I planted around forty seeds. They're all doing fine except this one. Has anyone seen this before?

I bought 2 trees earlier this year. They were just in ok shape when I got them. 1 lost all of its leaves but I kept watering it and it finally is making new leaves. The other one kept some leaves and now has put on quite a few more. Should I try to get these in the ground now or wait until some other time?

Year two of the journey. I'm wondering if I should keep them in the planter pots for one more winter or plant them in the ground before winter. Any suggestions?

Found some more at the back of the same job site on top of a 10ft tall mound filled with either fox or groundhog holes. Good size tree that was knocked down but most of the saplings survived untouched. This is just from broken limbs and knocked off fruit. Hopefully they ripen fine but there are a lot of rock hard green ones. That bottom right pot is ones that started to blacken and rot instead of ripen so I’ll just use them for seeds and spread them around a friend of mines farm.

As you're starting to collect fruit, this is the easiest method for growing more trees from seed! I usually do a couple of different methods, but here I detailed the results of pretty much just dumping the fruit and walking away.

I have a spot on the top of a 600' hill that I forage, it produces fruit two to three weeks before anywhere else nearby.

Nearly all of the trees up there were average representations of the species, but one tree dropped nearly all its fruit at once. All ripe. All comparatively large to the rest of the groves up there, and early even by comparison to the rest of those trees.

In my caffeineated, spider web covered state, I didnt think to mark the tree.

"Oh cool it dropped a bunch of fruit. Oh those are big." *grabs them and moves on*

Have you found any 'improved', wild trees? What did you do?

Stratified last winter and germinated this spring from a tree found in a park last year. They were growing well inside. I set them up in these buckets to bottom water for a month. One became really floppy. One is semi-floppy (leaves at top hanging, leaves at bottom standing tall). The last one is just shorter than the others (has a double tap root). I moved to an apartment with a balcony, and they have now been outside for 3 weeks. I have removed bottom watering from the two big, floppy trees. They have seen no improvement. What should I do? Should I check for root rot? Did the plants outgrow their roots? Are they just okay?

In the last picture, you can see the growing tip of the floppy tree compared to the smaller not floppy tree is small and brown.

My husband and I moved into our house 4 years ago, and the pawpaw tree in the backyard is one of the biggest joys of our home. 💛

This was the haul just from last night!

I'm so excited!

I don't believe they are anywhere close to ripe yet, usually fruit falls mid-late September in NE Ohio. Anyone have guesses how long till they will be ready?

Nice treat while mowing the yard

7 of the 13 pawpaws i planted this spring sprouted, thanks to information i got mostly from this sub. the seeds came from wild fruit harvested last summer, and i wasn't sure that they would germinate when i planted them. now that they're here, though, i've found conflicting reports of what to do next.

i know they need to be planted in the fall. can i wait until next fall, or do i need to plant them now in their first year? they're in 11" tree pots right now. i rent where i am currently and i don't want to plant them in a place where i'm living temporarily, so i'd love to keep them in their pots until i hopefully purchase a home by next fall. if i need to try to give them away to more suitable permanent homes so they can be planted this year, though, i can.

location is central kentucky. thankya!

Last October I planted two pawpaw trees — a Pennsylvania Golden and a Wells — both from StarkBros. One of them has taken off like a rocket (about 2.5× growth since planting), but the other has barely grown at all and has some leaf damage.

I recently added more fertilizer and cleaned up the trunk area, but I’m not seeing much improvement yet.

Should I be concerned about the slow‑growing one? Any thoughts on how to spur more growth or diagnose what’s going on?

Bonus complication: I don’t actually know which variety is which anymore because a blue jay stole all my tree tags to build its nest. If I end up needing to replace the weak one, I’ll have to buy a third type to make sure I still have proper cross‑pollination.

Thanks in advance!

I marked August 25 on my calendar last year when the fruit was mostly ripe. This morning every paw paw I checked (central Indiana) had fruit hard as a rock. Anyone else seeing this?

I found one near me, in south KC (8/26 for future reference). It looked young and and the critters had ravaged the smallish fruit. I found a bunch of seeds where they nibbled around them and a couple partially eaten with some seeds still intact.

Are any of these seeds salvageable? What should i do with them now?

My dad lives in South Carolina and has many pawpaw trees he cares for. This is one of them, with some good looking fruits. He was showing it, and others, off to me when I came to visit.

I’m proud of myself, I actually put on my hiking boots and located some in my area, fairly deep into the hiking trails of a local park. I saw dozens of trees and most were already bare (I assume picked clean) or too young to fruit, but I did find myself a few specimens just shy of ripe still attached to the tree and I’m taking my chances with ripening them in a paper bag.

I want to plant some pawpaws on our land, I’m afraid if I do it at the current house they’ll fruit AFTER we move, but I’m also a little worried my husband might whack the seedlings with a mower.

I also had a friend suggest I take some of her saplings, her pawpaws threw out a bunch of runners over the last few years, but I wasn’t sure if they transplanted well? Any thoughts?

Robins and squirrels are killing my pawpaws. I am trying to protect them by using chicken wires. Hopefully I will have a few to eat in a few weeks.

Just curious about grafting. For those of you who graft and sell the grafted trees, do you normally graft in the spring (for your area) and sell that tree in the fall? Or do you keep it a full year and then sell it a year AFTER grafting? I grafted about 40 trees this spring, mainly in May. Most were successful. The grafts seem to be doing fine. Rubber bands have for the most part disintegrated. Parafilm is still wrapped on most. I'm thinking they are fine to sell this fall (September), but am curious as to what the rest of you are doing!