There no such thing as having problems dealing with furrys. It's just having morals and knowing that attraction to animals is disturbing and a sign of a psychopath who would prey on kids.
@@GoldenBoy-et6ofLol, you drank that kool-aid and are ready to put an entire group of people in a little box. None of what you are saying is true. Shame on you.
@@lets_get_illuminaughty6351that's absolutely false. I have met A LOT of furries. They're all weird. There's a reason why LITERALLY ALL of their conventions eventually get shut down.
For the benefit of international viewers, it might be good to mention that the fruit shown here is the North American Paw Paw (or Pawpaw), Asimina triloba. A. triloba is native to roughly the eastern half of the USA. In some other countries, Paw Paw is the common name of the fruit we Americans call Papaya (Carica papaya).
i think most places that call papaya paw paw use both words, usually in confusion, always technically incorrect, and often thinking one variety of papaya is a paw paw while another is a papaya. the common feature is that the mix-up doesn't matter in practice because there's zero chance of encountering genuine paw paws. i suggest people gravitated to the label paw paw over papaya because there's a song about picking up paw paws. i had a real paw paw plant in australia for a while but it died, so i've still never eaten a paw paw
I just learned that you can actually grow pawpaws in Central Europe and i even found a Store where they sell like 10 different varieties of plants. And i'm totally gonna get one for my Yard in Austria 😍
These uncultivated type fruits of north America are pain in the pawpaw because they are most often not self fertile. Best get at least two in order to see something other than leaves on the tree
Best of luck. I now have three small Pawpaw trees grown from seed here in the UK. They're a way off fruiting yet but they're doing fine and I have another batch of seeds in pots hoping for germination over the summer. Seeds were from e-bay and weirdly, there was no sign of them germinating until August, when the strangest looking shoots I've ever seen emerged. Whether I'll get ripe fruit this far north is questionable but I'm happy to grow them for the weirdness factor and the very pretty foliage. Pluots, Asian plums and Asian persimmons are also worth your while looking into if you want to grow something hardy but exotic.
I really enjoyed the video. There is a village here in Michigan called Paw Paw named after the fruit that used to grow along the Paw Paw River. They cleared away the shade trees and most of the Pawpaw trees died out. Their main agricultural product is grapes....go figure. Never having tried one, I decided to grow my own. My trees are a variety of Giant Pawpaw. It sounds like they should be the size of a small child but I am expecting them to be the size of a large mango. Some day.............
I think I saw that town on the map when I was trying to get to paw paw WV. Best of luck with the tree, if they end up being the size of a small child, send me an email :)
@@wpc456cpw My trees are doing well and have fruit on them. I am hoping to pick a lot it this fall when they are ripe. Here's hoping.................... take care.
What's great about the Pawpaw is that it looks, smells, and feels like a fruit you'd find in the Bahamas, but these jumanji looking trees are just living their best lives in the middle of Indiana and Ohio. It's also sometimes called the "Indiana Banana" which I find incredibly funny. Either way, I'm glad it can grow here in Illinois.
The thing to remember about pawpaws is they're an undergrowth tree. They grow in patchy, filtered sunlight under the bigger trees that I ever saw down home. I've got some pin oaks I can plant them around. Definitely worth a try!
I have some small pawpaw trees I found on my grandparents property. Maybe 20 or so, none more than head high though. Most were found around the edges of the forest, 1 found under a tree in the yard, and the largest one was found deep in the forest. They are somewhat easy to miss when they're smaller.
That's awesome! I actually have selected my fruit trees based on your reviews. My little girl and I started a really big garden with tons of space for trees... she and I started watching your videos ... Which she too loves... She's 9 .... But to get an idea of what the fruit tastes like has been so helpful ... I live in Florida and we wanted to grow more interesting fruits other then the typical , so we went tropical exotic... We are also growing some pawpaws and ice cream beans... Can't wait! Thanks so much 🍈
+Duke Family Thats so nice to hear, I'm glad I've been able to help out. :) Paw paws are fantastic. Ice cream bean is still on my "to try" list. Best of luck!
Out of my 20 or more young pawpaw trees, only two have fruited so far. They taste like juicy fruit chewing gum mixed with a hint of cantaloupe. The other trees are all different varieties so who knows what they will taste like.
At age 48, having grown up in a rural area of VA, I finally just tasted my first pawpaws this past Thursday--given to me by a client of mine who collected them from the ground, from what was reportedly a bumper crop at a local nature park. Those two fruits tasted predominantly of muscadine (another underused native fruit), with added notes of canteloupe, watermelon, banana, pineapple, kiwi, and strawberry...no hint of mango. But the four I ate today, from the same batch, tasted astonishingly like white jelly beans! If these fruits were all from the same tree, then the taste differences were due simply to the differences in ripeness. In any case, I am hooked and plan to aggressively seek these fruits out from now on.
My mother would use slightly green paw paws when available, instead of pinneapple for kabobs with a sweet-n-sour glaze. I come from a family of carnivores but it would work great with with red and/or yellow pepper, mushrooms, onion, and cherry tomatoes even without the meat. Cheers!
I just got back from a vacation out east and went to the paw paw festival! It was great and I am totally convinced about the pawpaw. Delicious. Americans should be growing these in their yards. I know I will be.
Pawpaws grow wild along the stream bottoms around here, and I've managed to beat all the raccoons & possums to the ripe fruit on occasion & have had them before. They reminded me of banana custard with a hint of pear. I have 3 small pawpaw trees in my back yard that I planted when I moved in about 5 years ago, but they're still too small to bear fruit.
7:31 - I am so glad to hear the flavour description from someone that has eaten fruit from around the world (and while in their native habitats, to boot)! Imagine people describing the taste of pawpaw as "banana-cantaloupe-pineapple", simply because those are the most exotic fruits they've ever eaten?!?!
I live on the west coast but work at a plant nursery and had the pleasure to try a few paw paw's, thanks to one of the owners having an asimina triloba tree. They seem sensitive to conditions and getting just right, mine were a bit firm when I got them so I let them sit for a few weeks. They were pretty good. I'm sure they have the potential to be really great.
