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Pawpaw Trees For Sale - TN Nursery #tnnursery #pawpaws #garden

9 Feb 2026 · 2 min

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In this on‑site video, Bailey from TN Nursery walks viewers through a pawpaw planting lot, showcasing seedlings and mature trees. He explains that pawpaws grow quickly when soil conditions are right, need full sun and moist (watery) ground, and typically begin fruiting in about four years, though some may fruit earlier. Growing pawpaws from seed is described as difficult and slow, with many seeds taking over two years to break ground, which is why the nursery recommends buying bare‑root plants. Bailey highlights the size of the fruit—the largest native fruit in North America—referring to it as “Indian banana.” The video ends with a sales pitch: pawpaws are available at tnursery.net with a buy‑one‑get‑one‑free promotion.

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Hey everyone, it's Bailey with TN Nursery, and today I'm showing you some of our pawpaw. Now these are the pawpaw— all of these we're going to grow up and just get seeds off of, you know, the fruit. And these are about 2 years old and they got a huge caliber. Pawpaws grow really fast if they like the ground they're in. You can see the buds on these. Let's see if I can make it so you can see the buds on this. Now pawpaw likes, uh, complete sunshine. This lot is in complete sunshine, and I'll show you why pawpaws are so expensive. Now we planted these and a handful came up. You say there's empty spots right here, but we planted these, uh, by seed about 2 years ago and they're still breaking ground. Look, that's seedling pawpaws. These seeds are over 2 years old in here and they're just now breaking ground. Pawpaws is really, really hard to grow by seed. That's why so many people likes just to get the bare root plant. Now look here. There's a double one right there. You see that? Now these don't look like much, but this spring they'll be big pretty pawpaw leaves. And some of these bigger trees, like that right there is about 7 foot tall, it'll probably produce a few pawpaws. Pawpaws don't take long to fruit. They take about 4 years. Some of them will do it earlier than that, some of them won't. But pawpaws has really exploded Look at all the seedlings. And look, these like 7-foot tall trees, uh, came from the exact seeds that these seedlings are coming up as. This is a really thick lot of pawpaws now, but last year there were— these seeds did not come up, and the year before that they didn't come up. But, uh, pawpaws is just an amazing, amazing, uh fruiting tree. They're the— they produce the largest fruit of any native tree in North America. A lot of people call them Indian bananas because the Indians raised these by water. They like to raise them by water. The pawpaws love watery ground. But here's a— going to be our seed patch in about a year, 2 more years. These will just be full of pawpaws. Shop now at tnursery.net. We have pawpaws for buy one get one free.