Grafted Pawpaw Trees from Blossom Nursery

We are currently sold out of grafted pawpaw trees, please email us so we can inform you of future availability, and please consider planting some of our Common Seedlings.

These Pawpaw trees are named cultivars, (varieties), which have been selected for the superior quality of their fruit. Over the years, amateur fruit explorers as well as professional fruit breeders have selected Pawpaw trees with outstanding fruit and other qualities which recommend them for backyard growing as well as for establishing orchards. We are now offering some of the best available!

Grafted Pawpaw trees will bear years sooner than seedlings. If well grown, they may bear fruit as early as the third year after planting.

Our grafted Pawpaw trees are healthy and vigorous plants, growing in one gallon containers.

This group ranges from 10 to 30 inches tall, averaging about 18". We grow the rootstocks from seed in containers, then graft them the following year to the cultivars.

These trees have been under UV protection all summer, which encourages rapid growth, but they are not used to full sun, and when planted outside, will require partial shading until they go dormant. This may be accomplished with a tomato cage draped with thin fabric.

Plant them in well drained, fertile soil, keep the area around them mulched and weeded, and give them plenty of water. Keep them well mulched over winter.

Order soon so that they will have a chance to get settled in before going dormant!

Here is Mark, in the greenhouse, grafting Pawpaw trees in May.

At least two genetically different Pawpaw trees are usually required for cross~pollination and fruit production. Two isolated Pawpaw trees of the same cultivar are unlikely to bear fruit; any two different cultivars will bear, as will any cultivar and a seedling, or any two seedlings. For this reason, we send a little seedling tree along with any order for only one grafted Pawpaw tree, and recommend you get at least two different cultivars, unless you already have other Pawpaw trees growing nearby. Self~pollinating Pawpaw trees are rare, but have been reported.

Here's how some of our grafted Pawpaw trees look in early September.
For size reference, these one gallon pots are four inches wide at the top.

Several people have told us that the bare~root Pawpaw trees they received from other nurseries failed to grow. All of our Pawpaw trees are shipped in the containers they are growing in. This minimizes loss of vitality during shipping and virtually eliminates transplantation shock. The soil in the containers is heavy to ship, but we include shipping costs in the price of the trees.

Complete instructions on growing Pawpaw trees included with each order!
Here are the cultivars we grow:

Rebecca's Gold OUT OF STOCK An excellent selection. Fruit is large, very sweet, richly~flavored, yellow fleshed, and kidney~shaped. Late ripening.	PA Golden OUT OF STOCK Selected in Canada. One of the earliest to ripen; good variety for cooler regions. We offer the cultivar PA Golden~1.
Taytoo OUT OF STOCK A very hardy and early ripening selection from the wild in Michigan; bears good crops of large, tasty fruit; prized for its exceptionally flavorful, light yellow flesh.	NC~1 OUT OF STOCK An early~ripening cultivar from Canada: a cross between Davis and Overlease; produces an abundant amount of large, flavorful fruit. This is the most vigorous grower in our nursery!
Overlease OUT OF STOCK A large oval fruit with delicious, creamy, yellow~orange flesh. Fruit large. Fewer seed but large. Flavor excellent. selected from the wild in Michigan.	SAA Overlease OUT OF STOCK Similar to Overlease, but genetically distinct, and so able to cross~pollinate Overlease.
Prolific OUT OF STOCK Yellow flesh and good flavor. Precocious bearing with heavy crops. Early ripening, dependable. Fruit large with an excellent flavor.	Sweet Alice OUT OF STOCK Selected from the wild in Ohio in 1934. Fruit medium large. Prolific bearer. Flesh yellow. Flavor good.
Davis OUT OF STOCK An early selection, still considered one of the best, and a standard of comparison.	SAA Zimmerman OUT OF STOCK The fruit has few seed, the flesh is yellow, and the flavor is outstanding.
Marla, 421, KY Wonder OUT OF STOCK These are some other cultivars we offer, but have little information about.	Local conditions will influence tree performance. These descriptions are based on the observations of others.

As a general rule, the ones with larger fruit ripen later in the season and may not ripen fully in short growing season areas. The early ripening ones have smaller fruit, and will ripen in both the North and the South.

Our Grafted Pawpaw Trees are Currently all Out of Stock!

Your little Pawpaw trees will need at least a few weeks to settle in at your place, before going dormant for the winter.

Prices for Grafted Pawpaw Trees:

Type in your choice of cultivars on the Order Form, or let us choose them for you.

Packing and Shipping to any location in the contiguous 48 states of the USA is included in these prices.

*If you order just one, we include a seedling as a 'pollination buddy'.

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This page was updated on April 5, 2007.