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- čas přidán 14. 07. 2013
- A pawpaw tree laden with fruit in late summer begs for a closer look-and taste. The native tree has large tropical leaves and in late summer bears a green oblong fruit whose creamy golden flesh tastes something like a banana and mango.
Kentucky State University has the only university program in the nation devoted to the cultivation and propagation of the pawpaw as a commercial fruit. More than 2,000 trees from 17 states are planted on 12 acres at the KSU farm.
The pawpaw occurs naturally in the eastern half of the United States, and it was well known to the Native Americans. Thomas Jefferson grew pawpaws at Monticello, and the explorers Lewis and Clark found nourishment from Missouri pawpaws.
Pawpaw trees can be difficult to propagate. The seedlings need some shelter from sun and wind, and there must be two different cultivars for fruit set.
Occasionally a wild pawpaw will have a bitter aftertaste. However, the pawpaw has few natural pests and the fruit is nutritious.
The KSU researchers are interested in the pawpaw as an alternative crop and are developing varieties that produce larger, tasty fruit.
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Great...Congrats, Cheers, Joe
Juglone resistant. Very important. Thank you Roland
Thanks, this is very informative and a pleasure to watch.
Interesting. I thought I was the only one with this idea. I then found out about your studies.
Great video.
I think you should just go on the paw paw diet while they're ripe. It's perfect that you get a few fruits from a tree each day. I don't want to harvest anything all in one day. You could have some people pick them. And some people sign up to buy them and come by and pick 'em up or deliver 'em. Some local people who see how great they are. Had my first one, wild. And, well, I'm trying to eat a whole plant food diet. And I live in Tennessee. So how stoked am I that there's a tropical fruit that will grow in this temperate climate?!
pickin' up pawpaws puttin' 'em in a basket
Great video showing how to care for trees and process the fruit. Much appreciated. How do you pollinate your trees?
Where can I purchase this tree and how old must the tree mature before fruit? Thank you for your informative video. I want one!
In no particular order: burnt ridge nursery, stark brothers nursery, www.nuttrees.net, www.treepeony.com, root of david nursery, one green world
I have about ten seeds stratifying in my fridge, but they all came from one or two paw-paw fruit, on the same tree. Will these be able to pollinate with each other when mature?
yes, pawpaws are not true to seed, seedling trees will be able to pollinate each other.
Yup! Seeds from the same fruit will be able to pollinate each other and other PawPaws. Say you have a named, cultivated variety, call it "Lambo", you could not get two "Lambo" to pollinate each other, since they are grafted from the same genetic tree, essentially.
I wish someone brought it to Europe and started cultivating it.
They are being cultivated in the Netherlands, even Peterson varieties are for sale here
Been in France, Italy, Bulgaria, and Netherlands for awhile now.
Can seedlings be ordered from KSU?
i have been saving seed and drying them like all the other seeds i save but i can not get them to germinate even after freezing some of them and knotching the seed and soil sprouting and damp paper towel sprouting would love so know how to get this 3/4 quart jar of seeds to sprout ... i want more trees ...
You are going about it all wrong. They die if you dry them out freezing kills them. They should be kept fridge in moist soil for 3 months and then sown in pots where they take 2 months to sprout.
Don't freeze seed. Put them in sphagnum moss, moistened, in the fridge. They should start to germinate, and that's when you can remove them individually and plant them.
what is the paw paw cold tolerance?
Supposedly down to -20F or mainly zone 5 in USA though there are supposed to be a few cultivars selected for zone 4.
IS THERE A GLYCEMIC LISTING FOR PAW PAW?
I would say very high they are super sweet.
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One disappointment with your video is that you failed to mention the anti-cancer benefits of paw paw. For those wanting to grow paw paw from seed, realize that the first year, the seedling needs to be shaded. Tobacco shade netting works great.
sciguyjeff when I was a child, I remember these trees where I grew up in Indiana. I haven't seen one since locally. Many people got rid of them because, they attracted allot of bees! I have always wanted to have a honey farm, and wonder if paw paw was the bees main pollen source, how would the honey taste? Dr. McGlughlin done over a 20 year study of the paw paw tree here in Indiana , and like you said, found it's cancer fighting properties, and other health benefits. With all the harm that has come to bees, growing more paw paws might be a huge help to their survival as well, as long as they too don't become genetically altered.
I believe Western Kentucky University is doing quite a bit of study. The main problems with paw paw is the short shelf life for the fruit plus there is so little pulp in the fruit and the fruit is bitter is not ripe. I personally have several trees grown from seed but the animals get the fruit before I do (they don't mind if they are green). Personally, I think if there was some genetics done to make the seeds smaller (more pulp) or more people grew them and took the time to scoop out the pulp, there would be some money made. Paw paw pudding, cookies, muffins, ice cream, smoothies, the pulp itself - all with anti cancer agents!
Pawpaw flowers are pollinated by flies/gnats/beetles, not by bees or butterflies.