“I’d say that was the most magical thing I’ve ever done.” 😂😂😂😂😂😂 -(I’m still watching so adding comment)- I have soursop, mango, and banana in my kitchen right now. I’m going to finish watching this, then I’m going to make a smoothie using those ingredients and pretend I’m eating a paw-paw!
I've had paw paw trees for about ten years, and I am finally getting fruit due to hand pollination. The paw paw tree is also the host plant for the zebra swallowtail butterfly.
im going to be starting an orchard of them. Went to pawpaw fest this year it was really nice. When you ate the pawpaws did you have any that taste like butterscotch? At different stages of ripeness they have different flavor like when they are darker they develop slightly different types of a butterscotch flavor, when greener they have no butterscotch taste but have a normal fruit taste like a banana mango coconut flavor. , 'overleese' has a smokey deep butterscotch flavor, 'sweet virginia has a mild soft light butterscotch flavor 'lynns favorite' has strong butterscotch milder than overleese no smokeyness and has a sweeter flavor.
We live in mid Missouri and have about 100 pawpaw trees of bearing age. Not a lazy man's fruit, since they ripen unevenly on the trees, but something different. We are now freeze drying pulp and that seems to be going fairly well.
Great video...I think the Ringtail lemur was pissed his master wouldn't feed him any paw paw......but, "here we go, back into your blanket, because it calms you down".
I'm growing grafted pawpaws from Stark Bro.s in my yard. I got my first harvest late last summer. Various pawpaw varieties can have very different flavors. Mine tasted like a very sweet prepared custard desert with a slight vanilla-spice seasoning. I've had some wild ones that are bland or a little unpleasant.
I am from Ohio originally and I have never in my life heard of a paw paw. I feel a little cheated. But I guess now that I know if its existence, I can keep an eye out when I go back to visit.
it depends where you live. I lived in Cincinnati for a while and had never heard of them, then I moved to the Appalachia area and people have them growing in their backyards lol
I live in NKY and they’re pretty abundant around creek beds. They’re tall, lanky trees and the fruit ripens around September/October or around the first frost of the fall. We shake the trees and the ripe fruits will drop around you and you just pick them up and throw em in a sack. The fruit can be processed and frozen for quite a while as well.
Ever since I found out these things grow in Ohio, I have been obsessed with finding one. I will definitely find my way to this festival, especially because I am a Cleveland boy so Albany is only 3 hours for me
+Gothemo95 Definitely worth the 3 hours. You can probably find them closer to you too. Maybe hit up some farmers markets when they are in season (sept and oct)
+Jared Rydelek Yeah I've heard they show up at the West Side Market in Cleveland sometimes, so I am keeping my eye out. Especially when their season comes to peakagain
Nice, dude. The largest fruit native to North America. There's also a subtropical variety native to Florida. I have 2 treelings planted out back as of last week.
The pawpaws that grow in my woods are huge. They're as big as those cultivated ones. But they are fairly seedy. Growing my own now. Currently have 5 different trees started to sprout.
I.... always thought my grandmother was talking about some weird, only found via foraging kind of fruits when she would talk about the paw-paw. I am going to blame this one on my having grown up in on the West coast, where these don't grow. I am Definitely going to have to try these now, though how I am going to sell a vacation to Ohio to my wife and kid, (to whom Ireland and Disneyland, respectively, sound like more ideal destinations) I have no idea
+izonker Its mostly foraged by people but they do show up at farmers markets where they are grown. Haha... yeah thats a pretty hard sell. Maybe you can tempt them with a stop at the pawpaw tunnel? ;)
When I was little, my Mom taught me a song about "Picking up pawpaws, puttting 'em in your pockets." But I, a city kid, had never seen a pawpaw. Now I finally know what the song is about. But I still haven't ever tasted one.
+Gary Cooper When my son was born he hated riding in the car so we sang the song continually it was the only thing that calmed him 🎵Where oh where oh where is Jesse...way down yonder in the pawpaw patch
Just now discovered this channel and it's crazy the drive you had to embark on to try one when they're all over the place in richmond va! my final semester of college was basically just volunteer work with the park and we literally went as a class at the end of the summer just to forage paw paws and make jam lol
Sounds delightful. If you're really interested, though, that festival sounds like the very thing for tasting such a variety of pawpaws. I was all ready to go to the festival in 2020, but then Covid-19 interrupted our plans.
Great video! I am originally from WV and my mom would talk about eating pawpaw growing up. I had the opportunity to eat one for the first time ever this past summer/early fall at my job. Someone brought a bag full in to the produce stand I work at and when I came back from vacation I got to be the guinea pig. Sadly they were extremely ripe by the time I got to try them and I wasn't fond of them. I think at a slightly less rotten state they may be pretty awesome!
Loved your video. I live in Maine and have a paw paw tree I planted in my back yard. It has grown just fine but I never got around to planting a pollinator. I sure wish I’d done that. Maybe I’ll try to order some paw paws.
OH MY GOSH. I just realized I saw your Reddit AMA a few months back. I read the comments and that made me really wanna try pawpaw since I live in the region. (I'm too urban where I live though.) My Papa went camping and sent me pics of the pawpaw tree and taught me a folk song about it. I didn't check out your channel at the time, but TH-cam recommended it to me recently and now I am hooked! Hopefully one day I can try out all sorts of cool tasty fruits!
I knew this would be in Ohio. Paw paw is our state fruit. My friend told me his grandma would put a bunch in a bag and throw them up the roof, grabbing them when they're black and mushy.
