Last year, we cleaned and saved about 80 pounds of pawpaw seeds, from specimens in New York, New Jersey, and Rhode Island. All of the seeds were cold-stratified over the long winter in damp soil. We set up 200 deep cone planters this spring with stratified seed, and waited. Today, we checked a few containers and found germinated seeds in all the samples! Pawpaws send down a long taproot first, before any leaf shoots emerge. We are about halfway there now, with the leaves expected in late July. We still have another 50 pounds of stratified seed around, which we will gladly give to anyone in the Canajoharie area! Please contact us to schedule a time to meet up.
