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Muskyman:

--- Quote from: sleek on September 19, 2025, 05:37:05 pm ---I just got a box of them and seeds from Muskyman. Thanks so much dude! Im going to let them sit on the windowsill and hopefully turn yellow-ish. Reading about them, they can be toxic if too green, a neurotoxin called annonacin. Either way, im very grateful for them and especially the seeds! Gonna start me a patch soon as I learn if I need to chill the seeds before planting.

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Glad they made it.

Pat B:
Eric is right about their taproot. I tried digging some at my old hunt club in GA but broke the taproot and they didn't survive.

Muskyman:
Curious if you got to try the pawpaws I sent you and your verdict on them. I only tried one and am still undecided. Going to try some next year now that I’m a little more familiar with how, when to harvest them. I’m thinking the ones I tried were not 100 percent ripe.

sleek:
First, thank you again for sending them! Only one was ripe enough to ripenenoigh by sitting to eat. The others rotted, but I plucked the seeds from them as well. The flavor was good, but obvious it was under ripe. They are good enough that im encouraged to try them again when they are ripen enough to eat directly after harvest, they seem like a wonderful fruit.

Eric Krewson:
I have shaken the tree in the past to collect a few paw paws, these were never very good to eat even after they ripened somewhat. The best tasting paw paws are ones that ripen most of the way on the tree, fall off naturally, sit one the ground for a couple of days and turn golden yellow.

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