Thanks

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Does a good crop of pawpaw risk breaking the branches from the weight of the fruit? They seem like large fruit.

Hopefully there are enough of those flies around here to pollinate my pawpaw

I'm looking forward to spring to see how my 3 new paw paw's are doing.

All my native pawpaws have never had enough fruit to break branches. I would guess only about 5% of my paw paws ever fruit in a year. These are only native trees, never messed with. We have hundreds if not not thousands growing on a farm I rent and every year some of them fruit and many of them don't. I have brush hogged many down as they can overwhelm an area at times in understory.

The wood IS very brittle, but I've never had a branch break from the weight of the fruit, It's also growing under 2 very large Walnut trees. Have over a doz little ones popping up, root sprouts I think.

That's good to know. The fruit was real heavy is what I had guessed.

I have a (single, no second, no graft stock) Fuyu Persimmon. Produces heavy every year. Excellent fruit if you wait for the first frost to harvest them. I go out and pick about 10 every other day for weeks.
When the leaves fall off all the fruit still hangs on the tree it is an attractive tree.
If you need two of something look at budding a different tree to it. It is the simplest form of grafting. Grafting is mostly about timing of the type of graft you are doing and aligning the green part of the bark. Worst case you end up with a scar in a branch.

I didn't realize persimmon fruit lasts so long on the tree Minz.

both are delicious if you like stuff that is sweet

I'm anxious to get to the land to look at my pawpaw & persimmon this spring to see if the incredibly warm winter is bad for them