kenny thomas
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Where do pawpaw trees grow? We have a lot of them here and the fruit is ripe. Smells and taste great. google pawpaw fruit to learn about them if you don't have them.
Pawpaw trees
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ga. prime
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There's a sort of dwarf pawpaw that grows here natively (maybe gets 2 feet tall) that I've never seen fruit on. I ordered one of the fruiting kind like the kind you're probably referring to from a nursery in Tennessee about 8 or 9 years ago. It's gotten up to about three feet tall and has never fruited. In summary I would say they don't do so well here.
Jogeephus
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I don't know how far west they go but their eastern range is from Florida to New York.
john250
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We have them in SE IN. Nothing ripe yet. I like them enough to eat one or two a year.
Crowderfarms
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We have several here. They're ripe now but with Herbicides sprayed on old fencerows, there's less and less of them to be found in the last few years.Need a recipe for PawPaw mash. 
kenny thomas
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Don't know about mash but works in place of banana's in bread. Ground is covered with the fruit.
ga. prime
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KT, how big are your trees and what kind of habitat do they do best in?
kenny thomas
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Most are 15 to 20 ft tall. Seem to like rich soil in the edge of the shade. Have some in the fence rows but most along the edge of the woods. Does better on north slope. Maybe that is the problem, you don't have any slope. :lol:
ga. prime
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No slope and soil none too rich.kenny thomas
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If I could figure out how I would send you some. They turn to mush in about two days if you package them. Don't ask how I know this. Sure can't make wine with them either.
I can send you some seed if you want to try it.
I can send you some seed if you want to try it.
ga. prime
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kenny thomas":ooe1tn95 said:
Thanks for the offer KT, I think I'll just enrich the soil on my pawpaw tree that came from Tennessee with some cow lot compost and some horse lot compost and see if I can't get it to doing better.
Red Bull Breeder
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Here around home i have seen them 10 to 12 feet tall. Get up on the mountian and they will be 3or 4 feet tall. Grow on north slopes common to find them and ginseng together.
I planted a couple of them in the Mojave Desert, don;t recall if they both had fruit but one of them did after the first year it was planted. Not sure if it was North American Pawpaw or the tropical variety.
Fred Belknap
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Pawpaws are numerous here in central WV. They don't seem to produce much fruit till they are 10 to 20 feet high. They are a nuiseanse.
stocky
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We have pawpaw bushes (trees) along the creek and river, up the bluffs from them and in the bottoms in the timber. There are thousands of them and they are up to 30 feet tall. Only a fraction of them produce pawpaws in any given year. Some years, you can pick many, many 5 gallon buckets full, other years you are lucky to get one 5 gallon bucket full out of all the trees. The biggest fruits in a good year are 6 inches long and 2 inches in diameter---most of the fruits are 2-3 inches long and 1 1/2 inches in diameter. They seem to prefer the rich dirt. We have a few on the ridges, but I have never seen a pawpaw on any of them. I love to eat them when they get ripe on the tree, but they don't keep over a couple of days before they turn black.
