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Vincent Renaud
https://www.pawpawlist.com/pawpaw-producers/vincent-renaud

L'anno scorso ho mangiato il suo primo frutto (ultima foto), e quest'anno l'unico fiore che ha aggiunto è sopravvissuto a 3 grandinate senza subire danni. Incrociamo le dita per lui, per favore🤞🏻

The pawpaw I planted last autumn has its first flowers!

The tree itself is still very young, only about as thick as my thumb. Do you think I could afford to let it grow one fruit or woud that be too taxing on such a young tree?

I’m so exited!

The cultivars are selected for easy care & sustainability.
Pic is of "LG" cultivar
https://www.kysu.edu/brand-identity-approved-images/pawpaw/Florin-Stanica-Pawpaws-in-Romania-b.pdf

These two are in Nashville Tennessee and about fifteen feet apart. Same soil, same sun, one is just wilting and struggling all of a sudden.

This huge patch is one HUGE pawpaw in a historical public park. Unfortunately it's a pawpaw which is not self seeding so it needs two different plants to make fruit. This whole patch is one plants and so has literally never fruited in the 5 years I've been here. All connected at the roots. I cannot express in photos how massive and old this tree must be but this patch of land has been untouched for at least 300 years. I'm 6 foot and can't even reach some of the shorter trees flowers, the tallest ones are absurdly high. Almost every single tree in these photos is pawpaw, excluding a few other stragglers. ​These are usually short shrubs, these ones canopies are as tall as the forest around it. Very cool plant I've been visiting for a few years. Wish it fruited though

Now you can have a Susquehanna like pawpaw fruit,
that's twice as big as the Susquehanna pawpaw with 3 times as many fruits per tree!
"Seedumus Maximus" is more (Self-Fertile) than (Prima or Sunflower) & tastes better too.
Self-Fertile trees grow more true from seed!!!
Sell to friends so they can grow good tasting pawpaw too!
Plus sell the pawpaw seeds to others for profit.
It's the best of both worlds.
Scions available soon, so stay tuned to the announcement.
You can make PawPaw jewelry to sell at the Fair & PawPaw Festival.
Bragging rights on fishing trips.
Make good fishing floats when dried.
#Susquehanna #Pawpaw #SelfFertile

Very productive heat tolerant tree, which is vigorous in zones 9a & 9b, but a slow grower in the North.
Lots of fruit per square foot of orchard, shippable, longer shelf life than most.
Mild flavored fruit with Sunflower & Shenandoah like aromas.
It's one of the cultivars chosen by the Parthenocarpic PawPaw Breeders group as the FEMALE.
Full 100% (Potomac & Susquehanna) DNA will be passed into it via Tetraploid Pollen.
Goal compact heat & drought tolerant seedless (Potomac & Susquehanna).
Robert Dalton of u/Raleighpawpaw will work on Potomac & Timothy Lane on Susquehanna.

I took the first 2 pics 2 weeks ago as I was going to ask here if I should be pruning back. I've had these in grow bags due to cutting a bunch of other trees down and unsure of the final location. These are both 2-year-old saplings. The small one I did not think was going to survive the first year as it pretty much all died off. I had some storms come through this week and I came out to the tall one broken this morning. Obviously I did not have it staked well. I had not raised my tether further up the stake since last year. Is there any chance of saving it?

I recently sold my house and took cuttings from my paw paw trees to graft onto rootstock for a new garden and this is what I have left over. I can’t sell these since they are patented but if anyone covers the shipping I’d be happy to send them over. They were harvested Mar 23 and kept in my fridge. They’re likely viable for another month or so. DM me. First come first serve.

It’s about 4ft tall now. I live in pawpaw habitat so I grabbed some pine&leaf litter off the forest floor for the mycelium and to keep the roots cool. I live in a deciduous hardwood climax forest IN THE LOWLANDS, but so far I haven’t seen any wild ones near me. I did make a post showing the zebra swallowtail caterpillars I found on this tree however, so I know they’re nearby.

Giant 1 LB "Gran Blanc" is from a member of Canadian PawPaw Growers.
Extraordinarily intense: (Cherimoya, Pineapple, Casaba, Honey) with almost zero Banana!
always close to 1 LB, only 2% seeds & 28 brix, which is sweeter than Susquehanna!
"Gran Blanc" is from Zone (4b to 5a) & ripens midseason.
A chance seedling in a grove of seedling from Neal Peterson's cultivars.
Wild pawpaws near his grove are small seedy white Canadian pawpaw.
Might be a 2nd generation of Peterson seedlings, or maybe a cross between them & wild white Canadian PawPaw.
But "Gran Blanc" has heavy yields of 1LB fruits in very cold environments, unlike anything else!
Limited supply, as only 2 graftings in USA, so there will be about a dozen scions in January.
"Gran Blanc" is the biggest, sweetest, juiciest, most aromatic of all White PawPaw bar none, plus nearly seedless.
Twice as sweet as Al Horn & even sweeter than Florence & more aromatic.
This "Gran Blanc" may become part of the Parthenocarpic PawPaw Project, in Aug 2026
Please share POST. Thanks!!!

Can't wait to get these babies into the ground!

My big garden experiment this year was attempting to graft other pawpaw varieties to a few limbs on my established pawpaw. Most of them failed (this is my first time doing any grafting) but this one looks like it might have succeeded. Feel free to critique my technique as this is definitely something I have no idea what I'm doing.

Scionwood is a Lehman's Select from Petrichor Pawpaws. Rootstock is unknown (possibly unnamed) from my local nursery.