Brian

Clumps of Paw Paws can be the same tree genetically because they send up suckers.

A lot of them do need cross pollination if I remember. You might want to do the Cherimoya trick and try some assisted pollination because I heard that in some places low fruit set can be because of pollination. I heard of people trying to put meat on or under the tree to attract flys . . .

barnetmill

They extend down to at northern florida in their range. Fruit is not so suitable for shipping. There is some work in trying to make paw paws suitable for commercial purposes.

From just Fruits and Exotics webpage.

Brian

Oh, also remember there's no reason you can't have one tree and just graft a pollinator branch or a few varieties on. Just don't do it in winter like stone fruit/pome fruit. Wait until the "rootstock" tree wakes up.

barnetmill

That may be my problem with grafting onto wild persimmons and poor success. Perhaps I needed to wait a little longer. My property has at least 20 wild persimmons and my grafting success has been very low.

Brian

So I have never actually had a Persimmon graft take while the tree was dormant. (At least ones I've done, but I often use inferior knifes, etc.) Well the one case I did get take the tree sent out buds the week I did the graft. I suspect that unlike rose member families the Persimmons/relatives and the Annona/Pawpaws families actually do shut down more when they go dormant. i.e. they don't heal the graft/wound while dormant the same way apples, apricots, etc. do.

I don't know this, but I suspect it based on what I've seen here in NorCal.

I bet if you graft after the rootstock shows signs of waking up you'll have much better results.

I am not the most experienced grafter though so take what I say with a grain of salt.

barnetmill

Sounds like sound counsel that i will follow unless I read differently.

Thanks