank you so much! Hope you enjoy the older videos!
This was fascinating! It's on my Bucket List to see a real Pawpaw and eat the fruit.
Now you are closer to being able to find them! I was in the same boat as you 4 years ago.
I have two fruit producing trees, and three smaller ones on my property.
Now that you have reminded me I will go and check them today.
It's time right now!
Just went on a hike today with my wife and we found several excellent examples of its fruit. Just now getting home and can’t wait to dig in. Great video and I subbed. I’m in Missouri where paw paws are everywhere!
Awesome! Congrats on finding some, and I hope you enjoy them.
❤😊 when I was an elementary school around the age of eight to 10 years of age we sang a song call where oh where is dear little Mary? Way Down Yonder in the Paw Paw Patch picking up pawpaws putting them in a basket. The school I attended was located in Charleston California. We had 2000 English walnut trees, 10 pecan trees, and fewer than 1000 black walnut trees. The fruit Of the pawpaw tree sounds delicious. You are website is fantastic. Thank you for sharing.😊
Thank you! I'm very happy you are enjoying our videos.
Terrific information!!! Thanks so very much!
You are very welcome Wendy - good luck!
I substitute banna with paw paws in my banana bread recipe...Its Amazing!! I'm in Southeast Ohio and have a "Honey Hole" I visit every year!!! Great video
Thank you Tim! I just stopped at one of my hidden-in-plain-sight groves and grabbed about 8-10. That is cool with the bread. That would be really good.
It's crazy how so many people never even heard of paw paws! Definitely a late summer treat for those that know👍🙏
EXACTLY!
I heard that sweet voice and I was just as excited when I had my first paw paws this year! I was happily able to clean up a gal’s yard and that included many wasted fruit and later hours worth of black walnut harvesting! I have planted many paw paw seeds, but could not find anywhere the reference to keep them moist, so glad I found your video. Likely many will not germinate, but hopefully I’ll get some! It was quite a treat for me and I appreciate gleaning more from this thorough video, I am now a new subscriber and it looks like I have so much more to learn from your videos and blogging!
Thank you kindly for all your efforts…
Thank you so much! It was really special gathering Pawpaws with her that day. I'm glad I could help you out regarding germinating the seeds - good luck!
Excellent information and you have not left anything out. Thank you.
Thank you! I'm glad you found it helpful.
I heard that sweet voice at the end 😊 Thank you so much for sharing your thorough research and the wisdom from your experience! I have about 8 seedlings from seeds that i kept in the fridge over the winter. I lucked out having them germinate from the sparse info that i found on the internet about them. Your videos are soooooo helpful to native plant enthusiasts!
Thank you Christi - good job getting the seeds to germinate. And yes, that is a sweet voice at the end.
A great place in Canada to buy Pawpaw trees for colder temps is called Green Barn Farm. You buy them over the winter for Spring and their trees are rated for -40C. We plan to buy some this year and plant them. Your video just reminded me! Thx for all the info too.
Thank you for sharing that place in Canada. That is incredible that they are rated for -40C
I see what you mean, the Pawpaw leave is not symmetric lengthwise- it is more rounded on one end. Thanks Johnny Pawpaw seed. :)
You are very welcome - and I like the handle!
Including the pawpaw, all those companion trees are some of my favorite trees haha
Combined they make for an awesome hardwood forest.
@@growitbuildit it’s encouraging because I think it means the pawpaw I intend to plant will do well. We have a lot of these trees in New Hampshire, but I’ve found zero native pawpaw. Their range doesn’t technically reach this far, but the ones I bought from the nursery seem to be surviving just fine these past few years. Maybe one day you’ll need to update your map if I have much more success haha
You've got it exactly right. If those trees grow well, your Pawpaw will grow well. Often plants can grow a zone colder than the native range. There is always the risk of an extreme cold weather that can kill them, but for the most part should be ok. Just make sure it gets' a good leaf mulch in the fall for insulation (just don't cover the trunk).
