Grow This Fruit in Freezing Temperatures ❄ - Asimina Triloba (American Paw Paw)

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Today we explore this incredible fruit that looks tropical but grows in freezing temperatures. We'll be tasting Asimina triloba (American Paw paw) and growing them from seed to plant in the garden. We'll also discuss some growing tips and other information about this amazing fruit, like flowers and pollination and growing from seed, or from grafted trees. The Asimina triloba that grows in a cold, temperate climate is also known as American Paw paw (pawpaw) and is one of the largest fruits native to North America including areas of Southern, Eastern and Midwestern United States. This delicious, cold hardy fruit tastes like a mixture of mango, banana, cherimoya and other sweet exotic fruits but is also quite unique in flavour. It grows in the temperate regions of USDA Hardiness Zones 5-9 and survives freezing temperatures as low as -25 to -30 degrees C, or -13 to -22 F. It is an understory tree that likes shade when young but handles more sun as it matures. It can grow in areas that have a much more mild Winter too.
This fruit is related to annona species which includes fruits like custard apple, cherimoya, soursop and rollinia. American paw-paw is also known as wild banana, American custard apple, Kentucky banana, Michigan banana, Missouri banana, and the poor man's banana.
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@pyraxusthelutarian7276 3 года назад

I live in Southwestern Pennsylvania USA and am fortunate to have MANY wild pawpaw patches nearby. It is pretty amazing at the variety of flavor they can have. Such a short season unfortunately. I have made it my personal mission to make them more prolific and accessible in my area and have been planting seeds every year in various areas of the vast Pennsylvania under story. They seem to do best near creek or river beds but I have found them even on high ridge lines. Glad you are able to appreciate this unique native American treasure. :-)

@TheKiwiGrower 3 года назад

Hi Anthony, that’s so cool, and interesting to hear about the different flavours they have. That’s a cool mission man, and a great legacy to leave! Great stuff :)

@pyraxusthelutarian7276 3 года назад

@@TheKiwiGrower Oh, and you are definitely right about the strong aroma. The forest growth is pretty thick where they grow here and I often smell them before I even see the patch from as far away as 50 yards.

@kayoualorkyl 2 года назад

Hi Anthony, I wonder if you can send me some seeds 😊 😀

@wishingonthemoon1 2 года назад

Oh cool! I’m from northeastern PA, and I had no clue they even grew in the the states!

@speaklifegardenhomesteadpe8783 2 года назад

Any way you could ship seeds for a seed swap or a small cutting? 🌱❣️💐🌷🕊️

@gregburns8099 3 года назад

I pick about 100 lbs a year in west central Missouri every year. After a winter in the freezer, the seeds go into my greenhouse. My Boy Scouts then plant them in parks and woods along streams.

@TheKiwiGrower 3 года назад

Hi Greg, that's awesome. What a great initiative

@joshuarichards8065 2 года назад

Makes sense. Some seeds require frost to start germination, either because freezings temps neutralise growth inhibiting auxins (plants hormones) or to break down the seeds coating.

@cese1726 2 года назад

would you please send me some seeds ?

@dominicsanthuff 2 года назад

Se mo area here love paw paws I have only ever found one patch of them in my area unfortunately definitely gonna use this info to fix that thanks for the info

@075650921 Год назад

is this fruit can grow in Central Europe

@jazzbquick389 Год назад

I have a lot of these trees growing on my property. I never knew the fruit was edible, until a year ago. They are so delicious!!

@jacobmoncher6193 2 года назад

At my college I work to grow these trees to spread them throughout our northeast Ohio region. We have several wild trees at our Field Station with most of the fruits tasting like an overly sweet mango. One thing to add is that it is also really important to put tree paint on their trunks because they tend to burn easily and then die off - at least in my experience. Overall though they are an amazing tree with an awesome history to them as well. So happy to see these explained on your channel in such an informative way and I love all the videos you’ve been putting out! =]

@TheKiwiGrower 2 года назад

Thanks Jacob and awesome work spreading these around more in your region! Thanks for the tips regarding the trunks too, really helpful

@df082399 Год назад

Nice to see people from around the world trying out the paw paw! Hope it spreads!

@jakejohnson7056 2 года назад

As a Botany Student Living in the Midwest United States, I just got introduced to this plant I never have known about my whole life. Was looking to grow them someday and am looking forward to growing other plants on here too!

