Shredded wheat with bran and pawpaw.
PawPaw tree.
- Thread starter Lloyd Gordon
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Shredded wheat with bran and pawpaw.
Local produce, tomatoes, bay leaf and pawpaw.
Does anybody want any Toronto-hardy (5b maybe) pawpaw seeds? PM me.
Pawpaw selfie. I'm not sure why I look like I'm in a bad mood. Maybe I'm telling people to leave my tree alone.
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Today many Pawpaw flowers were ready for pollination. You could tell because the stamens were loose with pollen easily dislodged. I took my little paintbrush and tried to pollinate all the ones that were ready and that I could reach. These finally had a smell: not at all the alleged rotting meat smell. There was a mild fragrance which was a version of the main note of ripe Pawpaw fruit.
Near the top left, there's something that looks like a little green claw. I believe that's a fertilized flower and each of the "fingers" will be fruits. Maybe my paintbrush worked.
As I mentioned, I hand pollinated the PawPaw this year and there seems to be a bumper crop with the usual squirrel damage. The walnut and acorn crop is great this year so hopefully the squirrels will not ruin too many. One small end branch had broken as the 6 fruits were too heavy. They were the only fruit that were ripening, probably as the branch was almost off. I harvested them before they went bad and now my workroom smells of ripe Pawpaw.
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Ate a few Pawpaws. Anybody want free seeds? PM me. These seeds are self pollinated from a tree that has perfect flowers so you should only need one Pawpaw to get fruits.
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Seeing these Pawpaws inspire me to keep at it. I planted some trees in a clearing in my woods a few years back and ran into some set backs. A couple died over the first winter and then the deer decided that pawpaw is their favorite food and ate the rest to the ground. Last year I protected them in cages made of hardware cloth.
Sparrow
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Listened to a podcast today. They were talking about how the Pawpaw is a neurotoxin. You have to eat it all the time to be effected though. They also said how it tastes like a mixer of banana and mango.
@Lloyd Gordon do you have any seeds still.
@Lloyd Gordon do you have any seeds still.
Sorry @Sparrow. I gave all the seeds away. If you want more, remind me next September and I'll collect some.
It seems you'd have to eat a LOT of Pawpaws to get toxic but then there's always someone who will be weird and prove you wrong. I ate quite a bit this year-you can judge if I'm more brain-damaged than usual. I can attest that you should NOT eat them if they're over-ripe (past the nice, soft, yellowy stage -think greyish). I did and it was not fun (details are not for the faint of heart).
It seems you'd have to eat a LOT of Pawpaws to get toxic but then there's always someone who will be weird and prove you wrong. I ate quite a bit this year-you can judge if I'm more brain-damaged than usual. I can attest that you should NOT eat them if they're over-ripe (past the nice, soft, yellowy stage -think greyish). I did and it was not fun (details are not for the faint of heart).
Sparrow
Carnivorous Plant Addict
Lmao sounds messy. I'll remind you next Sept.
Olivera
Carnivorous Plant Addict
Never tried,heard it is native to North America.
What do you use it for?Just eating fresh or using in cooking,baking also?
Olivera
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Interesting flower.
Native for eating fresh when bright orange. Do not cook! Bad chemical reaction. Also toxic in large quantities, some cultivated varieties are much less toxic.
Olivera
Carnivorous Plant Addict
Thanks,yes...I just read that skin and seeds are toxic to humans.
It can cause the nerve damage.
The flesh has some of the toxin also.