The banana/pear sweet potato pie vanilla ones that dont have a strong smell upset my stomach. The super fruity smelling ones taste better and i can eat tons of them with no stomach issues. maybe its a ripening thing idk
Mom and dad told us they taste like bananas...and thats the taste I associate with them. We would find in the woods , all brownish in the fall, when we collected nuts
You went!!!!!!! I am so happy. Thank you. I got to pick and eat pawpaws for the first time this fall at Red Fern Farm in Wapello, Iowa. $3 a pound. I enjoyed them a lot, but they don't supplant mangos or sugar apples from the top of my list. Then again, I can't grow mangos or sugar apples where I live, so...pawpaw wins. Although... Red Fern Farm also had American Persimmons, which were awesome. Happy belated birthday.
Thanks! Yeah paw paws are amazing. Not sure where they stand as a favorite, but they are certainly up there. I had American persimmon a couple months ago, the tree wasn't the best, but an interesting one for sure.
Looks like an interesting December you had! Glad they have a whole festival around the paw paw fruit and you were able to experience it on your birthday, no less! Great vid, Jared! :)
There are wild pawpaws that grow along the rivers near were I live in central Illinois (The Salt Fork and Middle Fork of the Vermilion River), they usually ripen around September, but finding them is hard. The main issue is that they can’t reproduce with other flowers on the same tree, and they also pollinated by carrion beetles (pawpaws exude a light rotten meat smell that attracts them). The main issue with wild ones is that they vary in flavor by a large amount (everything between tasting like bitter dirt to like bananas and mangoes mixed together) and their shelf lives are only 2-7 days making them hard to sell in major stores.
I grew up in North Alabama and regret never having had (or even truly been aware of) a paw paw. Now I'm over 1,000 miles away, with no paw paws in sight.
I learned about this fruit about 2 years ago and went into the woods in my town here in Michigan, and found a MASSIVE grove of them, all bearing huge fruit! My family has found that they grow within a certain radius from sources of water, particularly rivers, and the taller thinly trunked trees carry the largest fruit. They get around the size of a Tommy Atkins mango, and sometimes bigger. Very tasty too.
Strangely enough the first rave party i ever heard of was THE PAW PAW PATCH -then i worked in rave culture for 2 decades!! And yet i still havent had one pawpaw yet and its been 30 years?! Back in the day if i was up at 1 in the morning fighting a cold -i’d be stuck watching old horror movies --but thanks to the internet im watching WEIRD FRUIT EXPLORER!! Life is good :)
Had my first paw paws last night and oh man did they live up to the hype... such an amazing sweet floral flavor & smell, I honestly think it tastes better than cherimoya although I’ve only had 2 of them and they were very good too.
@@chaegibson720 It was just a joke. Powerplay jokes are VERY common with feminists. Jokes like make your own sandwich or im not your maid are so commonly said. I dated a feminist and it gets annoying very fast
@@chaegibson720 You're just repeating yourself, you're not responding to what I'm saying. I'm pointing out the obvious truth that somebody less fragile in the same position would have a less dramatic reaction.
Oh no hahaaa. No offense to her. I know a lot of wonderful talented people that do it.. and I know some of the tricks are hard to do. But yeah at the end of the day, I don't get it.
The elusive papaw fruit and I’m so happy to say I have one tucked away in my village and I’m readying myself one day to eat one as it’s a bit elusive and there cool.
Found it! These are my favorite fruit to forage, where I live in NE Kansas there are groves where you can pick HUNDREDS of them in the fall. They are realy sweet and keep well in the fridge for a few weeks after you pick them. Cmon out to KS and shoot some vids, invite sent!
I find wild pawpaws grow in forested areas in the Dayton area in Ohio. They tend to grow in forest understories, but there are also varieties that grow in thickets along the edges of forest clearings. I hope to try some of this fruit some day. It is supposed to taste like a non-cavendish banana. They have a poor shelf life (30 days at most) so they have to be frozen if they are intended for long-term storage.
After nearly a decade of caring for my pawpaw patch, the fruits of my labor turned sour moments after tasting my first fruits. Apparently, for some people pawpaws are toxic. After a slice of pawpaw bread for breakfast, my wife and I spent the first couple hours emptying our stomachs. The rest of the day was spent with extreme stomach cramps and nausea. This was not the bonding experience that I wanted. It has ruined pawpaws for me :)
its the end of pawpaw season again! we have been eating them for 2 weeks now from our forest. your post today on orange sousop made me think of your old episode where I lerned about the pawpaw festival. I only know about them before this episode fromn what Ifound in the woods in Indiana
i don't know, why they dont peel them, seperate the pulp from the flesh in some kind of mesh strainer ( with big meshes) and freeze the flesh in cubes and sell it in the frozen section? if you can't sell them in the fresh fruit isle, why not frozen in some way?
Hi Jared, I'm a big fan of your videos and I'm visiting New York today and tomorrow. Would Union Square Greenmarket be the most likely place to find Pawpaws (asimina triloba) this time of year? I've never tried them and would love to find them while I'm in town. Thanks!
I don't think you'll find much there. I've heard rumor that Dean and Deluca will carry pawpaws sometimes. You can also try EATaly. I've personally never seen a pawpaw in nyc. Let me know how it goes!
My hunt for Pawpaw (Asimina triloba) took me on an adventure of some of New York's finest fresh produce retailers. They were AMAZING shops! But alas I couldn't find any. A helpful person at a farm stall at the Union Square Greenmarket told me that she is going to the Pawpaw Festival in Pennsylvania this weekend. If only I had of planned my trip to the USA better! I tried the following shops: Wholefoods, EATaly, Dean and DeLuca, and the Union Square Greenmarket. I guess I'll just have to wait for my trees to fruit.
Do you know if the dwarf paw paw tastes different than the regular one? I want to plant a tree, but would prefer a dwarf variety, but want to make sure they taste as good
Ok, I'll try this again, the dew berry found in Ohio, don't know how wide spread they grow from there. They usually grow from a vine like plant that grows close to the ground. They have briers so be careful. They look like a rather large BlackBerry. Very good taste. I've found them mostly around old oil pumps. The ground is usually bare. They tend to be like ground cover. Check it out.
