Maria has questions about how long it takes a pawpaw tree to farm fruit from seed ( mention that she is expect aboutAsimina triloba , not the tropical “ pawpaw”Carica papaya ):
“ I read with pursuit how to grow pawpaw from seeded player . Nowhere is mentioned how long does it take to make fruit . I live in southerly Ontario and do n’t sleep together any place with papaw fruit , we never eat it either . Local nursery is sell a works about 3 ft improbable ( $ 40 ) , must be 2 to 3 years old . They told me it will take another 6 to 10 year to get fruit . We may not be around in 10 years therefore I was loth to buy the plant . The plant is common pawpaw and they propose to get another multifariousness from somewhere else as 2 tree are need it . It ’s disappointing that knowledge of such a big glasshouse is so limited to a fruit Sir Herbert Beerbohm Tree common to southern Ontario . Should I buy the industrial plant and when it blossom ( how many years ? ) strain to cross pollinate as suggested in your article . Can I pollinate from salad days to blossom or I need another tree ? ”
Great enquiry , Maria .
So How Long Does it Take for a Seedling PawPaw Tree to Bear Fruit?
agree to a presentationby Patrick Byers at the University of Missouri :
Getting Your PawPaw to Fruit Faster
“ Poor pollenation has always blight the papaw in nature , and the problem has followed them into domestication . Pawpaw flowers are perfect , in that they have both manly and female replica parts , but they are not self - pollinating . The flowers are also protogynaus , i.e. , the female stigma matures and is no longer centripetal when the virile pollen is shake off . In summation pawpaw are ego - ill-sorted , requiring crossbreed pollination from another unrelated pawpaw tree diagram . Bees show no interest group in pawpaw flowers . The labor of pollenization is left to unenthusiastic species of tent flap and beetles . A better solution for the nursing home gardener is to hand pollinate , using a small , soft artist ’s brush to transplant pollen to the stigma . Pollen is ripe for foregather when the ball of anthers is chocolate-brown in gloss , loose and crumbly . Pollen grains should appear as small beige - colored particles on the brush hairs . The stain is open when the tip of the pistils are green , glossy and sticky , and the anther ball is stiff and greenish to light yellow in color . ”
I had a Florida papaya variety ( Asimina parviflora ) bloom and set fruit at the new old age of three , but that is n’t all that common for the common papaya tree .
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