It's PawPaw time

[part-time-Farmer-NC]

Anyone else's PawPaw's dropping? I got these on our pawpaw patch I planted several years ago. 3rd or 4th year fruiting. These have a taste similar to if a Mango/Pineapple/Banana had a baby... Texture is definitely like a banana. Most northern growing tropical fruit.

We have been able to sell these to folks around here who like me had heard of them but never tasted em.

What do you make with your PawPaw fruit?

 

[MossRoad]

I've got the trees. Never get any fruit. Something's eating them before they ripen.

 

[part-time-Farmer-NC]

Do they actually make fruit and it never ripens? Critters eat them very quickly when they fall. I have been making pawpaw runs 3-4 times a day to steal them away from the critters.

If they never actually make fruit and you see the purplish flowers in spring, YOu can do as I did the first year, tie up a dead fish (crappie for me) and that attracts the pollinators (flies). Only did that once they've been pollinating them since. May not have had to do it then but... ???

 

[riptides]

Make cakes out of them. They are a lot of work though.

We have a trail on the property called paw-paw trail. Have not seen any this year, but have not looked hard either.

 

[JeepHead]

I have several fruiting trees in my woods. I have eaten them several times but not one of my favorites. I give them away when I hear of people wanting them.

 

[tacticalturnip]

I've never heard of them; they certainly remind me of mangos.

 

[MossRoad]

Do they actually make fruit and it never ripens? Critters eat them very quickly when they fall. I have been making pawpaw runs 3-4 times a day to steal them away from the critters.

If they never actually make fruit and you see the purplish flowers in spring, YOu can do as I did the first year, tie up a dead fish (crappie for me) and that attracts the pollinators (flies). Only did that once they've been pollinating them since. May not have had to do it then but... ???

They make fruit, but the fruit disappears off the trees. Just like my apples, peaches, cherries, pears, grapes, etc... I told my wife we should just skip trying to raise fruits and vegetables and just eat all the critters.

 

[MossRoad]

The Indiana Banana!

Pawpaw – the Indiana Banana?

The winter months give us a little extra time to think about new things, including our home landscape for the coming year. Some people have installed backyard orchards, choosing the more typical fruit varieties you might find in Indiana, including apple, pear or tart cherry. Have you heard of...

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[part-time-Farmer-NC]

I feel your pain. Deer, squirrels, groundhawgs, crows and rabbits all come for the smorgasbord here. I found it is because they suffer from a mineral deficiency. So, I have found a way to give them a high velocity lead inoculation. I only have to inoculate em once...

 

[Eagle1]

I feel your pain. Deer, squirrels, groundhawgs, crows and rabbits all come for the smorgasbord here. I found it is because they suffer from a mineral deficiency. So, I have found a way to give them a high velocity lead inoculation. I only have to inoculate em once...

Sure seems that lead deficiency is the root cause for a lot of thievery

 

[JeepHead]

They make fruit, but the fruit disappears off the trees. Just like my apples, peaches, cherries, pears, grapes, etc... I told my wife we should just skip trying to raise fruits and vegetables and just eat all the critters.

The deer really love the paw paws!

 

[D&D]

They make fruit, but the fruit disappears off the trees. Just like my apples, peaches, cherries, pears, grapes, etc... I told my wife we should just skip trying to raise fruits and vegetables and just eat all the critters.

I had pear trees that grew fruit. Every day I'd go out and say maybe tomorrow. The picked ripe day never came, apparently the white tail deer love pears. Took my slow self a couple years and a game cam to figure out

 

[part-time-Farmer-NC]

Depending on the pear variety many will ripen better off the tree. Comice pears (my favorite) for example I pick them as the blush up good. Have a little give to them around the stem. THen I let them sit at room temp until they are the desired texture I want. Bartlett's it depends on what the end product will be. If you're canning most people prefer them hard if you're gonna eatem I usually wait till they are about to fall off and pickem. Mainly to save the critters from eating them. Squirrels and crows are my nemesis for much of my fruit production.

 

[MossRoad]

Robbin mom's teach the babies to eat the sour cherries at our house. I still got enough off the tree to make 5 pies this years, so I was happy.

 

[kenmbz]

Critters left me one tiny hole ridden pear on my two trees, and two peaches on my new peach tree, zero on the mature peach tree which was laden with fruit a month back.
They don't wait for the fruit to be even close to ripe before they take it, not even a peach pit to be found.
They don't eat my figs though, get plenty of those.

I don't think I have ever had a paw paw though people say they grow wild around here.

Even the black walnuts and hickory nuts are bad by the time they hit the ground (bugs on the ground or squirrels before they fall)

 

[Jstpssng]

You guys sound like me with my tomatoes right now. As soon as they ripen the damned turkeys get into them. I covered them this morning, thinking I might pick 4 tonight.
Nope. Rather than eating one or two and leaving me the rest, they had to peck at all 4.

 

[kenmbz]

You guys sound like me with my tomatoes right now. As soon as they ripen the damned turkeys get into them. I covered them this morning, thinking I might pick 4 tonight.
Nope. Rather than eating one or two and leaving me the rest, they had to peck at all 4.

I have a 7 foot chicken screen cage and the tomato plants are in a metal raised bed and the screen is stapled to the ground (ground hogs got in once).

Only way I can get any tomatoes. I pick when they start turning red and let ripen on my kitchen counter.

Of course this year I had army worms destroy half my tomatoes less than 24 hours after I had checked them. Some hornworms too, but they are slow and easily removed.

 

[RayIN]

I've got the trees. Never get any fruit. Something's eating them before they ripen.

Deer will stand on their hind legs to reach them. It's like candy to them. I don't get any ripe fruit either.

 

[part-time-Farmer-NC]

Speaking of deer standing on their hind legs. Never seen a deer stick its hoofs this high into the air.

First thoughts were "I raise a hallelujah"...

Note this is two different deer a buck and a doe.

 

[MossRoad]

Speaking of deer standing on their hind legs. Never seen a deer stick its hoofs this high into the air.

First thoughts were "I raise a hallelujah"...

Note this is two different deer a buck and a doe.

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