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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.

Those are nice trees. I love large black walnuts or hickories. Most hickories are really slow growers at first so when you plant one you’re basically planting it for future generations. I have some butternuts I started from seed years ago, but like most native trees today, they develop diseases after maturity and begin to decline rapidly.

Yeah I don’t think you technically go below freezing at 2m on the euro or gfs. You’ll sneak one in I bet within 2 weeks though.

I wonder how warm we can get the arctic ocean in the summer once it finally goes ice free.

I’m hoping I’ve already seen my coldest temp of the winter.

Well I still need a lot of rain so I will take it by any means possible. Euro and goofus deliver an inch here late week in different ways. It’s time to start covering the picnic tables.

Whimper

This is the new limit.

1104hr looks good

Still dropping…wth 35.8°