Pawpaw Growing Guide: Planting, Care & Harvest

Asimina triloba

Growing calendar

Typical timing for central Japan (Kanto region). Shift it for your own climate, and record your actual dates.

Guides

• Planting a Pawpaw Tree: Shade for Two Years, Two Trees, and a Taproot You Cannot Disturb
• Pawpaw Hand Pollination: Why the Flies Are Not Enough and How to Use a Brush
• Pruning a Pawpaw: What to Cut in Late Winter and What Never to Cut
• Pawpaw Tree Care: Watering, Feeding, Mulch and Managing Suckers
• Pawpaw Growing Calendar: What to Do From Bud Break to the Last Fallen Fruit
• Pawpaw Pests and Problems: The Short List and How to Read the Leaves
• When Is a Pawpaw Ripe? Judging by Feel and Smell, and Why It Never Reaches Shops

Pests and diseases (2)

Written byYasuGrowing vegetables and fruit in Chiba, Japan, and building Gadenin. Corrections are welcome. 15 years of growing.