Paw Paw Taste Test (Susquehanna, Sunflower, Mango, Prolific, NC1, 1035)

[@spiritualspinster4222]

I have a "Mango" and a "Susquehanna" planted in my yard. This is their first fruiting year. I am a happy camper! This was a valuable video. Let me tell you a short story of how I came to have 2 Pawpaw trees. My father wanted to plant some Pawpaw trees on the forested property he had bought some years before. He later got sick and was unable to pursue his forestry project. He died from heart failure a few years later. (Don't feel bad, he had a good life. I still miss him though) Anyway after I bought some property of my own, (albeit much smaller) I turned my yard into a food forest, including those 2 Pawpaw's, Peach, 2 Pears, Persimmon, 4 Hazelnut and several thornless Blackberry plants. I guess it was a tribute to him in a way. Everything planted in my yard is edible including the flowers.

[@bebebabe100]

I love this! What zone are you and what edible flowers do you grow?

[@somethingsomething404]

I’m so jealous. My mothers yard has a cherry tree and a pear tree but I wish she had pawpaws. Southern Ontario I hear they can grow but they’re not common to my knowledge

[@rodneydever7198]

Hey, Ben Bishop, great video, very nice camera. (Kudos to the person behind the camera.) Thanks for showcasing a number of my cultivars. Here is an update: You can edit the term 10-35, please do. That ID # was the tree when it was in my orchard. (It was the 35 tree in the 10th row.) I've released that cultivar by popular demand so now it has a real name --- no longer a number. We now know it as Tallahatchie, a river that an excellent song about it "Ode to Billie Joe".

[@SmartMarketingBuz]

Do you sell trees or seed? Im looking for some good varieties.

[@XoroksComment]

Good to see a Pawpaw variety taste comparison, there aren't too many available on KZbin :)

[@Labia.53]

Todas son muy sabrosas. Es una fruta totalmente desconocida en España 🇪🇸 y curiosamente se da muy bien aquí porque el clima es perfecto para este frutal. Yo tengo 2 pero no conozco a nadie que tenga alguno.

[@YepTriedToTellYou]

I grow Allegheny, Shenandoah, Susquehanna and Potomac (Peterson’s). My favorite is the Allegheny. Just to clarify the story of how Neil bred his collection; he did collect the best of all the Eastern pawpaws, but his breeding program was more complex than mentioned. He crossbred thousands of cross-pollinated pawpaws in multiple crosses then slowly selected the best of the second and third generations. Also, Sunflower is not a Peterson Pawpaw. It is a wild find. No cross breeding. I know Neil very well and he is a fine person. Please donate to his efforts.

[@seangillespie4601]

Conclusion: paw paw tastes like a sweet, mild paw paw flavor....

[@erikbarton6635]

That's what I thought it tastes like

[@ebybeehoney]

There are hints of other fruits but it really tastes like "pawpaw". It is its own thing.

[@seangillespie4601]

@@ebybeehoney then why make a video at all.

[@Chevywarrior1824]

With a marshmallow consistency 😂

[@ElleSaw]

Yep, kept waiting for specifics…never got them

[@1Ggirl1959]

We grow paws here in Ga. It is.one of my favorite fruits. Hard to describe but like a banana, pineapple,.pudding. Different varieties do taste a little.different. reminds me.of.sweet.sop in Hawaii!

[@johnpots4181]

Do you think they are comparable at all to papaya's? They look a bit like them in terms of the texture.

[@geomundi8333]

people go crazy for these named varieties but the crosses from wild collections i've planted do just as well and tend to taste better. I have found what makes them grow large is the flower petal number which might relate to ploidy, and the growing conditions. If you plant full sun, double flower row plants then they grow huge. When collecting wild fruits, mark the trees with two flower rings and then check if their fruit is extra large, if so you collect those seeds. then name them whatever. lots of hedges in IL and IN have them

[@Andrew-gx7xu]

Which varieties are your favorite

[@duaneladouceur4534]

My cousin got 12 paw paw seeds sent to him and started them up and they all took. Will say the seeds are huge...I cant wait till there grown and we can actually eat them and try them out...Going to take a few years but once there ready its going to be awsome.

