Lesson 6.11.1 PAWPAW – HARVESTING

 

FOOD FOREST COURSE 

AGRO-ECONOMY Lesson 6.11.1 

PAWPAW – HARVESTING

 

Harvesting

A pawpaw is ready to be harvested when there is no green colour left on the fruit. Commercially harvested pawpaw is picked far too green and consequently they are never as delicious as when you grow your own.  You can truly taste the sunshine in your home-grown pawpaw and they are an absolute delight to eat. 

Often the trees become too tall to harvest the fruit by hand, but a long stick with a net on the end comes in very handy.  With a bit of practice, you can reach the fruit with no trouble at all.  If you’re savvy, you can lop the entire top part of the tree to a couple of metres of the ground and this will then encourage the tree to branch out and keep the following season’s fruit within reach.  Place a tin or a bucket over the open part of the trunk to prevent rot.  However, this method will take away a lot of the existing paw paws and I’ve always been uncertain when it’s the best time to do such a drastic thing.  Perhaps the best time would be at the end of the fruiting season when the tree is busy putting its energy into the tree growth itself.  Unfortunately, this is the same time it concentrates on setting new fruit as well.  If the weather is warm and wet enough for the tree to recover from the lopping, it should quickly grow on to form some new branches.  The timing for doing this is just my reasoning and is purely speculative, as I have not yet tried it myself.  If you are thinking of lopping the trees back to encourage the branching out, it would be wise to closely observe an entire year of tree growth and fruit production first.  You might agree with my logic, but then again you may not.

 

In the Southern Hemisphere the fruit ripening will stop shortly after Christmas and then the tree puts its energy into new tree growth and fruit set. After May the first fruits will slowly start to ripen and when spring arrives the fruit will ripen more quickly and more often.  There is then usually an abundance of ripe pawpaw as the weather warms up until shortly after Christmas again.  A typical pawpaw tree will last five to eight years of full production.

Text from the roots, Elisabeth Ferkonia (Aus.) PDC studied with Bill Mollison.

 


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