PawPaw Project -- Part 2 Nursery Reviews
Channel: YttriumNitrate
Date: 2012-10-03

In order to obtain a wide variety of trees, pawpaws were ordered from three nurseries. Due to a delicate tap root, pawpaw trees are often shipped in pots. Hidden Springs Nursery shipped their pawpaws early in the season bare root and all of the trees did manage to leaf out, however they all also eventually died at the orchard. That may have been due to Indiana going through a drought and my only being able to water them on the weekends. 

The other two nurseries shipped their pawpaws in pots. One Green World charged about $7 or 35% more per tree than Burnt Ridge Nursery, but their trees were larger and better packaged for shipping. The Burnt Ridge trees were planted out at the orchard and two survived their first year while the One Green World trees were kept back at the house in pots and they all survived. Since the trees were not exposed to the same conditions, a fair comparison about the survival rates cannot be made between the two nurseries.

http://www.onegreenworld.com/

http://www.hiddenspringsnursery.com/

http://www.burntridgenursery.com/