@Valingerene 2 года назад

I live in Ohio and grew up finding them in the woods. Ohio has a pawpaw festival every year mid-September.

@richardwilliams3497 3 года назад

Such a beautiful landscape

@MyerShift7 2 года назад

I live in southern Michigan where these are native. We have a city here NAMED after them! Paw Paw, MI. The fruits are delicious and burgundy spring blooms unique.

@TheKiwiGrower 2 года назад

So cool, would love to see these in the wild!

@bluesteno64 2 года назад

Ayyy a fellow Michigander!! Where I’m from in west mi there are roads named after these wonderful fruit!

@annibeden4714 2 года назад

I lived in Northern Kentucky USA. These were always growing in patches in the woods behind my house growing up. My dad harvests thems and freezes the pulp can be used for bread like banana bread or maybe jellys or fruit butters, and his famous paw paw pancakes. There are always more fruit than he can use, love seeing it get more worl wide exposure. I never really liked the taste or texture because i dont like mangoes or bananas but my dad eats them like an apple. Another good wild plant here is called rapes I think, is a grassy looking onion relative but much milder great as a dried seasoning, cooked in a stirfry, fresh salad anything really.

@gdphantom1605 2 года назад

The onion things are called ramps. They're another thing on my "have to try" list.

@annibeden4714 2 года назад

@@gdphantom1605 thank you! Knew i was close. They are very mild and great fresh in salads or dried and used like parsley.

@sansbazinga9821 Год назад

I'd love to get a yearly update on the Paw Paws so we can see how they develop over time. Love the vids.

@sharonlingalingyoutubechan2167 3 года назад

wow very interesting to learn thanks for watching

@BirgitProfessional Год назад

I've been fascinated by pawpaws for a couple of years now. In Europe where I live, these fruits are very hard to come by and not sold in any supermarkets. Last year, I was able to go to a garden center that has them, I came away with some fruits and seeds. They're delicious and can store in the fridge up to 2 weeks if they're not too ripe to begin with. I planted the seeds last December and after 8 months, in the middle of July, the seedlings popped out, so I'm super happy 🙂. Can't wait to go buy more fruits in 2 weeks when the garden center has them again 🙂

@stanislavpashnyak6547 2 года назад

Gorgeous view!!!

@johnmodlin1633 7 месяцев назад

Excellent and comprehensive video on Paw Paws!

@TheGratefulGarden 11 месяцев назад

Thank you for the information!!!

@sheltonedwards3521 3 года назад

Wooo! welcome back! glad your alive and well!

@TheKiwiGrower 3 года назад

😄

@vomeronasal 2 года назад

I discovered pawpaws as an undergraduate at West Virginia University. A group of us were up in the hills during some day drinking, when the girls went off to pee. All of a sudden, wet bombs came flying out of the woods, the air was filled with the smell of banana and pear, and some of the townies who were with us yelled "Pawpaw attack!" The girls had spotted a pawpaw patch on the way in, collected the fruit, and used them as handgrenades to attack when we weren't paying attention. We all went home covered in sticky goop, and as we entered the dorm you could hear the snickers of "city boys got pawpawed!" That was over 40 years ago, but I still hunt those fruits in the woods on my farm. To eat them, of course...

@TheKiwiGrower 2 года назад

Hahaha wow that's so crack up. Good times! Glad you eat them now though :)

@benny7257j 3 года назад

The insides of the fruit kind of remind me of insides of a jackfruit, they look like mini sized jackfruit without spikes. Nice video.👍🏼

@TheKiwiGrower 3 года назад

Never thought of it like that but yea they kind of do! Cheers

@evilrooster9960 Год назад

It is so awesome to see Paw Paw being grown in other countries because it is very hard to find even in the USA!! Glad you're enjoying them!!

@dextersohan5615 Год назад

I always enjoy all of your videos...watching from the Caribbean.

@bluesteno64 2 года назад

PAWPAW!!! I’ve never had one and first heard of them from weird fruit explorer on here. I really appreciate you sharing these fun fruit!

@cassgruberman6425 3 года назад

Thanks for making this video!!!! I've been looking everywhere for an informative one on asimina triloba

@TheKiwiGrower 3 года назад

No worries! :)

@ExtendedUniverse55 3 года назад

Hey I just found your channel few days ago, you are really amazing ☀️🌳✌🏽

@sherleyguibelondo4859 2 года назад

thanks for sharing your vedio god bless god bless

@sventer198 2 года назад

Love your informative videos

@originalwoolydragon8387 2 года назад

I live in east TN (near the Smokey Mountains). Pawpaws are awesome!