Happy birthday Jared! Several years ago I ordered pawpaw via EBay, arrived sound, and tasty to Alaska. It is related to cherimoya, custard apple, sour-sop, sweet-sop. They are part of the Annonaceae family, and can be find everywhere. Here is a web that tries to find all or nearly all that belong to this family: World Annonaceae. These fruits all has great odor, when hits the taste buts the world changes around; that might be the reason why only Gods can eat as many they want, but we mortals must be careful not to overdose might just go too close to divinity. Ylan-Ylang is related too.
Lol it’s pawpaw season again! You travelled 10 hours for something that grows in your “backyard”, but hey, probably still worth it XD I found a ton of pawpaws in woods a couple miles from my house, but they aren’t ripe yet. The farm raised ones ripen sooner & farmers markets along the east coast often have them this time of year, I bought 5+ pounds of them yesterday and ate 5 of them, and that’s my life story XD
The Pawpaw fest! I lived in Athens and have been to a few of these. Used to pick Pawpaws along the Hocking river. Now,I'm in northern Thailand. Catching up on trying weird fruit.
I had this feeling you'd do a more thorough review of the Paw Paw and of course, you pulled through with a video here I found searching your videos. I've just tried this last season in the past week or two and found that the first I found is my favorite thus far... exactly what you observed and confirmed I wasn't off sensing. Definitely a range of flavors. The first I thought was like a crème brûlée with a slightly bitter after taste. Those were $8 a lb and the second I found were from another location in SW Michigan and those are way more tropical tasting and smelling... plus I got a free bag of over ripe for seeds and mulch. Those were $5 a lb and I can get trees of those for a great price too where the first won't though I'll eventually try to see if I can get some branches for grafting. The seconds ones smell awesome fruity, though I don't like the taste as much. More bitter after taste with like a mango banana like very slight banana and maybe something else I'm not sure... passion fruit? Smells great for certain and I'm wondering if they have any insecticidal effect with that added bitter after taste far more obvious next to the skin or seeds. Oddly, I haven't noticed anything around the mulch bag in the house that I've not bothered tying up since was curious if bugs would be attracted after reading they have pesticidal effects. I'll recreate the bug experiment outside as I've sprayed the house so much... not much comes in and survives when not the hottest season and these new to me micro blackflies that get through the no-see-um mesh are mainly what does get in. Thanks for sharing!
People have problems dealing with furries... they're not ready for the fruities, led by their Paw Paw mascot leader...
There no such thing as having problems dealing with furrys. It's just having morals and knowing that attraction to animals is disturbing and a sign of a psychopath who would prey on kids.
@@GoldenBoy-et6ofdude, like 97% of furries just like wearing animal suits and being goofy, it‘s just that 3% that give the others a bad rap
I know the comment above me was long time ago but most of the time weirdos who did bad things are furries
@@GoldenBoy-et6ofLol, you drank that kool-aid and are ready to put an entire group of people in a little box.
None of what you are saying is true. Shame on you.
@@lets_get_illuminaughty6351that's absolutely false. I have met A LOT of furries. They're all weird. There's a reason why LITERALLY ALL of their conventions eventually get shut down.
I love this channel. "I can do whatever the hell I want on my Birthday." - Weird Explorer, 5:00 AM
thanks! :)
@@WeirdExplorer It's your birthday today, it's your birthday today! There's a paw paw on your birthday cake, it's your birthday today!
For the benefit of international viewers, it might be good to mention that the fruit shown here is the North American Paw Paw (or Pawpaw), Asimina triloba. A. triloba is native to roughly the eastern half of the USA. In some other countries, Paw Paw is the common name of the fruit we Americans call Papaya (Carica papaya).
+Gary Cooper Good point to make, thanks Gary
We call it the indiana banana
I saw the seeds and my mind was absolutely blown that he was talking about a different species from what I thought
Correct. It was named 'Pawpaw' due to it's apparent similarity to papaya, but it's a totally different fruit.
i think most places that call papaya paw paw use both words, usually in confusion, always technically incorrect, and often thinking one variety of papaya is a paw paw while another is a papaya. the common feature is that the mix-up doesn't matter in practice because there's zero chance of encountering genuine paw paws. i suggest people gravitated to the label paw paw over papaya because there's a song about picking up paw paws. i had a real paw paw plant in australia for a while but it died, so i've still never eaten a paw paw
I just learned that you can actually grow pawpaws in Central Europe and i even found a Store where they sell like 10 different varieties of plants. And i'm totally gonna get one for my Yard in Austria 😍
These uncultivated type fruits of north America are pain in the pawpaw because they are most often not self fertile. Best get at least two in order to see something other than leaves on the tree
Best of luck.
I now have three small Pawpaw trees grown from seed here in the UK. They're a way off fruiting yet but they're doing fine and I have another batch of seeds in pots hoping for germination over the summer. Seeds were from e-bay and weirdly, there was no sign of them germinating until August, when the strangest looking shoots I've ever seen emerged.
Whether I'll get ripe fruit this far north is questionable but I'm happy to grow them for the weirdness factor and the very pretty foliage.
Pluots, Asian plums and Asian persimmons are also worth your while looking into if you want to grow something hardy but exotic.
Northern Europe even! I recently visited a place that was growing it in Gothenburg, Sweden.
Might have less competition with the local wildlife. Lol.
what's the store called?
The dread in his voice when he said “i just turned 30” is palpable
I said splooge in your video. I'm a monster.
+Yofi Stark And here you are corrupting my comments...
As far as I know you never actually tried my jam, so you're as much of a monster as I am.
+Yofi Stark I keep forgetting to tell you, but I tried one of them and it was killer. You're right that it tastes a bit like apple butter. :)
Jared, you should do a video of tasting Yofi's pawpaw jam.
I agree, you should review my jams for the world to see. Also, yay! Thank you!
I really enjoyed the video. There is a village here in Michigan called Paw Paw named after the fruit that used to grow along the Paw Paw River. They cleared away the shade trees and most of the Pawpaw trees died out. Their main agricultural product is grapes....go figure. Never having tried one, I decided to grow my own. My trees are a variety of Giant Pawpaw. It sounds like they should be the size of a small child but I am expecting them to be the size of a large mango. Some day.............
