Primitive Archer
Main Discussion Area => Around the Campfire => Topic started by: Zuma on September 16, 2015, 03:20:16 pm
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Banner day! ;D
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I have 2 pawpaw patches I planted, both bloom each year but I've never found fruit. Any suggestions? I was told that blow flies are the pollinators and during the bloom time to through road kill into the patches. :-\
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Never had. Pawpaw hows it taste
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My granddad talked about them a good bit. I think you need a little elevation to get good fruit. The plants do Ok in my area but no fruit. got to be in foothills or mountains but not piedmont.
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Pat
Not sure how long it takes to bare. There is a male
female component to them. They need lots of water.
Most I get are on the river banks and islands that are
often ten feet under. I planted mine on my wet weather
stream but they are to new to bare yet.
Road kill-blow flies? Sure why not can't hurt anything.
just don't shoot the deer early. They got noses full of
the larva.Yuck! :o
Bubby they taste great but the pits are big and makes
it difficult to woof em down elegantly. Custard like. 8)
The most nutritious American fruit.
Chief I am in the mountains :)
Zuma
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Our property has a lot of Paw-paw trees and I'll occasionally see fruit on them in deer season. I think the deer eat them. My Dad has a tree in the edge of his yard and it had several on it but now its down to just one.
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I think the deer eat them. My Dad has a tree in the edge of his yard and it had several on it but now its down to just one.
Well all animals think they taste good.
Here is a Waschbar.
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There are lots of variation on this old song but this is how I remember it, kinda.
Where, oh where is dear little Danny?
Where, oh where is dear little Danny?
Where, oh where is dear little Danny?
Way down yonder in the paw-paw patch.
Come on girls, let's go find him,
Come on girls, let's go find him,
Come on girls, let's go find him,
Way down yonder in the paw-paw patch.
Pickin' up paw-paws, put 'em in your pockets,
Pickin' up paw-paws, put 'em in your pockets,
Pickin' up paw-paws, put 'em in your pockets,
Way down yonder in the paw-patch.
Where, oh where is dear old Nellie?
Where, oh where is dear old Nellie?
Where, oh where is dear old Nellie?
Way down yonder in the paw-paw patch.
Come on boys, let's go find her,
Come on boys, let's go find her,
Come on boys, let's go find her,
Way down yonder in the paw-paw patch.
Pickin' up paw-paws, put 'em in your pockets,
Pickin' up paw-paws, put 'em in your pockets,
Pickin' up paw-paws, put 'em in your pockets,
Way down yonder in the paw-patch.
Where, oh where is dear little Jimmy?
Where, oh where is dear little Jimmy?
Where, oh where is dear little Jimmy?
Way down yonder in the paw-paw patch.
Come on girls, let's go find him,
Come on girls, let's go find him,
Come on girls, let's go find him,
Way down yonder in the paw-paw patch.
Pickin' up paw-paws, put 'em in your pockets,
Pickin' up paw-paws, put 'em in your pockets,
Pickin' up paw-paws, put 'em in your pockets,
Way down yonder in the paw-patch.
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Zuma, don't know anything about eating the fruit, but the dry wood is excellent for hearth boards and spindles for bow drills. A friend of mine finds it down along the Alleghany River. Bob
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Thanks Chief,
Made my morning. :) Now I gotta go find all those missing people >:D
Yeah thanks, Bob I was lookin for some dead trees but without the leaves
it is a little difficult. I plan to get some though.
Zuma
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Blaise told me that he had to hang some dead chicken in his tree to get the flies in there. Got a good crop.