@sjhall2009 Год назад

I live in Oklahoma USA. This is the first I've heard of this fruit. It looks like I'm on the far western edge of it's natural range. I looked it up on my iNaturalist app and found someone has identified one in a park 5 miles from me. Fruiting season has just started, so I will go see if I can find anything. Thank you for your videos! I love seeing the unusual fruits that you come up with, and how to grow them. I especially like that you will wait months to post a video, just to show how a tree sprouted, or how a graft took to growing. Keep up the good work.

@jamescanjuggle 2 года назад

first heard about the fruit from the WeirdExplorer channel, he does a fantastic job covering less known fruits of the world PawPaws seem really interesting too! and with that cold resistance i might actually be able to grow them in ireland😅

@jamesback8024 2 года назад

Kentucky USA here: Nice to see some love given to our native fruits. Have you ever tried Sassafras Tea? Easy to grow, and makes a great tea.

@chasjulia08 Год назад

I grow sassafras trees on both my farms in Western Pa.. If you put a little sugar in and a little milk it will turn blue lol! I've been drinking it in the spring for over 70 yrs.

@RG-zi3yg 2 года назад

I tried my first paw paw yesterday. Delicious. Have been growing from seed 4 trees ( twigs ) here in California. ( Kiwi in California ) Hard to find here, glad someone got seeds to NZ. Good work.

@TheKiwiGrower 2 года назад

Awesome, that’s so cool! Hope they do well :). They grow so slow at first ay

@AncientHippie 3 года назад

I had some of these at my last house in NJ USA, I brought seeds from my last batch with me to the new house and am growing them again. Deer never bothered them. Taste like unsweetened banana custard to me. I eat them before they get mushy, soft but not mushy.

@TheKiwiGrower 3 года назад

Awesome, hope they go well for you at your new place. I read that they have some sort of repellant in their leaves that can be used as insecticide, and it prevent deer and other animals eating them. A pretty cool adaption!

@bryanleaman5942 2 года назад

I planted a couple pawpaw several years ago, but they haven't bloomed or fruited yet. Still hoping. I tried a small piece of the fruit at a nature center 3 years ago and was given one of the seeds. I just put it in the ground and forgot about it. This year I noticed it had sprouted and was now about a foot tall. :)

@GraftingTactick 3 года назад

Sound really interesting, I like to get the hand on the seeds so I can grow them, thanks for sharing 👌

@lars_larsen 2 года назад

I practically got a taste in my mouth from your description of that thing... and now I want to try one just to see if it actually tastes like that.

@DrKALAWIJEY 3 года назад

I just discovered this channel,very interesting!!

@maximinlebon9332 3 года назад

Awesome fruit !

@nikolaostojic80 2 года назад

Perfect for a Mediterranean climate!

@aryanblood653 2 года назад

Great job sir⅚

@marschlosser4540 2 года назад

It's too warm where I am in Arizona, but where I lived up in Penna, they were common along streams and rivers.

@skybirdmakes 2 года назад

From my experience, they will ripen off the tree also :) I haven't made it far into the video yet, but I hear a lot of people say they won't. I haven't liked the funky taste from the local ones that I forage but I have a fond appreciation for this plant and definitely recommend it for growers

@americanrebel413 2 года назад

Awesome!

@thirstychild800 2 года назад

Love the native blood lime for shade

@shanghaimuts 3 года назад

Great video buddy. I would love to be able to try that fruit. It looks yummy! The plant itself reminds me of cherimoya. Thanks for sharing👍

@TheKiwiGrower 3 года назад

It does look quite similar ay! Thanks for the comment :)

@kathrynmcewen2583 2 года назад

Just received my three seedlings today! Potted up. Placed in a shaded location out of the sun. Im in southern New Brunswick canada. Im going to keep them in pots until i find the perfect location for them. Ive recently bought 2 acres that has a creek feeding onto marshland from the Bay of Fundy. Cross fingers it works for me. I love love love tropical fruit. No one else grows them here but summers are hot and humid and -23 c for a few days and wind will be my issue.