I think I saw that town on the map when I was trying to get to paw paw WV. Best of luck with the tree, if they end up being the size of a small child, send me an email :)
There’s a Paw Paw, West Virginia
How is your tree?
@@wpc456cpw My trees are doing well and have fruit on them. I am hoping to pick a lot it this fall when they are ripe. Here's hoping.................... take care.
@@michigantropicalgardener5886 hey update?
I'm just casually eating one while watching this. It's such a sweet and flavorful fruit.
What's great about the Pawpaw is that it looks, smells, and feels like a fruit you'd find in the Bahamas, but these jumanji looking trees are just living their best lives in the middle of Indiana and Ohio. It's also sometimes called the "Indiana Banana" which I find incredibly funny. Either way, I'm glad it can grow here in Illinois.
You are contortionist! That's amazing!!
The thing to remember about pawpaws is they're an undergrowth tree. They grow in patchy, filtered sunlight under the bigger trees that I ever saw down home. I've got some pin oaks I can plant them around. Definitely worth a try!
They like creek banks
Even the other other annona varieties down in the tropics grow wild as understory trees, along with cacao trees.
I have some small pawpaw trees I found on my grandparents property. Maybe 20 or so, none more than head high though.
Most were found around the edges of the forest, 1 found under a tree in the yard, and the largest one was found deep in the forest.
They are somewhat easy to miss when they're smaller.
That's awesome!
I actually have selected my fruit trees based on your reviews. My little girl and I started a really big garden with tons of space for trees... she and I started watching your videos ... Which she too loves... She's 9 .... But to get an idea of what the fruit tastes like has been so helpful ... I live in Florida and we wanted to grow more interesting fruits other then the typical , so we went tropical exotic... We are also growing some pawpaws and ice cream beans... Can't wait!
Thanks so much 🍈
+Duke Family Thats so nice to hear, I'm glad I've been able to help out. :) Paw paws are fantastic. Ice cream bean is still on my "to try" list. Best of luck!
That's a really great idea and neat learning experience I'm sure. Good luck!!
Out of my 20 or more young pawpaw trees, only two have fruited so far. They taste like juicy fruit chewing gum mixed with a hint of cantaloupe. The other trees are all different varieties so who knows what they will taste like.
At age 48, having grown up in a rural area of VA, I finally just tasted my first pawpaws this past Thursday--given to me by a client of mine who collected them from the ground, from what was reportedly a bumper crop at a local nature park. Those two fruits tasted predominantly of muscadine (another underused native fruit), with added notes of canteloupe, watermelon, banana, pineapple, kiwi, and strawberry...no hint of mango. But the four I ate today, from the same batch, tasted astonishingly like white jelly beans! If these fruits were all from the same tree, then the taste differences were due simply to the differences in ripeness. In any case, I am hooked and plan to aggressively seek these fruits out from now on.
My mother would use slightly green paw paws when available, instead of pinneapple for kabobs with a sweet-n-sour glaze. I come from a family of carnivores but it would work great with with red and/or yellow pepper, mushrooms, onion, and cherry tomatoes even without the meat.
Cheers!
I just got back from a vacation out east and went to the paw paw festival! It was great and I am totally convinced about the pawpaw. Delicious. Americans should be growing these in their yards. I know I will be.
They are seriously good. Glad you had a great time!
chigimonky we used to and I grew up singing the song Way Down Yonder in the Paw Paw Patch.:-)
planted 4 varieties in my yard!
There native to ea
There native to eastren USA
A sweet potato meets a vanilla banana sounds beyond awesome. Dang. I would love to try one of those.
funny how he turned 30 4 years ago. but he still looks 25 today.
i guess he learned how to properly ripen himself too.
Either that, or it’s his amazing fruit/veg diet and fitness level (being a contortionist) !
@@wpc456cpw Both of those things definitely help. And then people doubt that plant based diets are the healthiest lol.
Pawpaws grow wild along the stream bottoms around here, and I've managed to beat all the raccoons & possums to the ripe fruit on occasion & have had them before. They reminded me of banana custard with a hint of pear.
I have 3 small pawpaw trees in my back yard that I planted when I moved in about 5 years ago, but they're still too small to bear fruit.
7:31 - I am so glad to hear the flavour description from someone that has eaten fruit from around the world (and while in their native habitats, to boot)! Imagine people describing the taste of pawpaw as "banana-cantaloupe-pineapple", simply because those are the most exotic fruits they've ever eaten?!?!
I live on the west coast but work at a plant nursery and had the pleasure to try a few paw paw's, thanks to one of the owners having an asimina triloba tree. They seem sensitive to conditions and getting just right, mine were a bit firm when I got them so I let them sit for a few weeks. They were pretty good. I'm sure they have the potential to be really great.
“I’d say that was the most magical thing I’ve ever done.” 😂😂😂😂😂😂
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I have soursop, mango, and banana in my kitchen right now. I’m going to finish watching this, then I’m going to make a smoothie using those ingredients and pretend I’m eating a paw-paw!
I've had paw paw trees for about ten years, and I am finally getting fruit due to hand pollination. The paw paw tree is also the host plant for the zebra swallowtail butterfly.
You can find these growing at the lincoln park zoo in chicago by the ape house in late September.
im going to be starting an orchard of them. Went to pawpaw fest this year it was really nice. When you ate the pawpaws did you have any that taste like butterscotch? At different stages of ripeness they have different flavor like when they are darker they develop slightly different types of a butterscotch flavor, when greener they have no butterscotch taste but have a normal fruit taste like a banana mango coconut flavor. , 'overleese' has a smokey deep butterscotch flavor, 'sweet virginia has a mild soft light butterscotch flavor 'lynns favorite' has strong butterscotch milder than overleese no smokeyness and has a sweeter flavor.
Did you start the orchard?
We live in mid Missouri and have about 100 pawpaw trees of bearing age.
