On 03/23/2011 07:03 PM, Brooklyn1 wrote:
On Wed, 23 Mar 2011 11:46:23 -0500, Mysterious Traveler
wrote:

Has anyone planted or seen Paw Paw trees growing?
I planted two today. I think they're in a good spot
where they will get enough water and have good soil.

Here's a link I found with some good information that
seems like they will grow in West Texas Zone 7.
http://www.blossomnursery.com/pawpaw_HABITAT.html

On March 13, I ordered from Burgess seed at www.eburgess.com
and expected then in two more weeks, but got them Monday and
have been rushing to plant.

6..Chestnut trees
4..Hazelnut trees
2..Paw Paw trees
2..Standard Elberta peach
2..Russian Mulberry

A nice selection. However they sell very young specimens, seedlings
really... I hope you are very young.
I've got a good twenty years left in me, I hope.

I would have bought from a local
nursery, you'd spend a little more but at least you'd have trees. Even
decent sized balled/burlapped saplings (1" caliper) can take 3-4 years
to begin growing after the shock of transplanting and then some need
half a lifetime to become large enough to sit in their shade.
There are other trees big enough to sit under. I like a challenge.

Peach trees produce a lot quicker, but still I'd buy more mature
nursery stock, peach trees are rather inexpensive so why plant a
seeding and wait so long. Peach trees are also not very long lived,
something to consider if a specimen tree is what you have in mind. For
stone fruit trees I strongly recommend semi-dwarf.
The peach are already starting some serious leafing. I know of some
peach trees well over 60 years old. Somewhere I heard the dwarf are
shorter lived, so that's why I got standard.


Mulberry can be quite messy... don't plant near driveways/patios.
These are planted rather far away near the marsh I started twenty
something years ago. It doesn't really take a lot of water to have
a good marsh, especially when the cattails die back in winter and
make a mulch that keep water from evaporating. Cattails are almost
like weeds in the way they spread when I keep the area wet down.


I had thought of planting paw paw trees but upon reading there was
something about them I didn't like, can't remember right now.
???

I planted a flowering chestnut last summer, I'm now waiting to see if
it leafs out this spring: http://i54.tinypic.com/2upxn55.jpg
Nice picture. Out here in the desert it's difficult to have a yard that
nice.

Good luck with your new babies.
Thank You


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