@KeepLearing Год назад

Why am I sooooooo obsessed with rare, wired and wonder fruit?! So far mostera deliciosa and now this! 😍

@temporalce1684 2 года назад

I love this fruit. Not sure if my plants from last year made it through the winter. But I do so far have one sprouting this season.

@adnanilyas6368 3 года назад

These are actually local around here and they really do taste amazing! But because of that very short shelf life, nobody sells pawpaws. Instead, you have to go out in September/October into the woods and pick them yourselves. We’ve got a couple growing here at home, and we were hoping to finally get some fruit this year. But we had a nasty cold snap just as the flowers were coming out and I’m not sure if they made it or not.

@TheKiwiGrower 3 года назад

That’s so cool that they grow wild in your area. I’ve seen others online reporting about their flowers being covered in snow and some people have said so far the flowers appear unaffected, so fingers crossed your ones do well! :)

@NMW80 3 года назад

What climate are you in?

@JasonM69 Год назад

Just found your channel from the potato tomato video. Your content looks great! Wondering if you would consider a video about cold weather/ short season produce. Anyways I gotta find some paw paw seeds now!

@MaGiac 3 года назад

I got some Asiminas here in Italy... variety Prima 1216, self-fertile, big fruits and few seeds inside ❤️

@TheKiwiGrower 3 года назад

That’s awesome! Sounds like a great variety :)

@chanthaamao285 3 года назад

Great 👌👌👌😊

@markirish7599 2 года назад

Could you please let me know where I could buy seeds from .I'm in Ireland and would like to grow this fruit

@jonathanharris8281 2 года назад

Is that in warm part of Italy, meditteranean climate? or up in the hills?

@afalhussain838 2 года назад

@@markirish7599 You can buy seeds from ebay or you can order grafted plants from a company in Europe called Lubera Better to buy two different varieties and better to buy grafted plants

@SirathPoemsri 3 года назад

Hello, there! I’ve never seen this kind of fruit before. Thanks for sharing!

@TheKiwiGrower 3 года назад

No worries, glad i could show you something new :)

@SirathPoemsri 3 года назад

:) would love to try it, though. 😊

@FreedomDaveX Год назад

I had one for the first time from a tree in my neighborhood. My thoughts were definitely banana and mango. I also tasted pear around the skin. I really want to plant myself some trees now. There should be a bigger push to get them in everyone’s yards.

@amornick3425 3 года назад

Симпатичный 🌼

@booyah2u296 2 года назад

Looks like a fijoa. I saw a plant at the garden shop but wasn't sure what it was. Will buy the plant now.

@kylehawkins8710 Месяц назад

I grew up in the Ozark Mountains and these were a big part of my childhood. But I have lived in Germany for nearly 20 years now, and was looking into whether this was something I could grow here, that's how I found your channel. Thank you very much for this channel, I have binge watched all weekend. Do you have an update on how these are doing now that you have planted them?

@robertm4050 2 года назад

They can get below -35 F since I have them growing in my backyard and 2 winters ago it hit -35 for close to 2 weeks. Trees are fine.

@CampingforCool41 2 года назад

Wonder if they would be able to grow in Minnesota...

@robertm4050 2 года назад

@@CampingforCool41 I think it gets a lot colder for longer periods of time there. Not positive though. I would get some seeds and grow those. They take forever and a day to germinate. I would try to bring the seedlings in for the winter to your basement or garage or something and still water a little on non-freezing days. By year 2 or three you can plant them in a kind of shady spot in your yard. But you need at least 2 trees for fruit and if you can get multiple varieties you will get more fruit. Just wait until you know they will grow before you buy the cultivated varieties.

@raimbowraimbow Год назад

Wow, never heard of this before, thank you for sharing! Now I have to try find seeds or a plant! Any other "tropical" fruit trees that could make it through cold winters? :)

@gislaine0908ify 2 года назад

Just got myself 2 trees and I can’t await to eat it some day. Great channel.

@TheKiwiGrower 2 года назад

Awesome! Thanks heaps

@klug_d 3 года назад

Very good video! We have one Asimina triloba since last year, flowers gonna open the next days 😀 Greetings from Austria 🇦🇹

@TheKiwiGrower 3 года назад

Thanks. How exciting, hope the fruits set for you!

@kheasyeat9157 2 года назад

I like this video

@CarlosTorres-xx1rn 3 года назад

Thanks for the video! I live in Florida USA and have never tried one. I am definitely going to get a tree. Awesome!

