Yesterday I ordered four trees from One Green World, scheduled to be delivered in the spring. Two were pawpaw cultivars: the Mango and the Susquehanna. (And since this is a pawpaw blog and not a persimmon blog, I'll relegate this information to a parenthesis: two were American persimmon cultivars, the Prairie Sun and the Prairie Star.)
The Susquehanna is one of the Peterson Pawpaws and is supposed to give the biggest fruit (sometimes over a pound each) among the readily available cultivars. And the Mango is supposed to be a fast grower. I've also read somewhere that the fruit is "slimy," which is actually appealing, since my sense is that a lot of pawpaw breeding has been working to make firmer pawpaws, eliminating the mushiness that I appreciate so much in wild pawpaws. Speaking to this point, Andy Moore in his must-read book Pawpaw reports that one Jerry Dedon says of the Mango cultivar: "It was real good...but that rascal will deteriorate fast. And I mean it will get just like a water balloon." We'll see...in four years or so, that's when we'll see.
one pound paw paws! that's a big, slimy, juicy paw paw! Four years will tell. You're so passionate about this. You have so much energy for passion! ;)
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