Not a lazy man's fruit, since they ripen unevenly on the trees, but something different.
We are now freeze drying pulp and that seems to be going fairly well.
Great video...I think the Ringtail lemur was pissed his master wouldn't feed him any paw paw......but, "here we go, back into your blanket, because it calms you down".
+Flying Fox Fruits Thanks Adam, they really could take a lesson from Earl the Squirrel. haha
I'm growing grafted pawpaws from Stark Bro.s in my yard. I got my first harvest late last summer. Various pawpaw varieties can have very different flavors. Mine tasted like a very sweet prepared custard desert with a slight vanilla-spice seasoning. I've had some wild ones that are bland or a little unpleasant.
nice! those sound delicious
I am from Ohio originally and I have never in my life heard of a paw paw. I feel a little cheated. But I guess now that I know if its existence, I can keep an eye out when I go back to visit.
it depends where you live. I lived in Cincinnati for a while and had never heard of them, then I moved to the Appalachia area and people have them growing in their backyards lol
I live in NKY and they’re pretty abundant around creek beds. They’re tall, lanky trees and the fruit ripens around September/October or around the first frost of the fall. We shake the trees and the ripe fruits will drop around you and you just pick them up and throw em in a sack. The fruit can be processed and frozen for quite a while as well.
the only one i've ever seen in person was at the natural history museum in cleveland
Ever since I found out these things grow in Ohio, I have been obsessed with finding one. I will definitely find my way to this festival, especially because I am a Cleveland boy so Albany is only 3 hours for me
+Gothemo95 Definitely worth the 3 hours. You can probably find them closer to you too. Maybe hit up some farmers markets when they are in season (sept and oct)
+Jared Rydelek Yeah I've heard they show up at the West Side Market in Cleveland sometimes, so I am keeping my eye out. Especially when their season comes to peakagain
good luck!
+Jared Rydelek Thank-you!
I found pawpaws in Western PA, along the rural toad where we lived. They're delicious!
nice find, they are one of my favorites :)
i live in PA and my dad plants pawpaw trees they take a very long time to get fruit tho
Nice, dude. The largest fruit native to North America. There's also a subtropical variety native to Florida. I have 2 treelings planted out back as of last week.
Just planted two last night. Neighbor has three she would like me to site and plant.
Cheers from southern Ohio!
The pawpaws that grow in my woods are huge. They're as big as those cultivated ones. But they are fairly seedy. Growing my own now. Currently have 5 different trees started to sprout.
well your in for a long time my dad planted them like 7 or 8 years ago and only one got fruit
Happy Birthday Episode 116 Jared, would you believe it!? I am writing to you from Sept. 4 2019! You made it to episode 400!!!
:)
I.... always thought my grandmother was talking about some weird, only found via foraging kind of fruits when she would talk about the paw-paw. I am going to blame this one on my having grown up in on the West coast, where these don't grow. I am Definitely going to have to try these now, though how I am going to sell a vacation to Ohio to my wife and kid, (to whom Ireland and Disneyland, respectively, sound like more ideal destinations) I have no idea
+izonker Its mostly foraged by people but they do show up at farmers markets where they are grown. Haha... yeah thats a pretty hard sell. Maybe you can tempt them with a stop at the pawpaw tunnel? ;)
When I was little, my Mom taught me a song about "Picking up pawpaws, puttting 'em in your pockets." But I, a city kid, had never seen a pawpaw. Now I finally know what the song is about. But I still haven't ever tasted one.
+Gary Cooper When my son was born he hated riding in the car so we sang the song continually it was the only thing that calmed him 🎵Where oh where oh where is Jesse...way down yonder in the pawpaw patch
Just now discovered this channel and it's crazy the drive you had to embark on to try one when they're all over the place in richmond va! my final semester of college was basically just volunteer work with the park and we literally went as a class at the end of the summer just to forage paw paws and make jam lol
Sounds delightful. If you're really interested, though, that festival sounds like the very thing for tasting such a variety of pawpaws. I was all ready to go to the festival in 2020, but then Covid-19 interrupted our plans.
Richmond native too!
I grew up eating Paw-paws. Delicious fruit! Best eaten after they turn dark. :^)
Great video! I am originally from WV and my mom would talk about eating pawpaw growing up. I had the opportunity to eat one for the first time ever this past summer/early fall at my job. Someone brought a bag full in to the produce stand I work at and when I came back from vacation I got to be the guinea pig. Sadly they were extremely ripe by the time I got to try them and I wasn't fond of them. I think at a slightly less rotten state they may be pretty awesome!
+Christy Redden Yeah.. unfortunately they perish quickly. Give them another try some time. :)
Loved your video. I live in Maine and have a paw paw tree I planted in my back yard. It has grown just fine but I never got around to planting a pollinator. I sure wish I’d done that. Maybe I’ll try to order some paw paws.
I've got wild common pawpaws growing in the woods near my house. Are they worth trying?
Happy Birthday......5 yrs later.Just recently found your channel.Very interesting and pleasant....soothing even.
OH MY GOSH. I just realized I saw your Reddit AMA a few months back. I read the comments and that made me really wanna try pawpaw since I live in the region. (I'm too urban where I live though.) My Papa went camping and sent me pics of the pawpaw tree and taught me a folk song about it.
I didn't check out your channel at the time, but TH-cam recommended it to me recently and now I am hooked! Hopefully one day I can try out all sorts of cool tasty fruits!
I knew this would be in Ohio. Paw paw is our state fruit. My friend told me his grandma would put a bunch in a bag and throw them up the roof, grabbing them when they're black and mushy.
The banana/pear sweet potato pie vanilla ones that dont have a strong smell upset my stomach. The super fruity smelling ones taste better and i can eat tons of them with no stomach issues. maybe its a ripening thing idk
Mom and dad told us they taste like bananas...and thats the taste I associate with them. We would find in the woods , all brownish in the fall, when we collected nuts
We collected sassassafrass, puffball mushrooms and persimmons but never saw any Paw Paw!
