untreated shoots will be examined. Any rooted stems will be placed in pots, but with a better draining potting substrate such as perlite and/or sand for further evaluation.
With the concentrations of IBA and wounding used in this experiment, mound layering was not a viable method for clonally propagating pawpaw. Further studies utilizing different methods of optimizing rooting in a mound layering system, such as different forms of auxin or wounding closer to the ground where tissue could be more juvenile in character, could make this a more feasible method of clonally propagating pawpaw. An easier-to-root genotype was discovered (R6T71), which could prove useful for future propagation studies of pawpaw.