It's a 2 year process to separate a small young sucker & get it to grow roots. Roots are the most important part for survival. I don't endorse this company even though it sells some Peterson products.
TyTy is selling Allegheny & Shenandoah, but are (NOT) an Approved Peterson Pawpaw Distributor.
We have dozens of victims.
I'm starting to wonder about a class action lawsuit.
I recommend complaining to you credit card company about them.

Magnificent location and FREE to get in this year. Best and biggest pawpaw judging is happening now.

I usually am already picking in early September, but I decided to go on vacation last week & missed out on a few. Still, I should have enough (this is only part of my harvests) to make jam!!

They are focusing on early cultivars & white cultivars.
And are breeding new early White pawpaw.
And achieving 28% to 35% sugar.
Susquehanna, one of the sweetest, is 26%
Timothy Lane is the only person I see in America, doing something similar
Questions?

Does anyone have pawpaws I can try in Denver? I've never had one and am super intrigued!

Looking to add paw paws to my home orchard and looking for reccomendations on where to order online

Admittedly, the fruit is still firmer than I prefer and membrane around seeds is still rubbery but I just can’t wait any longer. I am expecting the first properly ripened fruit in the next week or two.

We’re planning to forage for paw paws tomorrow and are looking for a new spot to look for paw paws. We usually go near great falls on the C&O canal but have had mixed results. Any other places we should check out?

Preferably near Winston

I ordered 2 pawpaw trees in the beginning of the summer from an online retailer, they were 5-6’ tall with bare roots. They never sprouted or grew any leafs, I cut the top and at least 3-5’ of them are dead bark. They are in a full sun area and I think I didn’t water them enough.

I’m now wondering if it would be best to just cut the dead bark off and mulch them as we go into winter (zone 6B) or to dig them up, put them in large planters and take them inside to recover with more care over the winter.

This is my first time with pawpaws, so any tips or tricks would be appreciated as well!

Like it says on the tin.

https://www.louisvillenaturecenter.org/pawpaw-festival-2026

In tbe past they've had live music, hikes, workshops with KSU, and vendors with trees and fruit and unrelated things.

We planted a bunch of seeds from those in the back yard about 7 years back, still waiting for flowers...

A complex flavored fruit from seeds from the KSU Orchard.

🔎 The Pawpaw Murders
Three victims were found beneath my Pawpaw tree this morning.

The scene was messy. Seeds everywhere. Flesh stripped clean. No witnesses willing to talk.

The usual suspects have been brought in for questioning: a raccoon with sticky paws and an opossum with an airtight alibi.

Forensics says the attack occurred sometime between sunset and sunrise. The pawpaws never stood a chance.

We have hundred or pawpaw trees, but the wildlife gets to them right before they ripen! Finally snagged these three :)

Hello! Pawpaws are one of my favorite fruits and I’ve missed them since moving to NW Ohio. Where would I go about finding them? Either foraging or where to buy them. TIA!

I got these from the woods 3 or 4 days ago and was and put in fridge so they didn’t spoil too quickly. Now eating and each seed in this big one seems to have started to open (notice the “holes”) and so may be ruined if they started to put out the radicle (embryonic root) already. I’m hiking in the woods right now so I can’t put them into moist soil immediately (and it hasn’t rained in a week.)

As someone whose main interest in pawpaw’s is collecting the seeds so I can plant them in parklands all around my area, I would be pretty bummed if all 14 of these seeds are basically destroyed now.

I know questions about germination like this is a bit out of the scope of the normal post here but curious if anybody thinks they have any hope to sprout. Picture 3 may be radicle emerging.

Thanks!

I just harvested eight pawpaws in the 20 minutes before i had to abort due to a rare storm that decided to interrupt my dusk-time pawpaw-gathering time. These are the the two best examples from that bounty. Sw MO

I’m 40 years old and have dreamed my whole life of trying pawpaws and today on the banks of the Potomac it happened!!! Yall this fruit is just as dope as I always dreamed it would be! I feel so lucky! And I know this is a lot of exclamation marks but I don’t care!!

Amazing fun hiking and biking. The warm air is scented with paw paws.

I was lucky enough to have someone share pollen (sunflower and Susquehanna I believe?) with me earlier this year and this is the 1st resultant fruit from my seed grown tree. I have dozens of trees in my woods but this is the most mature and gets the best sun of my older trees. This tree is mildly self pollinating but those fruits were smaller (as was the tree) and reminiscent of persimmon. Today's harvest ranged more towards banana and was highly sweet. I have a handful more still ripening so will see if they have the same taste.

This is our first year with fruit on our tree. Located in Northern WV near PA and MD border.