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The most disappointing thing is finding loads of pawpaw trees all over, but no fruit. They grow in clonal colonies, and can't self polinate, so unless they are getting pollinators that have traveled from another grove, there's no fruit. I'd say maybe 5% of the pawpaw trees by me grow fruit. Certain groves are better than others
Almost seems like you need to just selectively plant trees from separate groves next to that of others. At that point it moves from foraging into more of a horticultural territory though, haha!
From what I've read, they are pollinated by flies, and some people recommend spraying trees down with fish emulsion to attract flies. No way I'm going to blend a fish fine enough to fill a spray bottle, lol.