There is also a Paw Paw Michigan.
You went!!!!!!! I am so happy. Thank you. I got to pick and eat pawpaws for the first time this fall at Red Fern Farm in Wapello, Iowa. $3 a pound. I enjoyed them a lot, but they don't supplant mangos or sugar apples from the top of my list. Then again, I can't grow mangos or sugar apples where I live, so...pawpaw wins. Although... Red Fern Farm also had American Persimmons, which were awesome. Happy belated birthday.
Thanks! Yeah paw paws are amazing. Not sure where they stand as a favorite, but they are certainly up there. I had American persimmon a couple months ago, the tree wasn't the best, but an interesting one for sure.
Looks like an interesting December you had! Glad they have a whole festival around the paw paw fruit and you were able to experience it on your birthday, no less! Great vid, Jared! :)
Thanks!
Thanks for the video! I was thinking it'd be cool to grow these.
super nice touch with the zoolander-ish, 70’s-ish, easy going roadtrip movie music lol.
There are wild pawpaws that grow along the rivers near were I live in central Illinois (The Salt Fork and Middle Fork of the Vermilion River), they usually ripen around September, but finding them is hard. The main issue is that they can’t reproduce with other flowers on the same tree, and they also pollinated by carrion beetles (pawpaws exude a light rotten meat smell that attracts them). The main issue with wild ones is that they vary in flavor by a large amount (everything between tasting like bitter dirt to like bananas and mangoes mixed together) and their shelf lives are only 2-7 days making them hard to sell in major stores.
I grew up in North Alabama and regret never having had (or even truly been aware of) a paw paw. Now I'm over 1,000 miles away, with no paw paws in sight.
I learned about this fruit about 2 years ago and went into the woods in my town here in Michigan, and found a MASSIVE grove of them, all bearing huge fruit! My family has found that they grow within a certain radius from sources of water, particularly rivers, and the taller thinly trunked trees carry the largest fruit. They get around the size of a Tommy Atkins mango, and sometimes bigger. Very tasty too.
The young lady is so into you. Happy Birthday buddy!
Just attended the Paw Paw festival this year, and watched your video beforehand to get excited for it 🙂
Someone was hired to sew a pawpaw mascot. And did a great job, too. I love that.
Strangely enough the first rave party i ever heard of was THE PAW PAW PATCH -then i worked in rave culture for 2 decades!! And yet i still havent had one pawpaw yet and its been 30 years?! Back in the day if i was up at 1 in the morning fighting a cold -i’d be stuck watching old horror movies --but thanks to the internet im watching WEIRD FRUIT EXPLORER!! Life is good :)
I have been wanting to try a Paw Paw for years .Your livin the dream!
James haury
Me too! Have found trees that flower but never fruit. Still looking 🧐
Had my first paw paws last night and oh man did they live up to the hype... such an amazing sweet floral flavor & smell, I honestly think it tastes better than cherimoya although I’ve only had 2 of them and they were very good too.
I'm excited to get a chance to visit this festival this year! I hope you plan on attending as well.
Its a bit of a trek to get out there, so probably won't be attending. I would love to go again though.
"don't tell me what to do!"
I would have kicked her out of the car
@@chaegibson720 It was just a joke. Powerplay jokes are VERY common with feminists. Jokes like make your own sandwich or im not your maid are so commonly said. I dated a feminist and it gets annoying very fast
@@chaegibson720 how fragile of you
@@whatno5090 i don’t care what you think, if I were to help someone out and they start getting attitude, youre getting booted tf out
@@chaegibson720 You're just repeating yourself, you're not responding to what I'm saying. I'm pointing out the obvious truth that somebody less fragile in the same position would have a less dramatic reaction.
Never in my life would I have guessed he was a contortionist.
I have been in that tunnel and camped out in the area. It's awesome.
IJ'm from the KY festival scene and I actually recognized the girl spinning poi :D
Oh no hahaaa. No offense to her. I know a lot of wonderful talented people that do it.. and I know some of the tricks are hard to do. But yeah at the end of the day, I don't get it.
knowing he's a contortionist and sword shallower makes this channel that much better
The elusive papaw fruit and I’m so happy to say I have one tucked away in my village and I’m readying myself one day to eat one as it’s a bit elusive and there cool.
Great video! I really want to try growing these here in Utah, I wonder if it is humid enough..
porter rockwell i planted 2 of these here in Springdale utah in part shade near the river but they didnt take. too hot and too dry i think.
Pawpaws grow in N. Arkansas where my mom lives, but I've never tasted one; the raccoons clear them all out before they can even get ripe.
Ah thats a shame. They are one of my favorite fruits
Found it! These are my favorite fruit to forage, where I live in NE Kansas there are groves where you can pick HUNDREDS of them in the fall. They are realy sweet and keep well in the fridge for a few weeks after you pick them. Cmon out to KS and shoot some vids, invite sent!
omg so exctied about festival next week. mine just now started fruiting; have so many varieties
That's great! I'll have to go back one of these years
I find wild pawpaws grow in forested areas in the Dayton area in Ohio. They tend to grow in forest understories, but there are also varieties that grow in thickets along the edges of forest clearings. I hope to try some of this fruit some day. It is supposed to taste like a non-cavendish banana. They have a poor shelf life (30 days at most) so they have to be frozen if they are intended for long-term storage.
wow! beautiful video. thanks, you speak slowly and clearly, i understood quite everything.
greetings from italy
So glad to hear that. I'm a stage performer, so I've spent a lot of time trying to slow down and pace the way I speak.
After nearly a decade of caring for my pawpaw patch, the fruits of my labor turned sour moments after tasting my first fruits. Apparently, for some people pawpaws are toxic. After a slice of pawpaw bread for breakfast, my wife and I spent the first couple hours emptying our stomachs. The rest of the day was spent with extreme stomach cramps and nausea. This was not the bonding experience that I wanted. It has ruined pawpaws for me :)
its the end of pawpaw season again! we have been eating them for 2 weeks now from our forest.
your post today on orange sousop made me think of your old episode where I lerned about the pawpaw festival. I only know about them before this episode fromn what Ifound in the woods in Indiana
Do you remember which varieties taste like what? I'm trying to decide which variety to plant in my yard this upcoming winter.
i don't know, why they dont peel them, seperate the pulp from the flesh in some kind of mesh strainer ( with big meshes) and freeze the flesh in cubes and sell it in the frozen section? if you can't sell them in the fresh fruit isle, why not frozen in some way?
