Pawpaw

[Pat B]

Thanks Muskyman. Very informative. I have 2 different patches of pawpaws about 50 yards apart but I don't remember if they are from the same plant or 2 different ones.
 John, I've grown persimmon from seed. The best germination was from seed I collected from coyote scat. I've also planted fresh seeds in a pot after collecting fruit and place the pot on the north side of the house, outside and most germinated the next spring.

[sleek]

Persimmon is one of my absolute favorite fruits. So sweet and juicy with an almost jelly texture flesh where the skin will peel off with a light tug. So good.

[Eric Krewson]

Ripen green paw paws on the counter like bananas for the best results.

Pat, I walk through three different paw paw patches on my exercise trail, they are all iffy on pollination, a late frost when the flowers are fully formed will often result in little or no fruit. It is not uncommon for one or two trees out of 10 to have fruit and the others to have none. Big crops are very rare where I walk, usually there are just a few fruits in the whole patch. This is hilly terrain with the largest patch down low on the north side of the ridge where the trees get very little sun. The paw paw trees, being smaller, have also been shaded out by the mature oaks and hackberry trees. I would imagine a patch in the full sun would do much better than all of the shaded patches that I walk through.

[Pat B]

Eric, one of the patches is in shade, the other in the sun. These patches are at about 2500' elevation, the patch in the shade is along our creek the other above the creek where my native plant nursery used to be a long with other trees and plants in our arboretum. I took pics of both on my morning walk this morning and will post them later.
 As far as I know we don't have a lot of pawpaws around here. The only other one I've ever seen was years ago along a road up in Madison county above Asheville.