dendrite

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RGEM and NAM get the secondary going around NYC and track it over SNE up to coastal ME. Hopefully that keeps the rain going a little longer and heavier up here.

Don’t worry about a thing. Cause every little thing is gonna be alright.

I’ll add that there’s a guy growing them in VT (Buzz Ferver) that is right next to MPV airport. I know of a few people growing them in Quebec too. There’s someone in northern Aroostook near the border growing them, but he just planted them within the last few years. He’s lost most of his peaches as well so he planted those hardy Siberian C seedlings.

Your problem would be getting ripe fruit with your frost pocket and short growing season. There’s a couple of really early cultivars that may get you fruit in longer growing seasons…Halvin, Summer, Delight, and VE-21 come to mind. At the least they’re a tropical looking, ornamental tree in the landscape. KSU Chappell is by far the most vigorous variety out there, but not necessarily precocious. That’s a nice one to have if you want one to size up quickly. They can be slow growing the first few years so it’s nice to have one that at least looks like a tree.

A cool +1.5 Sep and +2.2 Oct so far for CON.

I assume you’ve tried them. Any particular variety? The wild seedling ones can have some weird flavors or unpleasant aftertaste. But seedlings with two high quality parents generally produce very good fruit as well.

I moved the plant posts to the garden thread.

In ground. They handled the Feb 2023 -18° with -45° wind chills fine. Grafted trees take about 5 years. Seedlings 7-8. It depends on genetics too. I pull the seeds and then scoop it. When they’re really ripe they have a custard like texture. You should hit up the guy in Marlborough next fall. His entire 1/4 acre is pawpaws and persimmon. FYI…I’ll move all of the plant posts to the garden thread.

In some parts of the world people call papaya “pawpaws” so yeah…there can be some confusion. But we have our own pawpaw.

I was looking at the 2nd half record lows for October at CON…low to mid teens. Those temps feel like an eternity away.

Pawpaws…not papaya. They can handle -20s fine.

Pawpaw/asimina triloba I have about 40 different tree cultivars in the yard and another hundred seedlings growing in pots. They’re North America’s largest native fruit. They’re tropical in origin, but evolved to handle cold winters. There’s still a lot of tropical characteristics to the trees and fruit. They’re sort of their own taste, but some have hints of custardy banana, vanilla, melon, mango, or even coconut. There’s quite a few people growing them in New England now. Next season I’ll try to post some of the CT/MA/RI growers if anyone wants to try some.

Two different things. Pawpaws are native to north america/ontario and are hardy to zone 4.

Where are the pawpaws?

Mostly sunny all morning here, but the NE flow cumulus are trying to back in.

40-80” here would be terrible to near average.

Mins this morning. Glad I’m a Tolland-lite.

30.9° Heavy frost

Chilly evening. 43° and breezy

Anger laced with fear

It’s Halloween so who really cares. We’re just getting into graupel shower season.

35.6° for the min this morning…may go the next week without going below freezing.

Ice generally needs a below freezing nucleus to form on so when that ice free day comes, we’ll have to refreeze the arctic from the outside-in which I would think would really slow refreeze up. As long as we have some slabs floating mid-ocean we can refreeze around those areas. The longer it’s open the more we’ll keep the moisture and heat flux going up there which will really hurt the source region for early winter.