Hello, it's March 15th, 2013 and I've just picked up a order of 200 paw paw trees and 100 persimmons from the Indiana State Nursery. They look to be a pretty good sized diameter and considering these trees are only about 30 cents a piece, so far I'm fairly pleased. So now that I've opened up the package of paw paws, I can tell that these have very nice, late-developed root systems and even though they're not particularly big up top, the root system, which a lot starts at where my fingers are, is very nicely developed. April 28th, 2013, out here at the house now, the paw paw project is continuing and some of these paw paws that have been planted in these paper pots have now been grafted over to various different varieties. This one here is a Naomi's Delicious and I have just grafted, I would say maybe a third of these little trees over. I had primarily planned on just grafting over the paw paws that are out at the orchard growing naturally, but I had some wood left, or some wood left over and decided, you know, what the heck, might as well try grafting them over. And so I was a little bit worried about grafting these paw paws over because they're so densely spaced, but I found, I just use electrical tape here, pretty easily without bumping or damaging too badly the other trees. I did notice that several of the paw paws looks like they aren't going to be making it. This here is pretty black and I don't think this one is going to be making it, but that's okay, these paw paws were pretty cheap. May 20th, 2013, out here at my house, these are the paw paws and pots and some of them I've grafted over with a sign wood that I got from a variety of different sources. I can see that some of them like this one here, they're pushing out a little bit or a couple of leaves, still not doing nearly as well as the un grafted ones, which are producing massive quantities of leaves. Oh, but that's to be expected. And overall, I can't really make a definitive determination of what my success rate in grafting is going to be. Some of them might have made it, some of them might, maybe not. Yeah, looks to be fairly promising so far. June 8th, 2013, Brian lunch here, right at the house, here I'm looking at my paw, paw patch. And just a little helpful suggestion is that if you're ever planning on making one of these things and grafting over some of the trees, make sure that you graft over the ones that are on the exterior of the planter and not in the interior. Like if you look in here, you got this little one that is completely shaded by all these other trees that have really taken off because they weren't grafted over. Yeah, so now I'm going to have to figure out a way to get those little trees out and get them a little bit of sun. June 30th, 2013, out here at the house. Since the grafted paw paws were getting shaded by the un grafted paw paws who were growing a lot faster than them, I decided to move them over into their own separate little container here. And in order to do that, I did have to lift out the paper pots from the larger wooden support structure and move them over to this smaller one. And as you can see, some of the paw paw pots, like that one right there, are substantially shorter than the other ones, say like over there. And what happened was I didn't wait until there had been a weaker two without rain and the pots were a little bit moist. And in the very bottom, you can see that part of them ripped. But overall, it was a pretty successful transfer after I figured out what I needed to do in order to keep the pots intact. When I finally do transfer all of these paw paws from the house to the orchard, I will probably just simply end up destroying the wooden structure to get them out so that I won't have to lift them out. I'll just be able to pull them out from the side.