raygrogan

Yes on the suckers. (Almost too much - kind of a pain - I haven't tested but have been told that you can kill them with glyphosate as long as you only do it early in the year, like May, when all the sap is going out.) As to your question of using suckers to make a new tree. My neighbor did that, just fine. The suckers do not have great root systems, so I think he cut part of the leaves off, too. Do it (and all pawpaw transplanting) while the tree is active, not dormant like most trees.