[@trilobES.]

Susquehanna is my favorite!! amazing video!!

[@lyonheart84]

Great video, don't forget those suckers will be clones of the rootstock NOT the variety growing on that tree 😉

[@theforestgardener4011]

Yes good point to make. Come to think of it, you would end up with a better quality tree by planting the seeds than dividing the suckers of the rootstock.

[@lyonheart84]

@@theforestgardener4011 but you never know, rootstocks never get allowed to reach fruiting age so they could produce a decent fruit one day lol, after all that's how new varieties are discovered. I suppose you could divide off a few suckers, keep one until maturity to check out the fruit, and use the others to use as rootstocks for grafting onto 😁😁

[@grovermartin6874]

@@lyonheart84 So start young!

[@numinous2506]

​@@theforestgardener4011 Do both since they need variety to pollinate. Unless you have a self fertile variety like a sunflower.

[@Maniseesbothsides]

That answers my question Yes you can grow them in Missouri

[@Pizza-gb1ch]

Show me. 😁

[@luigi5890]

Paw Paw's have a very sweet peculiar taste all their own.

[@PHNursery]

Nice video! Pawpaw trees and seeds can be purchased at Peaceful Heritage Nursery.

[@deepwaters2334]

Good to know the best varieties.

[@sarahkirbach5040]

I’m looking at varieties to buy & very much appreciate your reviews, thanks so much!

[@jrobbin24]

What store sells paw paws?

[@flamingcouch-mp6de]

​@@jrobbin24one green world website does. Peaceful heritage nursery has a great selection but there paw paw trees aren't available to until June most years and they sell out, fast.

[@Jazzinthecountry]

Peterson is a pawpaw hero! My Susquehanna is a big producer for its size. My Peterson Shenandoah cultivar is producing this year, the tree is a beauty formwise.

[@flowerflower4587]

So do you like taste of susquehanna?

[@Jazzinthecountry]

@@flowerflower4587 Yes, maybe not my favorite, but I think it has the mildest flavor of them all. Quite the contrast with some of my more flavorful native trees.

[@twigsfloat2773]

So jealous. Grew up in Southwestern PA and miss paw paws so much. The hidden gem of that region. Great video. Good job. Thanks for sharing.

[@grovermartin6874]

When is pawpaw season in southwest Pennsylvania? And are there places where we could try them?

[@twigsfloat2773]

@@grovermartin6874 Somewhere around mid-Spetember from what I remember. Unfortunately most of the wild stands that I find won't fruit. You have to graft some branches from one stand on to another so that cross polination occurs. Something positive to do in the woods if you know where lots of stands are. They're pretty common in SW PA. A park ranger I met had them in his back yard and he would hang dead fish from his trees so flies would come in and polinate them.

[@grovermartin6874]

@@twigsfloat2773 Haha! How clever is THAT?!

[@MaryRevay]

I have some paw paw seeds from PA near WV/OH/PA. They were in a jar and labeled. Now I might try to grow it. I heard they're messy, though.

[@twigsfloat2773]

@@MaryRevay To get fruit, you have to grow genetically different trees in close proximity. Because flies help to pollinate them, I know a park ranger around here that hangs dead fish from his trees. Should be interesting, but worth it in my opinion. Because of sexual variety, there's a huge range in flavors. Some wild ones are very mild, some are incredibly flavorful. You might want to talk to people at the pawpaw festival or go somewhere to find the tastiest ones.

[@gopherbobz]

I love pawpaw variety taste comparisons. Keep going! Also sunflower is NOT a neil peterson variety.

[@theforestgardener4011]

Thanks I will do another taste taste this fall!

