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Originally Posted by NeedForSeed
I'm wondering if anybody has some experience with growing asimina triloba from seed. I've read that they are fairly cold tolerant but will they survive a zone 7? Also, as they can't pollinated themselves is it enough with 2 plants to get fruit or does it have to be one female & one male? How about the growth rate?
In other words: is it even worth trying?  |
Pollination: Poor pollination has always plagued the pawpaw in nature, and the problem has followed them into domestication. Pawpaw flowers are perfect, in that they have both male and female reproduction parts, but they are not self-pollinating. The flowers are also protogynaus, i.e., the female stigma matures and is no longer receptive when the male pollen is shed. In addition pawpaws are self-incompatible, requiring cross pollination from another unrelated pawpaw tree.