@TheKiwiGrower 3 года назад

Awesome, you should hopefully be able to get grafted trees over there so would be good to get at least 2 varieties. Good luck with it :)

@holdemanseth 3 года назад

Same here don’t think I’ve even seen a tree here..

@jlizamavera 2 года назад

I like chirimoyas. The juice is very popular every summer here in Chile.

@Salmiyaguy1 2 года назад

We'll be planting here in Ontario in the spring. We are excited especially since they are a host trees to Zebra Swallowtail butterfly caterpillars.

@missourimongoose8858 8 месяцев назад

My family has around 1000 acres in missouri and we have a small river that runs through it and on both sides of it are covered in paw paw trees so we pick them in the fall every year to feed them to the elk we raise so i went and picked a 5 gallon bucket full last weekend and found a arrowhead 😊 needless to say it was a fantastic day

@thomasxverde 6 месяцев назад

Nice video; the wild fruit is said to be somewhat resinous in flavor sometimes, maybe that is the bitterness; I have two grafted ones, both have flowered but no fruit yet; very pretty yellow autumn leaf color at least.

@LovinLife-pv7op 2 года назад

I live in Indiana and my Father loved Paw Paws. They just grow randomly in pastures here.

@cyndeaaron866 2 года назад

I have one of these growing in North Florida. Mine seem to attract beetles. They go right into the flowers and dig around and cover themselves with pollen. I heard these trees have medicinal qualities in their leaves and branches.

@mudgetheexpendable Год назад

Great trees for boggy areas...and grafting the best-tasting fruit onto all of the other trees is usually successful. The pulp freezes well for a year if you can vacuum-seal it. Refrigerating some in plastic bags w/seeds keeps for about two months, and the seeds within get stratified. Making gelato w/the pulp is pretty delicious, and the flavor goes beautifully with macadamia nuts.

@alyssastropicalfruittrees5754 2 года назад

Thanks for sharing video 😊 Never see the fruit America Paw Paw 🤩👍. Look like mango outside

@TheKiwiGrower 2 года назад

No worries, it's a pretty interesting fruit ay!

@beebop9808 2 года назад

Reminded me of being a kid looking for little Suzie way down yonder in the paw paw patch. lol Haven't thought about that song in 40 years I reckon.

@seamus6994 Год назад

I have several of these trees, though quite small still. Their fruit is slightly Banana tasting with a bit of vanilla custard. Though the tree loves sun. When they are young, it's best to keep them in partial shade the first few years. A shade netting works well. They are known as, UnderStory Trees. Due to the heavy canopy of adult trees around them, young trees prefer shade.

@MsCherokee70 3 года назад

Awesome video! I have 2 seedlings growing here at my home... not old enough to fruit yet.... but I'm super excited to have them.

@TheKiwiGrower 3 года назад

Sounds great! Such a cool thing to look forward to :)

@almarhea7726 3 года назад

Wow, these look really cool! I haven't seen these in stores. Do you know where I could purchase these seeds online?

@Interestinggirl-in2ne Месяц назад

This is so cool! Where did you buy them? I live in Poland and I am looking for new fruits to grow but of course I can only grow hardy fruits because winter gets really cold here, I have never seen their tree or fruit being sold in shops here so I really don't know where to look for them! I have never bought fruit trees online because I'm scared that it will arrive damaged/dead or something, but I'm kinda considering it. Do you have any online stores that you would recommend that have them? They look so tastey and exotic!

@blockhill 3 года назад

I have a few of these growing in North Canterbury. Best is only shoulder high after 6 years. I look forward to fruit.

@TheKiwiGrower 3 года назад

Sweet, a good size so will be interesting to see how it goes over the next year or 2! I’ve heard generally that it’s normal for them to grow super slowly

@catnekokotyonok5180 2 года назад

@TheKiwiGrower Hello! Thanks for the great info & also for sharing your enthusiasm! On a different site the gentleman host stated that imported fruits are irradiated (I'm in the USA, btw) and that, as such, the seeds are sterile. I noticed that you were propagating from very much imported produce, i.e, paw paw! Any advice to this end? ✌🏼, 🐱

@da1stamericus 3 года назад

I want one of these so badly. I have finally gotten a community garden, and plant to add this to my new terrace garden.

