PAW PAW FRUIT THREAD: Asimina Triloba - The Strongest Anti-Cancer Plant is from US!

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Algarve is a bit too hot. All the north and central Portugal is great to produce!

One heck of an awesome thread, Luisport! Wish I could give you all ten of my greens.

If my computer weren't so screwed up, I'd watch all the videos, too.

You might try getting a negative ion disk and put the pawpaw in the refrigerator. By poutting the disk in the refrigerator the negative ions can double the length of time food stays fresh.

I got one on Etsy that has a 7K rating. Got three actually. Going to order three more once my computer problems are cleared up. It's called Quantum BioPhysics.

Put the same disk on an injured knee that was acting up last night when I was trying to sleep. It improved the situation from "Damn, that hurts" to a much milder twinge.

Last Edited by Booger Cancer on 07/15/2017 01:58 PM

Thank's a lot!

Every premium member ought to give you a green for the effort you put into this thread!

The amount of sugar in this recipe and most desserts promotes cancer. I usually reduce the amount called for by 75% to 85%.

Did the Purdue guy say to make tea out of the bark?

The bark is poison, we can't take it. Yes of course the fruit is very sweet and don't nead much sugar i think

Paw Paws are not Papayas!

I have some paw paw trees. They are indigenous to this area (SE US). They grow in patches of trees (paw paw patch) near water, like creeks.

No problem :) It happens!

September 15th to the 17th. Come early and stay late. There's camping available too. Every year it gets bigger, and is very popular. There are hourly shuttles from Athens to the festival, near Albany. Cheap way to get from the Columbus International airport to Athens would probably be the GoBus.

Lots of things to do, look at, and sample in the way of pawpaws. Live music. More than several micro-brewers supply different recipes of pawpaw beer on tap at the beer tent. For those who don't drink alcohol, two recipes of pawpaw soda pop were on tap last year. There is a pawpaw eating contest, classes to learn how to grow pawpaws, and a pawpaw bake-off. Mamerto does the Atlatl demonstration and practice. Snowville Creamery makes and sells pawpaw ice-cream, on the site, and offers free samples of all their Grass-Grazed, Non-GMO, A2/A2 Dairy Products.
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"The 19th Annual Ohio Pawpaw Festival features 3 days of all things pawpaw - live music, local food & microbrews, community marketplace, Pawpaw 4-Miler Run, Pawpaw Double Nickel Bike Ride, pollinator/butterfly exhibits, contests, art, history, education, sustainable living workshops, activities for the kids and lots more."
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Cool thanks for sharing.

We had one when we moved in here - actually two but one was seak looking and we removed it...and never got more than one or two small fruits...

Then I let some of the suckers grow...and some got over 3 feet tall ...and last year our crop was MUCH BIGGER...apparently this fruit needs TWO TREES to cross pollinate like a lot of others.

I have 9 in pots growing to transplant ...and another dozen suckers getting over 3 feet tall...going to take with me to some land I have and plant a PAW PAW PLANTATION!!!

No its not. I'm from West Virginia and the paw paw grows there. I've ate them. They're delicious.

No its not. I'm from West Virginia and the paw paw grows there. I've ate them. They're delicious.

He doesn't really even talk about paw paw?

We don't have paw paw, but it's easy to get soursop/graviola, which is called "guanábana" here.

We also have cassava/manioc, which is called "yuca" here, and it's high in "vitamin" B17, the substance in apricot seeds.

Every place on earth has its natural cancer fighters. God is good.

Do not leave out that our bodies have billions of Cannabinoid receptors that are good for only this very thing, Cannabis. Another BIG C Killer , Mary Jane loves you.

How about letting us in on maybe where and when this festival is. I am an Ohioan.

Paw Paw is what I call my Pug when I don't call him Pee Paw...

Five stars, so interesting. Sounds like those could grow here on the Pacific Northwest Coast.