[@guyveloz4382]

More likely root suckers than seedlings, which is a bummer, because whole stands of paw paws can be free of fruit due to lack of cross pollination.

[@geomundi8333]

those suckers are probably wild rootstock, but might not be. depends on nursery; they don't breed totally true but they can produce viable seedlings

[@awefulwaffle5628]

The first one was way bigger than our wild pawpaws around me. At least twice as big.

[@jdl.1234]

Just made 3 Paw Paw Cheese Cakes....Michelin 5 star all the way. You must try Paw Paw fruit, its incredible.

[@numinous2506]

Ive wanted to try a pawpaw for years. They are always gone where I go to forage.

[@denisvincent1]

More paw paw taste test please 😋

[@johnpots4181]

They look texturally a lot like papaya.I wonder if they taste a similar.

[@rugvedkulkarni1593]

These pawpaws look huge. I have only every had wild pawpaws. What is the best variety you recommend for southern Ontario?

[@theforestgardener4011]

Cultivars tend to be bigger. My favorite cultivar is susquehanna. However, there is research showing paw paws in general have a neurotoxin and consumption should be limited...but the cultivar "Mango" has very very low levels, so I may start growing those.

[@danielsmith336]

@@theforestgardener4011 a neurotoxin that is also almost identical to the one in avocado and both are denatured by stomach acid before reaching the intestines where absorption would take place. The people who have had neurological effects were drinking a tea containing the chemical daily for decades. Tea that dilutes the stomach acid allowing some to be absorbed cumulatively for decades before noticeable effects occur. Eating pawpaw fruit for a couple of months a year poses no danger, just like eating avocados daily poses no risk.

[@benbishop7775]

@@danielsmith336 Not so sure about that. The studies and reports I have been reading have correlated the consumption of fresh fruit with higher levels of the toxin in the blood. I've never heard of people drinking paw paw leaf tea, but I know they drink the leaf tea of other annonacea species in the tropics.

[@werpu12]

@@benbishop7775 yes and thats exactly the only region in the earth where they have problems corellated with the neurotoxins, it is speficially one region in the carribeans where they apparently drink soursop leaf tea (another annonae fruit tree) and have higher levels of certain neurological diseases.

[@mrminer071166]

The camera picks up the breaking of the paw-paw very well.

[@thongbaichristian4256]

I wish I could get some seeds to start some plants of Paw Paw!

[@JohnDye-w2v]

This is a great video! I live in Missouri and would love to visit this location. How were you able to arrange a tour?

[@mrbeanbigpeanus6875]

Does it taste like custard apple ??? Why don’t they sell it the U.S grocery??

[@MaryJane-tq5gm]

The shelf life is too short once ripe you have like 2-3 days to eat them at most

[@0mypod0]

You have baked goods listed in the description as a use for paw paws. I have read a few times that you cannot cook them as they go rancid almost immediately when cooked and cause violent food poisoning. Can you clarify this?

[@coltenle]

I bought wild pawpaws off Facebook marketplace and couldn't eat them all before going bad. My girlfriend made them into an amazing pawpaw bread. She followed a banana bread recipe and just substituted pawpaws for bananas. So good. Recently ordered pawpaw wine off the internet. If you like sweet wine definitely recommend.

[@Leba2006]

Very informative. I've never had or had ever heard of a Paw Paw. Would those grow in North Texas weather? Where can I get some seeds? Thank you

[@ericfrontczak6118]

They grow in michigan weather so yes

[@70sfred1]

They grow wild here in Ohio. I usually see them near a creek and like he says, they like a little shade.

[@cupofnoodles3247]

this guy got devil fruit powers

[@Pay-It_Forward]

your time stamp for 37 seconds in says "PAPAYA"

[@maestra3947]

Do you have a link where yo buy the plant? I love more acidic flavors. Great video!

[@Sam..............]

HI...is there a way I can I get paw paw seeds from you? where in NJ are you located?

[@kd6836]

We used to have a lot of these in the woods, persimmon too. Very rare now. I don’t think I’ve had a Paw paw in 10 years.

