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