ohhh wow .. U know Ur 🐾🐾’s🍃 had no idea so many varieties .. THX 🙏 never tasted one .. heard in all videos they are delicious ..but U say “some wild have aftertaste” .. interesting .. wondering about nutritional value & what compound causes aftertaste .. this 🐾🐾🍃obsession is getting more complex 💞😹🍃🌞
Pawpaw trees and the skin and seeds of the fruit contain alkaloids that are very bitter tasting and help keep critters from eating the foliage and branches for the most part. That said, some wild varieties contain quite a bit of bitter aftertaste in the fruit pulp itself, which is something many selected varieties don't have nearly as much.
@@captiveroots3037 KSU Chappell, KSU Hi 7-1, are both Susquehanna seedlings. There is hundreds of new Susquehanna seedlings at KSU starting to have fruit. Fall of 2024 should be an awesome time to have a visit video from KSU on those new cultivars! Sheri Crabtree research assistant is the contact person.
Great video explanation on cultivar fruit vs wild fruit. If you're going to grow pawpaws for fruit you're better off growing improved cultivars. Wild pawpaws can be really good too, but like you said it's a mixed bag. Happy growing
There's definitely a huge customer base the past couple of years! This year they closed the road and had everyone come in a one way route and it was non stop cars the entire time we were there. I never saw a break in traffic coming in!
For me, Susquehanna would be a 7: strong flavor, good fruit size. Shenandoah is a 9. Just about the perfect pawpaw. Large, rich, zero bitterness. Perfect for me is Allegheny. It's Shenandoah with just a touch more flavor, but much smaller fruit size
True, but not all seeds are equal. Pomegranate seeds are delicious, pawpaw seeds are inedible! Fruit to seed ratio is a big deal in pawpaws. If you've ever cut open a wild seedling fruit packed full of seeds it's a real bummer and almost never tastes good.
Can you please share your impression about PA Golden taste? Is it really not so good as others? I live in North and am looking for early ripening varieties and have some doubts regarding PA Golden...
Honestly I'm not a huge fan of the PA golden fruits I've tried. The ones I've had all seem to have a watery texture compared to other varieties. That could just be bad luck though. There are also a bunch of PA Golden varieties from what I understand so maybe we got a so so one. It wasn't terrible but pretty mediocre compared to others.
@@AH-of6td Never tried those... I know that NC1 comes from Ontario Canada, and I really like the taste (we're growing one but ours hasn't fruited yet because it's still young). That could be a good one to look into! Around here (southwest NY state) most of the Peterson varieties would be ripe by November 1, which would be fine 9/10 years. Many/most would be early to mid October.
Hello! Unfortunately I don't have any seeds available this year, but in future years we might! If you write the KSU pawpaw program, they might send you a handful of free seeds! They used to do that but I'm not 100% sure if they still do. It's worth checking out though.
It's decent, but I only got to try a couple the very first year of the festival. As I recall, they were fairly nondescript. Not overly bitter but not overly remarkable either. We bought a seedling of it, which won't be 100% true to type, but should be interesting in a few years. Stage of ripeness matters a ton with pawpaws I've found.
That one wasn't really ripe enough to say, sadly. That's the downside of the York festival growing so large .. they need fruit to sell so it's getting picked way too early in some cases. I get why but it does negatively affect fruit quality.
It's a popular one... I've never been able to try the fruit yet, but many who have say it's tasty! The tree we're growing is a seedling, but it seems to have the fast growing qualities that Mango pawpaw are known for so hopefully in a year or two we'll have a fruit to test!
