![]() ![]() Please check out our FB community ( ) to ask any further questions which in the short term, may take some time to be answered. We are still answering hundreds of emails. Feel free to write stories and send them to us, especially through our site. When we do a round two, or more, any Pawpaw seeds you may have would be valuable to help us and the Pawpaw expand across it's natural range in Canada. Maybe plan to go there next year? ( ) We'd love to encourage you to expand not just your Pawpaw knowledge and collection, but we have many rare and wonderful trees and other plants in need of your support in Carolinian Canada. Just a day before we started the Pawpaw Parade was the last day of a huge Pawpaw Festival in Ohio. And, there probably are some other nurseries that sell them as well. You can get the contact information by Googling both of these sites. Williams Nursery and Ecology Centre in St. Two nurseries that we know that sell native Pawpaws include Native Trees and Plants Nursery in Amherstburg Ontario and St. If you have purchased or adopted trees and they didn’t survive, look at the above list of suggestions and see what might be ‘off.’ This just happens sometimes. In this manner, flies will be already in the area when your Pawpaw trees start to flower. It helps to have other flowering plants around the Pawpaw, like this Dogbane depicted in this photo with the Green Bottle Fly. The Green Bottle Fly is the pollinator of this species. It's years 3, 4 and 5 that they will mature and by year six or seven you should be having flowers maturing into fruits provided both trees are still alive and flowering at the same time. The first year or two, the tree won't get that much larger, as they are putting their energy into expanding their roots. ![]() This is to ensure the genes of these trees will stay similar to what we can find in the wild in Southern Ontario. If you're buying some variety online or a source of trees that you know isn't from Ontario, please plant them at least 10 ft away from any native trees that may have received. ![]() If you purchase Pawpaw trees, we suggest that you buy native Pawpaws to plant nearby these ones. Geographically, these are right in the middle of the Carolinian Zone. The seed source of Pawpaw trees we gave away is from the West Lorne area, a small community about a half an hour's drive west of London Ontario. Water well every morning for at least the first couple of months but not late into the fall as water tends to sit in the ground more so. Since your Pawpaw is in a well-drained area, there's no need to be stingy with water. These trees (5 or 6 growing in a clump) are almost 25 years old. Have a look at the shot of Steve and me (above) in front of the Pawpaw tree cluster at Ojibway Prairie in Windsor. It may take some time, but the Pawpaw can grow in excess of 15' or 5.5m. It wouldn't hurt to have some mulch or a thin layer of wood chips over top of the root area. Compress the soil around the tree so much so that if you tug gently on the stem of the Pawpaw It won't pull it out of the ground. As is the case with most trees, put the Pawpaw in the hole and cover up the soil to where the currents soil line is with the trunk of the tree.Some chose a small fence around the entire tree. This isn't required, but it may help if a rabbit or a deer comes nearby and decides to chew. It is recommended to put a little tree guard, a white piece of plastic or other material around the delicate trunk of the tree, right up to the first set of leaves.Pawpaws like a high organic content, meaning if you are near sand or gravel you will have to augment the whole with some richer soil when you're planting the tree.If this is your habitat make sure the trees are high enough away from sitting water. If you are on the edge of a watercourse or wetland make sure that it's flowing and that there's no stagnant water resulting in water being constantly around the roots. They prefer relatively moist soils that are well-drained.They need to be planted within 10 feet of each other (to ensure cross pollination), and they are not impacted by any nearby Black Walnut trees.Plant them as soon as possible, in an area that receives at least 50% sunlight during a given day. This species prefers to be planted in the fall. ![]()
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