Paw Paw Tree read

[Smilee]

https://gardenandgun.com/feature/the...kGW-VH3fQGk0rs

Pretty decent read. I believe ol’ Mergie has a thread on them somewhere in here

[Drylok]

You can find those trees where I hang out in Ridgeway. Have yet to see any fruit on them, but critters may get them before I have a chance.

[SaltMuck]

I "accidently" ordered one $20 seedling in my last Nativ order. Came all broke up. Called them and told them I ordered it my mistake. They offered to give my money back or replace. I took the replacement and cut the other one in beside it. I've never eaten, or even seen, a paw paw, but the internet says I need a pollinator of a different variety. This true?

[Duck cutter]

Found some this past august on river property we hunt. They weren’t quite ripe and I never made my way back to that spot to check them again. Going to try to remember to find them again this year

[WNM]

I "accidently" ordered one $20 seedling in my last Nativ order. Came all broke up. Called them and told them I ordered it my mistake. They offered to give my money back or replace. I took the replacement and cut the other one in beside it. I've never eaten, or even seen, a paw paw, but the internet says I need a pollinator of a different variety. This true?

You will. I don't understand why this is the case with planted cultivated varieties but doesn't seem to be in wild clusters. If you find a patch along the river, they are, more often than not, all shoots coming off the same root system, meaning the same plant and certainly the same "variety." I guess genetics are varied enough from cluster to cluster that cross pollination and fruiting occurs if a fly goes from one to another.