Pawpaw trees-----preorder for summer 2025-------
Parent Descriptions
Superior Seedlings: Seed was collected from select seedling trees that grow alot of large and delicious fruit but aren't specific varieties.
Grafted Variety Seedling Mix: Seed came right out of fruit from grafted trees- some of the parent trees include Shenendoah, Mango, Tallahatchi, NC-1, Iowa Golden and more.
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Pawpaw seedlings of superior selected seedlings and from well known grafted parents. All the parents of these seedlings produce a lot of big delicious fruit and pawpaws tend to be somewhat similar to their parents.
Pawpaw trees are started in the early spring and grown in 2.75x2.75x9inch pots. The trees sold when they when the root starting to grow out of the bottom of the pot and the trees are 6-9 inches tall, usually sometime between June and September. These are very small trees, they need protected from critters, mowers and full sunlight (they need partial shade). I recommend using a 2.5ft tree tube or a wire cage if in a shady area. Pawpaws are a taproot tree and I believe the earlier they get in the ground the more they can develop a deep and healthy tap-root. Grass is big competition for young trees, provide your tree with at least 3x3ft of grass/weed free area with landscape cloth, cardboard, mulch or herbicide. Water your new tree in the pot before planting and after planting with 1qrt-1/2 gallon. Mulching reduces the need for sequential watering. Plant your tree so the stem is the same level to the ground as it was to the soil in the pot. Slide the whole root mass out gently and do not shake off any of the growing medium- plant the entire 2.75x2.75x9 inch cuboid.
2 trees are required for pollination, plant 5-15ft apart. Don't leave these trees in full sun even for a few minutes. I will email or call you when your trees are ready to pick up (August or September 2024) and you will have 3 weeks from then to arrange a time with me to pick up your trees at my farm at 3151 F52 Trl Parnell Iowa. Please plan on transporting your trees inside the cab of a vehicle- they will not do will do well in an open truck bed.
If for some reason I cannot fill your order, you will be refunded in full before October 1st, 2024.