Pawpaw Propagation
If you do produce trees from seed: Historically, pawpaws have been a difficult tree species to propagate:
Seed requires stratification (3 months of refrigeration)
Desiccation sensitive (do not dry out)
Seed is killed by freezing
Commercial clonal propagation of cultivars is via chip budding onto seedling rootstock
Many nurseries grow pawpaw seedlings in containers
Top working existing trees