My 40 trees planted bare root has flowers on in Charlotte.  But I doubt any will pollinate this year.  Buckets of rain coming down since yesterday and now a flood watch!

  My blossoming azimine, the grade "Sochi 11".

If anyone interested I do have plants available, a few grafted trees left, those are of Peterson and tatytoo varieties. I also have seedling trees from good varieties those should yield a good crop of large fruit of various varieties. 

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Congrats Ken! Its a long wait, hopefully you get some great fruit this season!

Dennis, hopefully out of 40 trees you'll get something, even with all the rain--if they don't float away! Please keep us posted.

Vladis, that's a beautiful flower! None of mine were particularly pretty.

Bass, I've heard the Shenandoah is particularly good and thought about getting one, but then decided to pass on the patented pawpaws because for me, propagation is half the fun. Do you sell seeds from any of the best varieties?

Thanks, Mulhero--I'm pretty optimistic. So far, six out of the twelve flowers have set fruit, but I expect they'll start dropping before long. Hopefully I'll get to taste at least one fruit from each tree, though!

Ken, 
Shenandoah is one of my favorite pawpaw, it large, excellent tasting and productive with very low seed count. I save seeds of my Peterson's, and other large tasty varieties and plant them. I only sell them as seedlings. 

Thanks Ken!  I have all of the major cultivars planted in the ground.  Here are just a few....

Allegheny
Davis
KSU-Atwood
Mango
NC-1
Neal
Overleese
Pennsylvania Golden
Potomac
Rebecca’s Gold
Shenandoah
Sunflower
Susquehanna
Sweet Alice
Taylor
Taytoo
Wells
Lehman's Chiffon
Mitchell
Prolific
Green River Belle
Rappahannock
Collins
GAINESVILLE #1
Sweet Potato
Sue
Mitchell
And Lots of Seedlings

Okay, Bass--thanks. For now, at least, I'm going to stick with planting seeds in the ground so the long taproot can develop, as I think that is an advantage in my desert climate.

Dennis, that's amazing! Once you've tried a good representation of fruits from your piece of Eden, I'd love to know which pawpaws are your favorites! I can't imagine wanting to leave all that in five years, unless you're just so worn out from taking care of it that you've lost your appetite for fruit!

Well I don't want to move so if I keep talking about it, it won't happen!  We have too much house and are empty nesters.  I may have to hire a maid to come 3 times a week if we stay here.  It's too much house for 2 people.  

If we do stay, the maid can help me pick Paw Paws and figs after they're done cleaning the house!  LOL!

Ken,

My favorites that I grow in Lancaster PA have been allegheny, Shenandoah, and Susquehanna. The newest one I have that is a must have is Lehman's chiffon. It is really good. I go to some paw paw festivals locally and the taste favorite is usually either allegheny or wabash. Paw paws ( especially grafted) are so good. I've also grown overleese, which is also very good. I always look forward to September for these amazing fruits to ripen. I live close to the Susquehanna river, so a lot of local, wild ones are also just about as good as Peterson varieties. I am glad you are posting your progress. It is a long process, but certainly a "fruitful" one.

Thanks, BBB--your mention of Lehman's chiffon made me curious, so I googled it and eventually ended up on England's Orchard site, which reminded me that they sell seed from Peterson varieties as well as from many others. My initial impulse is to order a bunch of seed, but I'd best restrain myself, since my yard is clearly not on the same scale as those of recent posters on this thread!

I'm glad my pawpaws-in-the-desert experiment is still of interest to some on f4f, because I like to report back on the same threads over the years, just to preserve the backstory and keep some continuity. I'll chime in again when something interesting happens--hopefully with some shots of ripe fruit, whether this year or next.

Unfortunately, this update is sooner than planned, and not for the purpose I wanted. I guess my pawpaw trees are still too young because all six of the nascent fruit clusters shriveled up and are falling off. Oh well! Hopefully they'll put on some good growth this year, and I'll keep my fingers crossed for next spring!

Snaglpus, that's a impressive list.i envy your orchard.out of my 11 trees,I only know the name of 2, sunflower, penn gold. Hand pollinated this week(first time).keeping my fingers crossed again this year.

Does anyone sell large Peterson varieties? Thanks!