I live in Columbus and I went to a paw paw festival a few years ago and they didn’t even have paw paws!! One tiny table selling paw paw juice...
Hi Jared, I'm a big fan of your videos and I'm visiting New York today and tomorrow. Would Union Square Greenmarket be the most likely place to find Pawpaws (asimina triloba) this time of year? I've never tried them and would love to find them while I'm in town. Thanks!
I don't think you'll find much there. I've heard rumor that Dean and Deluca will carry pawpaws sometimes. You can also try EATaly. I've personally never seen a pawpaw in nyc. Let me know how it goes!
My hunt for Pawpaw (Asimina triloba) took me on an adventure of some of New York's finest fresh produce retailers. They were AMAZING shops! But alas I couldn't find any. A helpful person at a farm stall at the Union Square Greenmarket told me that she is going to the Pawpaw Festival in Pennsylvania this weekend. If only I had of planned my trip to the USA better! I tried the following shops: Wholefoods, EATaly, Dean and DeLuca, and the Union Square Greenmarket. I guess I'll just have to wait for my trees to fruit.
I have got to get to a Pawpaw festival for a few plants!
Do you know if the dwarf paw paw tastes different than the regular one? I want to plant a tree, but would prefer a dwarf variety, but want to make sure they taste as good
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Thanks for the video. I'm toying with making the 8 hour dive from Wisconsin this year just to try the paw paw!
worth it!
I live in one of the states where this grows. But I might have seen a Paw Paw tree but never really know what it was.
Ok, I'll try this again, the dew berry found in Ohio, don't know how wide spread they grow from there. They usually grow from a vine like plant that grows close to the ground. They have briers so be careful. They look like a rather large BlackBerry. Very good taste. I've found them mostly around old oil pumps. The ground is usually bare. They tend to be like ground cover. Check it out.
I never knew what a pawpaw was. They grow everywhere around here and I have a few trees on my property!
What a great birthday! With the best fruit ever... I'm trying to grow them but have lost some to frost
+Chris Gordon It was so much fun. Good luck with growing them!
Happy birthday Jared! Several years ago I ordered pawpaw via EBay, arrived sound, and tasty to Alaska. It is related to cherimoya, custard apple, sour-sop, sweet-sop. They are part of the Annonaceae family, and can be find everywhere. Here is a web that tries to find all or nearly all that belong to this family: World Annonaceae. These fruits all has great odor, when hits the taste buts the world changes around; that might be the reason why only Gods can eat as many they want, but we mortals must be careful not to overdose might just go too close to divinity. Ylan-Ylang is related too.
+Angela Goodwin Thats a pretty accurate description of the paw paw haha.
Lol it’s pawpaw season again! You travelled 10 hours for something that grows in your “backyard”, but hey, probably still worth it XD I found a ton of pawpaws in woods a couple miles from my house, but they aren’t ripe yet. The farm raised ones ripen sooner & farmers markets along the east coast often have them this time of year, I bought 5+ pounds of them yesterday and ate 5 of them, and that’s my life story XD
Sometimes its the journey not the destination :)
What was your favorite paw paw variety? Thanks!
Its hard to say, they are all so unique. I like the ones that have a bit more bite to them.
This is one of the best videos ive ever watched on youtube and idk why lol 10/10 Jared
Good vid! It's nice to have the extra opinion. 2 is always better than one.
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Oh my gosh I had no idea you are a contortionist! Amazing! And props to you 👏🏼
My wild paw paws grow very large, I’m from south west Illinois
Hey, I'm in Herrin. Could I please, please buy one from you? I'm dying to taste it! please...
@@mariebernier3076 hello! When they're ready I'll comment back and see if we're able to work something out!
Our Paw Paws are Papaya here in Australia.
Don’t tell me what to do - hitchhiker 😂
Just rolled into Albany tonight. Headed to the festival in the morning 😃
Have fun!
I did! Think I'll go next year too. :)
You missed the Paw Paw tree outside the Paw Paw, WV Post Office and the tons of trees along the river to the right of the tunnel.
The Pawpaw fest! I lived in Athens and have been to a few of these. Used to pick Pawpaws along the Hocking river. Now,I'm in northern Thailand. Catching up on trying weird fruit.
Try some of the pawpaw’s cousins while you’re in Thailand.
I had this feeling you'd do a more thorough review of the Paw Paw and of course, you pulled through with a video here I found searching your videos. I've just tried this last season in the past week or two and found that the first I found is my favorite thus far... exactly what you observed and confirmed I wasn't off sensing. Definitely a range of flavors. The first I thought was like a crème brûlée with a slightly bitter after taste. Those were $8 a lb and the second I found were from another location in SW Michigan and those are way more tropical tasting and smelling... plus I got a free bag of over ripe for seeds and mulch. Those were $5 a lb and I can get trees of those for a great price too where the first won't though I'll eventually try to see if I can get some branches for grafting. The seconds ones smell awesome fruity, though I don't like the taste as much. More bitter after taste with like a mango banana like very slight banana and maybe something else I'm not sure... passion fruit? Smells great for certain and I'm wondering if they have any insecticidal effect with that added bitter after taste far more obvious next to the skin or seeds. Oddly, I haven't noticed anything around the mulch bag in the house that I've not bothered tying up since was curious if bugs would be attracted after reading they have pesticidal effects. I'll recreate the bug experiment outside as I've sprayed the house so much... not much comes in and survives when not the hottest season and these new to me micro blackflies that get through the no-see-um mesh are mainly what does get in. Thanks for sharing!