[@jacobweber5743]

I just vaccinated in southern Ohio, little cabin in the woods named paw paw cabin. These trees were absolutely everywhere and in all stages of life !

[@Luvmygoats]

My local small nursery here in Cumberland, MD, has some small pawpaw fruit trees. They're about 2 foot tall. I just went back and got the last apricot tree. Now I have to go back and get a pawpaw. I almost got one the other day and didn't. I live near PawPaw, WV, that'll help me remember what they are, 😆

[@georgekunnel7640]

From where I get paw paw seeds or plants How long to fruits this trees. What climate it need. If anybody knows this will explain.?

[@boomstickaficionados]

Can i get some seeds from the first tree??

[@radi2173]

Arent they refined? Are they clones?

[@SomeOne-yv8jf]

Is the skin edible like a mango's skin?

[@philipsaoud244]

No. The skin and seeds are slightly toxic.

[@Sidewayzzzz]

I live in fort worth texas and im wondering if they grow here

[@landrylee6207]

Yes,u can

[@angeizy9027]

Wowww this is delicious in peru is chirimoya 😋😋

[@minhdinh1046]

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[@うさぎのミミ]

I grow popo in a planter, but I am in trouble because the number of scarab beetle larvae is increasing. Are there any pesticides suitable for extermination?

[@rbnhd1976]

Diatomaceous earth might work

[@AlexandroMechina-yb3tf]

It is like soursop?

[@Sam-h1h]

You wanna get right before they fall off the tree I grew up in the mountains of va and wva you want to let ripe like a banana or it will give you the runs you want the skin to be like a dark yellow almost brown then they are ready taste like a pina colada

[@presterjohn1697]

I tend to believe the Paw Paw was brought to North America via a Native American trade and migration networks with South America. It's a close relative to another native North American fruit called the Pond Apple found in Florida which served as a food source for the Seminole Nation.

[@theforestgardener4011]

Perhaps. But considering how cold tolerant it is, surviving even in Canada, it makes me think that it evolved to adapt to northern climates many tens of thousands of years ago. But I suppose there could have been Native Americans moving seeds around then.

[@presterjohn1697]

@@theforestgardener4011 Good point. I didn't realize it's region stretched to Canada. How about that. This stuff is so fascinating to decode. It's likely too that animals carried seeds of Paw Paw ancestor varieties to North America as well and the tree became naturalized over millennia.

[@yaddahaysmarmalite4059]

considering that there are no wild pawpaws in south america, there's no substance to support your hypothesis. pawpaw and cherimoya shared a common ancestor but that would have been in far more ancient times when the continents were connected. millions of years ago. dna testing can give us an idea of how long ago but I don't believe anyone has done that yet.

[@3455BT]

Where are you located ?

[@ivanguajardo7111]

Can a paw paw be grafted to a chirimoya tree?

[@gaborhovan3530]

No. It can only hold it for maximum one year.

[@GraftingTactick]

Beautiful fruits, can you grow from seed, looks similar to custard apple 👍

[@theforestgardener4011]

Yes you can grow from seed!

[@grovermartin6874]

What I've read says that "custard apple" is another name for "pawpaw."

[@gaducadza2473]

@@grovermartin6874 No it is not. they are the family.

[@werpu12]

tastes also very similarily top cherimoya but does not grow in the tropics!

[@XxZombieHunter900xX]

Skip to 1:50 your welcome

[@darcoln3208]

Will Pawpaws grow under Black Walnut trees?

[@saintmaxmedia2423]

yes, no problem whatsoever. I have black walnuts and pawpaws grow right under. Eva

[@blackkennedy3966]

Black walnuts are their “nurse” trees they grow under them when young and can’t handle the shade and once they are adults and can handle full sun they pop out of the shade canopy

[@saintmaxmedia2423]

@@blackkennedy3966 not sure what you mean by that. Black walnut is much taller than pawpaw, always.