We have about a half dozen pawpaw trees (SW Ohio residents) and want to propagate them more than they've produced over the years. Glad we came across this video. Thank you for sharing and posting!
Excellent - I'm glad I could help you out Amy!
Do pawpaw trees grow near me? No. Will I watch anything by the Growit Buildit guy? Yes.
Thank you! I'm happy you like my style of video
Southern Florida is not good for Pawpaw trees I take it.
Zone 8 or some say zone 9 is their southern range. They need frequent watering also. My most difficult plant I have to care for in my hot dry Texas sand. I have to water them more than anything I have.
@@jamesbarron1202 that's because they are an understory tree, do you have it in part shade?
@@inchristalone25 when they are older they do better in full sun according to the experts. I shaded them their first 3 years.
@@jamesbarron1202 either way they are still an understory tree and the intense Texas sun will make them need far more water than you probably want to give them.
@@inchristalone25 I have 6 of them in my yard and the ones that get the most shade from my big pecan trees are the smallest and the 2 that are in full sun are the the biggest. You’d think the shaded ones would be bigger in our heat. When I planted them I thought the ones that got some shade would do best. We’re averaging 103 to 107 for over 30 days now. 1/4” of rain total in the past 3 months. I water them about every 5 days in this heat. Mulched out past their canopy’s drip line.
I have all sorts of paw paws on my property but none of them ever produce a single fruit :/
Maybe try to cross pollinate by hand between different trees next Spring. The species of flies that pollinate it are not that reliable.
@@growitbuildit I'll give that a try. I know some of them somewhere must have fruit because I've found coyote poop with their seeds in it, I just never actually see the fruit.
@@govols1995 Cool - good luck this Spring.
What is the name on Greece language
This plant is native to North America, so there is probably no Greek word for it. The botanical or Latin name though is "Asimina triloba"
Wow! Who would'a thought!!! Nice video, excellent info and photography. You, Sir, have done a very good job in getting the Pawpaw tree out to all of us primary students! Thank you so much!!!
Thank you Mary! I'm very happy you enjoyed it and found it informative, as that was my goal.
Lol
It took me months of trying to get three of my four pawpaw seeds to germinate. Just keep them moist folks.
What about planting the seeds in a prepared site in the ground instead of pots? They could be protected by leaf mulch for temperature and maybe an upside down wire basket for marking the spot, preventing digging by squirrels, etc. Just trying to maximize space for seed starting this winter :)
Thanks for another great video! I love all of your stuff.
Hi - yes, you could do that. The only risk would be predation, and the Pawpaw tree being able to compete against other vegetation that may be present. If there is really thick undergrowth I would be concerned. But if the undergrowth is somewhat sparse then it should be fine.
Question @growitbuildit I gathered a plastic shopping bag full to grow on my forested 17 acres. I did not remove the seeds and simply used a spade to scallop the leaves, dirt and shallow plant the whole fruit to keep the seeds moist I also planted them in groups of three about ten feet apart. Do you think this process will germinate? I’m in Western Maryland
I loved the video! I'm wondering if you can provide some information about how long it takes before they start fruiting?
Hi - it takes at least 5 years in my experience. That is coming from a 6" bare root.
Thank for such an informative video. I will buy the bare root paw paws. Any trusted website/nursery you can suggest? And also anyone here knows what that process will be like? I live in Northern VA. I love pawpaws so much, they remind me to chirimoyas. Thanks in advance for the help!
Hi - I purchased my original two trees from Coldstreamfarm.net. They ship them in Spring, with a flat rate (or at least they did). Also, I have seen people selling trees on Facebook marketplace, so you may want to check there too.
Raccoons eat them too. They climb up the trees and steal them.
I haven't seen one doing it, but Pawpaws would be right up their alley
What an incredible video. This is a masterclass on pawpaws.
Thank you!
Pickinup PawPaws, putting in your pocket, way down yonder in the PawPaw patch! Song from my childhood. I'm 66. Lol
Lol - it is a catchy tune
Thanks for your quick response. I'll check GM out. That was not an auto correct in my first comment. It was my intention to say marcot.... not market.... ha. Others call the propagating technique of marcotting... air layering. I've had much difficulty trying to marcot pawpaw plants. Zero success so far. I wish I knew someone that has succeeded with that process on pawpaws. I do well on apples and pears so far. Experimenting with plums and persimmons right now. To early to tell on them.
