• WalrusByte@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Whoa, nice! I hope to find one in the wild someday.

    What state are you in? If you don’t mind me asking

    • newt@sh.itjust.worksOP
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      1 year ago

      South Carolina. I missed the fruiting season for paw paws this year but I’ll be back next year

      • evasive_chimpanzee@lemmy.world
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        1 year ago

        Keep in mind that there will often be no fruit. Pawpaws spread in monoclonal colonies, and a colony can’t pollinate itself. I live surrounded by many pawpaw groves, but only a few actually make fruit. Supposedly you can spray the trees down with fish emulsion to attract the flies that pollinate them, but that still only helps if you have 2 non-clones next to each other