[@southernyankeeprepper]

​@@saintmaxmedia2423Walnut trees give off jugalone, a toxic chemical which many types of trees and plants can't live around or they die because of the jugalone. This is a good question I have a huge walnut tree in my yard and was wondering same thing. I would like some more info from anyone who has tried it and their results

[@lukeott58]

Do you sell seeds?😊

[@beautiful4est]

if is a sucker is gonna be a clone of the rootstock, not of the graft :P

[@ravashhoodfar4084]

Hi. Do you know where to buy the best quality stratified seeds of different sorts ready for planting?

[@theforestgardener4011]

I purchased some seedlings of improved varieties from Oikos Tree Crops, they had a good price for a pack of 25. Seeds are trickier because they can't dry out. I would post on the Facebook Paw Paw fanatics group and ask.

[@ravashhoodfar4084]

@@theforestgardener4011 Thank you very much for the information. I appreciate it. I don't have Facebook, but I would be very grateful if you would ask and share with me. God bless. Cheers.

[@fearlessbeast5456]

Hi I am very interested into this fruits . I have never heard it in my country nepal . Please can you send me some seeds that I can try to grow up ?

[@taheraomar9210]

Where can I get these seeds from in America ?

[@allenzachary773]

Tradewindfruits

[@jordant.teeterson3100]

Kinda looks like a custard apple

[@mcclaynjazmyn9845]

All that and still don't know what a PawPaw is suppose to taste like....

[@334outdoors8]

Banana/mango with a lil bit of guava

[@miguelfreytes3498]

Why don't sale's the fruit in super markets.sales sweet apples look like guanabana small sweet# 6:00 dolar

[@flatsville1]

Where is this agro forest facility in Missouri? Is it the one mentioned here in New Franklin? agebb.missouri.edu/agforest/archives/v13n4/gh1.htm I would like to tour or visit.

[@theforestgardener4011]

Yes, it's part of the Horticultural and Agroforestry Research Farm at the University of Missouri.

[@riidwanrahat1476]

I live in Bangladesh can I grow pawpaw here

[@Ami-ut2us]

It's a tempeerate species so probably needs a cold period. Its in the annona genus so soursop and other tropicals are your better fit.

[@vacciniumaugustifolium1420]

You can grow amazing anona like A. Squamosa!

[@outsidewithjeff]

I enjoyed watching your video and I can’t wait to see what is coming up next. I also have a channel so if you check it out be sure to drop a comment and let me know if you enjoyed it.

[@juanitaheath-mp1gb]

They look like a mango

[@letagwinn2622]

ALWAYS LOVED PAWPAWS AS A CHILD BUT HIGHLY ALLERGIC I WOULD EAT ONE AND SWELL UP AND HAVE AN AWFUL RASH

[@davidhunt7519]

You're on a farm, and you don't have a knife??

[@georgesedeno7891]

Nor face wipes...

[@whoisme678]

Id clear that tree and pay for it later

[@spring9603]

[@pawpawplanet1755]

4:23 a bad case of vascular wilt on Prolific.

[@lordsams]

Better with why do people want seedless

[@lordsams]

Dumb

[@stevencasley499]

Way down yonder in the pawpaw patch

[@BrianBellia]

I'm here after years of listening to the Clampetts talk about paw paws on The Beverly Hillbillies.

[@fearlessbeast5456]

Hi I am very interested into this fruits . I have never heard it in my country nepal . Please can you send me some seeds that I can try to grow up ?

[@theforestgardener4011]

Sorry I don't think I can send seeds internationally.

[@fearlessbeast5456]

@@FreeAmerican no I haven't received

[@fearlessbeast5456]

@@FreeAmerican in which address you sent the seeds?

[@ALFORDACRESFARM]

@@fearlessbeast5456 do you get at 400 chill hours?

[@kenporonin1]

Conclusion: Paw Paw's are sweet.....! PS. this is rocket science....!