hedgehog
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Tue Apr-29-08 08:59 PM
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Is anyone here familar with paw paw trees? I decided to try to |
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plant some since this is a native species, but Wiki describes the flower as foetid, so I am unsure how close to the house I want them.
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noamnety
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Wed Apr-30-08 08:05 AM
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I love them. I've never noticed any smell from them at all. They've been maintenance free, free of all the disease and scum that attacks my other trees - and they have really nice tropical looking leaves. Sometimes I hand pollinate with a paintbrush because I read that bugs aren't all that interested in pollinating them. But last year I was slow to do it, and they created a bunch of fruit anyway. Anyway, being close enough to the flowers to pollinate, you'd think I'd have noticed a smell. And I have a really sensitive sense of smell.
Keep an eye of the fruit - if you have critters in the yard, they'll swipe it behind your back.
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Wed Apr-30-08 09:23 AM
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2. Thanks - apparently at one time they were all over the Northeast |
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Edited on Wed Apr-30-08 09:23 AM by hedgehog
but I've never seen one. SInce I'm allergic to fresh (uncooked) banana and pineapple, I'm halfway suspicious I'll love the fruit but be unable to eat it!
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Wed Apr-30-08 10:30 AM
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3. There are wild stands of them |
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at a local nature center. One of my trees bloomed a year or two before the other started, so in those years I rode my bike there, and collected the pollen with the paintbrush and a ziploc bag.
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Wed Apr-30-08 01:50 PM
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4. I have been checking them out. |
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When I was a kid my grandma would take us out into the country to pick them. I think they might have been considered native to the area but if not they do well here with little to no care. I am considering planting a few of them next year.
I do not remember a smell but that was a long time ago. Still, if it was that bad I would remember it since smell seems to be my strongest sense and many of my oldest memories are triggered by smell.
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