PawPaw seeds

Looks like my pawpaws have been raided, but I got the seeds from a couple of them. Looks like 21 seeds. Anybody interested, send me a PM, I'll divide them best I can if more than one people want some. It's good if you read up a little and understand what's involved in turning a pawpaw seed into a tree, how long it will be before fruiting, etc.

[motdaugrnds]

You were fortunate to have found that many. Something (probably squirrels or possums) got our pawpaws this year.

We have some beautiful pawpaw trees growing farther into the property (shaded part of a trench that gets lots of water); however, they did not make fruit. Do not know why. Any ideas?

You almost have to pollinate them by hand. Pawpaws are pollinated by blowflies and beetles, not bees. Pawpaw flowers are both male and female. The female part(stigma) matures first and needs the pollen from a male. When the male(in the same flower) is matured, the female has aged past the point of pollination. And it takes 2 genetically different trees. If your trees are in a grove, it's possible that there is one mother tree, and the others are root suckers. In which case, they're genetically the same tree.

[motdaugrnds]

I'm sure most of them are Zong; however, the problem is not that they don't have the fruit because we can see them loaded with fruit. Then before they ripen fully, they disappear.

Now those in the other area probably do need another variety to produce fruit.

[Danaus29]

For good pollination you can shoot a couple groundhogs and leave them under the trees to draw the blowflies in. Seriously! It has to be true, I read it on the internet! (ROTFL)

There are so many 4 legged critters that love pawpaw fruit. Possum, coon, squirrel, chipmunk and deer all eat the fruit if they get a chance. We've planted a bunch of pawpaws on our property. I doubt we'll ever get any of the fruit though.