@TheKiwiGrower 3 года назад

Hope you can find one! All the best :)

@da1stamericus 3 года назад

@@TheKiwiGrower thank you so much. I am working on it. :)

@mlb-swedenthekinghouse64 3 года назад

Hi ... Thanks for your video and I just have a question for you: what kind of planetary earth do you use?

@ramieldeals6572 3 года назад

Kia ora Kalem! Just discovered your videos through RU-vid recommendations a few minutes ago and without having seen your Channel name just yet, I thought your accent sounded very Kiwi, so when my wife asked where do Feijoas come from, I said maybe from New Zealand because you sound like a Kiwi and the background looks very New Zealandish. And hey was I right when eventually saw your name channel! You're doing a very amazing stuff! How I wish I get to taste those exotic fruits too!

@TheKiwiGrower 3 года назад

Hi Ramiel, thanks heaps for the comment. Hope you get to try the fruit one day!

@Natasha-zh1br 2 года назад

Hi Ramiel, although it seems that every second house here in New Zealand has a feijoa tree, they actually come from South America 😊

@AngieAmbagan 3 года назад

I just found your chanel after watching your short clip on how to grow dragon fruit. Nice video

@TheKiwiGrower 3 года назад

Thanks so much! :)

@jamestropicals8262 2 года назад

0:33 I’m growing two rollinia trees I Highly recommend growing them, they are beautiful trees and take only around 3 or 4 years to fruit from a seed! It’s Fall here and mine are still doing well but I brought them indoors for the winter

@TheKiwiGrower 2 года назад

Nice one. I've got a few of them going as well. Hopefully they'll put on some good growth this Summer :), Hope your plants do well over Winter!

@jamestropicals8262 2 года назад

@@TheKiwiGrower Nice! Do a video on them

@Gorthuba 3 года назад

Never heard about this fruit before, it sounds really interesting! I just checked the weather history where I live in Norway and it hasn't gone below -23 celsius here for even a day in the last 10 years at least. So I'm going to try to see if I can acquire some seeds and grow them. Just to be safe, if I can manage to make them grow, I'll try shielding the plants from the cold during winter as well. Thank you!

@TheKiwiGrower 3 года назад

Hope you can find some :). Good luck with it!

@mihaiilie8808 3 года назад

Better get a grafted tree.I reccomend Prima ,because its self pollinating and flowers fast.Has big fruit.From seed they grow incredibly slow in the first 2 years.

@Gorthuba 3 года назад

@@mihaiilie8808 Yeah, as I did some research on it I came to that conclusion as well. I'm unsure about the variety though. Just to be safe I think I should go for the most cold hardy cultivar possible, but it's difficult to find out which one(s) that is.

@mihaiilie8808 3 года назад

@@Gorthuba In Europe ,the best you can get is Prima.Prima and Sunflower are the only self pollinating ones so if you would get a single tree you would have to chose between Prima and Sunflower. I have both and an american Susquehanna plus 2 from seeds. I live in Romania zone 6 and they dont have troubles with the cold.They dont like drought and dont like to get sunburned ( at least when they are young). Also,i know the guy that grafts all the Prima and Sunflowers in Italy for the whole Europe.He is a romanian .Somme german stores have a lot of varietyes but for a beginner and if you will get just a single tree i sugest Prima. Also check Neil Peterson page.He is the most famos pawpaw breeder in the world and he explains how there are 6 different tastes for pawpaws( like mango).

@Gorthuba 3 года назад

@@mihaiilie8808 I was thinking of getting two trees and I'd probably hand pollinate them. It's sadly quite a bit colder up here in Norway than further south in Europe. I checked out the Prima cultivar and it's only hardy enough for H1 in Norway, while I live in H4. I did read that some cultivars of pawpaw are hardy for H5 in Norway, but it wasn't specified which ones precisely.

@DavidA-411 3 года назад

I love Paw Paw's! Taste just like really good Kiwi's but with more of a pudding texture. I am in New England US and have had some in my freezer for a year. About to plant them to see how they do. I'll probably let you know in a couple of years 🤣 🤣 🤣

@TheKiwiGrower 3 года назад

Haha, good luck with the growing! Talk to you in 2023 😂

@kentuckyboychris 2 года назад

Same from Kentucky

@vincentliu7785 3 года назад

looks so yummy ! (^^ both)

