I enjoy your videos, I planned pawpaw seeds and have grown them under shade cloth,this is their second summer, should I keep them under the shade cloth next summer also,or should I take the shade cloth away next spring.... thanks
You mentioned that some people get sick from the skin and the “seed sack”. Also, you said that some varieties do not have a sack around the seeds. Can you give more info (or online resources for more info) about the nature of the illness and which varieties have that sack?
Seeds that readily come out of pawpaw are known as freestone. There are a few links that come up when searching freestone pawpaw online. The seeds that are not freestone are considered to have a seed sack around them. I've read a handful of pawpaw books in the last month preparing for a talk I'm doing on pawpaws at a pawpaw festival. This topic came up in several of the books. I don't see a whole lot online with a quick search. I did find the below from this link: silverrunforestfarm.org/nursery/pawpaw "Some people get pretty sick eating the skins, and some don't seem to feel anything at all (sort of like Mango skins). We pretty carefully remove all the skin when we process, but we also eat fresh ones by sucking pulp off the skin and seed (which contain alkaloids that can trigger vomiting), most likely ingesting some skin. We haven't gotten sick from it, but that’s also a very low dose! "
@@Ismael-o9h you’ll have to look around in your area and find someone who is successfully growing a tree there. Florida is right on the southern edge of the growing area. I’ve heard of people successfully doing it there but they were pretty close to Georgia. The further south you go in FL the less chance you have for success.
Where can I get the seeds??? I live in Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
Used to pick paw paws with my dad in Indiana, but they were purple.
Purple? Wow. Were they mushy? I've seen some over ripe paw paws that were a little purple looking.
If you could find those you would be rich. Never seen a purple pawpaw. Do you mean purple on tree? Or blackish purplish rotting on ground?
I enjoy your videos, I planned pawpaw seeds and have grown them under shade cloth,this is their second summer, should I keep them under the shade cloth next summer also,or should I take the shade cloth away next spring.... thanks
@@davidhart8575 you should be good to remove the shade cloth. Just watch them if we have a drought, in which case you will need to water more.
@@greatescapefarms thank you so much
@@davidhart8575 you are most welcome.
You mentioned that some people get sick from the skin and the “seed sack”. Also, you said that some varieties do not have a sack around the seeds. Can you give more info (or online resources for more info) about the nature of the illness and which varieties have that sack?
Seeds that readily come out of pawpaw are known as freestone. There are a few links that come up when searching freestone pawpaw online. The seeds that are not freestone are considered to have a seed sack around them.
I've read a handful of pawpaw books in the last month preparing for a talk I'm doing on pawpaws at a pawpaw festival. This topic came up in several of the books. I don't see a whole lot online with a quick search. I did find the below from this link: silverrunforestfarm.org/nursery/pawpaw
"Some people get pretty sick eating the skins, and some don't seem to feel anything at all (sort of like Mango skins). We pretty carefully remove all the skin when we process, but we also eat fresh ones by sucking pulp off the skin and seed (which contain alkaloids that can trigger vomiting), most likely ingesting some skin. We haven't gotten sick from it, but that’s also a very low dose! "
@@greatescapefarms Thank you for the information!
@@tbenson2468 you are most welcome!
We’re can I get seeds for Florida?
@@Ismael-o9h you’ll have to look around in your area and find someone who is successfully growing a tree there. Florida is right on the southern edge of the growing area. I’ve heard of people successfully doing it there but they were pretty close to Georgia. The further south you go in FL the less chance you have for success.
@@greatescapefarms okay.