Citrus Growers Forum

mrtexas · Posted: Sun 04 Jul, 2010 6:42 pm

Nice bunch of Naomi Delicious pawpaws. Today I found a small one on the ground and it was ready! That's pretty early for SE Texas. It's usually about a month from now. I have 4 mature trees. One is a Neil Peterson special. However, I can't tell that the Peterson one is any better than the local native or Naomi Delicious.

TRI · Posted: Sun 04 Jul, 2010 8:00 pm

Do Pawpaws fruit reliably with less than 200 hours chilling?

David. · Posted: Sun 04 Jul, 2010 10:24 pm

I read that they require 400 hours of chill hours

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mrtexas · Posted: Mon 05 Jul, 2010 12:45 am

SE Texas is the southern most extent of pawpaw range. Don't know about chilling. We have enough here in Beaumont, TX.

boneyard3 · Posted: Wed 14 Jul, 2010 1:33 pm

mrtexas wrote:

Nice bunch of Naomi Delicious pawpaws. Today I found a small one on the ground and it was ready! That's pretty early for SE Texas. It's usually about a month from now. I have 4 mature trees. One is a Neil Peterson special. However, I can't tell that the Peterson one is any better than the local native or Naomi Delicious.

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I like the looks of your paw-paw's. I started 4 tree's in 2006 , these are nurseries bought and doing well. 3 of them produces each one string this year.
That would be a first.

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I like a good veriety of citrus and just a couple of mango's.Got everything else already.