@TheThrashCW 3 года назад

Really great vid, but I wouldn't characterize Pawpaw as "very, very" hardy. They are certainly cold tolerant, but they are only hardy to USDA zone 5 or 6. We have lots of trouble growing them here at the absolute northern edge of their native range here in Southern Ontario. For reference the coldest nights here this winter were only about -13 or -15 C. Waterloo, Ontario. As for the fruit it is an absolute FAVOURITE for me! They are so rich an delicious, to me the wild/feral Ontario variety taste like burnt sugar or creme brûlée. Absolutely unique amount the fruit I have tried. Haven't had the privilege to try any that taste like mangos yet, even the native variety here is quite rare to find and I'm over joyed just to have those seasonally. P.S: You need to cold startify Pawpaw seeds! 100 days in some moist peet at the back of the fridge usually does the trick. They will pop about two weeks to a month after that. They do great in large containers as patio plants, and yes multiaeeding the pots is a great idea :)

@TheKiwiGrower 3 года назад

Hey thanks for the info! So amazing how the flavour can vary so much between trees. Such an amazing fruit :)

@joeybonzo1758 2 года назад

These are in the woods around me. Do you know if I could grow one from a cutting? Edit: oh I just saw the part where you said it was possible

@hamhope3467 2 года назад

Love you

@Gibs11 2 года назад

Have you ever had green plums? Crunchy watery and sour I love them they pretty much unripe Plumb ever had those???

@mikeallybuchanan6096 3 года назад

Hey, just found your channel, super interesting and informative to see someone who lives in NZ. Would love to know where you are located? Thanks 😊

@TheKiwiGrower 3 года назад

Hey, thanks for the comment. I'm just south of the Auckland area :)

@C.Chabot 2 года назад

They sale them at the stores in Nebraska but I've never had a chance to eat them. Will have to grab some next time!

@TheKiwiGrower 2 года назад

Cool! Hope you give them a go :)

@sam-sam5267 2 года назад

Damn, first time hearing about this fruit, very interesting! Would be awesome to get hands on few and try it. Also try to grow it. Sadly I live in Finland which is really far up north so the plant would probaply not have enough time to produce a fruit because of short summer. I know a place in Finland where there are actually 2 of these trees growing and from the information I gathered, they have been atleast surviving for more than 10 years. Which is quite surprising since winter's are really long and cold here. Maybe they will keep growing and start producing fruit at some point!

@TheKiwiGrower 2 года назад

That would be cool to see if they do produce fruit one day! :)

@TreyNitrotoluene 2 года назад

Not only would they survive but you might want to make sure they cant go invasive.

@BornFreeFilms 8 месяцев назад

Nice video. I have tried growing all kinds of fruit trees from seed. I guess my thumb is not green. I am going to have to buy from a big box store, but, I sure hear horror stories about what they use to grow stuff. lol

@iamthefly1155 2 года назад

What if I come from a place that has a cold winter and a rainy, dark, usually pretty cold summer? What can I grow apart from old?

@aeyacastanares1034 2 года назад

Gwapo

@BayouRepairGuy 2 года назад

So with persimmons and paw paw if you put them in the freezer and remove them to the fridge 6 hours before you eat them it removes the stringent bitter taste and provides a nice smooth flavor

@KittyMama61 2 года назад

I lived in the Ozarks for many years. PawPaws grow very well there, but you have to grab them, like most wild fruit there, quickly before the animals get them. Other wild fruit is fox grapes, may apples, muscadines, persimmons and others. I especially liked to get Sumac while in season. I would make lemonade, and dry the berries.

@TheKiwiGrower 2 года назад

That's awesome, so cool to forage wild fruits! Those other ones sound great too. Sumac would be really interesting to try one day :)

@dominicsanthuff 2 года назад

Sumac also makes a really good tea when the leaves turn red don't drink it mid day tho cause it will make you pretty tired

@osofu77 2 года назад

Hola, I am currently living on East Tennessee and I do love the fruit but I can’t find it around. If anyone can help that would be great and good video man.

@oklahomaisok 2 года назад

Can the fruit be scooped out and seeds removed and frozen for later consumption? My uncle told me that the problem with pawpaws is that the whole crop ripens faster than they can be consumed at once.

@bharatmatakijai7237 2 года назад

Does it grow in tropical savanna climate?

@zZo9roYT 2 года назад

Hey Good afternoon! Alright? This fruit is very interesting, I have never seen it here in my city, here in Brazil. Would you send me some seeds here in Brazil? What would be the value? Thank you very much in advance!