Ah - ok. I am not familiar with marcot! I cannot offer you any advice for that method, but can only wish you good luck.
Great video that has given me the confidence to go out to identify and hopefully harvest some Paw Paws!
Excellent - that is exactly what I like to hear. Good luck!
Enjoyed your video. Two things... where do you get the 14 inch seedling containers? Can you marcot pawpaw trees?
Hi - I bought the tree pots from Greenhouse Megastore. And yes, you can market them. People around here do sell them occasionally.
Stop filming your feet. Thank you.
Great video!! I’m thinking of growing a couple trees in Massachusetts.
You absolutely should!
Fantastic job with the info in this video. Thank you.
Thank you!
Growit ji,
I did not know that my name is similar to Pawpaw. Thank you for educating me about it.
Pawitra Gurung
(now) Rani Pauwa, Tulasi Marg, Wada number 11, Kaski District, Pokhara, Nepal
You are welcome!
If you find Wet ground they will grow to the top of the foliage if there's not no trees taller than them and if we find more fruit
Thank you for all the information about native plants.
I notice that in many cases when talking about growing from seed you indicate that, although literature indicated that a particular plant’s seed need stratification, you find that it is not necessary.
Pawpaw seeds, in my experience, and I have grown them for 10 years, do not need stratification. I am writing to tell you this because I know that, because of your experience, you will do the research to prove it.
I have never actually intended to plant seeds but I do put the seeds back into the pawpaw skin and bury them in my garden in September/October, when I am eating them, as I do with most of my other food scraps. These seeds germinate in 2 to 4 weeks and I have many new pawpaw seedlings at that time. Last year I had about 200 plants and donated them to a community gardens and a native plant nursery. This year I am donating to a historic home’s garden and was able to pot 20 more seedling pawpaws I found in the garden (about 4 weeks ago). I examined them and they showed evidence of having germinated last fall. I could see where the old growth ended and where the new growth began. These plants had a more advanced tap root. The pawpaw seed are able to grow up from quite a depth as some of them were buried quite deep. This plant is amazing in so many ways.
I hope this information will be useful to you.
Thank you for sharing that info. I may test it out sometime. But perhaps wait until the Spring to plant the seed.
Excellent video - Thanks! New subscriber.
Thank you very much! I'm glad you enjoyed it!
Spreading knowledge of the pawpaw is so important!!!!
I fully agree!
i found poop! "good job"
Still melts my heart when I hear it!
_THANK YOU_ 🙏 😔 🙏
I had heard the song about _The Paw Paw Patch,_ I did not know what a Paw Paw is, but from the song I knew it was a fruit and good to eat.
I have a question, does anyone know what a "Jew Jew" is and how they grow? As I remember they were "wild plumb" like.
So now I know what a Paw Paw is. I live essentially near Houston, a little closer to the coast. I'll probably never see a tree in person, so thank you, your video was a good breakfast piece. Also,you reminded that you need two _different_ trees for most fruit or a neighbor that has one.
Good work❗
🙏 🖖 🙏 😔 🙏
Thank you - I'm very happy you enjoyed it. Also, sorry but I'm unfamiliar with the fruit you mentioned - but could this be it? en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jujube
I've finally found a small population of pawpaws on the upper banks of a creek that's prone to flooding. Growing nearby are sycamores, Huckleberries, and Elliott's Blueberries.
Much to my dismay though, despite the relative abundance of the trees I only spotted a handful of small fruits. This was at night with a powerful light so the contrast with the darkness made them easy to spot but they are sparse. Either way I'm happy that i now know of a wild pawpaw population and I do plan on returning in a few weeks to check the fruit.
That is still awesome you found a patch. Is it in a lot of shade? The deeper they are in the woods, the smaller the pawpaws in my experience.