I think these are some wild paw paw trees in this movie scene. The trees with the long broad leaves

Apparently eating paw paw didn't have a good affect on these locals

It grows wild on my in-laws property in WV. The animals do get to it.

I've got 7-8 fruiting pawpaws. Possums and raccoons wiped out my fruit last year, though.

They do not bloom in winter, but they do bloom in early spring. They bloom before the leaves emerge. Trees are not male or female, but the flowers do start out female and then turn male. This is so that the tree cannot pollenate itself. The flowers are not terribly attractive to pollinators, so some people hang road-kill in the tress to encourage flies and other insects. Hand pollinating is easy and very doable.

There are a number of good varieties, some mentioned here (Peterson varieties, mango, sunflower, etc).

Trees should be transplanted in early spring, if digging up plants,meant until leaves start to emerge. Taproots are hard to dig up, but saving the whole root isn't necessary, or even frequently possible.

Skins, stems and leaves are not to be eaten and some people have developed Parkinson's like symptoms from excessively eating these parts.

The Pawpaw tree is the host of the swallowtail butterfly.m during fall it turns a lovely buttery yellow color. Besides the caterpillars and the previously mentioned possums and raccoons the tree has no real pest issues.

Fruit ranges from a few ounces to well over a pound and 1.5 pound fruits are not unheard of. The fruit grows in clusters called hands and can be identified as ripe by feel and/or smell. Individual trees may have fruit which is creamy white, yellow or even orange. The more orange the fruit the more citrus-y the flavor.

I prefer the more orange fruits (Mango variety for instance).

Chilled pawpaw was a colonial favorite. Lewis and Clark enjoyed the fruit along with biscuits or bread.

Cooking the fruit tends to reduce the flavor.

Pawpaws graft well using whip and tongue or cleft grafting. New grafts must be protected from direct sunlight for the first year, but do well thereafter.

They are among my favorite fruits here in Michigan.

I've got 7-8 fruiting pawpaws. Possums and raccoons wiped out my fruit last year, though.

They do not bloom in winter, but they do bloom in early spring. They bloom before the leaves emerge. Trees are not male or female, but the flowers do start out female and then turn male. This is so that the tree cannot pollenate itself. The flowers are not terribly attractive to pollinators, so some people hang road-kill in the tress to encourage flies and other insects. Hand pollinating is easy and very doable.

There are a number of good varieties, some mentioned here (Peterson varieties, mango, sunflower, etc).

Trees should be transplanted in early spring, if digging up plants,meant until leaves start to emerge. Taproots are hard to dig up, but saving the whole root isn't necessary, or even frequently possible.

Skins, stems and leaves are not to be eaten and some people have developed Parkinson's like symptoms from excessively eating these parts.

The Pawpaw tree is the host of the swallowtail butterfly.m during fall it turns a lovely buttery yellow color. Besides the caterpillars and the previously mentioned possums and raccoons the tree has no real pest issues.

Fruit ranges from a few ounces to well over a pound and 1.5 pound fruits are not unheard of. The fruit grows in clusters called hands and can be identified as ripe by feel and/or smell. Individual trees may have fruit which is creamy white, yellow or even orange. The more orange the fruit the more citrus-y the flavor.

I prefer the more orange fruits (Mango variety for instance).

Chilled pawpaw was a colonial favorite. Lewis and Clark enjoyed the fruit along with biscuits or bread.

Cooking the fruit tends to reduce the flavor.

Pawpaws graft well using whip and tongue or cleft grafting. New grafts must be protected from direct sunlight for the first year, but do well thereafter.

They are among my favorite fruits here in Michigan.

they will be ripening in August here...shake tree and they Fall...but chipmunks often beat us to them...do NOT wait until they are on the ground...but you can't really ripen them nicely after picked (possible on the windowsill)
...so careful selection required.

Best way we like to eat them is scooping out of skin and using mixed slices on top of vanilla ice cream

Yummy!