Pawpaw Project  -- Part 4 Growing Named Varieties
Channel: YttriumNitrate
Date: 2012-10-06

Twenty or so named varieties of pawpaws were ordered. About 14 were planted out at the orchard while the rest were kept back at my house in pots. Cardboard boxes with holes cut out were placed over the pawpaws at the orchard to give them a bit of shade, however even with weekly watering and some shade they still struggled and almost all of them died.

A wild pawpaw patch was found out at the orchard and wood from the dying trees was grafted onto the wild trees in a desperate attempt to maintain the diversity of trees at the orchard. Unfortunately, due to the poor quality of the scion wood and the inopportune timing of the grafting, it looks like most of the grafts failed.

All of the trees kept back at the house survived and put on a good amount of growth after they were transferred to larger pots and were watered every other day. Watering pawpaws just once a week appears to be insufficient.