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.
